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This month, it’s all about the Oscars. From the biggest Hollywood Although some of the year’s winners 5-10 NEWS blockbusters to unsung gems are already out on DVD, May sees What have the bold and the premiering on DVD and Blu-ray, the arrival of the big guns. Both beautiful of fi lm and TV been up we cast our eye over the Leonardo DiCaprio and director to lately? We check out the latest month’s biggest new movie Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu were reports from home and beyond and television releases. honoured for their work on the P.16 harrowing survival epic 28-29 BACK TRACK 16-17 ACTION The Revenant, although the fi lm Five movies you may have was pipped for best fi lm by the missed last month gripping newspaper drama 18-19 DRAMA Spotlight, which also picked up the award for best original screenplay. 30 COMING SOON 20-21 FAMILY Both are featured in this month’s New releases to look magazine, along with The Big forward to next month 22-23 TV Short, which won the best adapted screenplay Oscar. That said, there are plenty of other winners heading 24 COMEDY for the shelves this month, even if they didn’t actually win any awards: 26 THRILLER other must-see May movies include 12 DEADPOOL the rude and irreverent comicbook Ryan Reynolds and director caper Deadpool, Quentin Tarantino’s Tim Miller on why they were P.19 latest epic The Hateful Eight and determined to stay true to the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler the darkly comic tone of the hilarious hit Sisters. original comicbooks. THE TEAM 14 THE BIG SHORT How funnyman Adam McKay balanced the serious themes of the global economic collapse with some lighter moments. P.20

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Charlize Theron is set to put the pedal to the metal again by signing on for the eighth Fast & Furious movie. Details are sketchy at this stage but the Mad Max: Fury Road star looks set to play the villain in Fast 8, which is currently in pre-production. A brief post on Facebook simply said: “Our crew will face its greatest adversary ever in our next ﬁ lm as we welcome Charlize Theron to the Fast family.” Theron is no stranger to the world of fast cars: as well as Mad Max, she also starred in the remake of The Italian Job, whose director F Gary Gray is helming the new Fast & Furious ﬁ lm. • Fast 8 is due in cinemas in April 2017

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Melissa McCarthy and husband and will be directed by Falcone; Ben Falcone are prepping their the husband and wife team’s latest third movie together. collaboration The Boss opened in Plot details of Life Of The cinemas last month. McCarthy will Party are still under wraps at this next be seen on the big screen in stage, but according to Deadline, July in the highly anticipated reboot the movie was written by the couple of Ghostbusters.

LAW & ORDER TO TACKLE TRUE CRIME Taking a leaf out of the pioneering new mini-series The People V OJ Simpson, Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is developing a new true crime anthology series of his own. Law & Order: True Crime - The Menendez Brothers Murders will dramatise the notorious case from the 1990s when two siblings were accused of murdering their wealthy parents. Wolf had been looking at ways to expand the Law & Order brand and is excited to take the show into the true crime arena. “There is no shortage of compelling real-life criminal cases, and the Menendez trial was more scintillating than most crime ﬁ ction,” he adds. In 1989, movie executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty were found in their Beverly Hills mansion in a crime scene that was so gruesome that police initially suspected a Maﬁ a hit. After spending lavishly for six months following the murders, their sons Lyle and Erik were eventually arrested by police and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996. 5

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The Walking Dead creator “Outcast has been a Azaceta, Outcast tells the Robert Kirkman is looking passion project of mine for story of Kyle Barnes (Patrick forward to bringing another many years,” says Kirkman. Fugit, Gone Girl), a young of his cult comic books to “Seeing it come together man who has been plagued the small screen. has been a huge thrill for by demonic possession all his HUNGER GAMES: Outcast is due to me. What we’ve been able life. However, with the help of 1 MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 premiere here in June – to achieve on Cinemax, with the Reverend Anderson (Philip DVD dates are still to be its unprecedented creative Glenister, Life on Mars) – a conﬁ rmed – and has been freedom, frankly, almost preacher who has personal ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: produced for Cinemax, scares me at times.” demons of his own – Kyle 2 THE ROADCHIP the US cable network Based on the comic by embarks on a journey to regain behind Banshee. Kirkman and artist Paul the normal life he lost. 3 ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING

SPECTRE 007 4 AN OFFER YOU 5 BRIDGE OF SPIES COULDN’T REFUSE The acclaimed British crime thriller Hyena looks to THE MARTIAN have paid off for director Gerard Johnson – his next 6 ﬁ lm is set to be The Godmother, a starry Hollywood thriller about a notorious Colombian drug baron. Catherine Zeta-Jones will play the title role HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 7 Griselda Blanco, who become one of the most powerful – and deadliest – cocaine cartel bosses in Miami in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The ﬁ lm 8 ROCK THE KASBAH is currently in pre-production and is executive produced by Nicholas Pileggi (GoodFellas, Casino). Blanco features prominently in the noted SECRET IN THEIR EYES documentary Cocaine Cowboys and was also 9 reportedly the inspiration for the character of Fish Mooney in the TV series Gotham. 10 NO ESCAPE • Hyena is out this month on DVD and Blu-ray.

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Fans of Goosebumps creator R.L.Stine will be pleased to know a new installment in his Most Ghostly series is in the pipeline. Set for release later in the year, Mostly Ghostly: One Night In Doom House is the third feature-length fi lm based on the internationally beloved book series from the legendary children’s writer. In this direct-to-DVD movie, Halloween turns super scary for Max (Corey Fogelmanis) when he learns that his other- worldly nemesis, uber-ghoul Phears (Adam Tsekhman), is back with a vengeance, a new henchman and stronger powers. Co-stars include Gamers Guide to Pretty Much Everything’s Sophie Reynolds, Danny Trejo and Morgan Fairchild. Meanwhile, keep an eye out at the end of Goosebumps – the fi rst big feature fi lm based on his characters and out this month on DVD – for a brief cameo from Stine, playing a teacher who exchanges greetings with Jack Black, who plays a fi ctional version of the author in the movie. • Goosebumps is reviewed on page 20.

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The Frankenstein Chronicles CRIME FIGHTING, BY JOVE! Period crime TV mash-ups continues to be all the another reboot, this time as an action adventure rage in the UK. series set in the 1930s. Tom Bateman (Da Vinci’s This month sees the DVD debut of The Frankenstein Demons) is the man with dangerously divergent dual Chronicles, a new British series set in 1827 and starring personalities, while Richard E Grant plays the head of Sean Bean as a policeman taken on a terrifying a shadowy government department known as MI0. journey in pursuit of a new foe. Ripper Street, the show which arguably kick-started Also in the pipeline is Houdini & Doyle, which the current wave of period crime shows, is also still imagines Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan going strong. The third series was released on DVD Doyle (played by Episodes’ Stephen Mangan) teaming last month and a fourth season is currently up with Harry Houdini (Michael Weston, House) to screening in the UK. solve crimes in the early 20th Century. And don’t forget that gothic mash-up Penny And the Gothic classic Jekyll & Hyde has received Dreadful will return later in the year for a third season. FEEL THE FEAR Director Ericson Core was involving motocross, skydiving, see stunts captured determined to take daredevil wingsuit fl ying, snowboarding, on camera as they stunts to the max on the free climbing and, of course, really happened, on actual remake of the action classic big-wave surfi ng. locations, by real athletes. Point Break, which hits “I was a mountain guide “It’s not a green-screen DVD this month. for many years and love the exercise; no one is crashing The fi rst-time director outdoors,” Core says. “I’ve into a fake building, dusting was a big fan of the 1991 always been aware of this himself off and walking movie, but quickly saw the world of extreme sports away,” he says. “We were at opportunity to push the and fascinated with the Angel Falls in Venezuela, the action to a whole new level in idea of what it is to be an tallest continuous waterfall ways that would have been extreme athlete. What is their on Earth; at the top of impossible 25 years ago. relationship to nature, and how the Jungfrau in the Alps; in Enlarging the story do they feel about challenging Walenstadt, Switzerland; at beyond the exploits of themselves against it and Teahupoo, off the coast of daredevil surfers, the new protecting it? These are Tahiti; and at Jaws, near Maui, fi lm commands a worldwide some of the concepts we to catch the largest wave stage and gives people a touch upon.” break of the decade. It’s been look into what it means to Producer Andrew Kosove – a an extraordinary shoot and be an extreme athlete today, competitive triathlete himself I can’t wait for audiences to taking in jaw-dropping scenes – adds that audiences will experience it.”

