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jul sep 11 5 Away 47 meters down: it: chapter two uncaged The kids are all grown up in high schooler who feels utterly The sequel to the 2017 sleeper the follow-up starring James EVIL hit is back with more bite. McAvoy and . alienated by her parents and outcast by her peers. Lonely and insecure, GENIUS she opens up to her reflection in “The idea of the mirror, only to discover that the reflection has a mind of her own. Look Away As Maria’s isolation worsens at first came to me over 30 home and at school, her relation- years ago. The notion that ship with her alter-ego in the mirror one’s reflection can have a intensifies. She switches place with life of its own scared me out the twin in the mirror and experi- of my mind. I knew it would DIRECTOR ASSAF BERNSTEIN CAST INDIA make for an incredible film EISLEY, , , ences freedom and confidence for oct oct HARRISON GILBERTSON, PENELOPE MITCHELL the first time. But this newfound but I was not ready for it 10 17 GENRE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR THRILLER freedom unleashes suppressed then. I didn’t have the skill 103 MINS OUT MAR 14 feelings, and violence erupts. Will or the maturity needed to zombieland: are you afraid of Holding a mirror up to our darkest Maria be able to return to her true tackle it — since I was just double tap the dark? thoughts, Look Away tells the story self? Or has she just discovered who ten-years-old.” It’s survival of the fittest... The children’s series takes of Maria (Eisley), a shy 18-year-old she really is? director assaf bernstein and the most snarky. over the big screen.

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After relocating with his wife and spot Why is it spelled ‘sematary’, and two young children to rural Maine, the not ‘cemetary’? In the book, a Dr. Louis Creed discovers a mysteri- typo child puts up a sign, misspelling ous burial ground hidden deep in the the word, as children often do. woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbour, setting SOMETIMES DEAD IS BETTER. STEPHEN off a perilous chain reaction that KING’S SEMINAL HORROR NOVEL RETURNS unleashes an unfathomable evil with IN A CHILLER THAT WILL HAVE YOU horrific consequences. Suspiria WATCHING YOUR PETS VERY CLOSELY DIRECTOR LUCA GUADAGNINO CAST DAKOTA JOHNSON, , CHLOE GRACE “Suspiria is master MORETZ, MIA GOTH, LUTZ EBERSDORF, a film of rare film JESSICA HARPER GENRE FANTASY HORROR maker MYSTERY 152 MINS OUT MAR 21 and unfettered madness, and it After sending shockwaves with Oscar nominated director Luca leaves behind a his directorial debut, Get Out, Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) Oscar-winning visionary Jordan the curse of brings us a masterpiece of film- scalding message Peele returns with another original nightmare. making with his remake of Dario that’s written in la llorona Argento’s 1977 cult horror classic. pain and blood: DIRECTOR MICHAEL CHAVES CAST LINDA In this turbulent tale, a dark- away. Haunted by trauma from her CARDELLINI, PATRICIA VELASQUEZ, RAYMOND The future will CRUZ GENRE HORROR THRILLER OUT APR 18 ness swirls at the centre of a be a nightmare US past, she grows increasingly cer- world-renowned dance company— tain that something bad is going Ignoring the warning of a mother one that will engulf the troupe’s if we can’t take DIRECTOR JORDAN PEELE CAST LUPITA to befall her family. It comes to suspected of child endangerment, a artistic director (the brilliant Tilda responsibility for NYONG’O, WINSTON DUKE, ELISABETH MOSS a head when they return to their social worker and her kids are soon GENRE HORROR THRILLER OUT MAR 21 Swinton), an ambitious young the past.” vacation home only to find four drawn into a frightening supernatu- dancer (Dakota Johnson) and a new york magazine Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o stars figures holding hands in the drive- ral realm. Their only hope to survive grieving psychotherapist. Some will as Adelaide Wilson, a woman way. Us pits an endearing family La Llorona’s deadly wrath may be a succumb to the nightmare. Others returning to her childhood home against a terrifying opponent: dop- disillusioned priest and the mysti- will finally wake up. with her family for a summer get- pelgängers of themselves. cism he practices to keep evil at bay.

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MARCH 7 COSMIC AWARENESS APRIL 4 Hero Shazam, courtesy of an ancient ANNA BODEN, RYAN DIRECTOR DAVID F. SANDBERG heroes DIRECTOR One of her most iconic powers wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a FLECK CAST BRIE LARSON, JUDE LAW, CAST ZACHARY LEVI, ASHER ANGEL, MARK ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels SAMUEL L. JACKSON, LEE PACE, DJIMON is her ability to be in tune with STRONG, JACK DYLAN GRAZER, GRACE FULTON HOUNSOU, ANNETTE BENING GENRE ACTION the entire universe, which might GENRE ACTION ADVENTURE SCI-FI in this adult version of himself and ADVENTURE SCI-FI 128 MINS mean she already knows what’s sets out to test the limits of his abilities happened with the Avengers. with the joyful recklessness of a child. When Billy Batson shouts out one word— But he’ll need to master these powers Best known for her Oscar winning per- SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old quickly to fight the deadly forces of evil formance in Room, Brie Larson takes PHOTON BLASTS AND foster kid can turn into the adult Super controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana. on the biggest role of her career as one ENERGY ABSORPTION Danvers can absorb the ambient of the comic world’s most respected energy around her, store it and purveyors of justice. And she arrives release it in powerful attacks, TWO'S A Shazam! was just in time. Those who watched the including photon blasts. originally climactic final scenes of Avengers: CROWD called Captain Infinity War will remember that just as Marvel when his stories were Thanos was fulfilling his deadly threat MATTER TRANSMUTATION published by Fawcett Comics on the universe, Nick Fury sends one It remains to be seen whether in the 1940s. DC Comics has last, desperate call. Will it prove a Captain Marvel will use her since bought the rights to the Fawcett superheroes and worthwhile one for the fate of our world? ability to control and manipulate changed the Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel solid matter and energy into any form that she wants. character’s is an all-new adventure from a previ- name due ously unseen period in the history of in part to the MCU that follows the journey of SECRET POWER Marvel Carol Danvers as she becomes one of holding We’ll avoid spoilers by keeping the universe's most powerful heroes. the trade- this one under wraps, but it’s mark. While a galactic war between two alien fair to say that this power may races reaches Earth, Danvers finds be the key to defeating Thanos herself and a small cadre of allies at and undoing his massacre. super long live our the centre of the maelstrom.

