Your weekly dose of cinema entertainment – May 29

Poltergeist

Thriller, Horror

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt and Jared Harris.

Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporise the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

Barely Lethal

Comedy Action

Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Hailee Steinfeld, Thomas Mann, Sophie Turner and Dove Cameron.

Megan, played by Hailee Steinfeld, is an international assassin. Yearning for a “normal” adolescence, she fakes her death and enrols as a high school senior in a suburban high school. However, she soon finds that being normal is a lot harder than it seems.

Survivor

Thriller, Action

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan.

A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

The Age of Adaline

Fantasy, Drama

Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Harrison Ford, Amanda Crew, Kathy Baker, Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman.

Following a near-fatal accident one icy night, a 29-year-old woman named Adaline (Blake Lively) stops ageing. She keeps her condition a secret throughout the 20th century, until she meets a handsome philanthropist (Michiel Huisman) who may just make her want to change her solitary life. The film also stars Harrison Ford, Ellen Burstyn and Kathy Baker.

The Rewrite

Romance, Comedy

Starring Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei.

A down-and-out screenwriter (Grant) reluctantly takes a teaching job at an upstate New York university, but his initial plans to focus on his next script are foiled as he becomes emotionally invested in the lives of his students — in particular an optimistic single mother (Tomei) who’s recently caught the writing bug.