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Syndicated action MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Release Date: 09/12/15 Format:

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Commentary by Tom Cruise and director/screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie Cruise Control

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Lighting the Fuse Heroes Cruising Altitude Mission: Immersible Sand Theft Auto The Missions Continue

By offering a new installment every four to five years, the Mission: Impossible series not only manages to avoid franchise fatigue, it gets progressively better with age. Ghost Protocol remains the series’ best to date, but Rogue Nation comes in a close second. IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has

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been tracking a shadowy terrorist network known as the Syndicate for over a year, but is still no closer to apprehending the ringleader. After the IMF is shut down (again), Hunt and Benji (Simon Pegg) become rogue operatives in the search for the Syndicate leader, with the help of a mystery woman (Rebecca Ferguson) who appears to be working for both sides. Rogue Nation ’s action set-pieces rank among the series’ best; there’s

a tense assassination sequence at the Vienna opera, a plunge into the coolant system of a submerged computer mainframe, and a high speed motorcycle chase accentuated by aerial and POV shots. In a year where everything old at the movies is new again, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation proves this formula still works remarkably well, even if its star is getting on in years. Once again it’s mission accomplished .

The Syndicate, the evil organisation which features in the film, was the regular antagonist in the original Mission: Impossible (1966) TV series

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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Scorching second chapter of the YA saga MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS

Release Date: 16/12/15 Format:

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Deleted and Extended Scenes Concept Art and Storyboard Image Galleries Gag Reel BD ONLY Audio Commentary with Director Wes Ball, Screewriter T.S. Nowlin, Producer Joe Hartwick, Jr. and Editor Dan Zimmerman Secrets of the Scorch – 6-part Documentary Janson’s Report – Classified

When we last left Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his fellow Gladers, they’d successfully completed the maze trials and discovered that the Earth has been scorched by a solar flare that also unleashed a deadly virus, to which they are all immune. And that WCKD – the World Catastrophe Killzone Department – is every bit as sinister as its acronym. Transferred to a way station, Thomas discovers the true

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WCKD. The Scorch Trials is a bigger and more visually grand film than its predecessor, swapping the maze trials for a journey across a blasted landscape overrun by hordes of zombie-like infected. The Maze Runner raised more questions than it answered – The Scorch Trials provides those answers.

nature of WCKD’s possible cure and what it means for his group (it’s not good), necessitating an escape into the “Scorch”, where they must negotiate a desert wasteland and the ruins of civilisation in order to reach the mountains and a revolutionary group opposed to

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The Divergent Series

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