30 GRAND CINEMAS MARCH/APRIL 2019 grandcinemasme.com 31 heroes super long live our Reboot a legend? It’s a devil of QUEEN OF Following a a job, but number of someone’s FANTASY leading fantasy roles in spectacular titles got to do it such as The Fifth Element and the Resident Evil franchise, action star Milla Jovovich takes on Nimue the Blood EXPERIENCE hellboy Queen in Hellboy. MX4D Dolby Atmos only at APRIL 11 a vengeance. According to Mike DIRECTOR NEIL MARSHALL CAST Mignola, the creator of the Hellboy Grand Cinemas DAVID HARBOUR, MILLA JOVOVICH, IAN MCSHANE, DANIEL DAE KIM, THOMAS HADEN comic book character, this reboot of ABC Verdun CHURCH GENRE ACTION FANTASY the franchise will hew closer to the darker tone of the graphic novels. In the new film, Hellboy is caught Hellboy, who was last brought to between the worlds of the supernatural the screen by Oscar winning direc- and human, and must battle an ancient tor , returns with sorceress bent on revenge.

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32 GRAND CINEMAS MARCH/APRIL 2019 grandcinemasme.com 33 which side are you on? STAN heroes Grappling LEE with the TRIBUTE aftermath of Thanos’ deadly On November 12th, the assault on world lost Stan Lee, comic CAPTAIN the universe, book writer and creative SHAZAM! leader at Marvel Comics for MARVEL APR 4, 2019 super long live our the surviving two decades. Stars leave MAR 7, 2019 Avengers their tributes: assemble to set things right AVENGERS: JOKER ENDGAME OCT 3, 2019 APR 25, 2019 I avengers DARK BIRDS OF I PHOENIX (FOX/MARVEL) PREY JUN 5, 2019 FEB 6, 2020 ROBERT DOWNEY JR endgame “I owe it all to you. SPIDER- THE Rest In Peace Stan” MAN: APRIL 25 BATMAN DIRECTOR ANTHONY RUSSO, disintegrated into the wind while those FAR FROM HOME (SONY/MARVEL) JUN 24, 2021 JOE RUSSO CAST ROBERT DOWNEY JR., closest to them stood powerless. CHRIS EVANS, MARK RUFFALO, SCARLETT JUL 4, 2019 JOHANSSON, , JEREMY It’s a good thing, then, that the THE RENNER, DON CHEADLE, PAUL RUDD GENRE follow-up to that doozy is finally on its ACTION ADVENTURE SCI-FI THE NEW SUICIDE way to theatres. While filmmakers have MUTANTS SQUAD been tight-lipped about the plotline, (FOX/MARVEL) We were all left reeling when, in the teasers have given us an inkling about AUG 5, 2021 CHRIS PRATT AUG 1, 2019 final scenes of Avengers: Infinity War, the events that await us. Yes, Tony Stark “Thanks for everything Thanos gains the power of the Infinity aka Iron Man is stranded in space with Stan Lee! What a life, so GAMBIT THE FLASH Gauntlet and unleashes devastation. oxygen running out, but on terra firma, well lived. I consider myself (FOX/MARVEL) Spoiler alert: With a snap of his fingers, his superhero colleagues have mourned extraordinarily lucky to MAR 12, 2020 BATGIRL half of the inhabitants of the universe their fallen comrades for long enough, have gotten to meet you GREEN were turned to dust. We watched in and are ready to do something about and to have played in the GUARDIANS disbelief as one after another Avenger it. Get ready for the Endgame. world you created.” OF THE LANTERN GALAXY 3 CORPS mammoth runtime VENOM 2 JUSTICE (SONY/MARVEL) LEAGUE “This is a culmination film of 22 movies, it’s DARK a lot of storytelling to work into it. Emotion BLACK is an intrinsic part of that to us. When you EVANGELINE LILLY WIDOW GOTHAM have to tell a really complicated story and “Stan... more than a DOCTOR CITY you want strong emotional moments with master of stories, you The Russo brothers SIRENS always seemed like a STRANGE comment on the rumour the characters, it just requires a certain master of living. I will that Endgame will clock amount of real estate. This one, in particular, SEQUEL CYBORG look to you for inspiration up a three-hour runtime. feels like three hours worth of real estate.” UNDATED for the rest of my life. You INHUMANS live on. xoxo Your Wasp” UNDATED