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201603274_Goosebumps_Comp_LEV_FPC.indd 1 1/04/2016 3:05 pm AD TEMPLATE.indd 1 15/04/2016 12:26 pm RYAN REYNOLDS AND DIRECTOR TIM MILLER WERE DETERMINED TO STAY TRUE TO THE DARKLY COMIC TONE OF THE ORIGINAL COMICBOOKS WITH THE R-RATED BLOCKBUSTER DEADPOOL.

ntil recently, Ryan Reynolds mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being hasn’t had much luck when it subjected to a rogue experiment that Ucomes to comicbook heroes. The pair have succeeded in leaves him with accelerated healing The big budget version of DC’s The powers adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Green Lantern was slated by the creating the highest grossing Armed with his new abilities and a dark, critics, while R.I.P.D. – based on the R-rated movie of all time twisted sense of humor, the wisecracking cult Dark Horse title – fl opped at the anti-hero hunts down the man who box offi ce; even his fi rst outing as nearly destroyed his life. Wade Wilson – aka Deadpool – in “We’re staying as true to the X-Men Origins: Wolverine attracted a a similar vision of what a Deadpool character as possible,” explains fair amount of fl ak. movie should be. Reynolds. “In the comic book world, Reynolds had long championed By staying true to the comicbook’s Deadpool is a man of our time with the a fi lm version of the iconic comic dark and irreverent tone, the pair have ability to spout just the right thing – in character, so when he got the chance succeeded in creating the highest terms of a pop culture reference – at to reprise the character, he was grossing R-rated movie of all time – the worst possible moment. We really determined to do it right. And in Tim and most twisted movie yet to emerge ran with the idea of Deadpool being Miller he found a director who shared from the Marvel cinematic universe. aware he’s a comic book anti-hero. It Deadpool tells the origin story of gave us the freedom to tell this story in former Special Forces operative turned a totally unorthodox way. We occupy a space that no other comic book movie has – or can.” Miller, who makes his directorial debut with the movie, also appreciates the fi lm’s unique elements. “Deadpool is nothing less than the greatest story ever told – with guns and swords,” he jokes. “It’s also very self-aware; Deadpool knows he’s in a comic book and he even knows he’s in a movie. He breaks the fourth wall and talks to the audience. Sometimes he’s mean to the audience, but they deserve it! I like to think of him as the regenerating degenerate.” RATED: MA15+ For his part, Reynolds was AVAILABLE: May 25 happy to embrace his character’s dark side but points out that STARS: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. the character’s appeal is partly Miller, Karan Soni down to his twisted sense of humour. “It really draws you in,” DIRECTOR: Tim Miller he notes. “Deadpool has this DURATION: 108 mins bright, optimistic outlook on life, FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray even though his life is pretty shitty.

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THE COMEDIAN Watchmen (2009) remains the defi nitive anti-superhero movie and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) makes Deadpool look like a choirboy. As well as a pre-credits sequence that suggests he was the man who shot JFK, we later discover that he even raped one of his fellow superheroes. I mean, he’s become horribly disfi gured genre. There’s a type of fi lm that from the experiments that gave him can only be made with this rating, his powers. And, he can’t fi nd love and and that really expands the MAGNETO he’s more than a little insane. That’s boundaries of the stories comic As portrayed by Ian what makes him interesting to me and book movies can tell.” McKellen and Michael also makes him sort of limitless.” The huge success of Deadpool Fassbender, Magneto In Australia, Deadpool means that it’s unlikely has been a fi xture in most of the X-Men has received an MA15+ There’s a type of fi lm that that this is the last rating, but in the we will see of fi lms. And while he was the villain in the fi rst and US it was rated can only be made with the masked third fl icks, he has generally ‘R’, which is often superhero. And this rating, and that really been on the side of good, seen as the kiss of expands the boundaries the comicbook’s particularly as Fassbender’s death at the box creators Fabian younger incarnation in the prequels. offi ce. However, of the stories comic book Nicieza and Rob Miller believes it was movies can tell Liefeld couldn’t important not to tone be happier. Says Liefeld: MARV down things to get a more “Ryan and Tim mined all the He doesn’t have any family friendly rating. “I think the good stuff in the comics from about superpowers – not R-rating allows us to have a level of a ten-year period and came up with a even a surname – reality that wouldn’t be possible with movie that sews it all together. but in the two Sin a PG-13,” he says. “I also think it’s an This will be the Deadpool that will City movies, Marv (Mickey Rourke) is important step in the expansion of the become canon moving forward!” virtually indestructible and possesses some lethal fi ghting abilities. And while a true gentleman with the ladies, he shows no mercy to those who hurt his friends.

HIT-GIRL 12-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz had already made more than 20 ﬁ lms when she shot this anarchic comicbook movie, but her fabulous potty- mouth turn as the school-aged masked vigilante put her on the road to stardom.

TKE31_12-13_DEADPOOL.indd 13 15/04/2016 11:08 am ALTHOUGH THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER, FUNNYMAN ADAM MCKAY WAS KEEN TO BALANCE THE SERIOUS THEMES OF THE BIG SHORT WITH SOME LIGHTER MOMENTS.

