GET off the couch and away from the Olympics for a couple of hours, and get down to your local cinema this weekend to catch one (or all!) of these movies showing now.
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
A boy with nothing who changed everything. Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But, before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of São Paulo, Brazil—so poor that he couldn’t afford a real soccer ball. Charting his meteoric rise from scrubbing floors to support his family to honing his electrifying playing style on the streets to leading Brazil’s national team to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17, this film vividly brings to life the greatest sports story of the 20th century.
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Cell
Fear thy neighbour. Clay Riddell, a New England artist, is a witness to an ugly phenomenon: a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. Now, he and a few survivors must find and stop ‘the pulse’—and the person controlling it—and reunite with his young son before it’s too late.
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Bad Moms
Party like a mother. Amy has a seemingly perfect life, a great marriage, overachieving kids, a beautiful home, and a career. However, she’s overworked, over-committed and exhausted to the point that she’s about to snap. Fed up, she joins forces with two other over-stressed moms—on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities. They go on a wild, un-mom-like binge of long overdue freedom, fun and indulgence, putting them on a collision course with PTA Queen Bee Gwendolyn and her clique of devoted perfect moms.
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Kubo and the Two Strings [3D]
His quest begins. Clever, kind-hearted Kubo ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town. But his relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past, which storms down from the heavens to enforce an age old vendetta. Now on the run, Kubo joins forces with Monkey, Beetle, and sets out on a thrilling quest. With the help of his shamisen, a magical musical instrument, Kubo must battle gods and monsters, including the Moon King and the twin Sisters, to unlock the secret of his legacy, reunite his family, and fulfill his heroic destiny.
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Nerve
Are you a watcher or a player? Industrious high school girl Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But, as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition while partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.
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