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Some of 2015’s fi nest and fi ercest movies are out this month, with 6-10 NEWS 16-17 ACTION bangers like American Sniper, What have the bold and the American Sniper, Everly, Blackhat, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Imitation beautiful of fi lm and TV been up Last Knights and Salvation Game, Unbroken, Dumb and to lately? We check out the latest Dumber To and Camp X-Ray reports from home and beyond 18-19 COMEDY available for you to clap your hands Dumb and Dumber To, The Wedding around. But don’t forget TV Land, 30 COMING SOON P.16 where you’ll discover several of Ringer, Home Sweet Hell, Let’s Kill New releases to look forward Ward’s Wife, We’ll Never Have the most innovative and super to next month compelling series to be released Paris and more amongst the tube’s competitive landscape: mega popular jail 20-21 DRAMA drama Orange is the New Black The Imitation Game, Unbroken, has dropped its second season; Fifty Shades of Grey, Ask Me similarly, Matt Berry is proffering Anything, The One I Love, season two of his latest thigh- 11 The Witcher 3: Song One, Mr Turner and more slapper Toast of London; the fi nal Wild Hunt seasons of both White Collar and Delayed three times, one of the 22-23 TV most anticipated games of 2015 is Whitechapel are up for grabs; Toast of London S2, Whitechapel fi nally within sight and if you want to get caught up S4, Orange is the New Black S2, in something fresh, season one White Collar S6 and more of brand new sci-fi series The P.22 Librarians (featuring Rebecca 24 FAMILY Romijn) has also landed in store. Get around, amongst and all up in Into the Woods, Black Beauty, it, and until next time, be good. 12 Fifty Shades of Grey Sofi a the First: The Curse We take a look into how Fifty Shades’ of Princess Ivy and more THE TEAM costumers incorporated the story’s symbolism into their artistry 26 THRILLER The Captive, Coherence, 14 The Imitation Game New Neighbour and more The true story of cryptanalyst Alan Turing provided The Imitation P.24 Game’s fi lmmakers with piles of astonishing material with which to craft their Oscar-winning fi lm

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While we all know last month’s a live-action remake of Winnie Paddington was a success, there the Pooh, which obviously has was a period prior to its release the potential to be even more when everyone thought it was freaky than Paddington. It will going to be awful. Why? Because be a modern day retelling, in initial stills depicting the bear which Christopher Robin is grown were, to be frank, horrifying. He up and navigating the trials of looked creepy and strange and adult life. He then returns to the we started to question whether Hundred Acre Wood, where its a good idea at all to subject he reconnects with his old our beloved childhood characters friends. We’re already imagining to live-action/CGI. It seems the slothy plodding of Eeyore Disney didn’t get that epistle, rendered in 3D, and it isn’t because they’ve just conﬁ rmed comforting.

PLAY-DOH PALS In other news of studios mining the annals of kids’ toys for ﬁ lm fodder, director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat, Freaks and Geeks) has been meeting with 20th Century Fox and children’s toy manufacturer Hasbro to discuss the creation of a Play-Doh movie, slated for 2017. Hasbro are currently in the process of putting together their live-action Jem and the Holograms remake, so we’ll wait to see how that one plays out before passing judgement. Still: sentient buckets of coloured damper in an adventure narrative – what could go wrong? FAST & FURIOUS ON TOP

We knew it would be big, but this big? Fast & Furious 7 – starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, and the late Paul Walker – absolutely clobbered box ofﬁ ce records last month, garnering opening weekend clams totalling $143.6 million USD. That’s the highest ever opening weekend in April. Internationally, it nabbed Universal the studio’s biggest ever opening: $240.4 million USD. If you’re into action of epic proportions, we recommend having a look at our review of American Sniper on page 16.

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In a recent interview with revealed some fascinating Esquire magazine, actor details about the ﬁ lming Mel Gibson as Mad Max Tom Hardy let it slip that he’s process, which took place in contractually locked in for three the Namibian desert: “We’d more Mad Max movies! The lose half a vehicle in sand star has wrapped shooting for and have to dig it out. It was the hugely anticipated Mad just this unit in the middle of EXODUS: GOD AND KINGS Max: Fury Road, in which he x-million square kilometres of 1 plays hero Max Rockatansky desert, and then this group of (originally played by Mel lunatics in leathers; like a really BIG HERO 6 Gibson in the 1979, 1981 and weird S and M party, or a Hell’s 2 1985 Mad Max ﬁ lms). He also Angels convention.” 3 THE WATER DIVINER

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE EVA IN 4 OF THE FIVE ARMIES NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3: FOR FAST & 5 SECRET OF THE TOMB FURIOUS 8? 6 INTERSTELLAR There are already rumours spiralling around tinsel town as to what’s going to happen next NIGHTCRAWLER in the Fast & Furious franchise, particularly 7 since Vin Diesel let it be known that the latest ﬁ lm was the beginning of a new trilogy. The JOHN WICK as-yet unannounced Fast & Furious 8 will bring 8 the ﬁ lm’s characters to New York City, and it’s reported that 2 Fast 2 Furious character Agent Monica Fuentes, played back in 2003 by Eva 9 LET’S BE COPS Mendes, is going to be reintroduced. We’re looking forward to seeing the US Customs badass kick some more butt! 10 DYING OF THE LIGHT

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NEWSREEL LOGAN TO YOU STORE MANAGER NAME: Gayle Lee (Pictured left) STORE OWNER: Merrilyn Rose (Pictured right) It’s being reported that Warner Bros., who have been toying with a remake of sci-ﬁ classic Logan’s Run for a number of years, may change the lead character to a female. The original CAN YOU TELL ﬁ lm was released in 1976, and starred Michael York as part US ANY QUIRKY of a superbly trained government team tasked with tracking CUSTOMER TALES? and eliminating citizens who refused to succumb to the law Best late fee excuse – which dictates that all humans must die at the age of 30, due to diminishing world resources. If the role of Logan was – movie was returned late rewritten for a woman, the essential elements of the story 1995. Excuse given was that wouldn’t be affected – and it might actually snare a wider parent had leg amputated audience who are into their futuristic heroine-led franchises which was done in 1990! (such as Divergent and The Hunger Games). Perhaps they’ll discover and launch the new J-Law! Check out that other MOST ANTICIPATED siren ascending the heights of Hollywood, Dakota Johnson, in NEW RELEASE ? Fifty Shades of Grey this month – our review’s on page 20. Most anticipated release TOP 5 ACTORS/DIRECTORS ever was Titanic /PRODUCERS YOU WOULD

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If you’re anything like us, you love a behind-the-scenes snap! Director Ron Howard has generously shared some amazing pictures of designers working on scale models of the Badia Fiorentina – the beautiful abbey situated in Italy’s Florence, which serves as one of the (myriad) settings for Howard’s new ﬁ lm, Inferno. The movie is the third adaptation of The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s novels, and will star Tom Hanks reprising his role as professor Robert Langdon. The ﬁ lm has just begun shooting in Florence, and will also take its cast and crew to Venice and then Instanbul, Turkey. Just look at the detail in these pics!

