YOUR GUIDE TO APRIL’S HOTTEST RELEASES HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 ST. VINCENT NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3: SECRET OF THE TOMB EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR: THE MOVIE VV18_01_FrontCover.indd 1 16/03/2015 4:25 pm Strong ™ violence AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY & DVD 2 APRIL HUGH SALLY JULIE JIM BONNEVILLE HAWKINS WALTERS BROADBENT PETER NICOLE BEN CAPALDI WITH KIDMAN AND WHISHAW AS THE VOICE OF PADDINGTON FROM THE PRODUCER OF HARRY POTTER ★★★★★ ★★★★★ The Sun Empire AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAYª & DVD 9 APRIL © Paddington and Company Limited/Studiocanal S.A. 2014. ™ Violence AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY & DVD 9 APRIL © 2015 Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Limited. All Rights Reserved. Untitled-1DyingLight_Paddington_DragonHeart3_RentalAd.indd 8 1 13/03/201518/03/15 10:40 1:45 pm AM &A P.10 APRIL 2015 We’re nearly halfway through the year, so we hope you’ve been 4-8 NEWS 14-15 ACTION keeping up with your rentals or What have the bold and the Exodus: Gods and Kings, you’ll have an awful lot to catch beautiful of fi lm and TV been up Interstellar, Wild Card, Northmen: up on during the Easter holidays. to lately? We check out the latest A Viking Saga, Mercenary: Thankfully, checking out these reports from home and beyond Absolution, Extraterrestrial doozies won’t be a chore. This and more. month it’s all about drama, with 28 COMING SOON P.14 James Gandolfi ni’s last ever New releases to look forward 16-17 COMEDY performance captured in all its to next month thrilling intensity in The Drop, Laggies, Fat Pizza vs. Housos, another gorgeous tearjerker from Spud 3, Men, Women Hilary Swank in You’re Not You, & Children, St Vincent and more a brilliant look at young elitist infi ghting with The Riot Club, and 18-19 TV Juliette Binoche doing what she Veep S3, Homeland S4, does best (being captivating) in the 9 MORTAL KOMBAT X Mortal Kombat is back and the Broadchurch S2, Grimm S3 , depiction of a war photojournalist’s tenth offi cial title is bringing more The Musketeers Season 2 life in A Thousand Times Goodnight. gore to your door this month. and more. Don’t forget about those other worthy categories though - there’s 20-21 FAMILY something for everyone. Toodle pip, Penguins of Madagascar, P.18 THE TEAM Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb, Annie, The Nut Job, 10 HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 Paddington and more. Since their last monstrously clumsy attempt to better their lives, these 22-23 THRILLER three lovable dunces haven’t learned Goodbye World, Open very much... we take a look at Jason Windows, Honeymoon, Bateman’s latest comedy Nightcrawler and more. 12 NIGHTCRAWLER 26 DRAMA Grim, gritty and morbidly The Drop, Revenge of the Green fascinating, Nightcrawler is a P.20 Dragons, A Thousand Times slam dunk for Jake Gyllenhaal Goodnight, You’re Not You, and director Dan Gilroy The Riot Club and more. P.12 P.22 Publisher: Tilo Grieco [email protected], Editor: Soda Razer [email protected], Sub Editor: Chelsea Graham, Contributors: Robert Hislop, Accounts: Tracy Kingman [email protected], Production: Al Netherclift, Design: Rebecca Rowlands Address: Scribal Publishing Pty. Ltd., PO Box 2051, Richmond South, VIC 3121 TKE18_03_Contentsv2.indd 1 16/03/2015 3:27 pm YOUR MONTHLY FIX OF NEWSREEL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NEWSREEL THIRD SHARKNADO HITS A HURDLE Reports are in that maybe the which is creating the fl ick. They’re producers of the Sharknado asking for representation under the franchise aren’t taking their own International Alliance of Theatrical joke very seriously – which sounds Stage Employees, which would about right, but shouldn’t be ensure them basic benefi ts. when we’re talking health and The fi lm is supposed to premiere pension benefi ts for your crew in the States in July, but we’re yet members. The third installment in to hear how the labour issues will the Sharknado canon has run into affect that date. Let’s hope that our issues, with up to 40 crew going on desire for ever more airborne strike and picketing out the front sharks isn’t crushed by The of Hollywood studio The Asylum, Asylum’s inability to negotiate. KING D’ONOFRIO UNVEILED Out of the dribbling pipe of Daredevil info comes, at last, a pic of the evil Kingpin! Played by Vincent D’Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Men in Black, The Cell), Kingpin is oe of the most feared honchos in the Marvel universe, blessed with a gifted criminal mind, insanely adroit hand-to-hand combat skills (despite his heavy frame), and last but not least, a