Are you waiting for a sequel (续集) to your favourite films or a new movie adapted from your favourite video game? Read on to find out what to expect in movie theatres in 2018.

★Tomb Raider

Release date: 16 March

This year will see the long­awaited movie Tomb Raider, starring well­known video game heroine Lara Croft. In the film, she seems like many other inhabitants (居民) of this poor but fashionable district in east London. She earns a living as a courier (快递员), and she is confused by her father’s mysterious death. So she first starts to search for the cause of his father’s death. It takes her to a wild island where she has to use her fierce fighting skills to survive.

★Pacific Rim : Uprising

Release date: 24 March

The film is about Jake Pentecost, the son of the legendary (传奇的) pilot Stacker Pentecost, who saved the human race in a previous fight with the monstrous Kaiju. But Jake isn’t the man his father was. He gives up his pilot training and falls in with some criminals. However, when the monsters rise again to threaten the human race, Jake is persuaded to take responsibility for fighting them by his sister. It is not known if they can succeed in their fight against the Kaiju.

★Dead pool 2

Release date: 1 June

Dead pool (2016) was part of the X­Men series by Marvel. It was a movie for people who wanted to laugh a little more at the kind of humour that adults enjoy. Now, there is a new Dead pool in which Ryan Reynolds will again play the mercenary (唯利是图的) Wade Wilson, who likes to tell jokes as many as he can.

An old Hollywood movie Free Willy has touched so deeply so many large audiences.【小题1】The story goes;

Little killer whale Willy is captured and sent to a marine park to be trained.The whale trainers find it so hard to get Willy into their expected process of learning the designed tricks.【小题2】.Jessie teaches Willy to perform tricks far more wonderfully that any other whale trained by other whale trainers.

【小题3】He decides to help Willy escape from the marine park.The two of them make it through chains of adventures and risks and Willy eventually gets back his free in the open sea.The closing scene of the movie goes to a great length of the director’s effort to level it high up as a film to touch deep into people’s heart,in which Jessie guides Willy in its repeated desperate attempts to jump over the fence into the sea.【小题4】

Later,people get to know that the real whale who stars in the movie is still leading a Willy’s life in a Mexican sea park.That annoys the public and people want the entertainment industry to give up some of their gained interests and follow what is finally conducted in the case of Willy.【小题5】And the film studio and the Mexican park had to eventually surrender to the public and children and fund for the whale’s free life in the open ocean.

Have you ever wanted to become an engineer? The new IMAX film Dream Big teaches viewers how engineers use their professional skills to help the world. The film hits IMAX theaters nationwide on February 17th to celebrate Engineers Week.

The film takes place in locations like China, Dubai and Africa. It tells the stories of engineers who try to come up with new ideas to save energy and help people. It was directed by Greg MacGillivray, who was the first documentary filmmaker to reach $1 billion in worldwide sales. But how did MacGillivray get into the moviemaking business in the first place?

“I grew up at the beach. My first movies were about surfing and the ocean. As time went on, I saw the changes in the ocean, in relationship to pollution and overfishing. So I started making films about protection of nature,” MacGillivray said. Now, his films cover many topics including human innovation.

One of the engineers in Dream Big is Angelica Hemandez. In high school, she was on a team that beat MIT, a university, in an underwater robotics competition. Now, Hemandez is working to make energy use efficient. When asked what she felt when her high school won the competition, she said, “It was disbelief, then excitement, and feeling really hopeful that you can achieve more than you think.” Today, the engineering work she does is helping people use less energy to save money and resources.

The task of Dream Big is to show people the good that engineers can do in the world. “That was why I wanted to make this movie,” MacGillivray explains. “We want to explain engineering in a way that will get the kids excited about it.”