dam McKay is book weaves together best known as all these different Athe comedy storylines and how it’s mastermind behind Will like a ‘get rich’ story Ferrell blockbusters like that’s ultimately about Step Brothers and the xxxxx the fall of the banking Anchorman movies, so the system, corruption global fi nancial crisis of 2008 and complacency, and would seem to be unlikely how it’s funny and it’s subject matter for the heartbreaking at the writer/director. However, he same time. And she’s sees The Big Short – which like, ‘You should do it.’ looks at a small group of And I said, ‘I’m the guy traders and investors who who did Step Brothers.’ I saw the fi nancial meltdown didn’t even look into it.” coming and set out to make Nevertheless, money from it – as both a after McKay fi nished farce and a tragedy. Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, directing the hit sequel The fi lm, which won the Oscar for which blended comedy and drama in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, the best screenplay, is based on Michael recounting the events that led up to the his agent challenged him to name Lewis’s non-fi ction bestseller The Big global banking crisis. the movie he most wanted to make. McKay was hooked as soon as he “Before I even knew what I was saying, picked it up. “I started reading the book I told him, ‘If I could do anything, I at around 10:30 at night and thought, ‘I’ll would do The Big Short.’” just read 40 pages,’” he recalls. “I couldn’t Brad Pitt’s production company Plan put it down. I ended up reading the B had already picked up the rights to whole thing that night and fi nished at the book and duly sent McKay an early six in the morning. The next day I told my version of a screenplay written by Charles wife about the characters and how the Randolph. While he believes there was good stuff in the script, he was convinced he could make it better. “People know me from movies like Talladega Nights and Anchorman or the ‘Funny or Die’ videos, but I’ve always been involved in different causes,” says McKay, who gained his experience of satire as head writer for Saturday Night Live. “I feel like it’s your job as a citizen RATED: M to pay attention to what’s going on AVAILABLE: May 12 in politics and society. You can be a STARS: Christian Bale, clown and get sprayed with seltzer Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, bottles but you’ve also got to Steve Carell, Rafe Spall vote and know what DIRECTOR: Adam McKay you’re talking about.” DURATION: 130 mins FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray

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BILLY RAY VALENTINE In the comedy classic Trading Places (1983) Valentine (Eddie Murphy) quickly Although there was no role in Gomez and celebrity chef Anthony discovers that his street the movie for his pal Ferrrell, McKay Bourdain, who all get to explain to hustling skills can easily be assembled an impressive A-list cast camera some of technical terms translated to Wall Street. He later uses his new-found abilities to team up with for the movie, ranging from acting relating to the fi nancial collapse. Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) to heavyweights such as Christian Bale, McKay knew he needed an bring down the corrupt owners of the Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling to his entertaining way to clarify some core brokerage fi rm. Anchorman star Steve Carell. The director concepts for the audience. “People fi rst met the latter when they were need to know this stuff in order to both performers in Chicago’s seminal follow the story, but when you fi rst GORDON GEKKO improv troupe Second City, but it was hear phrases like ‘collateralized debt “Greed is good. Greed Carell’s Oscar-nominated performance in obligation’ or ‘credit default swap’, is right, greed works. Foxcatcher that convinced McKay that they make you feel stupid,” McKay Greed clarifi es, cuts he would be perfect for the role of Wall says. “So we came up with the idea of through, and captures Street investor-cum-crusader Mark Baum. having celebrities pop up on the screen the essence of the “Steve’s always been a great throughout the movie and explain evolutionary spirit.” Michael technician with perfect timing but when things directly to the audience.” Douglas’s ruthless corporate raider I saw him in Foxcatcher, I was like ‘Holy Ultimately, McKay hopes audiences from Wall Street (1987) is still probably crap!” McKay says. “His performance will be both informed and entertained a poster boy for thousands of yuppie blew me away. Steve constantly pushed by The Big Short. “This fi lm explores fi nancial wannabes around the globe. himself, take after take after take. I’d say, how an entire culture can get caught up ‘That was great,’ and he’d go ‘No, no, no, in the mania of a corrupt system,” he there’s more there,’ and sure enough, says. “In my cartoonish fantasy dream, PATRICK BATEMAN he’d fi nd something deeper. It ended up my hope for this movie would be that The anti-hero of being a great collaboration.” people get really mad and upset. But American Psycho (2000) doesn’t actually The Big Short also features cameos – if we’ve done this movie right, The Big seem to do much work as themselves – from Wolf Of Wall Street Short should be enjoyable as well as at all, but judging by star Margot Robbie, teen icon Selena eye opening.” his extravagant lifestyle, he once must have been pretty good at fi nancial wheeling and dealing. Presumably, the fact that he is also a serial killer means that his mind is not always on his job.

JORDAN BELFORT Actually the only real person the list, although judging by his behaviour in The Wolf Of Wall Street (2012) he could almost be a composite of Gekko and Bateman. Although he stops short of murder, his corrupt business practices and debauched lifestyle eventually catch the eye of the FBI.

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On paper, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest Oscar

ACTION winner couldn’t be more different from his 2015 Academy Award triumph, the Broadway- set Birdman. And true, there are not a lot of laughs in this harrowing throwback to the survival westerns of the ‘70s. However, the prowling, restless visuals and ﬂ ashes of fantasy make this an unmistakably Iñárritu movie, and like his last ﬁ lm, The Revenant is anchored by a powerful central performance, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio. He plays Hugh Glass, a scout on a hunting party who is left badly wounded after being mauled by a bear. Trapper John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) agrees to stay behind with the gravely ill man, but after murdering Glass’s loyal Native American son, he and his young sidekick, the RATED: MA15+ guilt-ridden Bridger (Will Poulter), leave Glass to die alone in the wilderness. Thus begins AVAILABLE: May 18 an epic journey of survival as our hero battles STARS: Leonardo DiCaprio, the elements to make his way back to base Tom Hardy, camp and avenge the death of his boy. Domhnall Gleeson, A beautifully shot testament to the strength Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck of the human spirit and the power of nature. DIRECTOR: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 156 mins Jeremiah Johnson FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Everest Into The Wild

RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER PT2 IP MAN 3 TALE OF TALES RATED: M AVAIL: May 4 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 18 STARS: Donnie Yen, Lynn STARS: Salma Hayek, Vincent Loosely based on a true Hung, Jin Zhang, Mike Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. story, the original Rise Of Tyson DIRECTOR: Wilson Yip Reilly DIRECTOR: Matteo Garrone The Footsoldier (2007) was DURATION: 105 mins FORMATS: DURATION: 129mins FORMATS: something of a surprise DVD DVD/Blu-ray DVD/Blu-ray hit around the globe and inspired a host of similar ultra- It can be a little tricky Giambattista Basile was an violent British gangster movies keeping up with fi lms about early Italian collector/ writer set among London’s criminal the legendary martial arts of fairy tales in the 17th underworld. Here, Ricci teacher, the most recent century (the Brothers Grimm Harnett – he also writes and of which was 2013’s The were big fans),who published directs – returns to reprise his Grandmaster. However, early versions of classic role as Carlton Leach, football Donnie Yen remains the stories such as Rapunzel hooligan, nightclub bouncer defi nitive Ip Man and his and Cinderella. This stylishly and criminal enforcer. The fi lm return to the series will be surreal compendium inspired opens with Leach still haunted welcomed by fans. Packed by his tales of perverse kings by the murder of his Essex with jaw-dropping martial arts and queens, ogres and other pals at the end of the fi rst action, the latest epic fi nds monsters are defi nitely not movie (the real-life gangland RATED: MA15+ the humble grandmaster for children, but fans of Terry slaying that has also produced fronting up against the Triads Gilliam’s twisted fantasies will AVAILABLE: May 18 a lot of spin-off fi lms). His and their leader Mike Tyson! feel right at home. STARS: Ricci Harnett, uncontrollable rages result in Luke Mably, Slaine Kelly, him losing his job at a club and Steven Berkoff, Andy Linden his wife (Coralie Rose) and kids moving out of the family DIRECTOR: home. However, with the help Ricci Harnett of his torture-loving pal Shawn DURATION: 107 mins (Luke Mably) he sets out to FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray build a new criminal empire. Essential viewing for Brit crime fans.

