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This Week's New Film Releases: Friday 17 May 2013
The Great Gatsby (2013)
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Genre:
Drama / Period
Director:
Baz Luhrmann
Running time:
143 mins
A dazzling literary adaptation from the director of Moulin Rouge. In 1922 Yale graduate and war veteran Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) moves into a small house on Long Island. He notices that his neighbour, the mysterious Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), throws raucous, legendary all-night parties at his mansion and Nick wonders about the bright young things who frequent them. He is drawn into this exciting world when he makes Gatsby's acquaintance; despite their social differences, Gatsby feels a connection to Nick. They are joined in their social whirlwind by Nick's lively, shallow cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her brutish husband Tom (Joel Edgerton). But the couple are keeping secrets from each other and Nick learns that Gatsby has hidden reasons for wanting to make a name for himself.
Fast & Furious 6
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Genre:
Action
Director:
Justin Lin
Running time:
130 mins
Another entry in the popular cool-cars-and-explosions franchise. Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) is chasing street racers again but this time he's not after our heroes. Brilliant but ruthless ex-Special Forces officer Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) is masterminding heists with an elite driving team. Meanwhile Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) are fabulously wealthy from the spoils of their last heist. However, they and the rest of their gang are spread out across the globe and cannot return to their families as they are wanted fugitives. Agent Hobbs offers them a deal: if they help him take down Shaw, he will try to have their crimes erased. Dom is conflicted when he finds out that his former girlfriend (Michelle Rodriguez) is part of Shaw's crew.
Beware Of Mr Baker
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Genre:
Musical / Documentary
Director:
Jay Bulger
Running time:
92 mins
A documentary about Ginger Baker, one of the world's greatest drummers. He had a legendary musical career with the bands Cream and Blind Faith but he was also a pioneer in bringing the afrobeat sound to a wider audience. Indulging his thirst for new experiences Baker travelled to Nigeria in the '70s and began a lifelong friendship with Fela Kuti. Marriage, divorce and self-destruction followed him from West Africa to Italy and then England. Eventually he ended up in South Africa suffering from a degenerative spine condition and emphysema, surrounded by dozens of polo ponies and cared for by a wife less than half his age. This film includes interviews with Baker as well as Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Charlie Watts.
The Liability
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Genre:
Drama / Crime
Director:
Craig Viveiros
Running time:
82 mins
An amiable but immature young man is mentored by an assassin in this violent, darkly funny thriller. Adam (Jack O'Connell) is a gormless slacker who annoys his mum's volatile boyfriend Peter (Peter Mullan). Trying to guide Adam towards usefulness Peter arranges for him to help Roy (Tim Roth), one of his associates. Roy is taciturn and seemingly unflappable; he is also an aging hitman undertaking one last job before he retires. Employing Adam as his driver he introduces him to the grisly world of contract killing. Although not a sociopath, the amoral Adam is fascinated when Roy teaches him how to clean up a crime scene and dispose of a body. Things go wrong when a Latvian girl (Talulah Riley) witnesses a hit, and Adam and Roy must pursue her across Northumberland.
The Stoker
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Genre:
Drama / Crime / Foreign Language
Director:
Alexey Balabanov
Running time:
87 mins
In the mid '90s, a faded Soviet war hero and veteran of Afghanistan named Ivan (Mikhail Skryabin) works in a factory in St Petersburg. He tends the furnace for its residents while painstakingly typing out a novel that confuses his memories with stories he's heard. Ivan was once a hero but now he's just a lonely impoverished old man who looks the other way when a contract killer known as the Sergeant (Aleksandr Mosin) uses the furnace for corpse disposal. Ivan's daughter Sasha (Aida Tumutova) owns a fur shop with the Sergeant's daughter Masha (Anna Korotayeva) and is dating the Sergeant's sniper Bison (Yuriy Mateev). But little do the girls know that Bison is dating both of them. One day Ivan decides that he can no longer tolerate the evil in front of him.
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