YOUR GUIDE TO MAY’S HOTTEST RELEASES OVER 40 REVIEWS INSIDE INCLUDING: THE BIG SHORT THE REVENANT SISTERS GOOSEBUMPS VV31_01_FrontCover.indd 1 15/04/2016 12:31 pm ADAM SCOTT TONI COLLETTE “A DEVILISHLY ENTERTAINING NIGHTMARE” – MTV Horror violence © 2015 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. and coarse ™ language ON BLU-RAY & DVD MAY 5 Strong © 2016 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. supernatural themes and violence ON DVD MAY 5 KRAMPUS_THE VEIL MAY RENTAL FP AD 15496.indd 1 12/04/2016 5:48 pm AD TEMPLATE.indd 1 15/04/2016 12:17 pm MAY 2016 P.14 This month, it’s all about the Oscars. From the biggest Hollywood Although some of the year’s winners 5-10 NEWS blockbusters to unsung gems are already out on DVD, May sees What have the bold and the premiering on DVD and Blu-ray, the arrival of the big guns. Both beautiful of fi lm and TV been up we cast our eye over the Leonardo DiCaprio and director to lately? We check out the latest month’s biggest new movie Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu were reports from home and beyond and television releases. honoured for their work on the P.16 harrowing survival epic 28-29 BACK TRACK 16-17 ACTION The Revenant, although the fi lm Five movies you may have was pipped for best fi lm by the missed last month gripping newspaper drama 18-19 DRAMA Spotlight, which also picked up the award for best original screenplay. 30 COMING SOON 20-21 FAMILY Both are featured in this month’s New releases to look magazine, along with The Big forward to next month 22-23 TV Short, which won the best adapted screenplay Oscar. That said, there are plenty of other winners heading 24 COMEDY for the shelves this month, even if they didn’t actually win any awards: 26 THRILLER other must-see May movies include 12 DEADPOOL the rude and irreverent comicbook Ryan Reynolds and director caper Deadpool, Quentin Tarantino’s Tim Miller on why they were P.19 latest epic The Hateful Eight and determined to stay true to the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler the darkly comic tone of the hilarious hit Sisters. original comicbooks. THE TEAM 14 THE BIG SHORT How funnyman Adam McKay balanced the serious themes of the global economic collapse with some lighter moments. P.20 P.12 P.23 Publisher: Tilo Grieco [email protected], Editor: Kit Razer Sub Editor: Chelsea Graham, Contributors: Robert Hislop, Accounts: Tracy Kingman [email protected], Production: Al Netherclift, Design: Rebecca Rowlands, Contributor: Scott Hocking Address: Scribal Publishing Pty. Ltd., PO Box 2051, Richmond South, VIC 3121 TKE31_05_Contents.indd 1 15/04/2016 11:04 am hotnewreleases 4th MAY 4th MAY 5th MAY 5th MAY * This is not final artwork 11th MAY 11th MAY 18th MAY 18th MAY * This is not final artwork * This is not final artwork 19th MAY 25th MAY 25th MAY 25th MAY * This is not final artwork * This is not final artwork * This is not final artwork * This is not final artwork take a movie star home tonight AD TEMPLATE.indd 1 15/04/2016 12:26 pm &A NEWSREEL YOUR MONTHLY FIX OF NEWSREEL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS THERON’S NEED FOR SPEED Charlize Theron is set to put the pedal to the metal again by signing on for the eighth Fast & Furious movie. Details are sketchy at this stage but the Mad Max: Fury Road star looks set to play the villain in Fast 8, which is currently in pre-production. A brief post on Facebook simply said: “Our crew will face its greatest adversary ever in our next fi lm as we welcome Charlize Theron to the Fast family.” Theron is no stranger to the world of fast cars: as well as Mad Max, she also starred in the remake of The Italian Job, whose director F Gary Gray is helming the new Fast & Furious fi lm. • Fast 8 is due in cinemas in April 2017 PARTY ON! Melissa McCarthy and husband and will be directed by Falcone; Ben Falcone are prepping their the husband and wife team’s latest third movie together. collaboration The Boss opened in Plot details of Life Of The cinemas last month. McCarthy will Party are still under wraps at this next be seen on the big screen in stage, but according to Deadline, July in the highly anticipated reboot the movie was written by the couple of Ghostbusters. LAW & ORDER TO TACKLE TRUE CRIME Taking a leaf out of the pioneering new mini-series The People V OJ Simpson, Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is developing a new true crime anthology series of his own. Law & Order: True Crime - The Menendez