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Although there have been irreverent super hero movies before, star/producer Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller have gleefully torn up the rule book with Deadpool: if the team behind Family Guy were let loose on The Avengers, it might end up looking a little like this. Reynolds is in his element as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking mercenary who signs up for a revolutionary cancer treatment program and instead is transformed into an indestructible wisecracking vigilante. Ed Skrein –“a British villain” as described in the cheeky opening credits – is the man responsible for turning him into a hideously scarred freak, while Morena Baccarin (“a hot chick”) provides the love interest. It’s this blend of cheerful political incorrectness and knowing humour (Wade pokes fun at the X-Men RATED: MA15+ franchise and the star’s previous ill-fated AVAILABLE: May 25 superhero adventure The Green Lantern) that STARS: Ryan Reynolds, makes Deadpool so special. But don’t worry Morena Baccarin, – it also delivers in the action stakes, too, T.J. Miller, Karan Soni making this the perfect pick-me-up for fans suffering from superhero fatigue. DIRECTOR: Tim Miller DURATION: 108 mins IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Kick-Ass Super X-Men: First Class

POINT BREAK EXTRACTION

The Keanu Reeves/Patrick Bruce Willis provides the Swayze original was both a gravitas, Kellan Lutz and Gina mainstream hit and a cult Carano the muscles in this favourite, so it’s not surprising no-nonsense action spy thriller. that this big budget reboot Willis plays a veteran CIA received plenty of ﬂ ak when agent Leonard Turner, who has it hit cinemas. But while it seemingly been kidnapped certainly isn’t in the same by terrorists intent on getting league as Kathryn Bigelow’s their hands on a lethal new sleek 1991 effort, the new American telecommunications Point Break won’t disappoint weapon called the Condor. fans of extreme sport and Lutz is his son Harry who action. Aussie star Luke followed his father into the Bracey takes the Reeves role agency, but has been desk- of Johnny Utah, a man who bound because of doubts gave up extreme sports for a about his temperament (he’s career in the FBI following the been unfairly tainted because death in a stunt of his best pal. when he was just a child he RATED: M After a series of death defying RATED: MA15+ froze when killers entered robberies, Utah deduces that their house and murdered his AVAILABLE: May 11 AVAILABLE: May 4 the thieves are also intent on mother). Refused permission STARS: Luke Bracey, completing The Ozaki Eight, a STARS: Bruce Willis, to mount a rescue mission, Edgar Ramírez, series of dangerous challenges Kellan Lutz, Gina Carano, Harry goes rogue, eventually Ray Winstone, that offers participants the path D.B. Sweeney, teaming up with the assigned Teresa Palmer to enlightenment. He succeeds Joshua Mikel agent Victoria (Carano) DIRECTOR: Ericson Core in inﬁ ltrating the group led by DIRECTOR: Steven C. Miller who luckily for him is his Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez) but is ex-girlfriend. It’s not exactly DURATION: 114 mins DURATION: 83 mins torn between his mission and subtle, but both Carano and FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray his growing admiration for FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Lutz shine in the many close- his target. combat sequences.

TKE31_16-17_Action.indd 17 17/04/2016 6:19 pm THE HATEFUL EIGHT

Quentin Tarantino has always delighted Spotlight DRAMA in genre mash-ups and his latest is no exception: The Hateful Eight essentially takes the premise of Agatha Christie’s classic Girl King whodunit And Then There Were None and gives it a spaghetti western-cum-horror makeover. Kurt Russell plays a bounty hunter James White who is bringing in an outlaw killer (Janet Jason Leigh) to be hanged. En route they are joined by fellow bounty hunter Samuel The 33 L Jackson and a dubious southern renegade (Walton Goggins) who claims to be the new sheriff of the town they are heading to. Hateful Eight However, they all ﬁ nd themselves stranded by a snowstorm at a remote station inhabited by a collection of strangers, who include Daughter Of God English hangman Tim Roth and a former RATED: R18+ Confederate general (Bruce Dern). Jackson and Russell suspect that not everyone is AVAILABLE: May 25 Big Short who they claim to be, setting the scene for a STARS: Samuel L. Jackson, blood-drenched ﬁ nale. The superb cast relish Kurt Russell, the profane brilliance of Tarantino’s dialogue, Woodlawn Jennifer Jason Leigh, while his elegant widescreen visuals make Walton Goggins this his most assured movie since Kill Bill. DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 187 mins Django Unchained FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Bone Tomahawk Identity

THE BIG SHORT THE GIRL KING WOODLAWN RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 4 RATED: PG AVAIL: May 12 Who would have thought it? STARS: Malin Buska, Sarah STARS: Sean Astin, Nic Bishop, The man behind lewd and Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Caleb Castille, Sherri Shepherd, crude classics like Anchorman Lucas Bryant DIRECTOR: Mika Jon Voight DIRECTOR: Andrew and Talladega Nights has Kaurismki DURATION: 102 mins Erwin DURATION: 118 mins delivered the best movie yet FORMATS: DVD FORMATS: DVD about the American fi nancial Fans of historical TV series Part faith movie, part racial collapse of the late 2000s. like The Tudors and The drama, this uplifting true story Based on the non-fi ction book Borgias will fi nd much to like is loosely based on the early of the same name, writer/ in this period piece about life of Christian evangelist director Adam McKay explores Queen Christina of Sweden. Henry Erwin (it is actually the events leading up to the Malin Buska is the unmarried directed by his two sons). bursting of the US’s credit and 17th century monarch who Set in 1973 in the racially housing bubble by focusing on scandalizes her court by divided city of Birmingham, a disparate group of investors embracing Catholicism and Alabama, Sean Astin plays and traders – who include new philosophical ideas. the chaplain of a high school Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, And her very close football team whose message Steve Carell and Brad Pitt – relationship with a countess of faith and hope for the who saw the collapse coming (Sarah Gadon) also causes players ends up uniting RATED: M and used it to make a fortune. quite a stir, too. the community. Thanks to McKay’s comedy AVAILABLE: May 12 background, he never lets STARS: Christian Bale, the fi lm get bogged down in Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, detail and the use of the likes Steve Carell, Rafe Spall, of Margot Robbie, Anthony Margot Robbie Bourdain and Selena Gomez to DIRECTOR: Adam McKay explain some of the concepts in laymen’s language adds to DURATION: 130 mins the sense of fun – without FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray detracting from the enormity of the scandal.