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201503196_The_Imitation_Game_Leading_Edge_FPC.indd 1 16/04/2015 12:42 pm AD TEMPLATE.indd 8 16/04/2015 4:10 pm THIRD TIME MORE OF ALL THAT The 1999 campus comedy She’s All That is apparently getting a remake, courtesy of The Weinstein Company and Miramax. Perhaps

NEWSREEL CREEPY the studios will be able to reproduce the magic which Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachel Leigh Cook, Usher and the late Paul Walker managed to Have you been missing new movie material about ignite in the original, but the perplexing thing is that, well... isn’t the mouth-to-butt mischievousness? Well miss it no more, trope of a nerdy girl getting a makeover in order to impress a popular you weirdos, because Human Centipede 3 is coming out. jock just one of the most popular tropes of all time? Grease, It is the third in the horrifying series from the mind of Dutch The Princess Diaries, Jawbreaker, Mean Girls... Why not just change writer-director Tom Six, and it will also feature the original the characters’ names and say you’ve made a whole new movie? baddie (who didn’t appear in the second ﬁ lm of 2011), But look, we’re not complaining. Makeovers are always radical. Dr Josef Heiter (played by Dieter Laser). Six has promised that this iteration of his idea – which you can go and look up online if you’re unfamiliar with it – will be the most repulsive yet, which is certainly difﬁ cult to conceive. If anyone can do it, though, it’s obviously this guy. Stay tuned. For more multi-person-crossover intrigue (although not nearly as gross), check out our review of Coherence on page 26.

SAVE US, BATKID Do you remember way back to the twilight of 2013 when tiny Miles Scott, a leukemia survivor and Batman fan, asked to be a real superhero for a day? San Francisco residents and the Make- A-Wish foundation put together one of the most adorable and elaborate projects ever, guiding ‘Batkid’ through a series of obstacles as an estimated 12,000 cheering spectators egged him on to disarm a ‘bomb’, save the girl, follow The Penguin to his lair, ride in the Batmobile and accept the ‘key to the city of Gotham.’ It was plain gorgeous, and now – as news of Miles’ remission greets his new fans – we’ve heard that a documentary about the entire event is about to hit theatres. Titled Batkid Begins, you’ll want to keep an eye out for it in the coming few months.

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WHEN DECIDING HOW TO CLOTHE AND ACCESSORISE THE CHIEF CHARACTERS IN EROTIC DRAMA FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, THE FILMMAKERS WEREN’T JUST FOCUSING ON THE MONETARILY DICHOTOMOUS LIVES OF THEIR LEADS – THERE WAS ALSO CRITICAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, WHICH CREATED FODDER FOR STYLISTIC PROGRESSION AS WELL.

he amount of that every piece of clothing meticulous precision refl ects an emotion,” T which went into the fi lmmaker says. selecting every fi bre of “He comes from an emotional the costumes for this way of representation fi lm was, quite literally, through clothes. He breathtaking. Both lead understood that this journey characters – Christian Grey is an emotional one, and the (Jamie Dornan), the frosty fi nely tuned aspects of Ana billionaire, and Anastasia growing from quite girlish Steele (Dakota Johnson), to a very strong, the bird-like student – evolve decisive woman.” enormously throughout For the character of My the story adapted from E. Grey, all suits were custom fi t to Dornan’s frame, but were also shaped to depict a certain stiffness in the character. “You can’t move or behave the same way in a suit L. James’ popular novel, and costumer as you would in a sweatshirt,” Bridges Mark Bridges cut no corners in explains. “So there is always something devising their wardrobes. that keeps [Christian] a little upright Bridges is an Academy Award and structured. But we used wools and winner (for his work on 2011’s a lightweight construction that made Best Picture The Artist), and has it less constricting for Jamie and could contributed his skills to a variety of contribute to Christian feeling fi lms which demonstrate he is capable more at ease.” of identifying the needs of era- or By contrast, when we see Ana scene-specifi c fi lms (The Artist, The preparing for her interview with Christian Master, There Will Be Blood, 8 Mile), as at the fi lm’s beginning, she is gently RATED: MA15+ well as the subtleties of story-driven chastised by her fl atmate for her choice of dress. She wears a pale fl oral shirt AVAILABLE: May 21 think pieces (Punch-Drunk Love, Silver Linings Playbook, Magnolia). (which Bridges created by fl ipping the STARS: Dakota Johnson, We already know from Fifty Shades fabric inside out, to imitate the way a Jamie Dornan, Jennifer of Grey’s title that colour is important garment will fade over time), a boring Ehle, Eloise Mumford to the story’s symbolism – it’s mid-length skirt and a cheap cardigan. DIRECTOR: something that James’ wades through “Ana in the beginning of the fi lm does Sam Taylor-Johnson in her highly descriptive prose, and not have any sense of style or case [in] DURATION: 118 mins was equally important to director what she looks like,” actress Johnson FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Sam Taylor-Johnson. “The interesting says. “Then, throughout the story, you thing about the way Mark works is see her become more aware of her body

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GREY ALIENS, COMMUNION (1989) The famous extraterrestrials in this one have haunted us ever since we fi rst accidentally saw them on video, way back before we knew who Christopher Walken was or that there was a movie scarier than the animated Legend of Sleepy Hollow. As you can imagine, the grey aliens abduct ol’ Topher and subject him to weird proddings. – therefore, the way clothes hang course, how much grey,” says Bridges. on her is a little bit more obvious Every tie was made by hand, as was the and different.” case with Dornan’s shirts and suits. FENRIR GREYBACK, Indeed, besides the characters’ initial Property Master Dan Sissons – HARRY POTTER AND presentation when they fi rst meet, their who was in charge of organising THE HALF-BLOOD growth throughout the narrative exactly what the brand or style PRINCE (2009) arc presented Bridges with of Christian’s accessories Grey by name, grey by opportunities to mimic would be – took many of slicked-back, thinning hair colour. The sixth fi lm in the Harry that development. As his cues from Bridges The interesting thing Potter series was the fi rst time we saw this Christian’s relationship and his team. “We about the way Mark werewolf in the fl esh (although we’d heard with Ana becomes were getting key mutterings of his ungodly existence from more emotionally works is that every piece information on years before). When Harry meets Greyback, intimate, the of clothing refl ects Christian from the alone in the swampy grassland adjacent to character’s choice of an emotion costume department the Weasleys’ home, we knew we wouldn’t be dress in turn becomes about his dress and sleeping well that night. less rigid. That said, there attire,” Sissons says, “and was one component of Christian’s we knew that he was going GEODUDE, POKEMON: outfi t which was painstakingly deliberated to be very sophisticated and tailored. THE FIRST MOVIE over in every scene: his tie. “Probably We keyed off of that. When we were (1998) more than anything else, we were always doing a suitcase or a shaving kit or a This boulder Pokemon has incredibly specifi c about his choice of wristwatch, anything for him, it had to the biggest biceps we’ve tie – the thickness, the sturdiness, and of be very specifi c and carefully chosen.” ever seen on a mineral. It usually sits pretty quietly around mountain trails, but if you step on it, it’ll hurl those guns around in the air in a total rage. So tread carefully, ok? In the morning, you might see Geodude roll itself downhill to forage for food. It eats other rocks, by the way, so it’s basically a cannibal.

