Funny/bearded actor Zach Galifianakis, best known for his excellent turn in the Hangover (2009) movies as the somewhat unhinged Alan is back.
This time, Galifianakis comes with Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson and Kate Mckinnon in Masterminds – a verypromising new comedy due this summer.
I’m most excited about Galifiniakis, of course; but also the character played by Sudeikis.
Fingers firmly crossed that this movie is filled with more great lines and scenes not yet shown in the trailer. Please and thank you.
Directed by Aleksander Bach and starring Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto and Hannah Ware, HitMan – Agent 47 arrives with the story of an engineered human assassin on his latest mission.
I’m excited for Friend because he was great in Starred Up (2013), along with jack O’Connell, and this is an excitingly different kind of role.
How cool is that line about the gun? I know you heard it.
Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Davis Guggenheim, He Named Me Malala follows the events before and after the Talibans’ attack on Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani schoolgirl, shot in the head for speaking her mind on a girl’s right to education.
I’m certainly looking forward to learning more about one of my heroes, Malala Yousazai, and also, her extraordinary parents.
Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015), Jamie Dornan (Christian Grey)
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan star in Fifty Shades Of Grey, the Sam Taylor Johnson directed film adaptation of E.L. James’ best selling book of the same name.
There has been plenty of well-publicised negative feedback about the quality of writing in the book and subsequently, the film. Yet, all that seems to have caused minimal damage to the movie’s overall commercial success.
Clearly the story of the masochistic relationship between a university student (Anastasia Steele) and a handsome, rich businessman (Christian Grey) is just too appealing. Thanks to some rather steamy content and a definitely mysterious Mr. Grey; a man audiences can’t help but be desperate to understand.
For me, there are no particularly stellar performances in the film. I remember laughter escaping my lips in response to some of the dialogue. Had the book been better written, perhaps the movie would be too. Nevertheless, by the end, I did find myself quite curious about the tortured Mr. Grey. Though absolutely not curious enough to ever pick up the book(s), in the event that the follow-up films were to be cancelled.
Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015), Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Whether it’s the love story, sexy content or even the dialogue, if you’re planning to watch, I hope you’ll find one or two things in the film that are worth the experience.
Oddly enough, my favourite thing about Fifty Shades Of Grey is probably not what one might expect. For it is the following line delivered by Christian Grey within the first ten minutes.
The Legend Of Barney Thomson (2015), Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson
I love Emma Thompson and it looks like her new film which features Robert Carlyle as Director and star, is the kind that will only make me love her more.
Also starring Ray Winstone and Ashley Jensen, The Legend of Barney Thomson is a comedy about a man whose life changes suddenly from desperate mediocrity to something sinister and far more interesting.
The truth is, I’m liking it already because it reminds me of The Voices (2014).