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| MAY 02 | The Kid LYING | MAY 09 | The Hustle ALADDIN | MAY 16 | Tolkien | MAY 23 | Ad Astra MAY AND | MAY 23 | Aladdin We know Guy Ritchie | MAY 30 | Godzilla: King of the 23 from massive action MOVIE QUOTE Monsters films like Lock, Stock STEALING | JUN 06 | X-Men: Dark Phoenix “ONLY ONE MAY and Two Smoking Barrels and | JUN 06 | John Wick Chapter 3: ENTER HERE, ONE Q2 Parabellum Sherlock Holmes, and we can’t wait WHOSE WORTH It’s a sizzling hot com- | JUN 06 | Long Shot to see what he’ll bring to the live- bination if ever we LIES FAR WITHIN. ‘19 | JUN 13 | Men in Black: action adaptation of the Disney clas- saw one. Theo James International A DIAMOND IN THE JUN 27 sic, Aladdin. steps into (Divergent, How It Ends) and Emily | | Yesterday ROUGH.” | Q2 ‘19 | Lying and Stealing the Genie role alongside stars Mena Ratajkowski (Gone Girl, We Are Your | Q2 ‘19 | Luce Massoud and Naomi Scott. Friends) tell the story of a young art thief and an actress drowing in debt — two smart and sexy criminals teaming up for one last daring heist. MEN IN BLACK: With money, incarceration and lives INTERNATIONAL on the line, their escapade tests 22 The number their love and loyalty in this fun, flir- of years since tatious crime comedy. the release of JUN Following their elec- the first Men in Black movie 13 trifying pairing in Thor: Ragnarok, Chris DID YOU KNOW? Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson British actor Theo James exploded unite once again in the spin-off of onto the scene as the tattoo-sporting the sci-fi action films, which has Four in the blockbuster Divergent film series based on the popular books, them facing the biggest, most but before he launched his acting global threat to date: a mole in the career he was a musician and singer Men in Black organisation. Emma in a number of bands. Thompson reprises her role as Agent O, and Liam Neeson drops by for a friendly chat.

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MOVIE QUOTE X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX GODZILLA: “A $40M BOUNTY JUN The X-MEN face their MOVIE QUOTE KING ON HIS HEAD, AND most formidable and “YOU FEEL LIKE YOU EVERYONE IN THE 06 OF THE powerful foe: one of DON’T BELONG HERE. CITY WANTS A PIECE JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – their own, Jean Grey, in the new YOU DON’T. THEY MONSTERS OF IT. I’D SAY THE chapter that reunites the massive CAN’T BEGIN TO PARABELLUM ODDS ARE ABOUT cast we’ve come to love, including MAY COMPREHEND WHAT If you enjoyed EVEN.” James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Godzilla’s mas- YOU ARE.” 30 JUN In the first chapter, John underworld to repay a debt. Now, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, sive comeback in 06 Wick came out of retire- Wick must face the deadly conse- Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain. 2014 (how good was that cli- ment to track down the queces of a bounty being placed on mactic showdown?), then you gangsters that killed his dog and his head in the third chapter starring won’t want to miss this. The took everything from him. In chapter Keanu Reeves, , Laurence new story follows the heroic two, he returned to the criminal Fishburne and Ian McShane. efforts of the crypto-zoological AD ASTRA agency Monarch as its mem- bers face off against a battery MAY The “space odyssey” of god-sized 23 makes up an important monsters TOLKIEN part of every film afi- thought to cionado’s favourites, and we can’t be mere MAY Lord of the Rings fans, help but be moved by such stirring myths. 16 rejoice! Nicholas Hoult journeys as those taken in Gravity, and Lily Collins are set Interstellar, The Martian and 2001: to star in the biographical drama A Space Odyssey, among others. 12 exploring JRR Tolkien’s formative In 2019, director James Gray, who years as he finds friendship, love brought us the fantastic The Lost and inspiration among a group of City of Z, takes us on another quest. fellow outcasts. This takes him into In Ad Astra, stars The number of years the outbreak of World War I, which as an astronaut whose it took JRR Tolkien threatens to tear the “fellowship” DID YOU KNOW? journey uncovers secrets to write The Lord of apart. All of these experiences The Latin phrase “Ad astra” translates that challenge the nature the Rings literally to “To the stars”, and is often used would inspire Tolkien to write his as a shorter version of “Per aspera ad astra” of human existence and our famous Middle-Earth novels (“Through hardships to the stars”). place in the cosmos.

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THE KID

MAY In his second directo- 02 rial feature, Vincent TIM ROTH D’Onofrio casts Ethan UPON READING THE SCRIPT Hawke and Dane DeHaan in the “WHEN I READ IT, IT story of a boy who witnesses Billy the Kid’s encounter with LUCE MADE ME QUESTION Sheriff Pat Garrett. MY NOTION THAT I Q1 A nominee for the HAD NEVER BEEN ‘19 Grand Jury Prize at the RACIST IN ANY WAY.” , the acclaimed Luce reunites Naomi winner Octavia Spencer, The Help) Watts and Tim Roth in the story of discovers the young man’s alarm- a couple’s idealised view of their ing essay on the need for violent adopted son, a former boy soldier rebellion, his parents must face the from war-torn Eritrea. After a skewed values of their society’s THE HUSTLE school teacher (Academy Award prejudices and biases.

MAY Two down-and-out 09 con artists engage in a “loser leaves town” contest in the remake of the 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson.

YESTERDAY DID YOU KNOW? LONG SHOT JUN This is the third collaboration How does an Ed JUN between director Jonathan Levine 27 Sheeran cameo sound An unemployed journal- and star Seth Rogen following the to you? In the new ist sets out to date his Golden Globe-nominated dramatic film from Danny Boyle, a strug- 06 comedy 50/50 (2011) and childhood crush, one of gling musician realises he’s the holiday movie The Night Before only person on Earth who can the most unattainable women on the (2015), both co-starring Joseph remember The Beatles. planet, in the comedy starring Seth Gordon-Levitt. Rogen and Charlize Theron.