GANDALF THE GREY, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) Sir Ian McKellen has portrayed many a grey-haired character, but you can’t really go past the one who’s actually named after his lid. He doesn’t stay that way for long, though – when the Fellowship are attacked by Orcs in the dwarf mines, Gandalf falls into a deep abyss, and returns in the following ﬁ lm sporting a lighter hue. 13

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THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF ALAN TURING – AN ARROGANT, TALENTED YOUNG MATHEMATICIAN WHO, ALONG WITH HIS MOTLEY CREW OF LINGUISTS, INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS, SCHOLARS AND EVEN A CHESS CHAMPION, MANAGED TO BREAK THE GERMANS’ SUPPOSEDLY UNBREAKABLE CODE MACHINE DURING WWII – IS CERTAINLY STRANGER THAN FICTION.

raeme Moore’s script became strongly about. “It’s an amazing life the number one entry on 2011’s story,” he says. “It’s one of those which, Black List (a list of excellent if you’d made it up, wouldn’t have been G It was a real page-turner, but so but unproduced screenplays, circulated believable: that one person lived through through Hollywood every year), and dense, so rich with historical so many dramatic things, that one his belief in the story’s importance is signifi cance, with a riveting, person is a genius, a war hero, invented evident. “When I was a teenager, I was the computer, was prosecuted by the massively into computer science,” Moore misunderstood protagonist. Government for homosexuality and explains. “ I went to computer camp. committed suicide – it’s all these movies I was really into programming and, in one. It’s shocking that it’s true. “ among computer science folks, Turing While Moore’s script was being is this object of cult-like fascination. that this fi lm is the most important thing hungrily devoured by production Because he was this unheralded early I will ever be a part of. I don’t know that teams, Black Pear Pictures’ head Teddy inventor of the computer, to whom I will get to do anything I love so much Schwarzman decided to approach history hadn’t done justice, he was ever again, but I’m very glad I got to the screenwriter post haste. “It was always talked about, from the Steve do it this time.” a real page-turner, but so dense, so Jobs’s and the Bill Gates’s of this world, The determined devotion which rich with historical signifi cance, with a right down to little teenage me. I feel Turing’s disciples and celebrators display riveting, misunderstood protagonist,” he is something Moore feels incredibly enthuses. “It was a script where you very clearly saw the movie and it was written in a very intelligent way, with highly stylized dialogue, but never putting anything at the forefront other than the characters.” Schwarzman echoes Moore’s feelings of deep personal connection to this most unsung yet iconic protagonist. “I tend to appreciate the outsider, the thinker, who’s doing things that others deem extraneous or superfl uous or wrong and yet who, through his own sheer will, fi nds a way to make an impact,” he explains. “This is the story RATED: M of one man who made something from nothing, profoundly infl uencing AVAILABLE: May 6 generations to come.” STARS: Benedict “It’s a story that the world needed to Cumberbatch, hear,” he continues. “The Poles and Keira Knightley, Brits had worked on breaking the Matthew Goode, code for years and hadn’t made Rory Kinnear suffi cient progress, so to have DIRECTOR: Morten Tyldum a professor walk into Bletchley DURATION: 114 mins Park with no real training FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray and fi nd a way to solve an impossible problem, is just riveting. I wanted people to

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THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT In February of last year, Professor Stephen Bax claimed he had decoded nine words from The Voynich Manuscript – a super strange, 600 year old tome which features illustrations of completely unknown and exotic-looking plants, know what Turing had accomplished knew what was driving everybody in astrological formations, anatomical before, during and after his time at the story and that it was a story of love diagrams, and a lot of incomprehensible Bletchley Park. He was embraced for his and loss and triumph.” text. The words Bax found were: Juniper, uniqueness and in the process, On Schwarzman’s fervent Taurus, Coriander, Centaurea, Chiron, saved countless lives.” recommendation, Moore met with Hellebore Nigella Sativa, Kesar and So, we can agree that this project Tyldum, and immediately knew Cotton. We hope that helps you decide was a highly worthy undertaking, and without a doubt that they’d located what to do with your life. as such, Schwarzman and Moore were their director. “I never dreamed that adamant they must choose a director we would end up with a director with THE CODES OF THE who shared their particular kindred the level of skill and craft that Morten ZODIAC KILLER feelings on the story. The offers didn’t brings to this movie,” the screenwriter The Zodiac Killer (whose crimes were so much stroll as pour in. “There were says. “From the fi rst second I sat down depicted in the 2007 Jake Gyllenhaal a number of truly talented directors with him – I left the meeting and called movie Zodiac) sent northern California interested in making this fi lm, and everyone else and said ‘It has to be into horrifi ed turmoil during the late ‘60s, we were honored by their interest,” this guy. This is the director of the fi lm.’ when he murdered a bunch of people Schwarzman says. “The fi lm had He just got it – and so instinctively.” and sent letters containing weird codes an American writer and American Schwarzman agrees: “You need to the Bay Area press. One of the ciphers has been decoded, but it was full of odd producers, so we knew right away someone inspirational as your director, errors, which means that the remaining that the fi lm must be shot in the UK to you need someone confi dent in three will probably never be cracked. ground it in its historical roots.” However, their vision, but at the same time, the team maintained an open mind collaborative in their process, with when looking at every director who emotional sensitivity and who really THE DORABELLA CIPHER applied, and this subsequently got them understands what type of performance Cryptographers are pretty certain that their dream man. “Ultimately it was a they’re looking to put on the screen. the Dorabella Cipher is a love letter, sent Norwegian who blew me away with his And I left my two meetings in 48 from the married, 40 year old musician true understanding of the characters,” hours with Morten, feeling completely Edward Elgar to 23 year old Dora Penny – who was also married, but not to Elgar. Schwarzman continues. “Morten Tyldum confi dent in his vision for the fi lm.” The (probably smitten) cad Elgar slipped the note in with a thank you letter from his wife to the Penny family, and it has bewildered everyone desperate for the steamy details ever since. Best not to hold out; go grab a copy of Fifty Shades.

THE SHUGBOROUGH INSCRIPTION Now in the hands of the Staffordshire County Council and open to the public, Shugborough Hall was once home to the incredibly wealthy Anson family. During the mid-1700s, the family erected a monument which contained an as yet undeciphered inscription: the letters O U O S V A V V, below a relief carving adapted from a Poussin painting. Apparently Charleses Dickens and Darwin both tried to work it out, and failed miserably.

