We all love the movies and catching up with family. It’s basically the only time we get to sit down together and actually watch something, on other days we sit in the lounge fighting over the remote, what to watch and what we will watch next. Here’s a list of 10 great movies that you should check out this year, I promise you it will be worth your money. Enjoy!

IMAX – Lucy

 

 

This adrenaline-fueled, visual effects-driven action thriller stars Scarlett Johansson in the title role and is directed by French director Luc Besson.The film is set in Asia, in a slightly futuristic world that is run by the mob, street gangs, drug addicts and corrupt cops. Lucy is a woman who is kidnapped, surgically adapted to smuggle drugs in her body, and forced to work as a drug mule for a group of big-money gangsters. However, when an accident causes the drugs inside her to flood her system, she acquires instantaneous superhuman strength and immense intelligence. Armed with these, Lucy sets out to claim retribution from those who tried to harm her.

 

DIRECTED BY Luc Besson

PRODUCED BY   Virginie Besson-Silla

Tammy

 

 

Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) is having a bad day. She’s written off her car, been fired from her thankless job at a greasy burger joint, and instead of finding comfort at home, finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbour in her own house. It’s time to take hit the road and start anew. The bad news is she’s broke and without wheels. However, she soon learns that her grandma, Pearl (Susan Sarandon) has a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Maybe a road trip, with grandma riding shotgun, may be just what Tammy needs.

 

DIRECTED BY Ben Falcone

PRODUCED BY   Adam Mackay,Will Ferrell

Hard to get

 

TK is a handsome and charming womanizer who runs at the first mention of commitment. His life changes when he meets Skiets, the one woman immune to his charms. Skiets is an adrenaline junkie who earns a living as a petty criminal. If TK is to have any chance with her, he will have to survive a gauntlet of dangerous undertakings at her side.

 

But when Skiets takes on Mugza, the most feared man in town, things get very messy. TK and Skiets only narrowly escape to Johannesburg with Mugza’s car, but soon discover that the crime-lord is hot on their heels.

 

Turning to quirky and charming businessman Gumede for help, the couple thinks they may have found a shelter in which to lay low. But have they? It isn’t long before they begin to realize that they may find love, but will they find out first hand that crime does not pay?

 

DIRECTED BY Zee Ntuli

PRODUCED BY   Helen Spring,Junaid Ahmed

 

Let’s Be Cops

 

 

In this comedy starring Damon Wayans and Jake Johnson, two friends decide to go to a party dressed in the uniforms of a pair of L.A.’s finest. Amazed by the power they are able to wield over people who mistakenly believe them to be the real deal, especially the ladies, they embark on a series of outings wherein they push this masquerade to the max. However, these non-cops soon find themselves tangled in the real life world of crime, mobsters and corrupt LAPD officers.

 

PRODUCED BY   Luke Greenfield,Simon Kinberg

 

 

Moms’ Night out

 

 

All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of dinner and fun – a long-needed moms’ night out. But in order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation, and food not served in a bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for a few hours … what could go wrong?

 

DIRECTED BY Andrew Erwin,Jon Erwin

 

 

Drive Hard

 

A skilled thief (John Cusack) forces an ex-racing driver-turned- driving instructor (Thomas Jane) to be his wheelman and getaway driver in a daring bank robbery that sends both men on the run from the police and the mob alike in this high-octane action comedy. The film was shot and is set in Queensland, Australia

 

DIRECTED BY Brian Trenchard-Smith

PRODUCED BY   Kirk Shaw,Pam Collis,Paul Okane

 

 

Before I go to sleep

 

 

A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her

 

DIRECTED BY Rowan Joffe

 

 

If I stay

Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz) is a 17-year-old gifted cellist with a loving family and boyfriend (Jamie Blackley), as well an amazing career ahead of her. However, all that changes in an instant when Mia and her family are involved in a horrible car accident.Rushed to ICU, hovering between life and death, Mia has an out-of-body experience as she lies in a coma. She finds out her parents died in the accident and watches as her extended family and friends come to visit her in the hospital. She soon realizes she has a choice to make – wake up to a life that will be more difficult than she had ever imagined – or let go and die.

 

DIRECTED BY R. J. Cutler

PRODUCED BY   Alison Greenspan,Denise Di Novi

 

IMAX – The Equalizer

 

 

Based on the 1980s TV series of the same name, this crime thriller centres on Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), a former covert operations officer, who volunteers his services as a private eye to people in need in an attempt to atone for a dark past. He meets and forms a relationship with Teri (Chlo韇race Moretz), a teenage prostitute who needs his help. However, as a result, he finds himself embroiled with the Russian mob.

 

DIRECTED BY Antoine Fuqua

PRODUCED BY   Alex Siskin,Jason Blumenthal,Mace Neufeld,Michael Sloan,Steve Tisch,Todd Black,Tony Eldridge

Good People

 

 

Discovering a cache of cash in their dead tenant’s apt, a couple in debt take the money and find themselves the target of a deadly adversary-the thief who stole it.

 

DIRECTED BY Henrik Ruben Genz