tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90181414060310644812024-03-05T08:37:38.575+00:00Geeky Girls Love Sci-FiGeeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.comBlogger2299125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-56449091913320981742019-10-02T14:20:00.002+01:002019-10-02T14:22:03.309+01:00LFF 2019: Color Out Of Space<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We start a bit sloppy with a cape-wearing Wicca Lavinia (Madeleine Arthur, Christine from <i>To All the Boys I've Loved Before</i>) doing a spell to save her mum from cancer. She then runs into Ward, a hydrologist researching the quality of the nearby river to asses the construction of a dam. They like what they see and Ward comes back to the farm maybe to get some samples, we don't know. In the farm we also meet Lavinia's two brothers Benny (Brendan Meyer, The OA) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Jack (Julian Hilliard, who will be in <i>The Conjuring 3</i> soon), one a stoner, one a cute little dinosaur fan. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a family so moden and in tune with latest technologies, it's odd they live in the middle of nowhere raising alpacas. When Lavinia's parents embrace in the porch, Nic Cage leans in for some ear kissing and tells he's super horny, that it's been six months since the operation and since they last did it. TMI. While they're having sex, a meteor hits the farm and inside it, there's something that affects space-time in the farm and changes everything it touches. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Fun viewing but could go have gone bigger, louder, and crazier. </span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span>Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-31132345472904220012018-11-11T09:32:00.000+00:002018-11-11T09:32:03.595+00:00LFF 2018 Review: Suspiria<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The blurb</b>: A darkness swirls at the centre of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's unpack that: Suspiria is a remake of a classic 1977 horror, written and directed by Dario Argento (Asia Argento's dad). It's ok if you've never heard of it - it's kind of a cult film seen by a lot of film school rejects. Apparently it's good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After director Luca Guadagnino's huge (and deserved) success with <i>Call Me By Your Name - </i>packed full of romance, sex, and sunshine in Italy - this is a 180º pirouette. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Set in 1977 Berlin (see what they did there?) in the Markos Dance Academy, Tilda Swinton (chic and intense) is Madame Blanc - the creative director and headmistress of an all-girls company. On a rainy afternoon, Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson, better than ever) arrives from Ohio or something and tries to join the group. In her audition, she connects with some powerful forces that live in this old, forgotten building. There's something brewing under the wooden planks, bouncing with her every jump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It gets pretty bonkers from here - we discover that some of the women are witches and dancing is like casting a spell. Womanhood is presented as a sensual, powerful, hypnotic power, but what to do with it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The pace is set like a slow metronome and the details are unveiled without any rush. It's freaking gorgeous. It's long and repetitive, with loud screams of artsy nightmares. The third act, when it finally arrives, is so over the top and stylised you can almost feel the screen breathing. It's beautiful, it's sexy, it's gory, but most of all - incredibly satisfying.</span><br />
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mostly black, neighbourhood where she lives - and the rich, mostly white,
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shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best
friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures
from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up
for what's right. The Hate U Give is based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Angie Thomas and stars Amandla Stenberg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Our verdict:</b> The Hate U Give has everything: love story, social activism, finding who your true friends are, discovering your parents are people, how to handle pressures from society, and finding your voice. It's a coming of age story for the new generation but it's also much more - it's a wake up call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The target audience is teenagers - especially girls like Starr (played so superbly by Amandla Stenberg that we can't tell where the character ends and the actress begins). At the same time, all the themes portrayed in the film are so universally poignant that we actually heard a grown man sob during one of the most emotionally charged scenes we've ever seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, there are some issues with the story: Starr's friends are so insufferably white they become caricatures, the baddie does a baddie stare whenever he's on screen, but this is a film about a girl finding who she is after witnessing her best friend die in front of her. If there are some black and white concepts, made all the more stark because this adolescent is just starting to discover that life is full of grey areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We loved it - with all its flaws and beautiful moments. The Hate U Give is a powerful, complex drama that deals with police brutality with grace. It's also an angry coming of age story that resents having to be told, but hopefully will make some people sit up and think. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Our verdict: </b>Director Joachim Trier (not related to Lars Von) has had some success in film festivals, showing his films in Cannes, Toronto and Istanbul - but they failed to get a wider mainstream recognition. His latest film <i>Thelma </i>is, what we hope, his ticket to a big audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We follow the life of Thelma (Eili Harboe)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, who after living under her mum and dad's strict, religious rules, finds herself enjoying her new found freedom at university quite a lot. Even though she has to live with the guilt of sharing her experiences with her parents in constant phone calls, she doesn't hold back. Especially</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when she meets Anja, a new friend who invites Thelma to be part of a normal, experimental uni life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What could be considered textbook first year experiences - parties, drinks, some smoke, some bi-curiosity - all feel very new and intense to Thelma, and she starts to experience supernatural, telekinetic powers. Having suppressed them for such a long time, she neither understand or control her actions. Sometimes the consequences are beyond her imagination, even if they're her own doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the curious among you, <i>Good Manners</i> begins as a societal analysis, Clara is a poor black maid coming to work (and live) with a spoiled, skinny white girl (Ana) in an affluent area of São Paulo. But things become tense when Clara sees how lonely and unprepared Ana is for imminent parenthood, and their story develops into a preggo-lesbian-interracial-interclass romance. And it gets even weirder when Ana starts displaying a strange combination of symptoms reminiscent of well known tales about vampires and werewolves. When the baby is born, he's somewhere in between - something similar to the local monster <i>chupa-cabra</i>. But Clara loves him, just like she loved his mother.</span></span></div>
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<b>The Blurb:</b> Kristen Stewart plays Maureen, a medium working in Paris as a personal shopper for a megalomaniacal A-list celebrity. Bored and frustrated by her job, Maureen only remains in France in an attempt to reach the spirit of her recently deceased twin brother. As time goes by, contact looks increasingly unlikely, until Maureen begins to receive strange text messages from an unknown source.<script language="JavaScript" src="http://cdn.techknowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/audio-player.js"></script><br />
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<b>Our Verdict:</b> We're so proud of our K-Stew. She is so fearless in choosing her roles, it's a joy to see her career explore so many different independent daring flicks. In <b>Personal Shopper</b>, Maureen deals with a murder mystery plot with a supernatural twist, inside a cool fashionista routine. It could be three different films rolled into one big mess but the meticulous direction from Olivier Assayas makes it all coherent and enigmatic. Kristen's screen presence is almost constant (we can't remember a scene she's not in) and spooky enough to keep the audience completely hooked. </div>
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Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-12020915916032488102016-10-11T14:34:00.002+01:002016-10-11T14:34:15.997+01:00LFF 2016: A Monster Calls - Our Verdict<div>
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<b>The Blurb:</b> 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall is extraordinary) is bullied by his classmates because he sees the world differently. His mother (Felicity Jones), with whom he has a very special bond, is suffering from a terminal illness. His bossy grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) has become increasingly controlling. And his unreliable father (Toby Kebbell) is perpetually absent. Suddenly, a wizened and mysterious yew tree materialises to provide Conor with some much-needed guidance (Liam Neeson’s voice is the perfect combination of melodic and imposing).<script language="JavaScript" src="http://cdn.techknowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/audio-player.js"></script><br />
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<b>Our Verdict: </b>Growing up sucks. Especially when you're stuck in that period of life when you're not a kid anymore, but not an adult yet. Coming of Age stories are a popular subgenre of movies because there's so much to be distilled from this rite of passage in life. 'Inside Out' thrived in the metaphysical representation of feelings themselves as creatures with feelings. But what if feelings were your current worst nightmare? </div>
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Conor has to deal with quite a lot of pain in his life without having the emotional maturity to fully comprehend what is happening. One night, a yew-tree-monster with fatherly stern voice (Liam Neeson has the best voice for the job, no doubts) appears in his dreams - or day dreams - to guide him through all the emotions. In the same way that 'Life of Pi' showed that sometimes fantastic tales are the best way of recounting a terrible real life event, the Yew Tree shows Conor that life is complex and we are only humans.</div>
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Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-34063940900454432672016-10-10T16:57:00.003+01:002016-10-11T14:34:36.308+01:00LFF 2016: Five Reasons to Love... Arrival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Professor of linguistics Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is enlisted by the US government to decipher the language of extra-terrestrials who initiated first contact. She is accompanied by scientist Ian Donelly (Jeremy Renner) on a mission to determine the purpose of their mysterious visitation.</i><br />
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Director Denis Villeneuve's (Sicario, Prisioners) new film <b>Arrival</b> blends full on doomsday alien invasion with family drama and a truckload of emotions. It's based on Ted Chiang’s novella 'Story of Your Life' and we can't help but to consider it an instant classic. Probably more related to 'Inception' than 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', <b>Arrival</b> is melancholic, visually arresting, complex and deeply satisfying. </div>