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ACTION plotted all over the spectrum, and this month it’s your turn to see which quadrant you fall into. Bradley Cooper (who was nominated for Best Actor in this role) leads the story, based on true events, of the deadliest marksman in all of the United States’ military history. Chris Kyle completed 255 kills during his time serving as a sniper across four tours throughout the Iraq War; 160 of those kills have been confi rmed by the Department of Defense. The fi lm depicts Kyle’s childhood years in Texas where he fi rst learned how to use a gun to shoot deer; his enlisting in the Navy as a SEAL sniper, his marriage to wife Taya (played with great sensitivity by the splendid Sienna Miller); and the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, after which Kyle is sent to Iraq. What follows is a multilayered story which RATED: CTC encompasses many shocking battle scenes, the AVAILABLE: May 27 strange feelings of down time Kyle experiences STARS: Bradley Cooper, when he returns from duty between each tour, Kyle Gallner, and his growing distance from his young family. Cole Konis, Director Clint Eastwood imbues every moment Ben Reed with both pathos and electricity. DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 132 mins Jarhead FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Unbroken The Hurt Locker BLACKHAT EVERLY BLACKHAT “3 out of 4. Adorable beyond words... a sweet and enormously likable film.” eFilmCritic.com

Goddess of All, Salma Hayek, The always intense Chris Logie Award-winning star of TV’s hit Winners & Losers is back to her butt-kicking best Hemsworth shows he’s MELISSA BERGLAND in this fl at out thriller from completely capable of director Joe Lynch (Knights of impressing us even without Badassdom). She plays the a semi-sentient (?) hammer: titular woman who has been Blackhat opens in a Hong Kong forced into prostitution by a nuclear power plant where a ruthless crime honcho named hacker decides to purposely relative Taiko (Hiroyuki Watanabe), and overheat some coolant pumps, spends her days mostly inside causing everything to go sky one apartment in a building high. This is followed by a happiness owned by the crime lord. When number of other remotely Taiko discovers Everly has been performed cyber attacks, after JOSEPH BRIANA JULIANNA ALEX working hand in hand with the which the Chinese government CROSS EVIGAN GUILL MERAZ police in an attempt to disrupt teams with the FBI to try to his horrifying business dealings, discover who is behind them. he sends a small number of Chinese cyber warfare offi cer henchmen to the apartment Chen Dawai (Wang) and his RATED: R18+ RATED: MA15+ block to quickly neutralise Everly. sister Chen Lien (Wei) travel to AVAILABLE: May 6 But she proves far more tough AVAILABLE: May 14 LA; there, they convince FBI STARS: Salma Hayek, than Taiko at fi rst realised, STARS: Chris Hemsworth, agent Carol Barrett (Davis) that Jennifer Blanc, retrieving a hidden handgun and Leehom Wang, she must help them in getting Uros Certic, doing away with every goon. Wei Tang, convicted cyber criminal Nicholas Togo Igawa Taiko then begins a torturous Viola Davis Hathaway (Hemsworth) released game with Everly, sending more from jail so that he can aid in DIRECTOR: Joe Lynch DIRECTOR: Michael Mann covert assassins to her door as their operation. It’s not long DURATION: 88 mins well as bribing other prostitutes DURATION: 127 mins before the team’s suspicions are FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray to attempt to kill her, all while FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray piqued, when Nicholas’ strange The deeper you go, Everly tries desperately to connection to a string of hacker the darker it gets. contact her family. code is discovered. There’s no recipe for love. 16 ON DVD MAY 13

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Clive Owen is sadly not given The absolutely inspired pairing much room to stretch his limbs of Mads Mikkelsen (who plays during this sword-clashing TV’s Hannibal) and Eva Green period piece, but at least his (Casino Royale, Sin City: A determination to vindicate Dame to Kill For) has produced Morgan Freeman is believable stunning results in this seriously - if that man was my beloved fripping Danish thriller set in the and dishonoured master, I’d be Wild West of 1870s America. avenging him as well. Owen plays Mikkelsen is ex-soldier and now Raiden, a formerly glorious warrior placid family man Jon, who who has since fallen in line with has settled in America from everyone else who populates the Denmark; when his adored dismal agrarian towns that make wife and son are murdered by up the empire. However when a outlawed thugs, Jon doesn’t spectacularly crooked and vicious think twice before exacting new ruler metes out unworthy his blood-boiling revenge on punishment to Freeman’s wise the killers. This sets off a chain old warrior Bartok, Raiden is reaction of violence, as he draws RATED: MA15+ RATED: M stirred into an absolute rage, the wrath of a local gang kingpin AVAILABLE: May 27 bent on retribution. Last Knights AVAILABLE: May 6 who in turn thinks nothing of STARS: Clive Owen, tends to take itself very seriously, STARS: Eric Cantona, trying to eliminate Jon. With Morgan Freeman, which is a shame for the excellent Mads Mikkelsen, his fellow denizens too afraid Aksel Hennie, talents director Kazuaki Kiriya Mikael Persbrandt, to help him, Jon has to face his Daniel Adegboyega has assembled here. Kiriya has Eva Green sadistic attackers alone. This directed many more music videos ﬁ lm is a visual feast, both in DIRECTOR: Kristian Levring DIRECTOR: Kazuaki Kiriya than features in his career, but if the slick, movement-jammed DURATION: 115 mins he’s focused on the visuals to the DURATION: 90 mins action sequences as well as FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray detriment of the story, at least we FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray the beautifully contemplative can enjoy the impressive imagery. landscape shots. Excellent stuff.

“3 X out of 4. Adorable beyond words... a sweet and enormously likable film.” eFilmCritic.com

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If you were the Farrelly brothers, how would you concoct a reason for the fact that former COMEDY best buds Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) haven’t hung out together in 20 years? That’s the amount of time between 1994’s Dumb and Dumber and this month’s sequel, Dumb and Dumber To (no one’s including, or indeed remembering, 2003’s prequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry met Lloyd, which didn’t star Daniels or Carrey). True to their delightfully idiotic screenwriting chops, the ﬁ lmmakers’ premise for the loss of those 20 years is marvellous: Lloyd has been locked away in a mental institution, barely a gibbering vegetable, since his romance with Mary Swanson went downhill; upon receiving a visit from Harry, however, Lloyd reveals his elaborate prank: he’s been faking his condition RATED: M all along. Gotcha! And so begins another road AVAILABLE: May 14 tale, in which the buddies travel cross-country to ﬁ nd Harry’s daughter. Like the original, the STARS: Jim Carrey, Jeff jokes cover a wide range of humour, from Daniels, Rob Riggle, Laurie dorky slapstick gags to clever little gaffes that Holden, Rachel Melvin are subtly slipped between the lines. DIRECTOR: Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 105 mins Dumb and Dumber FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Me, Myself and Irene Horrible Bosses 2