TKE31_18-19_Drama.indd 18 15/04/2016 11:10 am DAUGHTER OF GOD JAMES WHITE

SPOTLIGHT DRAMA RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 5 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 4 The surprise winner of this STARS: Keanu Reeves, Ana de STARS: Christopher Abbott, year’s Oscar for best picture Armas, Mira Sorvino, Big Daddy Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, is a marvellous salute to good Kane DIRECTOR: Declan Dale Ron Livingston DIRECTOR: Josh old-fashioned journalism. DURATION: 98 mins Mond DURATION: 106 mins Spotlight tells the story of how FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray FORMATS: DVD a team of dedicated Boston journalists uncovered the Keanu Reeves is reunited Christopher Abbott gives shameful extent of child abuse with his Knock Knock co-star a fi ery performance in the by priests in the city and how Ana de Armas for this unusual title role of this intense, local Catholic archdiocese crime drama, which has award-winning drama from tried to cover up the crimes. faint supernatural overtones. fi rst-time director Josh Mond. Initially, the Spotlight unit Reeves is the uptight cop Abbott plays a hard-partying, are sceptical, but at the investigating the murder self-destructive New Yorker urgings of their newspaper’s of his former partner, who who is forced to re-evaluate newly appointed editor (Liev turns out to have been a very his life when he learns that Schreiber) they decide to dig bad man indeed. De Armas, his mother (Cynthia Nixon, deeper. To the horror of the meanwhile, is a young teacher also superb) is suffering team of reporters – played by who is a possible witness and from cancer. A cathartic and RATED: M Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, is haunted by strange visions. emotionally wrenching tale. AVAILABLE: May 4 Rachel McAdams and Brian STARS: Mark Ruffalo, d’Arcy James – they discover Michael Keaton, that the child abuse was not Rachel McAdams, limited to just a few rogue Liev Schreiber churchmen: the crimes of up to 90 pedophile priests DIRECTOR: Tom McCarthy may have been covered up DURATION: 128 mins by the church. The terrifi c FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray performances and Tom McCarthy’s sensitive direction make this a must-see movie.

THE 33

It seems a long time ago now, but it was only back in 2010 when millions of people around the globe were transﬁ xed by the Copiapó accident in Chile, in which 33 miners spent more than 60 days trapped 700 metres beneath the ground. Given that book rights were being negotiated even before they had reached the surface, it was inevitable that Hollywood would eventually come calling and The 33 is the result. Antonio Banderas is his usual charismatic self as ‘Super’ Mario Sepúlveda, who became the defacto leader of the group, although not all of his colleagues like the way he becomes the public face of the disaster. Lou Diamond Phillips plays the mining shift’s foreman, while above the ground the rescue efforts are led by Rodrigo Santoro as the Chilean mining minister and RATED: M Gabriel Byrne as the engineer tasked to bring them out. The initial disastrous cave-in is AVAILABLE: May 18 impressively staged, while director Patricia STARS: Antonio Banderas, Riggen (Girl In Progress) sustains an admirable Rodrigo Santoro, amount of tension given that most people Juliette Binoche, know what happens in the end. James Brolin DIRECTOR: Patricia Riggen IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 127 mins World Trade Center FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray The Perfect Storm The Impossible

TKE31_18-19_Drama.indd 19 15/04/2016 11:11 am GOOSEBUMPS

Until now adaptations of R L Stine’s

FAMILY best-selling supernatural chillers for teens have been reserved either for television or direct-to-DVD special. However, his most famous series has ﬁ nally made it to the big screen – and in a way you would like to think the mischievous author would approve of. Rather than adapting one of the individual stories, Goosebumps instead reimagines the author (played here by Jack Black) as a mean-spirited recluse who keeps his teenage daughter (Odeya Rush) on a tightleash. However, it turns out there is a good reason for that: the monsters that he writes about can take a physical form, so when his young neigbour (Dylan Minnette) unwittingly opens one of his original books, all hell breaks loose. Black is in top form as RATED: CTC both the author and as the voice of Slappy, AVAILABLE: May 25 the ventriloquist dummy leader of the STARS: Jack Black, Dylan monsters, and there is more than a touch Minnette, Odeya Rush, of Gremlins about the havoc creatures Ryan Lee, Amy Ryan wreak. A family blockbuster that grownups and kids can appreciate. DIRECTOR: Rob Letterman IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 103 mins Jumanji FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Goosebumps (TV series) Night At The Museum

LEGO FRIENDS SOFIA THE FIRST A.R.C.H.I.E. EPISODES 11 & 12 A ROYAL COLLECTION Cult icon Katharine Isabelle, best known for her roles in RATED: PG AVAIL: May 5 RATED: G AVAIL: May 11 dark shockers like American STARS: Erin Fitzgerald, STARS: Ariel Winter, Darcy Rose Mary and Ginger Snaps, and Alexa Kahn, Darrel Guilbeau Byrnes, Travis Willingham Michael J Fox head the cast DIRECTOR: Trylle Vilstrup DIRECTOR: Jamie Mitchell of this engaging robo-dog FORMATS: DVD DURATION: 107 mins FORMATS: DVD caper. The latter voices the Continuing the fun and eponymous super-pooch, while colourful animated Fans of Disney princesses Isabelle plays his inventor, who adventures of our favourite will be in seventh heaven engineers his disappearance fi ve besties – Olivia, with the release of this new from a high tech facility so Andrea, Emma, Mia collection, which brings he won’t used for military and Stephanie – in their together four fantastic tales. purposes. She ends up charming hometown of Highlights include Sofi a and being double-crossed by her Heartlake City. Fans will Mulan on a daring adventure associate, but A.R.C.H.I.E. know what to expect in the Kingdom of Wei Ling, manages to escape and fi nds by now, but remember and a magic carpet ride with his way to a sleepy smalltown. it’s never too late to Jasmine. And as always, there Taken in by a lonely young get acquainted with a few important life lessons RATED: G teen (Sarah Desjardins) – the LEGO Friends Club. passed on along the way. who has just moved to the AVAILABLE: May 18 community following the death STARS: Jonathan Whitesell, of her parents – the pair team Katharine Isabelle, Michael J. up to help her uncle (played by Fox (voice), Robin Dunne the fi lm’s writer-director Robin DIRECTOR: Robin Dunne Dunne) foil the wicked plans of a crooked businesswoman DURATION: 91 mins (Farrah Aviva). A.R.C.H.I.E. FORMATS: DVD makes for a cute canine hero and Fox’s voiceover adds that little bit of extra class to the proceedings. 20

TKE31_20-21_Family.indd 20 15/04/2016 11:11 am MARSHALL THE MIRACLE DOG TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA FAMILY

Released in the US as TURTLES S4 V1 Marshall’s Miracle and loosely Cowabunga! With the release based on a true story, this of the latest big budget live heartwarming adventure about action movie Teenage Mutant a young boy and his dog will Ninja Turtles: Out Of The go down a treat with fans of Shadows due in Australian canine movies. Lucas McHugh cinemas next month, now Carroll (The Informant!) plays is the perfect time to check the 12-year-old Finn who is out the ﬁ rst volume of the constantly being picked on by fourth season of the animated a group of school bullies. After series. As the sub-title befriending a Labrador retriever Beyond The Known Universe being kept in deplorable suggests, this time around conditions, he rescues the our pizza-loving superheroes pooch but then must keep him Leo (voiced by Seth Green), hidden from his stressed-out Raph (Sean Astin), Donnie mother Cynthia (played by (Rob Paulsen) and Mikey (Creg one time American Pie pin-up RATED: PG Cipes) ﬁ nd themselves in Shannon Elizabeth). Further outer space battling a colourful AVAILABLE: May 18 RATED: PG complicating matters is that the array of weird and wonderful STARS: Lucas McHugh retriever – who Finn christens AVAILABLE: May 12 alien lifeforms and galactic Marshall – has wounds that Carroll, Lauren Holly, STARS: Seth Green, monsters in a race against are in urgent need of attention. Shannon Elizabeth, Sean Astin, Greg Cipes time to save planet Earth. Matthew Settle, Bill Chott He and his older cousin Grace Fortunately, they have have DIRECTOR: Alan Wan, (Haley Busch) then face a race the assistance of a cyborg DIRECTOR: Jay Kanzler Ciro Nieli against time to save the life of known as the Fugitoid (voiced DURATION: 90 mins his new best friend and keep DURATION: 22-min episodes by one-time Doctor Who him out of the hands of his old FORMATS: DVD FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray David Tennant) to lend tormentors. them a helping hand.

