Ready Player One is an adventure too big for the real world
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Olivia Cooke, Tye Sheridan, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance and Ben Mendelsohn
‘Ready Player One’, based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in
the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person (player) to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the Oasis, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. The film, however, centers on a young outcast named Wade Watts. In the near future, Watts escapes from his daily drudgery by logging as a player into the online game called ‘The Oasis’. When the game’s billionaire founder dies, he offers players his fortunes as the prize in the virtual treasure hunt. Watts gets in on the action, but soon finds himself facing off against corporate foes who will go to any lengths to get the money – in both the real world and in ‘The Oasis’.
A Wrinkle in Time
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Storm Reid, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Pine
Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg’s classmate Calvin O’Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travellers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all of the evil in the universe.