WE’LL NEVER HAVE PARIS OLIVER, STONED RELATIVE HAPPINESS NEW MOVIES INSTORE NOW RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 6 RATED: M AVAIL: May 13 STARS: Brea Grant, Ryan STARS: Melissa Bergland, Aaron The co-directors of this DEVASTATION. Malgarini, Skylan Brooks, Poole, Johnathan Sousa, Susan MUTATION. bumblingly cute fi lm, Simon Briana Lane DIRECTOR: Tom Kent DIRECTOR: Deanne Foley TERMINATION. Helberg and Jocelyn Towne, Morris DURATION: 90 mins DURATION: 97 mins are actually married in real life FORMATS: DVD FORMATS: DVD – and We’ll Never Have Paris is the story of their engagement. In the tradition of Dude, Melissa Bergland: where have Quinn (Helberg himself) messes Where’s My Car and its kind, you been all our lives? Filming up his proposal to LTR girlfriend Oliver, Stoned is actually a Aussie comedy series Winners Devon (Melanie Lynskey rather delightful, updated & Losers, it would seem, but from Two and a Half Men, version on the themes and now the gorgeously feisty who always deserved better story. It’s subtler than Dude, comedienne has made her than that series). He starts to and although the events feature debut in this quirky, think he’s supposed to meet surrounding poor Oliver independent Canadian comedy. FROM THE PRODUCERS OF other women before settling the spliff-head and his stolen Bergland is Lexie Ivy, owner of ‘IN THE NAME OF THE KING’ down with the fi rst girl he’s car aren’t wholly realistic, a sweet little cottage bed and ever dated, but by the time he Oliver himself is a pretty breakfast in Nova Scotia, who is realises that mode of life path faithful representation copping pressure from all sides isn’t for him, Devon has jetted of the modern day to fi nd a date for her sister’s RATED: M off to Paris with someone else. golden-hearted slacker. wedding. Pretty darn cute. AVAILABLE: May 20 Quinn decides to follow her STARS: Simon Helberg, there which makes for many Melaine Lynskey, Maggie awkward moments, during which Helberg squeezes every Grace, Zachary Quinto WOULD YOU GIVE possible particle of nervy, nerdy, DIRECTOR: Simon Helberg UP EVERYTHING... over-anxious tomfoolery out of TO REVISIT YOUR Jocelyn Towne his performance - which may PAST? DURATION: 94 mins delight you, and may end up FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray sincerely irritating you. Either way, it’s always fun to see that truth is stranger than fi ction.

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May 2014.indd 1 8/04/2015 9:09 am TKE19_18-19_REVIEWS_Comedy.indd 18 16/04/2015 1:11 pm HOME SWEET HELL LET’S KILL THE WEDDING RINGER WARD’S WIFE COMEDY RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 21 Weddings really do present STARS: Katherine Heigl, Jordana RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 6 the most horrifi c social Brewster, Patrick Wilson, Kevin STARS: Patrick Wilson, Scott Foley, awkwardnesses, and what could McKidd DIRECTOR: Anthony Donald Faison, James Carpinello be worse than realising that as Burns DURATION: 94 mins DIRECTOR: Scott Foley DURATION: the lauded groom you have no FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray 79 mins FORMATS: DVD buddy to present as your best Katherine Heigl is actually man? In this batty comedy led This is the feature debut of actor eerily authentic as a homicidal by the highly capable team Scott Foley (Noel from Felicity), homemaker in this comedy: of Josh Gad and Kevin Hart, who wrote the blac kly comedic When the rigid Mona (Heigl) poor Doug (Gad) pursues the script - about a group of male discovers her husband Don services of Jimmy (Hart), who adult pals who decide to snuff (Wilson) has impregnated a runs a company which provides one controlling wife in their young and attractive colleague, best men for pal-challenged midst – after he realised family she calmly shoves her beloved grooms. Unfortunately, Doug pressures were hindering him along a path of ever more needs seven guys to match his from seeing his old mates. After devious and twisted methods gorgeous fi ancee Gretchen’s a promising set-up, the fi lm gets to remove the woman from (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) seven a little fl at in the second half, but their carefully planned lives. bridesmaids, and that means is still worth it for Patrick Wilson’s Heigl steals every scene. brilliant performance. RATED: MA15+ Jimmy has his work cut out for him. There are some lovely AVAILABLE: May 21 bromantic moments, hilarious STARS: Kevin Hart, and high-energy jokes, and Josh Gad, Affi on Crockett, plenty of offensive gaffes in this Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting one (an elderly lady accidentally DIRECTOR: Jeremy Garelick completely set on fi re at the dinner table?), but if you were DURATION: 97 mins into Hart’s recent offerings (Ride FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Along, About Last Night, Think Like A Man) you’ll know what you’re in for.

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May 2014.indd 1 8/04/2015 9:09 am TKE19_18-19_REVIEWS_Comedy.indd 19 16/04/2015 1:12 pm FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

In the unlikely event that you have not yet heard

DRAMA anything about Fifty Shades of Grey, allow us to spin the tale: a young, timid and easily fl ustered college student agrees to take over an assignment from her ill fl atmate, in which she’ll be thrust into the world of a billionaire businessman for all of half an hour, as she interviews the young man for a student newspaper. But there is an oddly ineffable kinship between the birdlike Anastasia Steele and the unfl appable Christian Grey, and the two agree to another meeting. Grey is the pursuer, and Steele the barely comprehending pursued, until Grey’s ‘particular tastes’ are revealed: he would like Ana to become his live-in sexual partner, and allow him to engage in S&M bondage scenarios with her during which he will, most defi nitely, be the ‘dom.’ As Ana takes her time in mulling over the written contract RATED: MA15+ to solidify their relationship, she begins to come AVAILABLE: May 21 into her own as a woman with agency, and slowly STARS: Dakota Johnson, ascertains how she can herself manipulate Grey - Jamie Dornan, Jennifer if she wishes. Johnson and Dornan are passable, Ehle, Eloise Mumford but that’s not really the point, is it? DIRECTOR: Sam Taylor-Johnson IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 118 mins Secretary FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Bitter Moon Basic Instinct

MAY IN THE SUMMER THE IMITATION GAME THE GAMBLER ASK ME ANYTHING

RATED: M AVAIL: May 6 RATED: M AVAIL: May 6 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 27 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 27 STARS: Hiam Abbass, Cherien STARS: Benedict Cumberbatch, STARS: Mark Wahlberg, STARS: Britt Robertson, Justin Dabis, Alia Shawkat DIRECTOR: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Jessica Lange, John Goodman Long, Martin Sheen, Christian Cherien Dabis DURATION: 99 mins Rory Kinnear DIRECTOR: Morten DIRECTOR: Rupert Wyatt Slater DIRECTOR: Allison Burnett FORMATS: DVD Tyldum DURATION: 114 mins DURATION: 106 mins DURATION: 94 mins FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray FORMATS: DVD Modern and old world values collide in this very moving story The inspiring and terribly heart- A brilliant cast are unfortunately You don’t have to reveal your true about one women’s attempt to wrenching story of cryptanalyst sent through some pedestrian identity online, which makes it an bring her fractured family together Alan Turing is brought to life paces by director Rupert Wyatt excellent place to vent your raw for her wedding. May (Cherien under the talented directorship (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), feelings and experiences. In this Dabis) travels back to Amman, of Norwegian fi lmmaker Morten but the moments which work surprisingly great drama, Katie Jordan ahead of her wedding to Tyldum (Headhunters), and a are glorious. Wahlberg is a (Britt Robertson) begins her own a New York academic. There she staggering performance by professor who loves gambling, blog where she records the social, fi nds that her mother doesn’t Benedict Cumberbatch. The and consequently owes big sexual and romantic peaks and approve of her fi ance’s Muslim non-linear storyline traces Turing’s money; while ducking and troughs of her fi rst year out of high faith, her sisters have regressed acceptance into the cryptography weaving the sharks’ advances, school. It starts out all swagger into rude adolescent behaviour, team at Bletchley Park in 1939, he tries to borrow more from and primp, and then gives way to and her estranged father is trying his attempt to crack the Nazis’ a string of sources including some really substantial ideas as to be accepted once more. A Enigma code, and his eventual another shark (Goodman) and Katie’s anonymous facade beautifully rendered story. prosecution for homosexuality. his own mother (Lange). begins to crack.

