One of the UK's first multiplex cinemas, built nearly 30 years ago in Milton Keynes, shows its last film before its is demolished.
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Friday 27 February 2015
Review: In ‘Futuro Beach,’ a Haunted Lifeguard Searches for Peace
By Jeannette Catsoulis
Futuro Beach ()
Opening February 27, 2015
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Review: In ‘Eastern Boys,’ a Train-Station Pickup Gone Wrong
By Stephen Holden
Eastern Boys ()
Opening February 27, 2015
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Review: In ‘Bluebird,’ Momentary Distraction Sets Off a Chain of Misery
By Stephen Holden
Bluebird ()
Opening February 27, 2015
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Review: In ‘ ’71,’ Young, Green and Behind Enemy Lines
By Manohla Dargis
'71 (R)
Opening February 27, 2015
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Thursday 26 February 2015
Blake Lively And Jason Clarke Say All I See Is You
Marc Forster's new psychological drama
He decided a while ago not to come back for another bout against the undead hordes with the World War Z sequel, but despite having several irons in the development fire, it would appear Marc Forster has locked in his next film. He’s signed up Blake Lively and Jason Clarke to star in All I See Is You .
Forster wrote the script for this one with Sean Conway and it finds him back in the sort of brain-tickling thriller territory he explored with 2005’s Stay. All I See will star Lively as a blind woman whose sight is restored. But while that would surely count as a reason for celebration, her repaired vision means she can now see all the undiscovered details about herself, her husband (Clarke), her marriage and their lives together. If she thinks that’s a problem, wait until he explains about the force of intelligent apes that lives just outside their home city... No, it probably won’t tie into Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, but we can dream, can’t we?
Lively will next be seen in The Age Of Adaline, which is out here on May 8. Clarke has several films coming up including Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups, Child 44 (out April 17) Terminator Genisys (July 3) and Everest, which arrives here on October 2.
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Wednesday 25 February 2015
Exclusive: Four New Fantastic Four Stills Arrive
Teller! Mara! Bell! Jordan! Mole Man!
Chronicle director Josh Trank has made a Fantastic Four movie - but not one like the Chris Evans 'n' Jessica Alba version you may remember. This one has Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell in it, for starters, and what's more, it's distinctly less "cartoonish", to quote the director himself. For proof, here are some stills from the upcoming film, straight from the new issue of Empire, on shelves today.
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A key difference in this superhero reboot lies in the origins of the characters' powers. In the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby iteration of the Fantastic Four, the team gains their powers by travelling into space, where they’re bombarded with DNA-altering cosmic rays. But Trank’s film draws more heavily on the Ultimate Fantastic Four, which abandoned space flight in favour of inter-dimensional travel.
Speaking to Empire for the new issue, Trank explains that the general tone of the film is that of a "dark Amblin movie". Writer / producer Simon Kinberg goes on to say that "there was an Amblin-style approach to the characterisation, and to contextualising everything in a real world". In other words, don't expect any skintight blue lycra on these heroes any time soon.
"There's the opportunity to make something that is challenging and tragic and dramatic," adds Trank. "The opportunity is right there in the material. We'd rather steer it in that direction as opposed to just embracing a tone that comes right off the page."
For much more on Fantastic Four, which hits cinemas on August 6, be sure to check out the new issue of Empire. It's the one with Daniel Craig's James Bond on the front. Can't miss it.
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Odeon cinemas to go on sale for £1bn
Terra Firma, the owner of Odeon and UCI, plans to put the cinema chain up for sale later this year for about £1bn.
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Tuesday 24 February 2015
Calista Flockhart Flies To TV's Supergirl
As Cat Grant
Calista Flockhart has geared her screen career back in recent years, taking guest spots on TV series and eschewing the cinema since 2005. It appears she’s ready to dive back in to telly work, snagging a starring role in the new Supergirl show in development across the pond.