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On the grey area between PRESENTS A good and evil MASTERCLASS At the start of this story, two IN THE ART OF long-time police partners FILMMAKING WITH Ridgeman (Mel Gibson) and Anthony A CRIME THRILLER () are suspended for use THAT PUSHES MEL of excessive force during the arrest of GIBSON AND a known criminal. These two flawed VINCE VAUGHN but decorated officers are ostracised for their behaviour and soon find them- TO THE EDGE selves reconsidering their moral codes. They are neither innocent good guys nor amoral bad guys, but human beings who do both commendable and dubi- ous things: these two cops have no easy choices if they want to provide for their loved ones. On the importance of a subtle visual style DRAGGED The scope and amount of plotting of this large movie required a IN CINEMAS MARCH 21 wo police detectives find them- more detailed visual style than the selves suspended when a video handheld kind that I used on my previ- Tof their strong-arm tactics is ous pictures, but the overall approach leaked to the media. With little money had the same end goal: never distract and no options, the embittered police- ACROSSDIRECTOR S. CRAIG ZAHLER CAST MEL GIBSON, VINCE VAUGHN, CONCRETE JENNIFER CARPENTER, MICHAEL JAI WHITE, GENRE CRIME THRILLER the audience from the characters and men descend into the criminal under- the story. Although there are many world and find more than they wanted that western picture, it was incredibly the prison thriller Brawl in Cell Block For my third movie, I wanted to and unlikely plotting than Dragged highly stylised movies that I adore, waiting in the shadows. satisfying to bring a script of mine from 99. Both pieces exemplify my interest in make a suspenseful crime drama with Across Concrete. As is often the case my own approach to filmmaking is Starring Mel Gibson and Vince the white page to the silver screen. Much making rich genre fiction that has mul- an ensemble like those found in Taxi in my novels and screenplays, the pro- performance-centric. I never want Vaughn, Dragged Across Concrete is of my performance-showcasing directo- tiple viewpoints, complex characters, Driver, Dog Day Afternoon... No script tagonists are in perilous circumstances the camera choices that I make to get director S. Craig Zahler’s follow-up to rial approach was reprised and better scenes that breathe, and moments of of mine better displays my continuing against which they struggle in different between the actors and the audience. I the critically acclaimed realised in my second motion picture, drama, comedy, and surprise. interests in complicated characters and surprising—though logical—ways. want the audience to connect as directly and . The tense action thriller was filmed over eight weeks on location in and British Columbia during the fall of 2018, and Zahler takes us through the paces of his filmmaking process. On his filmmaking style Dragged Across Concrete was the first feature script that I wrote after the release of my directo- rial debut, Bone Tomahawk. Although challenged—and at times hobbled—by the limited resources at my disposal on

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THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN An Official Selection at the BFI Film Festival and the opening movie of the , Dragged Across Concrete has earned rave reviews, scoring a massive 8.2 on IMDB and 88% on .

ZAHLER’S ACCLAIMED FILMOGRAPHY

BONE TOMAHAWK

with the characters as possible, and in throat with “sad” music or “suspenseful” my view, elaborate crane shots and music. In Dragged Across Concrete’s canted shots and flashy filters and modern concrete landscape, a jazz BRAWL ON CELL BLOCK 99 long lenses work against this idea, as orchestra illustrates the many hues of do using close ups as the default shot Ridgeman and the others who struggle size (most things in life are not viewed to find their melodies. greater thing. Each of these movies is a in close up and people often express vivid fictional world. Whenever I watch themselves with their hands). Still, the On his influences these pictures, I have a sense of a world look of Dragged Across Concrete was Cinematic reference points are and the lives beyond the events shown carefully planned in terms of lighting, difficult outside of my own two in the movie. These are the movies that colour palette, and use of shadows in movies, but I can point to some favou- turned me into a committed movie fan order to create strong atmospheres rites of mine that achieve my ultimate and works of art that will survive and and expressive tones. goal through very, very different means. make people ask questions rather than Prince Of The City, Hana Bi (Fireworks), spoonfeed them answers like so many On creating the soundtrack The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her didactic movies do today. to an urban thriller Lover, The Killing, Heat, Bridge On The My approach to music was River Kwai, Ping Pong, Nashville, The On what gets him through the also non-intrusive and precise. Sweet Smell Of Success, Taxi Driver, difficult filmmaking process Because I have faith in the script and the Gun Crazy, and The Wild Bunch all The actors’ faith in my script and actors, I don’t need to tell the audience achieve something more than the mere direction, and my dependable how to feel about what is happening. telling of a story. Each of these pic- cinematographer Benji Bakshi, helped The emotions should come from the tures has distinct characters, narrative me navigate this difficult production and content of the film, and if they don’t, I momentum, and moral complexity, create Dragged Across Concrete, which don’t want to force it down somebody’s but the sum of these elements is a far I [was] thrilled to premiere in Venice.