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After everything we’ve heard about Angelina Jolie’s directorial foray on Australian shores, Unbroken is ﬁ nally here for our viewing pleasure. And it is a pleasure; despite the weighty subject matter, the vein of hope is expertly stitched through the story. It’s the true tale of Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell from Starred Up, Tower Block and British television series Skins), a former Olympian who, while serving as a bombardier during the second World War, endured 47 days in a life raft out at sea with two other men after their aeroplane was ﬁ red upon and crashed. The American rescue planes fail to spot the soldiers, and they’re instead picked up by a Japanese crew and sent to a POW camp. The treatment Zamperini suffers is especially heinous under the eye of Japanese corporal Mutsuhiro Watanabe, as Watanabe recognises the youg man as the athlete who competed for the United States in the 1936 games in Berlin; as such, he’s seen RATED: M as a symbol of American arrogance, and violently AVAILABLE: May 14 made an example of with incessant beatings and STARS: Jack O’Connell, torturous tasks. Jolie’s personal admiration for this Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett man and this story is clear in every frame Hedlund, Takamasa Ishihara – a truly wonderful effort. DIRECTOR: Angelina Jolie IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 131 mins The Railway Man FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Letters from Iwo Jima

SONG ONE CAMP X-RAY MR. TURNER THE ONE I LOVE

RATED: M AVAIL: May 27 RATED: M AVAIL: May 6 RATED: M AVAIL: May 6 RATED: M AVAIL: May 6 STARS: Anne Hathaway, Mary STARS: Kristen Stewart, Peyman STARS: Timothy Spall, Paul STARS: Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Steenburgen, Johnny Flynn, Ben Moaadi DIRECTOR: Peter Sattler Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Moss, Ted Danson, Kiana Cason Rosenfi eld, Shawn Parsons DURATION: 117 mins FORMATS: DVD Marion Bailey DIRECTOR: Mike DIRECTOR: Charlie McDowell DIRECTOR: Kate Barker-Froyland Leigh DURATION: 144 mins DURATION: 88 mins Kristen Stewart continues DURATION: 86 mins FORMATS: DVD FORMATS: DVD FORMATS: DVD her foray away from sparkly The romance factor in Song vampires and into serious adult A delightful, critically celebrated If you’re a fan of the strange One is cranked up to 11, as we territory with this heavy drama creation from director Mike and original, The One I Love is follow student Franny (Hathaway) about a young military offi cer Leigh (whose career spans an absolute must this month. who makes it her mission to stationed at Guantanamo Bay; theatre, fi lm and television). Starring the unstoppable and convince famous musician Small town girl Cole (Stewart) In depicting the life of British exceptional Elisabeth Moss (Mad James (Forrester) to play at her fi nds her previously rigid painter JMW Turner (Spall), Men), this fi lm follows a troubled comatose brother’s bedside, in understanding of right and Leigh proves he has an expert couple whose marriage counsellor the hopes he will be revived. wrong swayed in fascinating understanding of the ‘show recommends they spend some Hathaway’s turn is nuanced ways in her interactions with the rather than tell’ philosophy, and time at a small, private estate. and subtle, and overcomes any variously hostile, embittered or allows viewers to draw their During their fi rst night at the cloying dialogue. Also, we should hopeful detainees she’s tasked own connections between home they each experience odd all watch everything that involves with guarding. Stewart has events. Spall is magical, and occurences in the property’s guest Mary Steenburgen because nailed this one, and we can’t roundly deserves the praise his house, which leads to mystery she’s brilliant. wait to see what’s next. performance has garnered. and a peculiar pact.

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TV Another critically acclaimed series to add to your growing stack of must-watches, Orange is the New Black burst out of the gate in 2013 and quickly attracted fervent attention for its multilayered storylines, fascinating characters and well-thought-out fl ashback structure. The trailer for season three was released just a couple of weeks ago, so it’s time to catch up on exactly what went down in season two of this interesting and innovative jailtime suite. As season two opens, our heroine Piper (Taylor Schilling) wakes up in solitrary confi nement and is then transferred to a destination unknown; she has to make some educated guesses as to where she is, and for what purpose she has been brought there, to try to adjust. Meanwhile we get numerous important fl ashbacks about Piper’s past, Alex makes some serious moves in her attempt to RATED: CTC further jeapordise Piper’s chances for release, AVAILABLE: May 20 the inmates prepare a Valentine’s Day party, STARS: Taylor Schilling, and Larry asks one of the women to be his Danielle Brooks, Taryn mole, so that he can discover what’s really Manning, Emma Myles happening to the prison’s fi nances. DIRECTOR: Michael Trim IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 782 mins Weeds FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray United States of Tara Orphan Black

SONS OF LIBERTY THE LIBRARIANS S1 WHITE COLLAR S6 “RAW, VISCERAL AND URGENT”- THE TELEGRAPH RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 1 RATED: M AVAIL: May 6 A ratings smash-hit since its STARS: Ben Barnes, Ryan STARS: Rebecca Romijn, Christian birth in 2009, White Collar Eggold, Michael Raymond- Kane, Lindy Booth, John Kim, has just completed its sixth James, Rafe Spall DIRECTOR: John Larroquette DIRECTOR: and fi nal season – and it’s Kari Skogland DURATION: 264 Dean Devlin DURATION: 432 mins a corker, just as promised. mins FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray FORMATS: DVD Following the trend of offering Despite the criticism it’s Here’s your chance to get in a reduced number of episodes received for apparently early on of the least yakked in the concluding season, embarrassing historical about, but most amazing, there are only six here (as inaccuracies, Sons of Liberty series of last year. Ezekiel opposed to the regular 12 or nevertheless does a marvellous (Kim), Cassandra (Booth), 13), but they’ve been lavishly job of the only thing it promised Jacob (Kane) and Eve (Romijn) jammed with twists, shocks to do: depict a dramatic are four employees at a very and meaningful goodbyes. retelling. Kari Skogland directs supernatural library, each Peter and Rebecca have to all three episodes, which tell with astounding knowledge work together to locate Neal, of the little components which in a particular discipline; who, at the very end of last led to the enormous battles they band together to fi ght season, was grabbed by that characterised the American malevolent psychic forces, some masked assailants and Revolution in 1765. Most recover mysterious relics, and thrown into the back of a van enjoyable to watch. generally solve the impossible. – without his ankle monitor RATED: M FROM MICHAEL MANN DIRECTOR OF HEAT, COLLATERAL AND THE INSIDER bracelet. Neal fi nds himself AVAILABLE: May 6 involved in the shadowy world CHRIS HEMSWORTH STARS: Matt Bomer, of the Pink Panthers, an elite Tim DeKay, thievery crew, the leader of Willie Garson, which has Neal squarely under Tiffani Thiessen his thumb. There’s double crossing, conspiracy, brand DIRECTOR: Jeff Eastin new characters and nostalgia- FORMATS: DVD fed old ones; you should YOU ARE NO LONGER IN CONTROL defi nitely bring the tissues. AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY™ & DVD 14 MAY 22 © 2015 Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Limited. All Rights Reserved.

