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MOVIE ROUND-UP: From Fri Dec 15
This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms.
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The Three Musketeers – Milady (12A)
In April, Part 1, D’Artagnan, was released in pitifully few cinemas and despite effusive critical acclaim and being one of the year’s best and most thrilling films, was largely ignored by audiences. Sadly, with yet another limited releases, the much anticipated sequel, again set in , seems likely to meet much the same undeserved fate. Again directed by Martin Bourboulon and adapted from the Dumas novel by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière, as the title says the focus this time is on Milady de Winter (a stupendous Eva Green), the sexy but deadly and murderous spy and assassin working for the Machiavellian Cardinal Richelieu (Eric Ruf). Picking up directly from the end of the previous film, but glossing over how she survived the clifftop jump at the end of the previous film, this now has her playing a pivotal role in a tangled plot exploiting Huguenot traitor to spark war with England and topple King Louis XIII (Louis Garrel), the narrative’s misdirections keeping you guessing (mostly) as to whose behind it all.
Caught up in all the subterfuge are the now four titular musketeers, rueful Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmaï), Aramis (Romain Duris) and, first seen escaping from a wooden crate, hotheaded new recruit D’Artagnan (François Civil), the latter on a driven mission to rescue his beloved Constance Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen’s (Vicky Krieps) confidante, who was abducted in the first film after seeing and overhearing the plotters. Impulsive as ever, he has to be restrained from taking down. le comte de Chalais (Patrick Mille), the treacherous nobleman he believes to be responsible.
His fellow musketeers also have their own issues, Athos is plagued by guilt at having had the mother of his young son hung as a traitor (no plot spoiler to reveal she
“I was living on $60 a week in L.A.”: Rebel Wilson Details Her Struggle After Earning $ For Her First Job in America With Bridesmaids
Recently, this cheery Australian actress, known for her exceptional wit and comedic timing, humbly shared her success story and the financial struggle during the Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. Despite being cast in a hit comedy that catapulted her into the spotlight, Wilson revealed that the joy was tempered by the harsh reality of a $3, salary being swallowed up almost entirely by SAG-AFTRA“union” dues.
Rebel Wilson on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen(Credit: @rebelwilson on Ig)
Yes, Wilson actually detailed her struggle after earning $ for her first job in America with Bridesmaids, which also starred Kristen Wiig,
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Rebel Wilson To Release Her Directorial Debut ‘The Deb”s Soundtrack Under New Record Label Deal With Warner Music
The Australian actress and singer has signed a deal with Warner Musicand will have her very own, exceptionally personalized label — Rebellionaire — Deadline reports.
“Take the ‘b’ out of billionaire and replace it with an ‘r’ for Rebel,” she told the publication of her partnership with the recording group, whom was set on partnering after hearing songs from Wilson’s feature directorial debut “The Deb” — a comedy/musical set in Australia.
The first release from Rebellionaire will be “The Deb”’s soundtrack, out late along with the film’s debut.
Wilson was first introduced to “The Deb” over three years ago via a scholarship program she supports at Sydney’s Australian Theatre for Young People (Atyp).
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British Rapper Abra Cadabra’s Acting Debut ‘Trapping’ to Premiere on New Streamer The Drop, Trailer Unveiled (Exclusive)
The film delves into the world of “going county” or “Ot” (out of town), where children as young as six, and teenagers, are groomed by county line (the mobile phone line used to take drug orders) gangs to carry and sell drugs, move far away from their homes, skip school, sleep in out-of-town “trap houses” and drug dens, keep secrets from their loved ones, and become trapped in a hopeless situation.
It follows the story of likeable London teenager Daz (Louis Ede), who sees dealing drugs as a route to easy cash to help his struggling family. As Daz becomes more involved in a county lines gang and is taken under the wing of lead member Magic(Abra Cadabra), he
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Arnold Oceng, Vanessa Donovan, Tim Reid, Brandi Harvey & Femi Oyeniran To Star In UK Rom-Com ‘Finding Forever’ – AFM
Arnold Oceng(The Good Lie), Vanessa Donovan(The Truth) Tim Reid(Swagger) Brandi Harveyand Femi Oyeniran(The Intent2: The Come Up) will lead the pic, which is set in a gospel church in London.
The story follows three best friends at different stages in their respective relationships: one is a serial dater (Oyeniran); another is in a fledgling marriage (Philips Nortey); and another is a bachelor (Oceng) newly engaged to Destiny (Donovan). Things take a turn as pressures from work and a nagging fiancée tip the groom over the edge.
Also joining cast are Georgia Curtis(Black Widow), Winston Ellis(No Time To Die), Ellen Thomas(Johnny English Reborn), Verona Rose, Vincent Jerome(WonderWoman), Evelyn Duah(It’s A Sin), Kan
This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms.
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Napoleon (15)
Turning 85, Ridley Scott still has the stamina of directors half his age, as clearly evidenced in pulling together this two and a half hour epic biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, a balance between his greatest hits (and failures) on the battlefield and his relationship with widowed aristocrat wife Josephine.
Alongside this, it follows the ups and down of his marriage to the sensual and strong-wiled Josephine (an understated but quietly excellent Vanessa Kirby), her cuckolding him (he’s not great at sex and prefers rear entry quickies) while he’s away conquering Italy, her problematic inability to provide an heir, his bedding of a willing fertile volunteer, and the eventual divorce, albeit he never faltering in his love, and ensuring she continued with the life to which she was accustomed, even after marrying the teenage (and shorter) Archduchess of Austria, who dutifully supplies a son (he had, in fact, several children by assorted lovers). All of course wearing that distinctive bicorne hat and tricolour cockade.
The brilliantly staged action set pieces are as stunning and thrilling as they are gorily visceral (a shot of a horse’s chest being ruptured by a cannonball is truly jolting), the decimation of the Austrian and Russian forces, fictionalised on a frozen lake at Austerlitz the centrepiece standout, but ultimately, it never offers any deep insight into what made him tick or the politics in which he was involved (it neglects to even mention his reintroduction of slavery in the West Indies or the massacre at the siege of Jaffa). Scott has announced he’s planning a four-and-a-half hour director&#;s cut for streaming on Apple, so hopefully that will join the dots. Meanwhile, masterful though this is, its 20 years narrative feels like a minute shorthand guide. (Cineworld 5 Ways, NEC, Solihull; Electric; Empire Great Park; Everyman; Odeo