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Tatiana Merheb

Khitam Al Laham

Red Carpet Diaries Alecco Daoud Check back next issue for our coverage of the Grand Cinemas Se3a w premiere. Noss w Nahla Daoud 5amseh Abbas Chahine races the clock once again in the Sultan Deeb sequel to the comedy smash Se3a w Noss

bbas Chahine has literally 1hr35m to get hold of a promised Georges Diab A amount cash enabling him to immigrate with his fiancée Rima to Copenhagen. The odds are stacked against them and their crazy friends onboard a “flying” minibus as they race to the money. It’s one Sabine Khaled obstacle after another—ultimately bringing them face to face with a very dangerous gang of outlaws. Will Abbas make it happen this time? To find out, you need to spend in cinemas april 4 director NADIME MEHANNA also starring JAMAL HAMDAN, WADAD JABBOUR, GHAZAROS One Hour and 35 Minutes at the ALTUNIAN, MARCELLE JABBOUR, CHADY RICHA, ELIE SABA movies, in real time! genre DRAMEDY 95 MINS Atef El Alam

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Red Carpet Diaries Hicham Haddad and crew throw a Grand premiere! Read all about it in Lahon w Habs GC Diary. in cinemas march 7 director SHADY HANNA cast HICHAM HADDAD, JAD BOU KARAM, CHEF ANTOINE, RACHELLE KARAM, ELIE HAWSHAN, SOULAYMA HARB, WALID DOUMIATY, NAJI HANNA ISSAM ABDELNOUR, SAMER ZOUEIN, ALBERTO KASSABIAN, ELIAS ABBOUD genre COMEDY ß Playtime is over. iding high on the Hicham Haddad is about Oh my Jad! success of Lahon w Bass, Hicham Haddad is to face off with the person R a popular prime time TV he least expected in a host with incredible ratings. That all showdown that will test changes when he receives countless loyalties and his own sanity lawsuits, turning his life upside down as he faces life imprisonment. Jad Bou Karam, and anyone who Now left with nothing, Hicham must stands in the way of his future. find a way to get back to the top by They’re on the war path, and facing off against his own co-host, what happens next will defy belief. Celebrity cameos YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS

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48 GRAND CINEMAS MARCH/APRIL 2019 Le film Francophone Un peuple et son roi Freedom has a story. An epic unfurls the earth- shaking events of the 1789 French revolution

aris, 1789. The Bastille IN CINEMAS APRIL 4 has been stormed and a director PIERRE SCHOELLER cast GASPARD ULLIEL, ADÈLE HAENEL genre breath of liberty blows P HISTORICAL DRAMA 121 MINS through the streets of Paris. Françoise, a young washer- woman, and Basile, a drifter without a family or name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revo- lution. Together with their friends “I wanted to film a people and the people of the working-class who are active, a people districts of Paris, they begin to who invent a destiny. A realise dreams of emancipation in people who debate, a newly formed assembly where hope, mobilise.” they witness, with both hopes and PIERRE SCHOELLER Pupille doubts, the creation of a new politi- Fate and love bring together an orphaned child and a cal system. Within their debates and woman determined to become a mother the fury on the streets, lies the fate A different side of their once sacred king and the bandoned at birth, baby mother. After facing many setbacks, of adoption birth of a republic. Theo’s uncertain future Alice is finally ready to welcome A lies in the hands of the a child, just when the Adoption “I don’t think it’s a subject that cin- Child Welfare Services. Service is seeking a home for Theo. ema tends to tackle,” says director Jean, who is no stranger to the fos- Thanks to the dedicated members Jeanne Herry, “the moment when ter system, is given the responsibil- of social services, the paths of Alice the baby is put up for adoption. A ity of temporarily looking after Theo, and Theo will cross with Jean’s and friend who went down the adop- while the members of the Adoption the rest of the team along the way. tion road left me a message that set the whole thing off. She said, Agency have the difficult task of find- ‘They called me, they’ve got a baby ing him a home. Meanwhile Alice, IN CINEMAS APRIL 25 director JEANNE HERRY cast SANDRINE for me, a French baby. I’m going to unable to have children of her own, KIBERLAIN, GILLES LELLOUCHE, ELODIE see him in four days, and if every- has never stopped fighting to be a BOUCHEZ genre DRAMA 107 MINS thing goes well the baby will be at home with me in eight days.’ The mixture of euphoria and panic in her voice was fascinating. The way she was experiencing the event lit me up inside.” A friend who went down the adoption road left me a message ... The mixture of euphoria and panic in her voice was fascinating

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Ade professor la sortie suspects his students of foul play

hen professor Capadis jumps out of the class- W room window before the stunned eyes of some pupils, a group of six students remain strangely indifferent. Pierre Hoffman, the man in charge of taking over the French classes as a substitute teacher, will immediately notice these kids’ disconcerting behaviour and start to become obsessed with them, convinced that they are concocting something extremely dangerous. IN CINEMAS MARCH 7 director SÉBASTIEN MARNIER cast LAURENT LAFITTE, EMMANUELLE BERCOT, PASCAL GREGGORY genre THRILLER

COMING SOON Facteur Cheval At the end of the 19th cen- tury, Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (Jacques Gamblin), is a simple postman who travels every day along the Drôme. When his union with the love of his life, Philomena (), produces a child, he will devote 33 years to building her an extraordinary structure: “The Ideal Palace”. Discover the incredible true story of The Ideal Palace, a fortress made by one man fulfilling a dream