THE GOOD DINOSAUR

Generations of children have been fascinated by dinosaurs so Pixar was always on to a sure thing with their latest animated blockbuster, the follow-up to the studio’s Oscar-winning Inside Out. The main twist in the tale here is that the meteors that wiped out the prehistoric creatures actually missed Earth, meaning that dinos are now pretty much the top species and humans are annoying dog-like scavengers. The unlikely hero of The Good Dinosaur is Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa), a rather timid apatosaurus, who is even cowed by chickens. When his father (Jeffrey Wright) dies, Arlo is determined to overcome his fears and step up to help his mother (Frances McDormand) run their farm. However, he ends up stranded thousands of miles from home when he sets out to track RATED: PG down the humanoid rodent (he later dubs AVAILABLE: May 11 him Spot) who has been stealing their food. STARS: Jeffrey Wright, Both a coming of age story and an exciting Frances McDormand, feel-good adventure, this will keep children Maleah Nipay-Padilla entertained throughout the coming winter months. DIRECTOR: Peter Sohn DURATION: 93 mins IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray The Land Before Time Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs The Croods

TKE31_20-21_Family.indd 21 15/04/2016 11:11 am BLOODLINE SEASON 1

TV The ﬁ ngerprints of Damages’ creators Glenn and Ted Kessler are immediately apparent in this classy new show: the use of ‘fast forwards’ makes it pretty clear early on that lead character Kyle Chandler will end up doing something very bad by the end. But as with Damages, the suspense comes from discovering what has driven him to such extremes and you are kept guessing right to the end over that. Chandler is excellent as John Rayburn, a small-town lawman in Florida whose parents (Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard) are the owners of a popular hotel resort. However, their comfortable life is shaken up when prodigal son Danny (Ben Mendelsohn at his sleaziest best) returns to the family home and proceeds to play off John and his other siblings Meg (Linda RATED: MA15+ Cardellini) and Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz) AVAILABLE: May 5 against each other. The all-star cast also STARS: Kyle Chandler, includes familiar faces like Jacinda Barrett, Ben Mendelsohn, Chloë Sevigny, John Leguizamo and Andrea Linda Cardellini, Riseborogh, while the ﬁ nale sets things up Norbert Leo Butz nicely for the upcoming second season. DIRECTOR: Johan Renck IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 700 mins Ray Donovan FORMATS: DVD Damages Rectify

X-FILES EVENT SERIES 2016 THE FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES S1 Given that both have gone on to forge successful acting careers, one suspects that Ripper Street meets Penny neither David Duchovny and Dreadful in this clever new Gillian Anderson really needed period crime series which to make this belated new offers a fresh take on installment of the show that Frankenstein. Set in 1827, made their names. That’s the ever-reliable Sean Bean probably why the new edition plays Inspector John Marlott, of The X Files feels much more a London cop on the trail of a like an affectionate reunion diabolical killer who appears to rather than a cynical cash-in. have a taste for human body With original creator Chris parts. The classy supporting Carter at the helm, this time cast includes Anna Maxwell around Mulder (Duchovny) and Martin as Frankenstein author Scully (Anderson) are no longer Mary Shelley. More, please. a couple or with the FBI, but are reunited by TV show host RATED: MA15+ Tad O’Malley (Joel McHale), AVAILABLE: May 25 who claims to have uncovered RATED: MA15+ STARS: David Duchovny, evidence that shows alien Gillian Anderson activity on earth is all part of AVAILABLE: May 18 a sinister global conspiracy. DIRECTOR: Chris Carter STARS: Sean Bean, Richie This storyline book-ends the Campbell, Vanessa Kirby, DURATION: 252 mins six parter, with the remaining Eloise Smyth episodes being standalones, FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray DIRECTOR: Benjamin Ross including a funny new addition to the ‘monster-of-the-week’ FORMATS: DVD strand featuring Rhys Darby. It’s good to have them back.

TKE31_22-23_TV.indd 22 15/04/2016 11:12 am FLESH AND BONE TV At ﬁ rst look, this ballet drama doesn’t stray too far from the familiar conventions of the genre: there’s the shy but brilliant ingénue, the ruthless artistic director, the ageing, jealous star of the company. However, this eight parter boasts enough dark and lurid twists to make it closer in spirit to Black Swan than Fame. Sarah Hay – who like most of the cast is an actual ballet dancer – plays Claire, a brilliant young performer who wins a place on a prestigious NY company ruled over by the arrogant, bullying Paul Grayson (Ben Daniels). He recognizes her raw talent and decides to make her one of the stars of the new season, much to the dismay of the current leading lady (Irina Dvorovenko). However, Claire’s past comes back to haunt , RATED: MA15+ her when her brother Bryan (Josh Helman) tracks her down in the Big Apple. Add in a AVAILABLE: May 18 disturbed homeless man (Damon Herriman), STARS: Sarah Hay, a ballet-loving Russian mobster (Patrick Page) Ben Daniels, Emily Tyra, and a roommate with an eating disorder Irina Dvorovenko, (Emily Tyra), and you have all the ingredients Damon Herriman, for a juicy, almost gothic, melodrama. Josh Helman IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DIRECTOR: David Michod DURATION: 482 mins Black Swan Center Stage FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Mozart In The Jungle

SUITS S5 CSI CYBER S1 ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK S3 RATED: M AVAIL: May 5 RATED: M AVAIL: May 18 STARS: Gabriel Macht, Patrick STARS: Patricia Arquette, The fi rst two seasons of this J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, James Van Der Beek, Shad acclaimed women’s prison Gina Torrres,Meghan Markle Moss DIRECTOR: Eagle Egilsson series were driven mainly by DIRECTOR: Anton L Cropper DURATION: 545 mins the struggle of a nice middle FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray FORMATS: DVD class professional called Piper Legal eagles Harvey Specter Previous spin-offs have (Taylor Schilling) to adapt to (Gabriel Macht) and Mike Ross revolved mainly around live behind bars. However, by (Patrick J Adams) face the new locations in the US, now she’s become something return of an old nemesis plus a so hats off to the CSI team of an old hand when it comes potential new adversary from for taking the series in a to prison, so the series has within in the latest season of whole new direction As the naturally changed tack subtly. this witty lawyer drama. We title suggests, the new show Season 3 fi nds Piper coming won’t spoil who the former centres on the FBI’s cyber up with an ingenious new is, but John Pyper-Ferguson crime division and the online business venture involving the plays a previously unseen arena offers them the chance sale of prisoners’ underwear to senior partner who makes to investigate all sorts of fetish websites. However, her an unexpected power play at baffl ing crimes. Keep an on-again off-again relationship Pearson Specter Litt. Still the eye out for a second with Alex (Laura Prepon) is RATED: MA15+ best legal show on telly. series later this year. threatened by her attraction to AVAILABLE: May 18 a new inmate Stella (Australian STARS: Taylor Schilling, actress Ruby Rose). Another Danielle Brooks, major story arc involves the Taryn Manning, privatization of the prison, Emma Myles while there are plenty of new challenges and developments DIRECTOR: Michael Trim for other key characters as DURATION: 841 mins well. As usual the mix of black FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray humour and pathos remains a compelling combination – we can’t wait for season 4.

