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London Has Fallen Trailer – Gerard Butler saves the UK

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Gerard Butler saved the White House in Olympus Has Fallen and now he’s planning to do the same for the UK in London Has Fallen.

You can take a look at the trailer below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The sequel to the worldwide smash hit Olympus Has Fallen begins in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the western world. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world’s most powerful leaders, devastate every known landmark in the British capital, and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. Only three people have any hope of stopping it: the President of the United States, his formidable secret service head (Gerard Butler), and an English MI-6 agent who rightly trusts no one.’

London Has Fallen is released in the UK early 2016.

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Creed Trailer – The Rocky Saga gets a new chapter

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The Rocky films are going in a new direction that could potentially spin-off into a franchise of its own with Creed, which follow he son of the famed Apollo Creed, who ends being coached by Rocky Balboa himself.

To give us a taste, the trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Adonis Johnson (Jordan) never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there’s no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed’s legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.

‘Once in the City of Brotherly Love, Adonis tracks Rocky (Stallone) down and asks him to be his trainer. Despite his insistence that he is out of the fight game for good, Rocky sees in Adonis the strength and determination he had known in Apollo—the fierce rival who became his closest friend. Agreeing to take him on, Rocky trains the young fighter, even as the former champ is battling an opponent more deadly than any he faced in the ring.

‘With Rocky in his corner, it isn’t long before Adonis gets his own shot at the title… but can he develop not only the drive but also the heart of a true fighter, in time to get into the ring?’

The movie will be out at the end of the year.

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Secret in Their Eyes Trailer – Chiwetel Ejiofor takes the Oscar winner English language

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Shortly after the 2009 Argentinian movie The Secret in Their Eyes won the Best Foreign Language Oscar there was a lot of talk on making an English-language version. It’s taken a while but now it’s on its way, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the lead role, alongside Julia Robert and Nicole Kidman.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A tight-knit team of rising FBI investigators – Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Jess (Julia Roberts), along with their District Attorney supervisor Claire (Nicole Kidman) – is suddenly torn apart when they discover that Jess’s teenage daughter has been brutally and inexplicably murdered.

Now, thirteen years later, after obsessively searching every day for the elusive killer, Ray finally uncovers a new lead that he’s certain can permanently resolve the case, nail the vicious murderer, and bring long-desired closure to his team. No one is prepared, however, for the shocking, unspeakable secret that will reveal the enduring, destructive effects of personal vengeance on the human soul.

‘Interweaving past and present, this deeply layered mystery explores the murky boundaries between justice and revenge, and asks the question: how far would you go to right an unfathomable wrong?’

The movie’s due out later this year.

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Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson Up For Mother’s Day – Garry Marshall puts together another ensemble

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Garry Marshall’s ensemble rom-com New Year’s Eve may not have matched the surprise success of Valentine’s Day, but he’s visiting the concept again with Mother’s Day, according to Deadline.

The director is now living up the cast, with Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis all in talks to star.

Katherine Fugate wrote the first two movies, but this new instalment replaces her with Anya Kochoff-Romano and Lily Hollander.

Assuming it all comes together it will mark the fourth collaboration between Marshall and Julia Roberts, following Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and Valentine’s Day. The movie should start shooting in August.

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Man From U.N.C.L.E Character Posters Arrive – Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and more

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is still one of the big unknowns of the summer, but it’s only a few weeks until we’ll discover whether audiences are interested in Guy Ritchie’s big screen take on the classic 60s TV series.

A set of character posters have arrived, which you can see above and below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Henry Cavill (“Man of Steel”) stars as Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer (“The Social Network”) as Illya Kuryakin in director Guy Ritchie’s “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” a fresh take on the hugely popular 1960s television series.

‘Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.

‘”The Man from U.N.C.L.E” also stars Alicia Vikander (“Anna Karenina”), Elizabeth Debicki (“The Great Gatsby”), with Jared Harris (“Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows”), and Hugh Grant as Waverly.’

The film’s in cinemas August 14th.

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A Letter To Three Wives (Blu-ray) – The double Oscar-winner goes HD

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I have always wanted to see A Letter To Three Wives, but I’m almost ashamed to say I’d never watched it before. The reason I was keen to see it is that All About Eve is one of my favourite movies ever, and this is the other film for which Joseph L. Mankiewicz won both a Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscar.

I’m glad to say I wasn’t completely disappointed by the film, although I can see why the movie has fallen out of favour compared to much of Mankiewicz’s other work, such as Cleopatra and The Barefoot Contessa. While not that many younger people have seen the 1949 Oscar winner, they may find the plot oddly familiar, as more recently it served as the basis for an episode of The Simpsons.

Deborah (Jeanne Crain), Lora Mae (Linda Darnell) and Rita (Ann Sothern) are heading off on a boat for the day to look after a group of children, when they receive a letter from their ‘friend’, Addie Ross, who says she has abruptly left town and has taken one of their husbands with her.

Initially the women brush it off as one of Addie’s games, but as the day goes on they all start to wonder whether their hubby may have left them and they each reminisce about their lives and relationships. Deborah loves the idea of living a posh, middle-class, Country Club life, but feels that she will never quite fit in due to her farm girl background. Lora Mae grew up poor and knew exactly what she was doing when trying to reel in older, divorced Porter, but after genuinely falling for him she fears they will never escape the almost transactional nature of their early relationship. Rita meanwhile is a successful radio writer, who has a tendency to put the needs of her boss over those of her husband (played by a young Kirk Douglas), which leaves him feeling rather emasculated.

All the husbands like Addie (who we never actually see, although she provides the narration) and see her as a kind of perfect woman, but has any of them actually run off with her?

Fairly early on it becomes apparent why A Letter To Three Wives has not stayed the well-loved classic it might have been, and that’s to do with its rather old-fashioned attitude towards women. Deborah seems almost desperate to feel like she’s given up her individuality and become an adjunct to her husband, while Rita must learn that the man is in charge and that if she’s going to be a career woman, she can’t expect to be an independent one. But that’s the problem with women – they will insist on thinking they’re people in their own right!

It is incredibly old-fashioned in its attitudes, but it’s also one of the many older films which is now seen as sexist, but which was actually thought as being quite progressive at the time, in this case particularly how it dealt with the issues left behind after World War II, when women had been allowed out of the house but were suddenly meant to go back inside again when the men returned home. Things have moved on massively since the 1940s though (thank goodness), leaving A Letter To Three Wives far behind and with a view on sexual politics that would be actively offensive if anyone made the same movie today.

If you look past that though it is a very entertaining film. It’s smartly written (attitudes aside), and cleverly plotted as it looks into the lives of the three women and the situation they now find themselves in, all with a great hook of the audience waiting to discover who may have run off with Addie. Even the sexist side is worth watching, as it’s an interesting document on women’s position at the time and what was seen as the way to be happy.

The movie looks extremely good on Blu-ray. In fact it’s looking better than any film from 1949 has a right to, helped by the great classic Hollywood visuals and a restoration that’s done an excellent job of removing grain and other problems. You also get a choice of 5.1 sound or the original mono audio and a couple of decent special features, including radio versions of A Letter To Three Wives and newsreel footage of the Academy Awards where Mankiewicz won his Oscar for the film.

Overall Verdict: This is the sort of film – of which there are quite a few – which would be classed as a bona fide classic if it weren’t for the fact times have moved on and its attitudes, in this case about women’s place in society, are positively prehistoric. Outside its ‘little women should stop having thoughts of their own’ views it is an extremely well made and entertaining film, but it certainly gets no points for modern feminism values.

Reviewer: Tim Isaac

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