gazillion dollars. He developed his impressive fi ghting expertise after being bullied as a child for his obesity, and as an adult, he’s one of Daredevil’s most formidable and capable foes. We think D’Onofrio is absolutely spot-on for the character! DiCAPRIO IN SCHIZOPHRENIC BIOPIC We moviegoers have been obsessed with multiple personality disorder for decades, even if Charlie Kaufman from Adaptation reckons it’s the number one most overused idea in fi lm screenplays ever (apparently the second most overused is serial killers). Now Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to produce and star in a fi lm about the fi rst man who ever used the disorder as a successful legal defence, in the upcoming biopic The Crowded Room. It’s based on an early ‘80s biography about Billy Milligan, who was arrested for rape, armed robbery and a string of other felonies and went to trial in the late ‘70s. His psychologist diagnosed him with MPD, asserting that Billy had 24 different personalities. We don’t care what Kaufman says – we’re excited about this one. If you want your mind warped in a different fashion this month, we highly recommend sci-fi thriller Interstellar – you can fi nd our review on page 15. 4 TKE18_04-08_NewsReel.indd 4 16/03/2015 4:32 pm &A X NIMH’S SECOND SECRET THE MOST POPULAR RENTAL TITLES ACROSS AUSTRALIA It’s certainly the age of sequels Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, prowl the fi elds. A live action/ and remakes, as we all know, which was a children’s novel CGI adaptation is confi rmed but this one’s a little different... published in 1971. The story to be in the works by MGM, probably because the original arc follows a motherly fi eld with screenwriter Michael is only at the very edge of our mouse who learns of a group Berg attached. Long live Mrs JOHN WICK memories, due to its being of super-intelligent rats living Frisby! There’s another small, 1 released in 1982. The Secret nearby, and utilises their furry cutie waiting for you of NIMH was a mega popular help in saving her ailing baby this month; check out our THE HUNGER GAMES: 2D animation adaptation mouse and moving away from Paddington review 2 MOCKINGJAY PART 1 of Robert C. O’Brien’s Mrs the dangerous tractors which on page 21. 3 TAMMY JANE LYNCH 4 GONE GIRL TO GIVE 5 THE BEST OF ME HELL THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU Merciless matron of telling it like it is, 6 Jane Lynch, has been cast in a brand new comedy pilot titled Angel from A WALK AMONG THE Hell. She’s to play the titular character, 7 TOMBSTONES named Amy, who is an actual supernatural ‘guardian angel’ to a THE JUDGE young woman named Allison (who 8 has not yet been cast). As far as we can guess, Amy will likely take on the jobs of ‘little angel’ and ‘little devil’ 9 BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP on Allison’s shoulders, and won’t she just be perfect at it? I’d take her ruthless, contradictory advice any day. 10 HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY 5 TKE18_04-08_NewsReel.indd 5 16/03/2015 3:31 pm hotnewreleases 1st APR 1st APR 8th APR 9th APR 9th APR 15th APR 15th APR 15th APR 22nd APR 22nd APR 29th APR 29th APR TAKE A MOVIE STAR HOME TONIGHT Untitled-9 8 17/03/15 5:06 PM BLOMKAMP NEWSREEL REVEALS MORE FOR ALIEN 5 Neill Blomkamp, the South African sci-fi visionary whose herself has also weighed in on the way the fi lm may go: “I latest fl ick Chappie has just hit theatres this month, is ever so would love to take Ripley out of orbiting around in space, slowly revealing more details about his upcoming Alien movie. and give a proper fi nish to what was such an excellent story,” In press rounds for Chappie recently, Blomkamp indicated that she said in the same interview with Blomkamp. We’re more the storyline will effectively crush the last two (awful) fi lms than amped to see what these two come up with. Want some in the Alien franchise – Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection – and alien action right now? Turn to page 15 for our review of this become a true sequel to Aliens (1986). Sigourney Weaver month’s intergalactic belter, Extraterrestrial. LAWRENCE SNAPS INDEPENDENCE DAY 2 UP PLUM ROLE CASTING REVEALED There’s a pretty exciting project on the horizon involving While we could lament for the rest of our lives that Will Smith four leviathans of fi lm – those’d be Jennifer Lawrence, will not appear in Independence Day 2, there’s been some Steven Spielberg, and the Coens – and it’s about one of the exciting casting confi rmations from director Roland Emmerich lesser-mined and most interesting components of wartime: (White House Down, the 1998 Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow photojournalism.