Brothers Murders will dramatise the notorious case from the 1990s when two siblings were accused of murdering their wealthy parents. Wolf had been looking at ways to expand the Law & Order brand and is excited to take the show into the true crime arena. “There is no shortage of compelling real-life criminal cases, and the Menendez trial was more scintillating than most crime fi ction,” he adds. In 1989, movie executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty were found in their Beverly Hills mansion in a crime scene that was so gruesome that police initially suspected a Mafi a hit. After spending lavishly for six months following the murders, their sons Lyle and Erik were eventually arrested by police and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996. 5 TKE31_06-10_NewsReel_v2.indd 5 15/04/2016 11:04 am ANOTHER KIRKMAN COMIC HEADING TO SMALL SCREEN THE MOST POPULAR RENTAL TITLES ACROSS AUSTRALIA The Walking Dead creator “Outcast has been a Azaceta, Outcast tells the Robert Kirkman is looking passion project of mine for story of Kyle Barnes (Patrick forward to bringing another many years,” says Kirkman. Fugit, Gone Girl), a young of his cult comic books to “Seeing it come together man who has been plagued the small screen. has been a huge thrill for by demonic possession all his HUNGER GAMES: Outcast is due to me. What we’ve been able life. However, with the help of 1 MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 premiere here in June – to achieve on Cinemax, with the Reverend Anderson (Philip DVD dates are still to be its unprecedented creative Glenister, Life on Mars) – a confi rmed – and has been freedom, frankly, almost preacher who has personal ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: produced for Cinemax, scares me at times.” demons of his own – Kyle 2 THE ROADCHIP the US cable network Based on the comic by embarks on a journey to regain behind Banshee. Kirkman and artist Paul the normal life he lost. 3 ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING SPECTRE 007 4 AN OFFER YOU 5 BRIDGE OF SPIES COULDN’T REFUSE The acclaimed British crime thriller Hyena looks to THE MARTIAN have paid off for director Gerard Johnson – his next 6 fi lm is set to be The Godmother, a starry Hollywood thriller about a notorious Colombian drug baron. Catherine Zeta-Jones will play the title role HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 7 Griselda Blanco, who become one of the most powerful – and deadliest – cocaine cartel bosses in Miami in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The fi lm 8 ROCK THE KASBAH is currently in pre-production and is executive produced by Nicholas Pileggi (GoodFellas, Casino). Blanco features prominently in the noted SECRET IN THEIR EYES documentary Cocaine Cowboys and was also 9 reportedly the inspiration for the character of Fish Mooney in the TV series Gotham. 10 NO ESCAPE • Hyena is out this month on DVD and Blu-ray. 6 TKE31_06-10_NewsReel_v2.indd 6 15/04/2016 11:04 am JOSH ALICE MALIN JULIA WITH AL AND ANTHONY DUHAMEL EVE AKERMAN STILES PACINO HOPKINS KNOW YOUR ENEMY Don’t miss it if you love sexy thrillers like The Loft, The Gift and Unfaithful ON BLU-RAY & DVD MAY 4 SHE DEFIED CONVENTION, CHALLENGED TRADITION AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY “steamy and sumptuous” OUTMAGAZINE.COM ON DVD MAY 4 AD TEMPLATE.indd 1 15/04/2016 3:28 pm TIME FOR www.leadingedgemusic.com.au MORE STINE? NEWSREEL Fans of Goosebumps creator R.L.Stine will be pleased to know a new installment in his Most Ghostly series is in the pipeline. Set for release later in the year, Mostly Ghostly: One Night In Doom House is the third feature-length fi lm based on the internationally beloved book series from the legendary children’s writer. In this direct-to-DVD movie, Halloween turns super scary for Max (Corey Fogelmanis) when he learns that his other- worldly nemesis, uber-ghoul Phears (Adam Tsekhman), is back with a vengeance, a new henchman and stronger powers. Co-stars include Gamers Guide to Pretty Much Everything’s Sophie Reynolds, Danny Trejo and Morgan Fairchild. Meanwhile, keep an eye out at the end of Goosebumps – the fi rst big feature fi lm based on his characters and out this month on DVD – for a brief cameo from Stine, playing a teacher who exchanges greetings with Jack Black, who plays a fi ctional version of the author in the movie. • Goosebumps is reviewed on page 20. 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