The best and brightest in film and TV gathered in London’s Royal Opera House last night, for the 69th British...
THE REVENANT (USA/16/156mins) Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson, Forrest Goodluck. THE PLOT: Fur trader Hugh Glass (Leonardo Di Caprio) is on an expedition in the 1820s when Native Americans attack him...
‘Interstellar’ and ‘Inception’ filmmaker Christopher Nolan will take the director’s chair for the epic action thriller...
Stunning new one-sheet for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s wilderness epic...
“What happened?” “We did what we had to do.” Must watch new trailer for the wilderness epic starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhall Gleeson,...
No, we’re not talking about Arnie and Danny DeVito. We’re talking about one actor playing two people, who happen to...
IRRATIONAL MAN (USA/15A/95mins) Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley, Susan Pourfar, Ben Rosenfield....
LEGEND (UK//France/18/131mins) Directed by Brian Helgeland. Starring Tom Hardy, Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Bettany, David Thwelis, Christopher Eccleston, Colin Morgan, Chazz Palminteri, John Sessions, Tara Fitzgerald, Duffy, Shane Attwooll, Sam Spruell. THE PLOT: London, the 1960s, and twins Ron and Reggie Kray (both Hardy) are make their mark. Generally on people’s foreheads, or through the heart, as the gangsters stake their claim to be kind...
LEGEND is released in Irish cinemas this week, and tells the story of the notorious London gangsters, The Kray Twins...
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ star Tom Hardy is to produce and possibly topline a feature adaptation of Brian Azzarello and...
Inspired by true events, THE REVENANT is directed and co-written by renowned filmmaker, Academy Award-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu (‘Birdman,’ ‘Babel’)....
From Academy Award® winner Brian Helgeland (‘L.A. Confidential,’ ‘Mystic River’) comes the true story of the rise and fall of...
To celebrate the release of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD which is now showing in Irish cinemas nationwide we have exclusive...
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is released in Irish cinemas this week, having screened at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The main villain of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is the frightening leader of The Warboys, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), who...
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD REVIEW (Australia/USA/15A/120mins) Directed by George Miller. Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoe Kravit, Riley Keough, Nathan Jones, Hughs Keays-Byrne, Megan Gale, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton, Josh Helman. THE PLOT: For ex-cop turned post-apocalyptic road warrior Max Rockatansky (Hardy), it’s still the end of the world, but not quite as we know it from before. Most of it is familiar – the sunburnt desert scapes, the vamped up, customised vehicles constantly engaged in battle over fuel, glorious fuel, and the designer gimps who drive them. Hitting the ground running, literally, Max is captured by a white-bodypainted tribe who worship their ancient, half-decrepit old leader, Immortan Joe (Keays-Byrne), a cross between Jabba The Hut and L. Ron Hubbard. Joe keeps his tribe happy with promises of everlasting life in Valhalla, whilst the great unwashed down below are kept in line by rousing speeches followed by bursts of precious water. When Joe’s beautiful young breeders (Huntington-Whiteley, Kravitz, etc) are whisked away by Imperator Furiosa, he soon has a rabid, high-speed convoy hot on the traitor’s tail. Amongst them, our hero, Max, the ailing Joe worshipper Nux (Hoult) having not yet finished their little blood transfusion. And so, to battle, in the great wide open, where loose cars and fast women are the supreme prize… WATCH THE TRAILER THE VERDICT: With a script that I’m convinced was ghost-written by my Grand Theft Auto-loving young nephew Thomas, Fury Road might as well have been called The Fast & The Fraggle Rock. Bigger, brighter, bolder and decidedly more bonkers than the previous three outings – including the last, 1985’s bombastic Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome – creator and writer/director/producer George Miller unleashes a Bosch-esque hell-on-wheels for this deliriously twisted thrill-ride. With the man behind Babe 2: Pig In The City and the deceptively-titled Happy Feet at the helm, there was always going to be something troubled and tortured just beneath the shiny, multiplex-baiting surface here. An endless number of unsuspecting kids ended up with a stutter after the bleak Babe 2, whilst the Happy Feet franchise can be summed up in one telling image – namely, a despondent penguin banging his head against a zoo enclosure wall. Sweet dreams, children. Here, the underlying message is all about man’s inhumanity to women. Especially when they’re hot (the girls here constantly look like they’re on a Pirelli calender shoot). Beyond Hardy and Hoult’s elligible and agile heroes, pretty much all the major male roles here are grotesques, the tribe leaders all coming across as Noah Cross meets Harvey Weinstein, each using his power to keep beautiful women under their club foot. Oh, and having explored how we have all become slaves to oil in those early Mad Max outings, here, Miller has now added water, and how this natural, necessary resource is slowly becoming a lucrative commodity. Hurrah! Still, is Mad Max: Fury Road actually any good? The early reviews, largely written in a panic to be first out of the gate, have been pretty ecstatic, but there was something a bit too washed-up Wachowski about this long-awaited sequel for me. All style over grit, CGI OTT over any kind of character TLC. Former box-office queen Theron is no Weaver, and Hardy hardly brings anything new to the role (the Bane mask doesn’t help), with only Hoult truly holding his own. Which is a...
Calling all Road Warriors… we’ve teamed up with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring you a MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Post Apocalyptic Celebration. Lucky winners will get to attend this special event screening in Dublin’s city centre on May 14th. Keep Reading For...
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