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So yeah, her expertise is evidently there. But who is she? Is she a struggling mother without a child, <i>a la</i> Dr Ryan Stone in <i>Gravity</i>? It would seem so for a bit, but Amy Adams takes her character's vulnerability and spontaneity to a whole new level. She's not a three dimensional character, we need to calculate some new dimensions to really grasp her.</div>
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The most delicate moment of any alien invasion movie is the reveal. What they look like, how they sound, how they act in presence of humans. In <b>Arrival</b>, this is resolved quite early in the film in an incredibly sensitive way. The aliens' visuals, language, sound, technology, spaceships (or shells) - they're all marvellous to watch and we feel as giddy as Dr Banks discovering them.</div>
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Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-66572137896538934162016-08-13T14:44:00.000+01:002016-08-13T14:45:26.898+01:00The Farmed, by Lisa Caskey - Book Review<br />
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Set in a futuristic San Francisco in 2093 where a surveillance state of control and monotonous routine is the norm, Winnie, a seemingly regular teenager, gets flung into an underground world where nothing will ever be the same again. She discovers that she’s not so ‘normal’ after all, when realizing she can communicate telepathically and has super human strength. </div>
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Through a double narrative it materializes that her Grandfather was instrumental within the CIA to successfully farm human beings in order for the human race to survive a nuclear war. These genetically perfect people were immune to all disease until a plague rips through their community 60 years later. </div>
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Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-78465386798004235432016-07-16T14:32:00.000+01:002016-12-13T18:21:30.172+00:00Five Reasons to Watch… The Wind Rises<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Geeky Girl and <a href="http://www.lovejapanmagazine.com/" target="_blank">dedicated Japanophile</a> Emily gives her verdict on Hayao Miyazaki’s final film for Studio Ghibli…</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back in 2008, Hayao Miyazaki penned the manga series Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises), inspired by Tatsuo Hori's ‘The Wind is Risen’, a fictional story based on Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the infamous Zero Plane used during the Pearl Harbour bombings. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hailed as Miyazaki’s last offering for Studio Ghibli following his retirement from film making, The Wind Rises explores adult themes that are a world apart from some of his more fantastical films, such as Spirited Away. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It may not be Ghibli as you know it but Miyazaki’s swan-song is a beautifully crafted film, made all the more poignant by the fact that it is his last gift to the studio. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Wind Rises is ultimately an adult anime with a historical context. With a distinct lack of soot sprites or talking cats, the story follows Jiro Hirokoshi during the first part of the 20th century in the lead up to the Second World War. As a young boy Jiro dreams of flying airplanes, but after he is visited by Italian aircraft designer Caproni during an early dream sequence, he decides to become an aircraft designer instead. We follow his journey as he is caught up in the Great Kanto Earthquake and then goes to work for an airplane manufacturer, eventually moving to Germany where he designs The Zero. It’s a snapshot of pre war Japan and the dreams and aspirations of a man who, a lot like Miyazaki, had a vision and worked hard to achieve it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Jiro, we have a man who designed fighter planes (machines that dropped bombs and caused death and devastation) but we are also given a dreamer. This is a man who was fascinated by the mechanics of aviation and went on to design planes which are described to him by Caproni as being 'beautiful dreams'. In an early scene we watch as one of Jiro’s planes plummets to the ground and crashes, an event which haunts him and is referenced again later as we see him surveying the wreckage in a dream. We are given indication that Jiro feels regret, but this is never really expanded upon. He is portrayed as a man with a dream, who perhaps never fully realises his role in the war. It’s almost as if Miyazaki is absolving Jiro of responsibility, but the reason is less than clear. Miyazaki, as a renowned pacifist, has chosen an angle which seems to contradict his own beliefs, and it is in this that the film garners more than a little confusion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are distracted further from the subject of war by the fictionalised love story between Jiro and Nahoko, a woman he meets on a train just before the earthquake strikes. He leads Nahoko and her injured maid to safety, but it’s years later before they are reunited during a chance meeting in Germany. A sense of melancholy shrouds the whole film, and the love story enhances this. Nahoko suffers from tuberculosis and her condition worsens as she leaves the sanatorium where she is supposed to be recovering so that she can be with Jiro. It seems as if Miyazaki wants to show us a softer side to Jiro, and perhaps make him appear more sensitive than history suggests. Again, the reason is unclear. The underlying theme of war and devastation is watered down to the point that it becomes secondary to Jiro’s personal plight. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ghibli films are known for their intensely detailed animation, and The Wind Rises is no exception. From the opening dream sequence where the young Jiro Hirokoshi takes to the skies in an aeroplane, to the terrifying scenes of destruction as the Great Kanto Earthquake rips through Tokyo. Miyazaki manages to conjure up a feeling of beauty within chaos, and takes us on a visual journey from plane crashes and natural disaster to intimate portrayals of family life and humorous exchanges. This understated approach to disaster distracts us from the underpinning theme of war, and the film becomes more about Jiro and his personal dreams and aspirations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Visually stunning, but also aurally intoxicating, The Wind Rises uses voiced sound effects. From the whirring of a plane’s propellers to the sound of the earth rumbling as it splits open during the Great Kanto Earthquake, these humanistic sounds lure you deeper into the beauty of the film.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Wind Rises is a complex film that has many layers. On the surface it can be watched as a beautifully animated film about a young man who fulfils his dream of designing airplanes, and falls in love. But it’s the deeper symbolism that is the real draw of the film. Children may be bored by the lack of surreal characters and off the wall scenarios, it’s a film that definitely doesn’t have universal appeal like many other Ghibli creations, but while Disney continue to churn out colourful monsters and talking cars, Miyazaki has given us a final film that while much less accessible, will keep us thinking long after we have left the cinema.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second trailer for Star Trek Beyond has dropped and it’s two full minutes of high-octane, epic space battle win. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The third instalment of the rebooted franchise finds Starfleet’s finest exploring the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test. Ooo-er. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Star Trek and to honour the milestone 50 new alien species have been developed. Other than the returning Vulcans, all the aliens are brand spanking new, including Idris Elba’s Krall, the big bad of Beyond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All the old crew are back on the bridge, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana. And not content with being the coolest engineer in star system, Simon Pegg also takes on writing duties, co-penning the script with Doug Jung.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Directed by Justin Lin of Fast and Furious fame, Star Trek Beyond goes on general release 22 June.</span><br />
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The Blurb:</b> Maud (Carey Mulligan) has worked hard and exploitative hours in the same factory job since she was a girl; her only respite is the affection of her husband (Ben Whishaw) and their sweet young son. When her deepening friendships with fellow worker Violet (Anne-Marie Duff) and activist Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter) fuel her sense of injustice, she commits to the suffrage cause.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of England's best sci-fi, horror, cult, indie exports, Wheatley's new venture is taking place in the US. Titled Free Fire, it has already a few GG</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">♥</span></span></span>SF favourites on board, including Sam Riley, Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, and Cillian Murphy. And Martin Scorcese is exec–producing. What a comet-like rise since his first feature six years ago!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s no secret that we’re huge Matt Damon fans at GG<span style="color: red;">♥</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">SF HQ (hello, he *is* Jason Bourne), but it’s no easy feat to carry a movie all by your lonesome for 40 minutes (unless you’re Tom Hanks), especially when the only dialogue uttered is rhetorical. But Damon does a great job as astronaut Mark Watney, able to convey the frustration, helplessness and loneliness of his situation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As we’ve come to expect from any Ridley Scott movie, the special effects and picture compositions are beautifully realised and epic in their scale. Crammed with gorgeously composed shots in space, grand sweeping Martian vistas, and some truly fantastic 3D sequences, Scott flexes his master filmmaker skills with aplomb – it’s a striking, celluloid treat for your eyeballs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The casting team (Carmen Cuba, Nina Gold) clearly have a touch of genius about them, assembling a fine cast of leading actors, all perfectly suited to their roles. From Jeff Daniels' irate, and initially suspect, NASA Director, to Kristen Wiig’s fun turn as the manic head of public relations and Chiwetel Ejiofor as programme director Vincent Kapoor, all the performances are solid.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, can we just reference Jessica Chastain’s brilliant turn as Commander Lewis? Love. Her. From the man who first brought us the great Ellen Ripley and Thelma & Louise, we’ve always associated Scott with powerful female characters and it’s great to see him revert back to excellent form (we’re looking at you, Prometheus. We’re looking at you).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Written by American author Andy Weir and adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard, the Martian is a story about survival that celebrates human ingenuity without that overwhelming whiff of cheese, so prevalent in many main stream movies. Although there are still a few cringe-worthy moments (Go America, GO!), this is all rather niftily offset with pithy quips and a tangible suspense that keeps the film feeling taunt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We *love* it when a sci-fi film gets all, yanno, sci-fi-y and The Martian turns up the sci-fi rating to 11. YAS! From establishing a way for Watney to communicate with NASA using hexadecimal coding, to theoretical discussions around using the Earth’s gravity field as a sling slot and using human poop as a fertiliser, we felt entertained AND informed. Yay for the science! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With Gambit set to hit cinema screens in just over a year, it looks like Anna Paquin won’t be reprising her role Rogue.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paquin, who plays Rogue in the current X-Men franchise confirmed that she would not be returning as the mutant to star opposite Channing Tatum in the film over on Twitter. <br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">— Anna Paquin (@AnnaPaquin) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnaPaquin/status/648259041345466368">September 27, 2015</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, there might still be a chance that the actress could make an appearance, as she later added: "I was asked and answered with the information that I currently have. That is all!" So while Paquin may not be involved now, this doesn’t completely rule out her involvement later on.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Gambit recently suffered a back after its director Rupert Wyatt had to <a href="http://geekygirlslovescifi.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/gambit-x-mendeadpool-crossovers.html" target="_blank">quit due to scheduling conflicts</a>. We think an onscreen Rogue and Gambit reunion would more than ease that blow.<br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warners Bros has finally found their lead for the Hollywood live action adaptation of the Japanese Manga, Death Note, with Paper Town’s Nat Wolff securing the role.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><a href="http://variety.com/2015/film/news/paper-towns-nat-wolff-adam-wingard-death-note-1201605146/" target="_blank">Variety</a> reports that Wolff is in the final stage of negotiations and will play the studios equivalent of Light Yagami – a student who discovers a notebook that gives him to ability to kill anybody who’s name he writes in it. He then begins to take the law into his own hands.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />So it looks like the project is finally getting off the ground, and Wolff’s casting comes just months after the news that Adam Wingard (The Woods) would be directing the film.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />News of the film has definitely divided the Death Note fanbase since Warner’s acquired the rights five years ago, with the manga already receiving an anime series, live action films in 2006 and most recently a live action TV series in Japan. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />So while news of an English-language adaptation was to be expected, previous experience of these types of adaptations don’t tend to fill fans with much hope (Dragonball Evolution anyone?). <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Only time will tell. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Production for Death Note is set to kick off in 2016.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It looks like Men Is Black is next on the list for the reboot treatment, however it looks like the the new trilogy will not include Will Smith.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smith played the lead role alongside Tommy Lee-Jones as Agent J in the original three films, but it looks like the Suicide Squad star is unlikely to return to the latest attempt to revive the franchise. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So for now it looks like Men in Black 4, 5 and 6 are definitely on the table, and no doubt we’ll be hearing more about it soon.</span></span><br />
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://cdn.techknowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/audio-player.js"></script>Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-57748266510802899642015-09-27T20:46:00.001+01:002015-09-27T20:46:32.933+01:00Sam Smith's Dramatic Bond Song Has Arrived<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With just over a month to go until the release of the new Bond film, Spectre, four time Grammy Award winner Sam Smith has final unveiled the official theme song.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Love it or hate it, the first official trailer for the upcoming Angry Birds movie based on the hit game has finally landed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It may have been a while since the game first began to take over a lives, but that hasn’t stopped the bright lights of Hollywood calling for our feathered friends.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The full length animated feature is set to hit cinemas next year and will see the directorial debut of Fergal Reilly (Spider-Man 2) and Clay Kaytis (Frozen).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The film will feature a pretty solid comedic cast, with voices from Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids) Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses) and Danny McBride (Pineapple Express).</span></span><br />
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<script language="JavaScript" src="http://cdn.techknowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/audio-player.js"></script>Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-51631573129250848062015-09-27T20:40:00.003+01:002015-09-27T20:40:49.492+01:00Five Reasons to watch... The Messenger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Messenger is a supernatural drama starring Robert Sheehan and Lily Cole. It tells the tale of Jack, a young man tormented by his past and haunted by the dead, desperate for some peace. Called upon to help bring comfort to grieving families he struggles between his sense of duty and his saving own sanity.