VietNamNet Bridge - Besides Vietnamese films, the audience will have a lot of choices at cinemas in the last month of the year when they can enjoy Hollywood blockbusters like "Underworld 5", the additional episode of "Star Wars", "Assassin's Creed", "Passengers", or "Sing".

 

Voodoo Doll

 

Director: Vo Ngoc, Hanh Nhan

Cast: Truong Quynh Anh, Mac Van Khoa, Hoa Minzy, Dustin Nguyen, Kim Tuyen

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Release Date: 9/12/2016

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle

 

The movie is about Thu, Quan and Hanh, a trio in K22 music class. When Hung - a substitute teacher takes responsibility over their class, he is astonished at how Thu and his passed-away ex-girlfriend look alike, which upset his wife - Huong. Meanwhile, the trio discovers a voodoo doll hidden in the room of their music class...

 

Sword Master

 

Director: Nhi Dong Thang & Tu Khac

Cast: Lam Canh Tan, Giang Nhat Yen, Ha Nhuan Dong,Tuong Mong Diep, Co Tao Ban

Genre: Action

Release Date: 9/12/2016

Running Time: 110 minutes

Language: Chinese with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Sword Master talks about an elite swordsman who is haunted by his skill, and a challenger who aims to take his place at all costs.

 

Saigon Bodyguards

 

Director: Ken Ochiai

Cast: Thai Hoa, Kim Ly, Chi Pu, B Tran, Diem My, Diep Lam Anh, Khuong Ngoc, Le Binh, Nguyen Hau, late actor Minh Thuan

Release Date: 16/12/2016

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle

 

The badass bodyguards: Trinh – the handsome, strict and professional and Vien – the crafty, humorous and womanizer in an almost impossible mission!

 

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

 

Director: Gareth Edwards

Cast: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Release Date: 16/12/2016

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Jyn Erso, a Rebellion soldier and criminal, is about to experience her biggest challenge yet when Mon Mothma sets her out on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star. With help from the Rebels, a master swordsman, and non-allied forces, Jyn will be in for something bigger than she thinks.

Assassin's Creed

 

Director: Justin Kurzel

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Michael K. Williams

Genre: Action, Adventure

Release Date: 30/12/2016

Running Time: 120 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day

 

Allied

 

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Lizzy Caplan, Simon McBurney, Daniel Betts, Camille Cottin, August Diehl, Matthew Goode

Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller

Release Date: 30/12/2016

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

“Allied” is the story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.

 

Sing

 

Director: Garth Jennings

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Nick Kroll, Jennifer Saunders,Peter Serafinowicz, Leslie Jones, Jay Pharoah, Nick Offerman, Beck Bennett

Genre:  Animation, Comedy

Release Date: 23/12/2016

Running Time:  110 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition. Five lead contestants emerge: A mouse (Seth MacFarlane) who croons as smoothly as he cons, a timid teenage elephant (Tori Kelly) with an enormous case of stage fright, an overtaxed mother (Academy Award® winner Reese Witherspoon) run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets, a young gangster gorilla (Taron Egerton) looking to break free of his family’s felonies, and a punk-rock porcupine (Scarlett Johansson) struggling to shed her arrogant boyfriend and go solo. Each animal arrives under Buster’s marquee believing that this is their shot to change the course of their life.

 

The bodyguard, the lady and the unwise

 

Director: Thu Gia, Kevin Nguyen

Cast: Mac Hong Quan, Angela Phuong Trinh, Bang Kieu

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Release Date: 2/12/2016

Running Time: 100 minutes

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle

 

Hoa Mi (Angela Phuong Trinh) is a daughter of a successful businessman. Having been raised in a rich family, Hoa Mi turns out to be bossy and stubborn, who drives everyone crazy especially her dad. She is threatened to be kidnapped by her dad’s competitor, which make her dad worry and hires Kevin – a professional bodyguard from the US to protect her 24/24. Hoa Mi hates being controlled and that is why she tries to get away from Kevin. And that is the moment she’s kidnapped and all the troubles begin.

 

Incarnate

 

Director: Brad Peyton

Cast: Carice van Houten, Aaron Eckhart, David Mazouz

Genre: Horror

Release Date: 2/12/2016

Running Time:  87 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

A scientist with the ability to enter the subconscious minds of the possessed must save a young boy from the grips of a demon with powers never seen before, while facing the horrors of his past.

 

Underworld: Blood Wars

 

Director: Anna Foerster

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Theo James

Genre: Horror, Action

Release Date: 2/12/2016

Running Time: 88 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) fights to end the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her.

 

My Korean Teacher

 

Director: Yuzo Asahara

Release Date: 2/12/2016

Runtime: 98 min.

Genre: Romantic-Comedy

Language: Japanese with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Young-Ung (Yesung) was dumped by his girlfriend. While he is in Okinawa, Japan on a business trip, the company he works for goes bankrupt.