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THE BEACH BUM DIRECTOR HARMONY KORINE CAST MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, ISLA ABOVE SUSPICION FISHER, SNOOP DOGG, ZAC EFRON, MARTIN LAWRENCE GENRE COMEDY DIRECTOR PHILLIP NOYCE CAST EMILIA 95 MINS OUT MAR 28 CLARKE, JOHNNY KNOXVILLE, JACK HUSTON GENRE CRIME THRILLER OUT MAR 7 The Beach Bum follows the hilarious misadventures of In the chilling true story, a newly Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a rebellious rogue married FBI poster boy assigned who always lives life by his own rules. Co-starring Snoop to an Appalachian mountain town Dog, Zac Efron,and Isla Fisher, it’s a refreshingly original THE is drawn into an illicit affair with and subversive new comedy from Harmony Korine, the an impoverished local woman director who brought us Spring Breakers. who becomes his star informant. AFTERMATH She sees in him her means of DIRECTOR JAMES KENT CAST KEIRA escape; instead, it’s a ticket to KNIGHTLEY, ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD, JASON CLARKE, MARTIN COMPSTON, disaster for both of them. KATE PHILLIPS GENRE WAR ROMANCE 108 MINS OUT MAR 21

he Aftermath is set in postwar Germany in T 1946. Rachael Morgan THE STORY (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter OF WHAT winter, to be reunited with her HAPPENS WHEN husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with WARTIME GRIEF rebuilding the shattered city. GIVES WAY TO But as they set off for their new DIRECTOR MATHEW CULLEN CAST AMBER home, Rachael is stunned to PASSION HEARD, BILLY BOB THORNTON GENRE THRILLER 118 MINS OUT MAR 7 discover that Lewis has made an THE INFORMER unexpected decision: They will Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola DIRECTOR ANDREA DI STEFANO CAST JOEL KINNAMAN, ROSAMUND BETWEEN PIKE, CLIVE OWEN GENRE CRIME DRAMA 113 MINS OUT MAR 21I be sharing the grand house with Six has a premonition about her POWER, its previous owners, a German impending murder. Yet rather than Honorably discharged Special Ops soldier Pete Koslow’s CORRUPTION widower (Alexander Skarsgård) try to save herself, she engages in world is turned upside-down when he is jailed after a AND VENGEANCE, and his troubled daughter. the elaborate seduction of three fight to protect his wife. He’s given a chance for early EVERY MOMENT In this charged atmosphere, men, one of whom she knows will release by becoming an informant for the FBI to take AS AN FBI enmity and grief give way to be her murderer. One, an author, down the most powerful crime boss in New York. But INFORMANT passion and betrayal. decides her story will form the when the FBI sting results in the death of an NYPD cop, COULD BE PETE basis of his final novel. Koslow is caught in a world of impossible choices. KOSLOW’S LAST

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A VIGILANTE FIVE FEET APART AFTER LITTLE DIRECTOR SARAH DAGGAR-NICKSON CAST OLIVIA WILDE, MORGAN DIRECTOR JUSTIN BALDONI CAST HALEY LU RICHARDSON, COLE DIRECTOR JENNY GAGE CAST HERO FIENNES TIFFIN, JOSEPHINE DIRECTOR TINA GORDON CHISM CAST REGINA HALL, ISSA RAE, MARSAI SPECTOR, TONYE PATANO GENRE CRIME THRILLER OUT MAR 14I SPROUSE, CLAIRE FORLANI, MOISES ARIAS, PARMINDER NAGRA, LANGFORD, SELMA BLAIR GENRE ROMANCE OUT APR 11I MARTIN GENRE COMEDY OUT APR 11 CLAIRE FORLANI GENRE ROMANCE DRAMA OUT MAR 28 A once abused woman, Sadie (Olivia Wilde), devotes Tessa is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal Regina Hall and Marsai Martin both star as Jordan herself to ridding victims of their domestic abus- Stella is every bit a seventeen-year-old… she’s attached girlfriend as she enters her first semester in college. Sanders — Hall as the take-no-prisoners tech mogul ers while hunting down the husband she must kill to to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded adult version of Jordan and Martin as the 13-year-old truly be free. A Vigilante is a thriller inspired by the most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a brood- version of her who wakes up in her adult self’s pent- strength and bravery of real domestic a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of ing rebel who makes her question all house just before a do-or-die presentation. Jordan’s abuse survivors and the incredible routines, until she meets an impossibly charming fellow she thought she knew about herself long-suffering assistant, April, is the only one in on the obstacles to safety they face. patient named Will Newman. There’s an instant flirta- and what she wants out of life. secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an tion, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain awkward tween body just as everything is on the line. DID YOU KNOW? After is based on author “OLIVIA WILDE IS FEARLESS a safe distance between them. As their connection Anna Todd’s best-selling novel, which Little is an irreverent new comedy about the price of IN THE BEST PERFORMANCE intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out became a publishing sensation on success, the power of sisterhood and having a second OF HER CAREER.” ROGEREBERT.COM the window and embrace that attraction. social storytelling platform Wattpad. chance to grow up — and glow up — right.