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sound interesting? Here's Geeky Girl Julia's verdict... </span></span></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">#1 Robert Sheehan</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most of you, I'm sure, will recognise Robert Sheehan as the loveable Irish scamp from E4's much missed Misfits or as, well, the lovable Irish scamp in the relatively recent TV version of The Borrowers. We're used to seeing Robert play a character who laughs or lightheartedly pokes fun at those around him so the character of Jack is a great departure. That being said, even his misanthropic attitude and dishevelled appearance in The Messenger cannot disguise those those magnificent cheekbones or sexy swagger. Jack is tormented by appearances of the recently deceased which has turned him into a darkly comedic yet very angry man who wants nothing more than to be left alone, by the living and dead alike.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">#2 The Ensemble</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ethereal Lily Cole, supermodel extraordinaire and star of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnessus plays Jack's sister Emma. The siblings both come across as just as troubled by a difficult childhood as they are by Jack's lifetime of conversations with dead people. Giving a great performance, even when playing an average, if slightly well off, woman Lily makes just about every scene she's in look like an editorial from some glossy magazine. You might also recognise David O'Hara who played Albert Runcorn in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - best known for his spot on Dan-Rad impression!</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">#3 The Psychotherapist</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joely Richardson is brilliantly understated as the psychotherapist, the early therapy scenes are so cleverly done that you're unsure if she is even real. Jack breaking the forth wall during these parts even leave the viewer feeling as though they (we) are the therapist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Messenger is shot in a way that nicely illustrates the isolation and loneliness Jack feels, despite being surrounded by people who want to talk to him whether that's family or the people who need his help. The use of flashbacks to the 90's offer a slightly grim sense of nostalgia (perhaps that's just because I still vividly remember the 90s!) and they go a long way to explain why Jack is the way he is.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">#5 A different take on an all-too familiar idea... </span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While someone being called upon by the dead to connect with loved ones is not a unique idea, Sixth Sense, Ghost Whisperer etc, The Messenger has a more grounded approach to talking with the dead. It's more, a chat down the pub than a ghostly apparition by candlelight. At one point Jack even casually lays the motives of primary haunter “You weren't expecting it, you have unfinished business... stop me if I'm getting any of this wrong!” There's no melodramatic emotional scene about passing on a loved ones dying wish, more how a grieving family would realistically react when some odd looking stranger turns up at the wake and claims knowledge from another world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Goodbye Clara Oswald.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the Doctor returning to our screens this weekend, it look like we’ll be bidding farewell to another companion, as Jenna Coleman has confirmed that she will be leaving the show this season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although rumours last year that the actress would be leaving were quashed, fresh speculation began again earlier this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In an interview with Nick Grimshaw on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show, Coleman confirmed: "I have left the TARDIS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"It's been in the works for a very long time… Steven [Moffat] and I sat down a long time ago - a year and a half ago - and tried to work out the best place to do it and the best place in which to tell a really good story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"We're not going to give any details but it will happen at some point this season."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Coleman also confirmed her depture from the show on Twitter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Adventures to last me a lifetime. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho">@bbcdoctorwho</a>. But as they say 'It ain't over till it's over'</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">— Jenna Coleman (@Jenna_Coleman_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenna_Coleman_/status/644797239244779520">September 18, 2015</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The BBC <http: official-jenna-coleman-leaving-doctor-who-74026.htm="" www.doctorwhotv.co.uk=""> has released a statement, which reads: </http:></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It’s been officially confirmed that Jenna Coleman, who plays Clara Oswald, will leave Doctor Who during the new series which starts tomorrow, Saturday 19 September.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"However, it’s not been revealed exactly when Clara leaves and the question many are already asking is how will she part company with the Doctor?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Jenna Coleman made her Doctor Who debut on 1 September, 2012 as Oswin Oswald in Asylum of the Daleks. She returned on Christmas Day of that year, playing Clara and remained with the Eleventh Doctor from the following episode, The Bells of Saint John, onwards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"She stayed on board the TARDIS for all of Peter Capaldi’s episodes to date and after filming for the last series finished, Peter commented, ‘Jenna has been absolutely brilliant. I think she’s wonderful in the show, and she’s my favourite companion.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"But Series 9 sees the Impossible Girl’s departure although the how, why and when are all questions we’ll have to watch the new adventures to find out…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Whatever happens, we’ll bring you the inside info first but for the time being we’ll prepare to say goodbye to Clara and good luck to Jenna. We’ll miss them both."