TKE31_22-23_TV.indd 23 15/04/2016 11:12 am BREAK POINT NINA FOREVER

Co-written by star Jeremy It’s not the ﬁ rst zom-rom-com,

COMEDY Sisto, this likable underdog but this British offering has got comedy is set in the world of to be the strangest one yet. doubles’ tennis. Sisto plays Nina Forever shares a similar Jimmy, an ageing pro, whose story to Joe Dante’s recent obnoxious behaviour means Burying The Ex – a man is he rarely hangs onto any of his haunted by his dead former tennis partners. Determined girlfriend – but British directors to have one more crack at Ben and Chris Blaine take the qualifying for the US Open, he premise in a darker, quirkier hits upon the idea of reuniting direction, using it to explore with his young brother Darren notions of grief, sexuality and (David Walton), who has never obsession. Cian Barry plays Breakpoint forgiven for him dumping him Rob, who has given up his as a partner when they were university studies following Sisters on the verge of hitting the big the death of his girlfriend time. However, because his Nina (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) own life is in the doldrums, in a car accident and has RATED: M RATED: MA15+ Nina Forever Darren eventually agrees and taken a job at a supermarket. AVAILABLE: May 18 the mismatched pair set out AVAILABLE: May 11 Things start looking up when STARS: Jeremy Sisto, on an unlikely comeback. STARS: Abigail Hardingham, he is befriended by student David Walton, The two leads spark off each Cian Barry, Fiona and co-worker Holly (Abigail Adam DeVine, other nicely and there is O’Shaughnessy Hardingham), but the ﬁ rst time expert support from the likes they go to bed together, the Joshua Rush, Amy Smart DIRECTORS: of JB Simmons as their long- blood-splattered Nina emerges DIRECTOR: Jay Karas Ben and Chris Blaine suffering father and Joshua from the mattress to remind DURATION: 87 mins Rush as a lonely young boy DURATION: 94 mins her ex that she is not prepared FORMATS: DVD who becomes their biggest FORMATS: DVD to let him go! Weird and fan. wonderful, this is destined to become a cult favourite.

SISTERS

A welcome comedy reunion for two of America’s funniest ladies, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, this pleasingly raunchy laugh fest is cut from similar cloth as the grown-up sorority comedy Old School (2003). In a neat reversal of their usual comic personas, Poehler is the uptight Maura who has always been a little envious of her irresponsible wildchild sister Kate (Fey). When they discover that their parents (James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) have sold their family home, the siblings decide to throw a legendary party so Maura can ﬁ nally let her hair down. Of course, things don’t go according to plan... Fey and Poehler look to be having a ball as grown-ups behaving badly and the all-star cast includes seasoned Saturday Night Live pals like Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, RATED: MA15+ Paula Pell (who penned the script) and Rachel AVAILABLE: May 5 Dratch, plus John Leguizamo and John Cena. STARS: Amy Poehler, However, it’s the largely unknown Greta Lee Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, who ends up stealing the show as a wacky, Ike Barinholtz, party-loving young Korean woman the sisters James Brolin meet at a nail salon. DIRECTOR: Jason Moore IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 118 mins Bridesmaids FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Bachelorette Tammy

TKE31_24_Comedy.indd 24 15/04/2016 11:13 am SAMUEL L. KURT JENNIFER WALTON DEMIAN TIM MICHAEL BRUCE JACKSON RUSSELL JASON LEIGH GOGGINS BICHIR ROTH MADSEN AND DERN

ON BLU-RAY™ & DVD 25 MAY

201603275_The_Hateful_Eight_LEV_FP.indd 1 4/1/16 2:42 PM AD TEMPLATE.indd 1 15/04/2016 12:27 pm MISCONDUCT HYENA THE HALLOW RATED: R18+ AVAIL: May 18 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 18 They are both getting on STARS: Peter Ferdinando, STARS: Joseph Mawle, Bojana a bit, but this match-up of Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, Novakovic, Michael McElhatton

THRILLER acting titans Al Pacino and Elisa Lasowski DIRECTOR: Gerard DIRECTOR: Corin Hardy Anthony Hopkins will have Johnson DURATION: 112 mins DURATION: 97 mins movie buffs salivating. The FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray latter plays ruthless corporate Taking its cues from fi lms like This impressive directorial debut millionaire Arthur Denning, Dark Blue and the TV classic The from music video maker Corin whose girlfriend Emily (Malin Shield, this bleak yet gripping Hardy also boasts a few familiar Akerman) has been kidnapped. British crime thriller stars Peter faces from Game Of Thrones. Set However, in fl ashback we Ferdinando as the head of an in Ireland, Adam Mawle – Benjen quickly discover that all is not elite anti-drugs unit who offer Stark in GoT – plays an English what it seems: Denning’s protection to those criminals conservationist who makes the company is being sued by the willing to give them a slice of the mistake of not listening to the victims in a pharmaceutical action. However, he fi nds himself advice of his neighbour (Michael scandal and the lawsuit is the under assault on two fronts when ‘Roose Bolton’ McElhatton) and result of evidence provided a brutal Albanian gang move onto unwittingly awakens demonic by Emily to her ex-boyfriend, his patch and the anti-corruption creatures in the forest. lawyer Ben Cahill (Josh RATED: M unit begin investigating him. Stylish and scary. Duhamel). But when she turns AVAILABLE: May 4 up dead in her apartment, STARS: Josh Duhamel, Ben realises that he is being Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, framed for her murder. Pacino Alice Eve, Malin Akerman hams it up for all it’s worth as the young man’s slippery DIRECTOR: mentor, while the all-star cast Shintaro Shimosawa also includes Alice Eve as DURATION: 105 mins Ben’s wife, Julia Stiles as a FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray security expert and Byung-hun Lee (Terminator: Genisys) as mysterious assassin.