The series, which comes from some of the team behind successful superhero outings Arrow and The Flash, will once again be set in the DC Comics universe, and focuses on Kara Zor-El (Whiplash’s Melissa Benoist), Supes’ cousin, who escaped Krypton as he did and ended up on Earth. Initially unwilling to acknowledge her powers, she starts to come into her own in her mid-twenties and accept her heroic destiny. It’s the brainchild of Greg Berlanti, who has worked on the aforementioned shows and Ali Adler, who wrote for Chuck and short-lived super-powered domestic drama No Ordinary Family.
Flockhart has signed onto play Cat Grant, a character in the comics who in the show will be a media magnate who started her career as a reporter and employs Kara as her assistant, little knowing of her minion’s powers – at least until the young woman starts to embrace them. It’s perhaps not surprising that Flockhart chose to return to TV full time in a Berlanti show – she spent years on his family drama Brothers & Sisters. She’s part of a cast that now also includes Mehcad Brooks as Jimmy Olsen and Laura Benati as Supergirl’s mother. US network CBS has already ordered an initial series of the show, and it’s expected to touch down in the autumn.
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Photos: Oscars Governors After-party
Don't they all look so happy?
Picture credit: Getty Images
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Sunday 22 February 2015
Zachary Quinto And More Join Oliver Stone's Snowden
Melissa Leo, Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans all aboard
A couple of days ago, the news broke that Justified star Timothy Olyphant was circling a role in Oliver Stone’s still-untitled film about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Cut to today and Stone has locked down his cast, including Olyphant, with Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans and Joely Richardson all set for Snowden.
Stone has now started shooting the film in Munch, having bought up two prime sources for his film: Time Of The Octopus, a novel by Snowden’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, giving him access to the story of the whistleblower who reluctantly sought asylum in Russia and had to wait to see if the country would grant it. The producers also have the option on Guardian journalist Luke Harding’s book The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World’s Most Wanted Man.
Pitched as a thriller, Snowden will chart the experiences of Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the whistleblowing National Security Agency contractor who began leaking classified documents to former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald in June 2013. Snowden, currently stuck in Russia after the US cancelled his passport, has become a polarising figure between those – such as the director himself – who consider him a patriotic hero, and those who feel he’s a traitor.
Nothing is known about what role any of the new arrivals will play, though Shailene Woodley is set as Snowden’s girlfriend, Lindsay Mills and Olyphant is aboard as a CIA agent. With a script by Kieran Fitzgerald and the director, Snowden should be out next year.
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New Releases on Netflix - Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
When young squire Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet, he believes it holds gold that he can use to pay for his knighthood. Instead of finding a comet, Gareth finds the dragon Drago has fallen to earth and is being hunted by an evil sorcerer. After Drago saves Gareth's life, the two become intricately bonded and they must work together to defeat the sorcerer and stop his reign of terror. Along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight.
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New Releases on Netflix - My Old Lady
New Yorker Mathias Gold is delighted to learn that he's inherited a Paris apartment from his deceased father. But delight turns to dismay when Mathias travels to France to sell the property and finds his dad's former lover occupying the place.
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New Releases on Netflix - The Judge
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.
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New Releases on Netflix - Whiplash
Driven by his demanding music teacher, drummer Andrew is determined to succeed as a jazz musician -- even if it destroys his personality. Under the shadow of his father's failed artistic attempts, Andrew practices until his hands bleed.
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New Releases on Netflix - Before I Go to Sleep
After surviving a brutal assault, Christine Lucas awakens each morning incapable of remembering anything about her past, including the previous day. Little by little, however, she begins to suspect that her husband played a role in her misfortune.
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New Releases on Netflix - The Intruders
A Chicago teenager moves to a new home following her mother's death. But, as strange events occur, she and her father soon realize they may not be the residence's only occupants in this nightmarish home invasion thriller.
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New Releases on Netflix - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Aquaman is forced to choose sides between the Justice League and Atlantis, when Atlantean warriors begin a war to conquer the surface world, starting with the coastal cities of Gotham and Metropolis.