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Matt Berry is one of the most Like White Collar, this is the unique comedic actors out fi nal season of a highly popular there; if you have seen him show; as such its creators in excellent British series The have ensured season four is IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi’s bountiful with the spirit and Dark Place or The Mighty atmospheric zeal for which its Boosh, you’ll be sure to love previous three seasons were this hilarious creation (a third adored. Set in the Whitechapel season of which has just district of London’s East End, been confi rmed). Berry plays the episodes are paired up Steven Toast, an extremely into three components, each conceited actor who considers spanning a different case. In himself the pride of the British eps one and two, Chandler theatre scene, but who fi nds (Penry-Jones) and Miles himself embroiled in many (Davis) investigate a victim more personal vendettas, who has been killed using awkwardnesses and faux pas strange 16th century modes of than he considers someone torture; in eps three and four, RATED: MA15+ RATED: MA15+ of his standing should the pair come across a most AVAILABLE: May 20 be expected to endure. AVAILABLE: May 6 revolting string of murders in STARS: Matt Berry, Robert Mackichan is resplendent STARS: Rupert Penry-Jones, which the victims have had Bathurst, Doon Mackichan, as Toast’s useless agent, Philip Davis, their faces fl ayed; and in eps Shazad Latif, Tim Downie who sees herself as even Alex Jennings, fi ve and six, the concluding more remarkable than her chapters, Miles and Chandler DIRECTOR: Johnny Harris client, even though she’s are faced with a cult-like DIRECTOR: Jon East Michael Cumming terrible at her job, and Harry string of disembowelments DURATION: 235 mins Peacock as Toast’s loathed DURATION: 270 mins which are taking place within rival Ray Purchase will have London’s sewer system. All of FORMATS: DVD FORMATS: DVD you on the fl oor. Most highly the mystery and mayhem you recommended. could hope for.

“RAW, VISCERAL AND URGENT”- THE TELEGRAPH

FROM MICHAEL MANN DIRECTOR OF HEAT, COLLATERAL AND THE INSIDER CHRIS HEMSWORTH

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Not that anyone would dare to believe it, but if

FAMILY you happened to wonder whether Meryl Streep was losing her edge then Into the Woods will rap that ridiculous idea straight out of your melon. She leads this crack cast in the fi rst feature fi lm length adaptation of the classic anti-fairy tale Into the Woods, which began its life as a Broadway musical in 1987. Streep plays the hideous witch, who has cursed the baker and his wife as a result of the baker’s father stealing magic beans from her garden; the poor bread-making couple are now childless. The witch informs them that if they can retrieve four ingredients pertinent to an important potion - the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper as pure as gold - she will lift the curse. Of course, the four ingredients as well as the beans all refer RATED: PG to different fairytales from the Grimm canon, AVAILABLE: May 6 and as such, the baker and his wife traverse the STARS: Anna Kendrick, countryside encountering all manner of familiar Daniel Huttlestone, James characters in order to procure the items. Anna Corden, Emily Blunt, Kendrick gets to show off her wonderful voice Christine Baranski again just in time for Pitch Perfect 2. DIRECTOR: Rob Marshall IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 125 mins Malefi cent FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Cinderella Frozen

SOFIA THE FIRST: PET PALS: BLACK BEAUTY THE CURSE OF THE MARCO POLO’S CODE PRINCESS IVY In 1877 when when Anna Sewell RATED: G AVAIL: May 20 was spending her twilight years RATED: G AVAIL: May 6 STARS: STARS: Belinda Keller, Anthony as an invalid, she decided to Ariel Winter, Wayne Brady, Darcy Lawson, Marc Matney DIRECTOR: turn her hand to writing her Rose Byrnes DIRECTOR: Jamie Sergio Manfi o DURATION: 95 mins fi rst ever novel - and produced Mitchell, Sam Riegel DURATION: FORMATS: DVD the classic Black Beauty. That 60 mins FORMATS: DVD In Marco Polo’s Code, the Pet Sewell remained alive only long Pals fi nd themselves in the enough to see her work become Princesses Sofi a and Amber stunning city of Venice! The a bestseller certainly adds to this fi nd themselves in a perilous sights, the sounds, the chicken remarkable story of compassion, situation when Amber saltimbocca... unfortunately, their kindness and respect towards inadvertently summons an evil old enemy Crow Witch turns up animals; the fact that this story princess with Sofi a’s magical and begins to put a diabolical plan is still being discovered and amulet. Sofi a reveals that into motion: draining the city’s adored by children in 2015 is the amulet only summons iconic canals. As the Pals try to undoubtedly marvellous (it has good princesses in times of utilise their smarts, imaginations, been adapted for the screen emergency and then sends magical skills and team power to on more than ten occasions.) them home; upon hearing this, defeat old Crow, they also come Focusing on the latter part of the evil princess Ivy schemes upon a mysterious hidden castle Beauty’s life, Academy Award to thieve the amulet for herself underneath a famous bridge. RATED: G nominee Bruce Davison plays and take over Enchancia. AVAILABLE: May 6 the grandfather who agrees to STARS: Luke Perry, take the eponymous horse onto Bruce Davison, his ranch, even though Beauty is Sarah Ann Schultz, clearly unwell. He’s convinced by Anthony Del Negro his granddaughter Kym (Schultz) that Beauty possesses a singular DIRECTOR: Daniel Zirilli spirit and deserves rehabilitation, DURATION: 86 mins and the two spend an idyllic FORMATS: DVD summer helping Beauty fi nd her feet once more.