CAPTIVE STATE ESCAPE PLAN 3: STOCKHOLM TEEN SPIRIT TRIPLE THREAT HURRICANE DIRECTOR RUPERT WYATT CAST JOHN DIRECTOR ROBERT BUDREAU CAST NOOMI DIRECTOR MAX MINGHELLA CAST ELLE DIRECTOR JESSE V. JOHNSON CAST CELINA DIRECTOR DAVID BLAIR CAST IWAN RHEON, GOODMAN, VERA FARMIGA, ASHTON DEVIL’S STATION RAPACE, , MARK STRONG, FANNING, MILLIE BRADY, REBECCA HALL, JADE, SCOTT ADKINS, MICHAEL JAI WHITE MILO GIBSON, STEFANIE MARTINI GENRE SANDERS, JONATHAN MAJORS GENRE SCI-FI DIRECTOR JOHN HERZFELD CAST CHRISTOPHER HEYERDAHL GENRE CRIME ELIZABETH BERRINGTON GENRE DRAMA GENRE ACTION THRILLER OUT APR 18I WAR DRAMA 107 MINS OUT APR 25I THRILLER 109 MINS OUT APR 11I , DAVE BAUTISTA, COMEDY 92 MINS OUT MAR 21I MUSIC 92 MINS OUT APR 11 JAIME KING, 50 CENT, RUSSELL WONG In the actioner starring Scott Equipped with the almost-obsolete Ten years ago, they took our GENRE ACTION OUT MAR 21I Based on the 1973 case that Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teen- Adkins, when a hit contract is Hurricane, a group of brave Poles planet. Today, we take it back. Set The daughter of a Hong Kong tech originated the term “Stockholm ager, living in the Isle of Wight, taken out on a billionaire’s daugh- wage battle in the skies over in a Chicago neighbourhood nearly executive goes missing. Soon Ray Syndrome”, Rob Budreau’s who dreams of pop stardom as an ter intent on bringing down a England in WW2, not just to keep a decade after an occupation by Breslin and his crew discover Stockholm starring Ethan Hawke escape from her small town and major crime syndicate, it’s time to Britain free from the Nazis, but also an extra-terrestrial force, the sci-fi the culprit is the deranged son recounts the absurd true story that shattered family life. With the help bring in the big guns. A down and to keep alive the very idea of their thriller Captive State explores of one of their former foes, who sent psychologists scrambling to of an unlikely mentor, Violet enters out team of mercenaries must take own country, which had existed in the lives on both sides of the also kidnapped Breslin’s love and explain why a group of bank clerks an international singing competi- on a group of deadly professional its modern form for barely twenty conflicts — the collaborators and is holding her inside the massive insisted on defending the thief who tion that will test her integrity, assassins and stop them before years before it was caught in the the dissidents. prison known as Devil’s Station. had taken them hostage. talent and ambition. they kill their target. jaws of Germany and Russia.

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When fearless explorer Sir Lionel Frost discovers a creature once thought to be myth, it’s only the beginning of a great adventure

his April, meet Mr. Link: 8 feet tall, 630 lbs, and covered in fur, but don’t let his appearance fool you… he is funny, T sweet, and adorably literal, making him the world’s most lovable legend at the heart of Missing Link, the globe-trotting family adven- ture from LAIKA. Tired of living a solitary life in the Pacific Northwest, Mr. Link recruits fearless explorer Sir Lionel Frost to guide him on a journey to find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, our fearless trio of explorers encounter more than their fair share of peril as they travel to the far reaches of the world to help their new friend. Through it all, the three learn that sometimes you can find a family in the places you least expect.

GRAND MEETS HUGH ZACH ZOE MISSING LINK! JACKMAN GALIFIANAKIS SALDANA “One of the SIR LIONEL FROST MR. LINK ADELINA FORTNIGHT funniest, Foremost investigator of A slightly silly, surprisingly This fearless adventurer warmest, myths and monsters, Sir smart and soulful beast, proves an indispensible part most Lionel sets out to find a Link just wants to find his of the team in their globe- entertaining legendary creature. distant relatives. trotting mission. IN CINEMAS APRIL 18 movies I’ve DIRECTOR CHRIS BUTLER seen in a CAST HUGH JACKMAN, while. We ZOE SALDANA, ZACH can’t wait to GALIFIANAKIS, TIMOTHY GC’s Carly Ramia Habis OLYPHANT, DAVID meets Missing Link share Missing WALLIAMS, EMMA at an early industry Link with THOMPSON, MATT LUCAS, screening in London. movie fans.” CHING VALDES-ARAN, STEPHEN FRY, AMRITA ACHARIA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>58 GRAND CINEMAS MARCH/APRIL 2019 grandcinemasme.com 59 FAMILY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FEST

Mr Moll and the Chocolate Factory >>> MEET THE CAST

DIRECTOR MANUEL FLURIN HENDRY CAST STEFAN KURT, ISABELLA SCHMID, MARTIN RAPOLD 90 MINS OUT APR 25 UglyDolls

r Moll is working DIRECTOR ALSO overtime at the STARRING WANDA SYKES, JANELLE MONÁE, GABRIEL IGLESIAS OUT APR 25 Kelly Clarkson as MOXY chocolate factory and M it’s all hands on deck! n the adorably differ- But when the kids get ent town of Uglyville, into a feud with the nasty boys next weird is celebrated door, Mr Moll needs to step in and I and strange is take charge. Is he up to the task? special. But Moxy’s Blake Shelton as OX After all, the fight was only about cot- curiosity about all things leads her ton candy, homework and the most to wonder if there’s something – famous circus dog in the world. anything – on the other side of the mountain which nestles Uglyville. Don’t miss the very Setting off with her friends, she first movie about discovers another world – Perfection Pitbull as UGLY DOG the beloved Swiss – a town where more conventional children’s dolls are trained in protocols before book and they graduate to the “real” world to character, find the love of a child. In Perfection, Papa Moll Moxy and her crew are subject to the manipulations of Lou, the perfect doll Nick Jonas as LOU in charge of training recruits. Here, the UglyDolls will confront what it means to be different, struggle with their desire to be loved, and ulti- mately discover that you don’t have to be perfect to be amazing. Emma Roberts as WEDGEHEAD

