Big screen entertainment for July 31: Ant man, Big Game and The Gallows

Ant-Man

Action

Starring: Michael Douglas, Michael Pena, Paul Rudd, Judy Greer, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Canna-vale

In this fun-filled, big-screen adaptation, based on Marvel Comics titular character, con man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his Ant-Man suit, which gives its wearer the ability to shrink in scale, but increase in strength.

Big Game

Action

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Broadbent, Felicity Huffman, Ted Levine, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Onni Tommila, Mehmet Kurtulus

When Air Force One is attacked by terrorists in this thriller, the President of the United States parachutes to safety, but winds up trapped in the wilds of Finland. Now he must rely on the survival skills of the 13-year-old woodsman who finds him as he seeks to evade the same criminals responsible for shooting him down.

The Gallows

Horror

Starring: Cassidy Gifford, Reese Mishler, Preifer Brown, Ryan Shoos

Four teenagers are mistakenly locked in their school building at night while rehearsing for a play called The Gallows. Thirty years earlier there was a terrible accident that took place during a presentation of the play when understudy Charlie Grimille ended up unaccountably swinging from the noose on stage during curtain calls. In an attempt to honour the anniversary, the drama department decides to remount the play in an attempt to put the past to rest, but now the four trapped friends discover that Charlie may not be at peace as terrifying events unfold while they try to find a way to escape.

Woman in gold

Drama

Starring: Katie Holmes, Daniel Bruhl, Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Charles Dance, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, Tatiana Maslany, Elizabeth McGovern

Maria Altmann, a Holocaust survivor in her 80s now living in Los Angeles, tries to recover art stolen by the Nazis from her family in Vienna, prior to World War II. Together with her young lawyer, E Randolf Schoenberg, she fights the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt’s iconic painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.