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PROGRAMME MR HOLMES JULY 2015 “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema..” (BBC) Britain’s Best Cinema – Guardian Film Awards 2014 JULY 2015 • ISSUE 124 www.therexberkhamsted.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6.30pm Sun 4.30-5.30pm BEST IN JULY CONTENTS Films At A Glance 16-17 BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 NEIL BRAND PRESENTS AN EVENING OF Mon to Sat 10.30-6.30 BUSTER KEATON Sun 4.30-5.30 A magical evening in the hands of Buster Keaton and Neil Brand. SEAT PRICES FILMS OFPage THE 21 MONTH Circle £9.00 Concessions £7.50 Table £11.00 Concessions £9.50 Royal Box Seat (Seats 6) £13.00 Whole Royal Box £73.00 All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) apartments)Disabled and flat access: through MAN UP PHOENIX the gate on High Street (right of Director: 01442 877999 Lake Bell is the best thing out of Twists and turns to thrill and Nina James Hannaway Advertising: the US since Arthur Bromwich. Hoss to thrill more. 01442 877999 Page 8 Page 9 Lynn Hendry Artwork: 01296 668739 Demiurge Design The Rex High Street (Three Close Lane) Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 2FG www.therexberkhamsted.com THE MAN WHO SAVED THE ECSTASY OF “ Unhesitatingly The Rex THE WORLD WILKO JOHNSON is the best cinema I have ever..” (STimes Culture) Literallystill that’s here. what he did. A true Another Capt Marvel. Manic, Thriller. He alone is why we’re all gentle, measured, kind and alive! Page 11 Page 22 JULY FILMS 8 THE REX - JULY BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Far From The Madding Man Up Crowd Nancy (Lake Bell) is done with dating. 10 times bitten, 100 times shy, she’s exhausted by the Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd is the circus. story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) who So when Jack (Simon Pegg) blindly mistakes attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts [pronounced Shownarts]) her for his date, no one is more surprised than her sheep farmer built from oak; Frank Troy (Tom when she does the unthinkable and just… goes Sturridge), a handsome, feckless, and reckless with it. It’s going to take a night of pretending to be chancer, redcoat Sergeant. Finally there’s the sad someone else for Nancy to finally man up and be William Boldwood (Michael Sheen) a prosperous her painfully honest, awesomely unconventional mature bachelor. self. But will Jack also man up, and be able to get over her duplicity? Best just to let the evening unfold and see what one crazy, complicated night It is a country tale of a wilful girl having fun with can do for these two messy souls. her power over three men, in a time when women “For viewers still waiting for a third BridgetLA Times Jones,) weren’t supposed to have fun even with one, let alone Ben Palmer’s easy, breezy romantic comedy Man power, and over all three? Disgraceful! - Up offers a pleasant sense of deja vu.” ( - “Thomas Vinterberg and screenwriter David Nicholls “The golden age of the meet-cute rom-com fizzled (takeGuardian a fair )stab at John Schlesinger’s 1967 [over-ap out long ago, but the snappy, smart, and undeni plauded postcard] in this eccentrically cast film.” (ablyVariety sweet) Man Up fills that gap with ease, a new “This new take, an unexpectedly conventional, wave rom-com unafraid of old school trappings.” prettified offering from [dangerous] Danish director Thomas Vinterberg [What? more prettified than “Lake Bell and Simon Pegg are charming andScreen well Nicholas Roeg’s 1967 photography?] has one great Internationalmatched as a )couple who [may or not] fall in love strength: an outstanding performance, in this over the course of an action-packed day.” ( difficult fundamentallyStandard incoherent role, from Carey Mulligan. Far more intense, compelling and modern She is more than the next big thing. Don’t miss her. than Julie Christie.” ( ) 40 years on - what better standard would you expect from intense Director: Ben Palmer prettified modern? It looks fabulous and moves along Cast: Simon Pegg, Lake Bell, Rory Kinnear at a good pace. Duration: 88 mins. Origin: UK/France 2015 Director: Thomas Vinterberg Certificate: 15 Cast: Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen Duration: 119 mins Origin: UK/USA 2015 Certificate: 12A When... When... Wed 1 7.30 Wed 1 2.00 Thu 2 2.00 www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - JULY 9 Phoenix Mad Max: Fury Road Christian Petzold’s noir-infused melodrama is a Once in a while a film will come along that sets clever smoke and mirrors. the bar for action cinema so high, anything that comes out within a ten-year radius can only Auschwitz survivor Nelly bow in unworthiness. (played brilliantly by Nina Hoss) returns to Berlin having had reconstructive face surgery following a Fury Road is such a