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New Releases on Netflix - The Book of Life
Zoe Saldana, Danny Trejo and Cheech Marin lend their voices to this splashy animated fable that weaves a Romeo-and-Juliet story against the backdrop of the Mexican customs surrounding the Day of the Dead.
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Friday 20 February 2015
Board Game Settlers Of Catan To Be Turned Into A Film
Or a TV show, perhaps?
It's been 20 years since the award-winning smarter-than-your-average board game The Settlers Of Catan was first unleashed on kitchen tables by one Mr. Klaus Teuber, and since then it's sold over 22 million copies in 30 languages, and, more recently, joined the exclusive "board games set to become films" club, after producer Gail Katz has officially bought the movie and TV rights.
“I’ve been wanting to see an adaptation of the game for years, ever since my Catan-obsessed college-aged kids introduced me to it,” said Katz, veteran of such projects as Air Force One, The Perfect Storm and, um, Bicentennial Man. “The island of Catan is a vivid, visual, exciting and timeless world with classic themes and moral challenges that resonate today. There is a tremendous opportunity to take what people love about the game and its mythology as a starting point for the narrative.”
For those not already in the know, the game itself doesn't scream "mythology" or, more importantly, "narrative". The Settlers Of Catan, as Wikipedia succintly puts it, sees "players in the game represent settlers establishing colonies. Players build settlements, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island. The game board representing the island is composed of hexagonal tiles (hexes) of different land types which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game. Players build by spending resources (brick, lumber, wool, grain, and ore), represented by resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource."
But before you get too cynical, remember that they make a joyfully silly film out of Cluedo (called Clue), not forgetting Battleship, which was... less joyfully silly - or joyful generally.
The Settlers Of Catan is still very much in its embryonic stages, and whether it ends up a movie or a TV show remains to be seen. Fingers crossed the fan-favourite phrase "Got wood?" turns up in the script somewhere.
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Thursday 19 February 2015
New Trailer For My Life Directed Arrives
Liv Corfixen's Nicolas Winding Refn documentary
Occasionally a making-of documentary comes along that transcends the format's more usual DVD-special-feature status. Eleanor Coppola's Hearts Of Darkness springs to mind, as does Les Blank's Burden Of Dreams. And now here's a new one to potentially join that select pantheon. Check out the trailer for Liv Corfixen's My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn, in which she documents her husband's fraught emotional journey bringing Only God Forgives to the screen.
Much like Eleanor Coppola, it's clear that Corfixen's relationship to her subject gave her access to moments where any normal documentary crew would have told to push off for a while. Refn is generally a self-deprecating character in interviews anyway, but it's fascinating to see him quite this vulnerable. "I've been making this film for three years," he opines at one point, "and I have no idea what it's about."
My LIfe Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn played at Fantastic Fest and the Stockholm International Film Festival last year, and has already seen release in Refn's native Denmark. It's out on DVD in the UK on March 2.
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Wednesday 18 February 2015
Morena Baccarin Set For Deadpool
She's nabbed a prime role
Earlier this month, word arrived that 20th Century Fox was testing a varied group of actresses to play the female lead in Deadpool alongside Ryan Reynolds. When Gina Carano was cast a couple of days ago, we thought she might have leapfrogged the list. Not so! She’s definitely on board, but Morena Baccarin has won the coveted lead role.
Baccarin, a Firefly veteran who has carved out a healthy career in the likes of Homeland, V and, more recently, Gotham and The Flash, has scored the plumb part of a woman who meets and falls for our scarred hero, though hopefully there’s more to her than just the basic character description.
Tim Miller is gearing up to start shooting the film in March, unleashing the full comic fury of the merc with a mouth on the world. Alongside Carano and Baccarin, T.J. Miller recently scored an unspecified role, with several characters still to be cast. Including a new actor to play X-Men character Colossus, since Daniel Cudmore announced he wouldn’t be returning. As for Baccarin, she’ll next be seen in Paul Feig’s latest comedy, Spy, which lands here on June 5.
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Review: With ‘Queen and Country,’ John Boorman Continues a Tale
By A. O. Scott
Queen and Country ()
Opening February 18, 2015
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