Blackhat (2015) Movie

(Story) American and Chinese agencies work together to stop a conspiracy involving a cyber criminal. With the help of Nicholas Hathaway, the authorities pursue the mysterious suspect as the dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.

January is a rather strange month on the cinematic calendar in that there’s typically very little attention paid to new releases in theaters.  It’s a month where the industry, cinephiles and the casual moviegoer usually play catch-up on the rush of prestige movies that hit at the tail end of the year before.  In short, Hollywood usually

 uses the month of January as a “dumping ground,” a place to try and cash and burn off modest, more disposable (usually genre-ish) titles cheaply and quickly.  As such, the first crop of 2015 titles (at least on the outset) doesn’t look too promising and it’s probably best to spend your cash and time on 2014 films that will break wide


 in January like Selma or Inherent Vice or Still Alice, to name but a few.  However, you never know– every once in a while an artistically fascinating movie drops in the first month of the year– Cloverfield (2008), Taken (2009), The Grey (2012) for recent examples– or a January title will unexpectedly make a ton of coin– think Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Ride Along (2014.)  Usually, however, it’s a loser field like January 2014, ahem, “gems” The Legend of Hercules or I, Frankenstein.  No bother, it will pass.  In the meantime, happy new year and welcome as we survey the top picks of new flicks hitting screens the first month of 2015.