 

Sakura (Nozomi Sasaki) is a single mother and works for a travel agency. She needs to learn Korean for her job. At a Korean language institute, Sakura meets Young-Ung and their romance begins.

 

The Charnel House

 

Director: Craig Moss

Cast: Nadine Velazquez, Joe Keery, Erik LaRay Harvey

Genre: Thriller

Release Date: 9/12/2016

Running Time: 90 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

A long abandoned slaughterhouse is transformed into modern lofts in a re-gentrified urban neighborhood. Soon after tenants move in they are tormented by a dark secret that has been trapped in the building for over 30 years.

 

A Monster Calls

 

Director: J.A. Bayona

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall

Genre: Thriller

Release Date: 9/12/2016

Running Time: 108 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Connor, and it asks for the one thing Connor cannot bring himself to do. Tell the truth. This is a very touching story about a boy who feels very damaged, guilty and mostly angry. He struggles at school with bullies, and pity looks from everyone, and at home with his mother's sickness. Will Connor overcome his problems? Will everything be okay? Will Connor be able to speak the truth?

 

La La Land

 

Director: Damien Chazelle

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Amiée Conn

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Release Date: 16/12/2016

Running Time: 128 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

 

Personal Shopper

 

Director: Olivier Assayas

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Release Date: 16/12/2016

Running Time: 105 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Revolves around a ghost story that takes place in the fashion underworld of Paris.

 

Passengers

 

Director: Morten Tyldum

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Release Date: 16/12/2016

Running Time: 105 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

The spaceship, Starship Avalon, in its 120-year voyage to a distant colony planet known as the "Homestead Colony" and transporting 5,259 people has a malfunction in two of its sleep chambers. As a result two hibernation pods open prematurely and the two people that awoke, Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) and Aurora Dunn (Jennifer Lawrence), are stranded on the spaceship, still 90 years from their destination.

 

Railroad Tigers

 

Director: Ding Sheng

Cast: Jackie Chan, Zitao Huang, Kai Wang

Genre: Action, Comedy, War

Release Date: 31/12/2016

Running Time: 105 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.

 

The Girl with all the Gifts

 

Director: Colm McCarthy

Cast: Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Dominique Tipper

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Release Date: 2/12/2016

Running Time: 111 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Humankind's only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The children go to school at an army base in rural Britain, where they're subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close). School teacher Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua), thus forming a special bond. But when the base is invaded, the trio escapes with the assistance of Sgt. Eddie Parks (Paddy Considine) and embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is.

 

Eliminators

 

Director: James Nunn

Cast: Scott Adkins, Stu Bennett, Daniel Caltagirone

Genre: Action

Release Date: 9/12/2016

Running Time: 94 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughter's life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from track him down.

 

A Kind of Murder

 

Director: Andy Goddard

Cast: Haley Bennett, Jessica Biel, Vincent Kartheiser

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Release Date: 16/12/2016

Running Time: 115 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

A psychological noir thriller set in 1960's New York based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, 'The Blunderer'. Walter Stackhouse is rich, successful and unhappily married to the beautiful but damaged Clara. His desire to be free of her feeds his obsession with Kimmel, a man suspected of brutally murdering his own wife. But when Clara is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Walter's string of lies and his own guilty thoughts seem enough to condemn him. As his life becomes dangerously entwined with Kimmel's, a ruthless cop is increasingly convinced he has found a copycat killer in Walter and aims to nail both murderers.

 

One-Man Tag

 

Director: Lee Doo Hwan

Genre: Horror

Release Date: 23/12/2016

Running Time: 90 minutes

Language: Korean with Vietnamese subtitle

 

BJ Yagwang (Ryu Deok-Hwan) and PD Park (Jo Bok-Rae) broadcast a live stream themed around horror on AfreecaTV. They look for more provocative and fearful material for their program. One day, they receive a video which contains a female high school student disappearing. In the video, right before she disappears, the female school student was calling a ghost and playing hide-and-(go-)seek alone. While broadcasting live on AfreecaTV, BJ Yagwang goes to the abandoned building where the female school student went missing.

 

Eloise

 

Director: Robert Legato

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick, Chace Crawford

Release Date: 23/12/2016

Running Time: 89 minutes

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

 

Set in a defunct insane asylum known as 'Eloise,' four friends break into the abandoned institution in hopes of finding a death certificate, which will grant one of them the rights to a sizable inheritance. While inside the asylum, the group not only finds that Eloise houses a horrifying history but also the truth about their own tragic pasts.

Bedeviled 

Directors: Abel Vang, Burlee Vang

Cast: Saxon Sharbino, Alexis G. Zall, Bonnie Morgan

Duration: 121 minutes

Release Date: 30/12/2016

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle

Five friends are terrorized by a supernatural entity after downloading a mysterious app.

 

Thanh Van