THE INVITATION REGRESSION KRAMPUS THE VEIL

RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 11 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 18 RATED: M AVAIL: May 5 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 5 STARS: Michiel Huisman, Logan STARS: Ethan Hawke, Emma STARS: Emjay Anthony, Adam STARS: Jessica Alba, Lily Rabe, Marshall-Green DIRECTOR: Watson, David Thewlis, Lothaire Scott, Toni Collette, Stefania Thomas Jane, Aleksa Palladino Karyn Kusama DURATION: Bluteau, Dale Dickey DIRECTOR: LaVie Owen, Krista Stadler DURATION: 93 mins 96 mins FORMATS: DVD Alejandro Amenabar DURATION: DIRECTOR: Michael Dougherty FORMATS: DVD 115 mins FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray DURATION: 98 mins Director Karyn Kusama Although it borrows some FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray (Jennifer’s Body) gets back to Inspired by the Satanic ritual elements from the ‘found her indie roots with this chiller abuse panic that swept the The nastiest festive family footage’ horror genre, this which puts the emphasis on US in the ‘80s, the spooky horror fl ick since Gremlins unsettling horror fl ick follows psychological frights but is new fi lm from Alejandro fi nds Toni Collette and Adam a more traditional narrative no less creepy for it. Logan Amenábar (The Others) stars Scott’s family under assault by path. Jessica Alba plays a Marshall-Green plays a father Ethan Hawke as a detective demonic creatures after their documentary fi lmmaker who still grieving over the loss who becomes obsessed with son Emjay Anthony declares persuades the only survivor of his son, who receives an a child abuse case involving he no longer believes in (Lily Rabe) of a religious invitation to a dinner party a farmer (David Dencik) and Christmas. It’s inspired by the cult’s mass suicide to return from his ex-wife Tammy his daughter (Emma Watson). eponymous character from to the scene to uncover Blanchard and her new man Under regression therapy, German folklore who punishes what really happened 25 Michiel Huisman. However, he she reveals that it was part naughty children, and the years ago. However, their soon begins to suspect that of wider abuse carried out by gleeful mix of shocks and arrival unwittingly reawakens there is a more sinister motive devil worshippers. But is it all slapstick make a change from something evil in the woods. behind the event... in her head? usual saccharine Xmas fare.

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Sylvester Stallone has kept a close guard over the Rocky franchise over the last fi ve decades, but for the seventh movie in the blockbuster series he has wisely handed over the creative reins to two rising Hollywood stars, director Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan, who made their name with the acclaimed Sundance hit Fruitvale Station. As the title suggests, the latest addition to the franchise switches the attention to Donnie Johnson (Jordan), RATED: M the illegitimate son of Rocky’s old friend STARS: Michael B. Jordan, and rival Apollo Creed (played in the fi rst Sylvester Stallone, Tessa four movies by Carl Weathers). After a spell Thompson, Phylicia Rashad in foster care, Donnie is adopted by Creed’s DIRECTOR: Ryan Coogler widow (Phylicia Rashad) and grows up in luxury in Los Angeles. However, much DURATION: 120 mins to his stepmother’s disapproval, he is FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray determined to follow in the footsteps of his father and when he is rejected by LA’s top training gym, he moves to Pittsburgh and sets out to convince a reluctant Rocky (Stallone) – these days happy to focus on his restaurant – to become his coach. While Donnie is reluctant to cash in on his famous father, his family name eventually lands the fl edgling boxer a once in a lifetime opportunity to fi ght the world champion, played by real life British boxer Tony Bellew, leading to a crowd-pleasing fi nale. Coogler succeeds in recapturing both the grit and underdog spirit of the very best Rocky movies, while Stallone gives his best ever performance as the ageing Italian stallion. And with a sequel in the works, it seems that this won’t be last time we see Rocky in the ring.

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Former Downton Abbey heartthrob Dan Stevens has That ever-reliable movie trope, the clash of different certainly been working hard to ditch his old persona – recent cultures, is at the heart of this feel-good romantic comedy roles include a ruthless drug kingpin in A Walk Among The that is set in and around the inner west suburbs of Sydney. Tombstones and a psychopathic former marine in The Guest. This time around, it’s Lebanon vs Greece: Alex (Richard And he’s once again cast against type in this ingenious little Brancatisano) is a shy teacher who is under pressure from crime thriller, playing a nervy young man who persuades his family to settle down with a nice Greek girl, while Eve three old schoolmates – Michael Pitt, Michael Brown and (Andrea Demetriades) is a successful Lebanese lawyer Christopher Abbott – to join him in some insider trading. who is being lined up to marry a man from her family The deal goes horribly wrong and the four ﬁ nd themselves in homeland after a disastrous romance with a non-Muslim debt to loan shark John Travolta, who offers them a way out man. The pair meet by chance through their respective of their quandary: if they kidnap the brother (Edi Gathegi) of best friends Paul (Ryan O’Kane) and Clara (Millie Samuels) the local dealer who has abducted Travolta’s nephew, he will and quickly hit it off. However, the prejudices of both write off their debt. Unsurprisingly things don’t go according to sets of parents threaten to derail their budding romance. plan… Boasting a nice line in sardonic humour, the twists ﬂ ow Brancatisano and Demetriades make for attractive leads, thick and fast in this promising directorial debut from Jackie Earl although Tony Nikolakopoulos and Helen Chebatte end up Haley, best known for his roles in Watchmen and as Freddy stealing the show as the bigoted patriarch and matriarch of Kreuger in the rebooted A Nightmare On Elm Street. the respective families.

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When keen young photographer Bird (Ella Ballentine) Although he is probably best known as Spider Man, goes to his visit the grave of her late mother, the last Andrew Garfi eld tends to specialise in tragic, tormented thing she expected was to be a witness to a massacre. young men – the reformed child killer of Boy A, the Unfortunately for her, she also ends up photographing the betrayed Facebook co-founder in The Social Network, assassin Sade (Laurence Fishburne) and when he realises the doomed organ donor of Never Let Me Go. And the his identity has been compromised, he knows that she British star is at his heartbreaking best in this melancholic has to go. The plucky Bird takes refuge at the isolated drama set against the backdrop of the collapse of the farmhouse of Carter (Thomas Jane) and he manages to US property market in late 2000s. Garfi eld perfectly repulse Sade’s fi rst assault on his property. However, the conveys the pain and shame of losing your own home exchange of fi re leaves both men wounded – the killer on – and that torment is further amplifi ed when is forced the ground fl oor, Carter on the next level up – leading to to take a job with the man who evicted him from his a tense stand-off. Fishburne enjoys himself immensely house, real estate broker Michael Shannon. The title, as the erudite killer who cajoles and threatens the farmer incidentally, refers to a massive property deal the latter into giving up the witness, while Jane is equally good as is endeavouring put together with a venture capital fi rm the former soldier, who is still haunted by the accidental looking to snap up 100 foreclosed homes. With some death of his own child and is determined not to lose commentators warning we’re on the verge of another another. Gripping stuff. housing bubble, this release could not be timelier.

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ZOOLANDER 2 Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson make the fun: Will Ferrell reprises his role star cameos, with the likes of Justin a welcome return to the catwalk as from the ﬁ rst ﬁ lm, while newcomers Bieber (murdered in the opening the world’s dimmest supermodels in to the cast include Penélope Cruz scenes), Kiefer Sutherland, Susan this starry sequel to the 2001 smash. as an Interpol agent and Kristen Boyle, Kate Moss and Sting among And Stiller, who also directs, has Wiig as grotesque fashion mogul. the many celebs happy to send assembled a star-laden cast to join in There’s also a huge array of real life themselves up. Out on June 2.

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Cate Blanchett and An intriguing portrait Robert De Niro is the A band of crooked cops Disney’s dazzling new Rooney Mara were of the legendary Apple foul-mouthed pensioner plot to pull off the perfect animated blockbuster unlucky to miss out on founder (Michael of the title, Zac Efron his heist in this gritty all-star follows the adventures awards for their terriﬁ c Fassbender) as seen on embarrassed grandson in crime thriller directed of two animal cops in a turns in this moving the eve of three of his this raunchy Spring Break by Aussie expat John strange modern mammal drama about a doomed big computer launches. comedy. On shelves Hillcoat. Check it out metropolis. Available love affair. From June 2. Available from June 2. from June 8. on June 8. from June 15.

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