Month: February 2016

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2 years after Avengers Assemble Steve Rogers is working for SHIELD in Washington DC & has a US Air force friend called Sam Wilson. Nick Fury sends Rogers, Romanoff and a group of other SHIELD agents to free some hostages. Rogers discovers that Romanoff has been given a secret mission to download information from the computer onto a USB stick.

Rogers confronts Fury back at HQ and is told about Project Insight (3 helicarriers, linked to spy satellites to prevent any threats.  The data on the USB stick can’t be decrypted so Fury asks SHIELD official Alexander Pierce to delay Project Insight.

Fury is then ambushed by a group led by the assassin Winter Soldier.  Fury escapes and hides in Rogers’s apartment warning him that SHEILD has been compromised.  Fury gives Rogers the USB stick and is then gunned down by Winter Solider and dies in surgery.  SHIELD Agent Maria Hill takes charge of his body.

Pierce summons Rogers to HQ and asks him about Fury.  Rogers won’t tell him anything and is declared a fugitive.  Rogers meets with Romanoff and they manage to locate a secret SHEILD bunker in New Jersey where they activate a secret computer which contains the preserved consciousness of Armin Zola.  Zola reveals that since WW2 when SHEIDL was founded, Hyrda has secretly operated within its ranks with the aim of humanity willingly surrendering its freedom in exchange for its security.  They manage to escape just before a SHEILD missile destroys the bunker and realise that Pierce is Hyrda’s secret leader within SHEILD.

Rogers and Romanoff enlist Sam Wilson to help them.  Wilson has a “Falcon” wing back pack which lets him fly.  They fight the Winter Solider and Rogers recognises him as Bucky Barnes from WW2.  Hill rescues them and takes them to a safehouse where they find Fury who had faked his death.  They realise that Hyra is going to sabotage the Helicarriers by replacing their controller chips.

Rogers broadcasts the plans across the PA system at HQ.  Romanoff who is disguisedas one of the VIPs disarms Pierce and Fury forces him to unlock SHEILD’s database so that Romanoff can leak the information exposing Hyra to everyone.  There is a fight and Fury kills Pierce.

Rogers and Wilson get onto 2 helicarriers and rep-lace the chips but the Winter Solider destroys Wilson’s wing suit and starts to fight Rogers, but Rogers mages to replace the chip which allows Hill to take control of all 3 vessels and have them destroy each other.

Rogers try’s to get the Winter Slider to recognise him but as the carriers collide he is thrown into a river.  The Winter Solider recuses him before running into the woods.

Fury leaves to find the remaining Hyra cells and Rogers and Wilson look for the Winter Solider.

In a mid-credits scene we see an energy filled scepter and twin prisoners one with superhuman speed and the other with telekinetic powers.

In a post-credits scene the Winter Solider visits a Captain America museum and looks at a display about Bucky.

. 6/10

Starting – Matthew Mcconnerty, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chaistern

This is a SciFi film about a widowed former astronaut who is called on to join a mission through black holes where time moves at a different speed to earth in an attempt to save Earth.

His daughter believes her room is haunted but could it be her father trying to co tact her from another dimension?

6/10

Staring – Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman

In the past Odin’s father Bor defeated the Dark Elf Malekith who wants to destroy the universe using a weapon called Aether.  Bor hid the Aeher in a stone column but Malekith, his lieutenant Algrim and a few Dark Elves secretly escape into suspended animation.

In the present day Asgard Loki is in prison for the crime he committed in Avengers Assemble.

Thor and his friends discover that the Convergence is happening which aligns the nine realms and means portals linking the worlds appear at random..

In London Dr Erik Selvig has been institutionalised in a Mental Hospital following Loki taking over his mind. Dr Jane Foster, her intern Darcy Lewis and Daisy’s new intern Ian Boothby are at an abandoned factory where some of the portals have appeared.  Jane is teleported to a realm where she is infected by the Aether.  Heimdall who has been keeping watch over her from Asgard tells Thor that Jane has left Earth, but she soon returns.  Thor manages to transport to Earth, finds Jane and takes her back to Asgard.

Odin sports that Jane has been infected with the Aether and says that it will kill her and that a bad prophesy is coming true.

Malekith senses that the Aether is near and attacks Asgard.  Thor’s mum Frigga is killed protecting Jane, but Malekith is forces to flee without Jane.  Odin insists Thor and Jane stay in Asgard, but Thor decides to seek revenge, takes Jane and enlists Loki to help.

Thor and Loki use Jane and trick Malekith to release the Aeuther out of Jane, but the Aether consumes Malekith and Loki is fatally wounded dying in Thor’s arms.

Thor and Jane discover a portal to Earn and go back.  Dr Erik Selvig has been released from hospital and they work with him, Darcy and Ian to try to prevent Malekith destroying the universe by using the portals.  The Convergence centres on Greenwich and Thor battles Malekith across the portals.  Jane and her friends use their equipment to help Thor battle and eventually Malemith is crushed by his own ship.

Thor returns to Asgard, where he declines Odin’s offer to take the throne and tells Odin of Loki’s sacrifice. As he leaves, Odin’s form transforms into Loki, who is alive and impersonating Odin.

There is a mid-credit scene where “the collector” is given the Aether and says “one down five to go”.

In a post-credits scene, Jane and Thor reunite on Earth.

7/10

Staring – David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Time Roth, Carmen Ejogo, Common

This is a powerful historical drama tells the story of how hard black people had to fight to get the right to vote in America led by Martin Luther King Jr

The main focus concerns a protest march they wanted to make that would take them across a bridge in Selma where they were at first refused and then attacked. When the attacks were televised and more people joined the fight for civil rights and the final march.

8/10