Kingsman: The Secret Service

Eggsy (Egerton) is an unemployed young man living an aimless life with his mother and stepfather after leaving training for the Royal Marines. Looking for a thrill, he steals a car and goes for a high-speed joyride, which lands him in some serious legal trouble. Remembering a phone number that was given to him years earlier by a colleague of his deceased father, he uses his phone call to contact the man (Firth), who gets him out of jail and confides in him that he's a member of a secret intelligence agency called Kingsman, to which Eggsy's father had also belonged. With a nefarious villain (Jackson) plotting nothing less than a global apocalypse, Eggsy is recruited by Kingsman to follow in his father's footsteps to help prevent the end of human civilization.

Director: Matthew Vaughn. Stars: Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Firth, Mark Hamill, Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson. 2015. 129 min. Action.

Healing

Viktor (Hany), a convicted criminal, has been sentenced to a low-security prison where the state of his life causes him to almost give up on living. At the prison, which is built on a farm in rural Australia, a case worker (Weaving) is rehabilitating the criminals by making them responsible for rehabilitating injured birds of prey. He introduces Viktor to Yasmine, a massive eagle with a two-metre wingspan. Together, the inmate and the eagle rehabilitate each other.

Director: Craig Monahan. Stars: Hugo Weaving, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Mark Leonard Winter. 2014. 119 min. Drama.

Serena

It's the late 1920s in North Carolina, and the ambitious George Pemberton (Cooper) has married the beautiful Serena (Lawrence). Together, the couple builds a timber empire, and Serena proves to be just as capable of facing the challenges of the frontier as any man. The foundations of their marriage -- and of their business -- are shaken, though, when George's past comes to light and Serena reveals a heartbreaking fact about herself.

Director: Susanne Bier. Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Ifans, Toby Jones. 2014. 109 min. Drama.