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This definitely isn’t the last we’ll be seeing of Coleman on our TV screens. The actress has apparently traded in bright lights of the cosmos and war-worlds for some crown jewels, as she is star as Queen Victoria in a new £10 million ITV drama. Not bad at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let the next companion speculation begin!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Doctor Who returns to BBC One this weekend (September 19). Check out the trailer for the new series below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week Marvel and Netflix revealed that all episodes of Jessica Jones would be hitting the streaming service on November 20th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Check out the pretty psychedelic teaser for the show below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Krysten Ritter will play Jones, as superhero-turned detective attempts to solve crimes in Hell’s Kitchen. The show will also feature David Tennant as the supervillain Purple Man, and The Good Wife’s Mike Colter, who will play Luke ‘Power Man’ Cage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are the first official images from the show:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All episodes of Jessica Jones will hit Netflix on Friday November 20th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of Luke Cage, Marvel and Netflix’s next superhero venture is also beginning to take shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After some pretty strong rumours, Marvel’s head of TV Jeph Loeb has confirmed that the show will debut the bio-enhanced detective Misty Knight, and she will be played by Simone Missick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loeb stated: “We know fans have waited years to see Misty Knight brought to life, so we had to find the right actress. Simone blew us away with her performance as the strong-willed cop on a mission.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are very excited to finally see the arrival of Misty Knight on our screens, and role in the show makes perfect sense – in the comics the character has been romantically linked to Danny Rand, aka Iron Fist, on numerous occasions (they were even engaged at one point), so her appearance will probably mean that we can expect to see a familiar face when Iron Fist finally hits Netflix sometime next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Marvel also kindly confirmed that Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy) will appear as the criminal Shades, and Frank Whaley (Ray Donovan) as detective Rafael Scarfe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luke Cage will land on Neflix in 2016.</span><br />
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://cdn.techknowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/audio-player.js"></script>Geeky Girls Love Sci-Fihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389756790185052728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018141406031064481.post-28165112289485250072015-09-18T15:59:00.000+01:002015-09-18T15:59:10.135+01:00Gambit: X-Men/Deadpool Crossovers Confirmed As Director Rupert Wyatt Quits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s not long before shooting starts but it looks like Gambit has already hit its first major hurdle, as it has been reported that the film’s Director, Rupert Wyatt, has quit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wyatt had been attached to the project from the beginning, but according to <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/channing-tatums-gambit-movie-loses-823992" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a> script changes leading to an expanding budget and extended shoot has created scheduling conflicts for the director resulting in his departure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wyatt stated: "I was very much looking forward to working with my friend Channing and the team at Fox, but regrettably a push in the start date now conflicts with another project. I thank them for the opportunity, and I know that Gambit will make a terrific film."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So now the search is on for his replacement, and while we very much welcomed the news of a Gambit solo film, it all still feels a bit up in the air. Only a few weeks ago there were rumours that Channing Tatum (who will play the lead role as Gambit) was set leave the project, although these have proved false. Furthermore no other castings for the film have been revealed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, it’s not all bad news, as X-Men producer Simon Kinberg has confirmed that there will be crossovers between the X-Men mutants, Gambit and Deadpool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In an interview with <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/2270275/x-men-deadpool-gambit-crossover-simon-kinberg/" target="_blank">MTV</a>, Kinberg revealed that he hopes to “cross-pollinate” the character in the future. Kinberg said: “The idea is that we've sort of reset the timeline after Days of Future Past in some ways, and if not erased, certainly allowed for change from X1, 2, 3. Everything from Days of Future Past forward, 1973, everything we set now becomes canon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"So the Gambit movie, the Deadpool movie, will exist in a world that acknowledges whatever happened in Days of Future Past and moving forward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Doesn't mean they'll always interact with those characters, obviously - it's not like every movie has all the characters - but they all have to exist within the same rules." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well as it stands, Gambit is currently set for release October 7 2016, with Deadpool hitting our screens first on Feburary 12 2016, followed by X-Men: Apocalypse in the UK on May 19.</span><br />
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