Wonder Park

DIRECTOR DYLAN BROWN CAST JENNIFER GARNER, MATTHEW BRODERICK, JOHN OLIVER, MILA KUNIS, KEN JEONG OUT MAR 14

One day, June is running through the woods when she finds herself in Wonderland, an amusement park Manou the Swift Up and Away she had created in her mind and put aside. But all of her rides are falling OUT MAR 21 Willem Dafoe and Kate OUT APR 18 Hodja borrows a flying into disarray. With the help of her Winslet provide the voices in the carpet to see the world and winds lovable characters, she will put the story of Manou, a little swift who up on a mission to return return wonder back in Wonderland. grows up believing he’s a seagull. Diamond to her grandfather. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>60 GRAND CINEMAS MARCH/APRIL 2019 grandcinemasme.com 61 FAMILY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FEST >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> easter time IS A Dumbo From Mirai good time legendary DIRECTOR TIM BURTON CAST COLIN FARRELL, DIRECTOR MAMORU HOSODA CAST REBECCA DANNY DEVITO, MICHAEL KEATON, EVA GREEN, director HALL, JOHN CHO, DANIEL DAE KIM 98 MINS ALAN ARKIN OUT MAR 28 Mamoru OUT MAR 21 Hosoda comes an ircus owner Max Oscar nominated hen four-year-old Medici (Danny DeVito) adventure about Kun meets his new With so many family adventures enlists former star baby sister, his world releasing, you’ll be spoiled for a girl who travels choice this Easter at Grand C Holt Farrier (Colin W is turned upside back from the Cinemas. We pull open our diary to Farrell) and his chil- future to save her down. Named Mirai remember the sweetest moments. Tim Burton dren to care for a newborn elephant big brother (meaning “future”), the baby quickly directs a live- whose oversized ears make him a wins the hearts of Kun’s entire laughingstock in an already strug- family. As his mother returns to action adaptation gling circus. But when they discover work, and his father struggles to of the classic that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes run the household, Kun becomes story in which an incredible comeback, attract- increasingly jealous of baby Mirai… differences are ing persuasive entrepreneur V.A. until one day he storms off into celebrated, family Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who the garden, where he encounters is cherished and recruits the peculiar pachyderm strange guests from the past and dreams take flight for his newest, larger-than-life future – including his sister Mirai, as entertainment venture, Dreamland. a teenager. Together, Kun Dumbo soars to new heights along- and teenage Mirai go side a charming and spectacular on a journey through aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Eva time and space, Green), until Holt uncovering their learns that beneath family’s incredible its shiny story. But why did veneer, Mirai travel back Easter Bunny and Dreamland from the future? the GC crew are all is full of dark set for a fun fest! secrets.

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The Kid Who John Cho as FATHER Would Be King

DIRECTOR JOE CORNISH CAST LOUIS ASHBOURNE SERKIS, REBECCA FERGUSON, PATRICK STEWART OUT APR 18

Alex thinks he’s just another nobody, Rebecca Hall as MOTHER until he stumbles upon the mythical “A work of Sword in the Stone, Excalibur. Now, heart-swelling he must unite his friends into a band beauty and of knights and, together with the considerable legendary wizard Merlin, take on the Daniel Dae Kim as GREAT GRANDPA charm!” wicked enchantress Morgana. SCREEN DAILY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>62 GRAND CINEMAS MARCH/APRIL 2019 grandcinemasme.com 63 FAMILY FEST >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion

Druid Panoramix decides it’s time to secure the future of the village. With Asterix and Obelix, he sets out in oming search of a young druid to transmit soon the Secret of the Magic Potion. C

The Queen’s Corgi

OUT JUN 6 Rex, the British mon- arch’s favourite dog, embarks on an unforgettable journey on which he will find love, friendship and himself in this fabulous adventure.

Inspired by Queen Elizabeth’s love of corgis, the comedy stars comedian Jack Whitehall.

Trouble

While trying to escape from his former owner’s greedy children, a pampered dog named Trouble finds himself in the real world and learn- ing to survive in the new adventure.

Musical stars Big Sean, Snoop Dogg and Jason Mraz lend their vocal talents to Trouble.

Toy Story 4

OUT JUN 20 In the fourth entry star- ring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, a new toy called “Forky” joins the gang as they discover how big the world can be for a toy. What a guest list!

Toy Story 4 features epic new cast members, including Keanu Reeves and Michael Keaton. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>64 GRAND CINEMAS MARCH/APRIL 2019 LAST WORD ANIMATED MOVIE SPECIAL

ACROSS DOWN 6 Despicable dad (not 1 2 3 4 5 1 Another word for really) Aladdin’s mode of 7 Which character plays transportation the teacher to the group 2 Michael J. Fox provided 6 7 in the Winnie the Pooh the voice for ____ Little. animated series? 3 Jack Black unleashed 10 The star of Ratatouille is his awesomeness to this cute little creature. 8 9 voice this big tub of fun. 11 In Hoodwinked!, who 4 Guess the movie. does Red Puckett visit in 10 11 the woods? 12 Garfield is one. 14 Mr. Elliot supplied the voice of Butch in The 12 13 14 Good Dinosaur. 15 This Pixar movie won the 9 DOWN in 2016. 15 16 Mater suffers from this 5 This is the transparent problem in Cars. sheet used to draw traditionally animated 16 17 movies. 8 In 2012, this character set out to be the Good Guy of his arcade game, 18 19 and in 2018 he broke the internet. 9 Oscar category for 17 In one episode of The feature-length cartoons Simpsons, Bart catches 21 20 (2 words) a three-____ fish. 13 Manny of Ice Age has 18 Who Framed Roger the biggest, whitest Rabbit? was filmed in ones in town. this city. MYSTERY STAR 19 Memorable quote from Line up the yellow-framed letters (starting at the top, 4 DOWN: “__, everyone. moving left to right) to reveal our cover star. I’m Olaf and I like warm hugs!” 20 ___ to Train Your Dragon

21 He gives Jerry a really

SOLUTION SOLUTION LINK hard time, but the poor star: Mystery 14 Coming soon: The fourth guy never wins. instalment of Toy ____

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