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This one has certainly been divisive (not least because how dare Van Wilder be in a movie THRILLER directed by Academy Award winner Atom Egoyan?) but we’re picking it out as a chiller of very satisying quality. Ryan Reynolds leads the story as Matthew, a regular guy who lives a charmed life in snowy Ontario with his wife Tina and daughter Cassandra. One day Matthew parks at a strip of shops to duck into a store, and when he returns mere minutes later, his little girl has vanished from the back seat. But Egoyan doesn’t dwell here for long; we’re jetted forward to eight years later, when the burden of Cassandra’s unsolved disappearance has well and truly etched itself into Matthew’s wiry countenance as well as his behaviour - his marriage has dissolved under the strain. When small possessions of Cassandra’s begin RATED: MA15+ to show up at Tina’s work seemingly from absolutely nowhere, Matthew refuses to let AVAILABLE: May 6 the powerlessness which characterised his STARS: Kevin Durand, acceptance of the initial investigation rule his Alexia Fast, Mireille Enos, actions, and begins his own manhunt. Egoyan Rosario Dawson is back on his thriller warpath. DIRECTOR: Atom Egoyan IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE... DURATION: 107 mins Devil’s Knot FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray Chloe Taken

COHERENCE NEW NEIGHBOUR MINE GAMES RATED: M AVAIL: May 6 RATED: MA15+ AVAIL: May 13 With frothing reviews almost STARS: Jessica Biel, Kaya STARS: Briana Evigan, Ethan across the board, it’s a shame Scodelario, Alfred Molina, Peck, Julianna Guill, Rebecca Da star Nicholas Brendon (Xander Frances O’Connor Costa DIRECTOR: Richard Gray from TV’s Buffy) has made DIRECTOR: Francesca Gregorini DURATION: 93 mins headlines this year more for DURATION: 91 mins FORMATS: DVD FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray his personal issues than his The current doppelganger trend standout performance here. Outstanding performances isn’t used to its fullest effect in As Mike, one half of a couple from Kaya Scodelario and this ‘teens roadtrip into woods to who are hosting a dinner party Jessica Biel manage to lift the camp at a remote cabin’ fl ick, but for six married friends, his sometimes trite narrative of the fact that the cabin itself isn’t mastery of the slowly dawning this suspense-thriller, in which really the prime location for any of horror of their oddly morphing a fl ippantly melodramatic the action makes this one a little situation - caused by a passing teen (Scodelario, whom you’ll different - there are abandoned comet which has been reported remember as Effi e from mines close by, and our gang earlier in the evening - is quite British series Skins) becomes decide to check them out. brilliant. When the entire intrigued with her neighbour Wheedled, mocked and begged neighbourhood loses power, (Biel), a young mother whose by persons both alien and familiar, two male guests decide to cloudy backstory seems to the group must work out who to RATED: M investigate a house further up mirror the girl’s own. trust and who to abandon. the road which seems to be the AVAILABLE: May 6 only building with lights on. They STARS: Emily Baldoni, return to the group, shaken and Maury Sterling, perplexed, with a box containing Nicholas Brendon photos of every guest at the DIRECTOR: party, stating that they found James Ward Byrkit it inside the lit house - which was set up for a dinner party, in DURATION: 89 mins the exact same fashion as their FORMATS: DVD/Blu-ray own. Intrigue and sci-fi oddities ensue. Powerfully compelling.

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50 SHADES OF GREY RENTAL FPA 949443.indd 1 17/04/2015 4:28 pm AD TEMPLATE.indd 8 17/04/2015 5:16 pm BACKTRACK In this new feature, we’re highlighting titles which have nabbed some extra kudos since their DVD and/or Blu-ray release in the previous month, and you may have missed! You deserve to beef up your back- catalogue knowledge – go on, snatch ‘em up.

NIGHTCRAWLER

The magniﬁ cent and unpredictable Jake Gyllenhaal strikes gold again in this story about one very unique young man’s determination to make it, through whatever means possible, in the mean world of Los Angeles news. He’s not after an anchor position, however – Lou Bloom wants to be a successful ‘nightcrawler’, ﬁ lming and selling footage of shocking street events to the rabid news networks. As his oddly co-dependent relationship with network manager Nina (Renee Russo) develops, and he becomes more adamant in his resolve, his ethics slide further south. Do not miss!

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Bill Murray is one of those actors who is supremely beloved GOODNIGHT but has somehow never collected himself that most prized of acting awards, the Oscar. (See also: Leonardo Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Juliette Binoche are DiCaprio, Glenn Close, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Joaquin effortlessly brilliant in this drama – the former Phoenix, Annette Bening, and so on.) Many thought that as a deeply loving husband, and the latter this dramatic comedy would ﬁ nally see a win, but no dice. as his dedicated wife, who is also a top war That doesn’t mean St. Vincent lacks any kind of emotional photojournalist. Binoche’s character desperately depth - the moving story sees Murray as a curmudgeonly tries to balance her desire to document some of retiree named Vincent whose vices including gambling the world’s most dangerous events with her love and drinking; he’s also desperately trying to keep money for and dedication to her family. The micro and rolling into the coffers so that he can ensure his ill wife is macro of sacriﬁ ce play out beautifully right across comfortable in her nursing home. When his new neighbour this moving portrait; it’s a must-see in our books. Maggie (Melissa McCarthy) asks him to babysit her teenaged son after school, he grabs the opportunity to make some more dough – but time the two spend together turns into the most rewarding partnership of Vincent’s later life.

REVENGE OF THE YOU’RE NOT YOU

GREEN DRAGONS At fi rst, college student Bec (Emmy Rossum) seems the least qualifi ed candidate for the role of caring for former classical pianist and Motor Neuron Disease Two sons of Chinese immigrants attempt to sufferer Kate (Hilary Swank). But Bec’s free-spirited recapture their identity and agency in this thriller- and humanistic approach piques Kate’s interest, drama. Set in the late 1980s, Sonny and Steven if not her husband’s (played by Josh Duhamel, (Justin Chon and Kevin Wu) join a Chinese gang who injects just the right amount of concerned and rise determinedly through its ranks; the racial scepticism into his role), and the two form a gangster tropes are a little one-size-fi ts all, but bond which revolves around Bec treating Kate as the shoot outs, meaningful family moments and an intelligent human being rather than a victim. identity struggle are still engaging. Absolutely outstanding.

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A SELECTION OF TITLES THE DVD STORK WILL BE DELIVERING NEXT MONTH

Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING The accolades for Eddie Redmayne’s the stunning work of the rest of Stephen Hawking, The Theory of performance in this moving drama the crack cast (including Felicity Everything is adapted from the have showered like perpetual confetti Jones, Emily Watson and David stunning memoir of Hawking’s on the young actor’s auburn head, Thewlis). Recounting the academic former wife, and views more as a and they are so well deserved that triumphs and personal nadirs of smart, beautiful coming-of-age we could almost forget to note beloved theoretical physicist tale than a dry scientiﬁ c biopic.

FOXCATCHER CHAPPIE CINDERELLA MORTDECAI THE INTERVIEW

In a transformation that The magnifi cent Neill Absolutely resplendent Johnny Depp is back Seth Rogen and James all but completely veils Blomkamp continues his in visuals and music, in the weirdo seat next Franco agree to take the actor we know, exploration of technology we can’t wait to see month, which really on the leader of North Steve Carell embodies and emotion with this the charming Lily James is where he’s most Korea in this big thumb- eccentric multimillionaire sci-fi drama about a as the eponymous comfortable. He’s kooky bite from the free world. and wrestling afi cionado childlike, sentient robot princess – she’s had amateur spy Mortdecai, Do they succeed? It’ll be John E. du Pont. who might save us all. everyone raving. and he’s relishing it. up to you, next month!

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