Tom Hardy is getting dramatic for Child 44, and he’s also going a bit Russian, alongside an excellent cast including Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Vincent Cassel, Joel Kinnaman, Jason Clarke and Paddy Considine.
Now the first trailer has arrived, but to watch it you’ll have to click over to Apple.
Based on Tom Rob Smith’s novel, with Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa directing, the Soviet Union set thriller is about a military police officer named Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) who has to investigate a string of brutal child murders that took place during the Stalin era. As he begins to dig further and further into the case, he realises that his government is keeping a sharp eye on every move he makes, and refuses to admit that the killings are actually happening.
Oldman is the head of police, who has problems with what Hardy is doing, while Rapace, who’s in the image below, is Tom’s wife.
The lack of a trailer or other marketing for Fox’s reboot of Fantastic Four has resulted in a lot of rumours, from reports that the movie is a disaster that needs massive reshoots to issues with the special effects meaning there was no footage to show.
To celebrate the release of “Honeymoon”, the new visceral horror starring the critically acclaimed Game of Thrones actress Rose Leslie and Penny Dreadful’s Harry Treadaway – coming to DVD & Blu-ray 26th Jan. 2015 – we have a copy on DVD to giveaway courtesy of Arrow Films.
There are quite a few LGBT-themed web series out there, but not many of them are animated. Now one has arrived, McTucky Fried High, from filmmaker, illustrator and activist, Robert-Carnilius, who was named one of NewCity’s Film 50 and was a 2014 Student Academy Awards Finalist. It is also one of twelve projects funded by the Chicago Digital Media Production Fund from Chicago Filmmakers and the Voqal Fund.
The LGBT brigade had a lot to cheer at the Screen Actors Guild, with two awards for Orange Is The New Black with Orange Is The New Black walking away with two awards and Mark Ruffalo winning Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his impressive turn in The Normal Heart.
For the last few years Disney has been looking into their animated back catalogue to see which of their movies they can take into the live-action arena, resulting in films like Maleficent and the upcoming Cinderella.
Following Selma, it looks like David Oyelowo and director Ava DuVernay are teaming up again for a film around the time of Hurricane Katrina. Hopefully like Selma, it’ll be a subject that many filmmakers have tried and failed to fully take-on, but they will manage it.
It’s already sounding like a brief scene in The D-Train might court a bit of controversy when the movie expands beyond festival screenings. Those who saw the movie at its Sundance Premiere already seems unsure whether James Marsden and Jack Black having sex together is a cheap, gay-panic punchline, or whether it’s a smart way to lay-bare the hypocrisy behind many bromance movies, which take things to the cusp of sexual love while constantly pretending that it isn’t by making vaguely homophobic jokes.
Patrick Stewart has long shown his gay friendly credentials – and even had bestie Ian McKellen officiate at his wedding. Indeed it’s resulted in him being mistaken for gay himself at time, most notably in a 2014 
The comedy drama What We Did On Our Holiday is available on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK from 26th January, courtesy of Lionsgate UK. And we’ve teamed up with them to give away three Blu-ray copies in this competition.
It looks like the excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor may be joining the Marvel Universe, as