film. theresevere be gunshot a chance wound. to rekindle She needs their torelationship. find her husband As the Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) unwittingly and/or former lover Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld). Will tags along with a rebellious motley crew, led by Imperator Furiosa (a beautifully feminist Charlize bandages come off and they come face to face, he fails Theron, the real star of Fury Road) in a sand to recognise her. ravaged, post apocalyptic ruin where scarce oil and Yet something of Nelly lingers as he observes that the water is the only currency. They must race across stranger in front of him bears a passing resemblance the desert in all manor of astonishing vehicles to to his wife. With his eyes set on a substantial outrun their enemies (astonishingly, the explosions inheritance, Johnny offers her a deal; promising a and stunts are real, with little or no CGI). $20,000 reward if she can successfully pass herselfTimes off) It has been a long, tiring journey to get Max back as… herself. Time on the road for George Miller, now 70, the visionary Out“Phoenix) is full of ambiguity and intelligence.” ( who brought us Max in 1979 but the payoff couldn’t “A noir-ish and complex emotional thriller.” ( be better. Three years, thousands of storyboards, (Empire) and nearly 500 hours of footage have been refined “A gripping study of treachery, identity and survival.” into a package that will rattle your skull and fry your senses. Fury Road is a real passionate Full of the twistsresearch and contortions Chris Coetsee of a classic entertainment.blockbuster film: (Jack rust, Whiting oil, sand) and all. It’ll take Hitchcock, Phoenix emerges as a complex and a long time for something to top such visceral enticing tale. ( ) Enough twists and turns to keep you busy – and dizzy. Don’t miss the best two hours you’ll ever have with The story is compelling and Nina Hoss is mouthful of sand. Don’textraordinary. miss. You wouldn’t tire watching her play bingo in a village hall. Back by immediate demand. Director: George Miller Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult Director: Christian Petzold Duration: 120 mins Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Origin: Australia 2015 Nina Kunzendorf Certificate: 15 Duration: 98 mins Origin: Germany/Poland 2014 Certificate: 12A When... When... Thu 2 7.30 Fri 3 7.30 10 THE REX - JULY BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Tomorrowland Spooks: The Greater Good This Disney endorsed sci-fi adventure is a After ten series on the BBC, Peter Firth’s MI5 strange experience. On one hand it is a fabulous crew get their own big-screen adventure... adventure and glossy thrill ride with flying cars When charismatic terrorist Adam Qasim escapes and jetpacks, on the other, a clunky parable. from MI5 custody during a routine handover, the It’s 1964 at the World Fair, a young Frank Walker legendary Harry Pearce (Firth) Head of Counter- (Clooney) who dreams of perfecting a rocket pack, terrorism is blamed. Disgraced and forced to is led to a secret section of Disneyland. It opens up resign, no-one is surprised when Harry disappears a parallel dimension: Tomorrowland, a utopian city one night off a bridge into the Thames. where the future is already playing. With MI5 on its knees in the wake of the Qasim In the present, a rebellious Casey Newton (Britt escape and facing controversial reform, former Robertson) gets an enticing glimpse of this agent Will Holloway (Kit Harington) is brought alternative dimension via a mysterious pin-badge. back to uncover the truth they feared… Harry’s With the Earth heading for ecological disaster, this still alive! He’s gone rogue and needs Will’s help. utopia could offer a solution, but all might not be As Qasim prepares his devastating attack on the well in a brave new Eden… heart of MI5 in London, Will must decide whether The energy drains as the plot knits complexity. In to turn Harry in or risk everything by trusting the the end it’s not clear what Tomorrowland is trying “Adamaged, decent, dangerousmid-list spy master thriller, spy suspended who has already to say, but the visuals are sumptuous. Witnessing betrayed him once before... sleek cityscapes of the future as envisioned by forward thinkers of the 1950s is a marvel in itself. somewhere betweenEmpire le Carré) and Bond but with a Those who rememberJack Whiting a fab overlooked) early budgetary austerity in keeping with government nineties adventure called The Rocketeer will find spending cuts...” ( much to enjoy. ( “But even if the film can’t match Hollywood for Who cares what futuristic gismo films are ‘trying to spectacle, there’s a sobering sense ofTime the Outpainful) say’? They have nothing to say. But they’re guessing sacrifices and compromises facing those who toil in fantastically on our big fat screen(s).