Two very entertaining films open this week. Both could end up in my top ten for the year. If you’re a Marvel fan I don’t need to tell you that Captain America: The Winter Soldier is here. If you live in my hometown Perth, Western Australia, check out my review of The Grand Budapest Hotel because there’s some fantastic things happening around the opening weekend of that film at Luna cinemas from 11th April. I
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(My movie Pick
of the week)
Captain
America: The Winter Soldier ✪✪✪✪
Opens
in Australia: 3rd April 2014
USA: 4th April 2014
UK: 26th
March 2014
Other Countries: Release Information
OUR THOUGHTS
The film is big and beautiful, just like Captain
America himself. By now, we all know
what we get when we settle down with our popcorn and drink to watch a Marvel
franchise blockbuster. Captain America:
The Winter Soldier is no disappointment.
I love them all. They’re pure entertainment and
you could easily sit through this one twice. Just like all the others, do stay
through the credits. There are two scenes for you to enjoy. One is very
interesting, the last one not so much. Hey, though, the end credits are part of
the fun, too. Kudos to Disney Australia, too. They always put on fun Marvel
previews with characters from the film for photos (we even had a live falcon)
loads of giveaways and treats. Marvel fans go get your fix, until the next one
is out.
STUDIO BLURB
Steve Rogers
continues his journey as the super-powered American soldier who's grasping to
find his place in a modern world after being frozen in ice since WWII with this
Marvel Studios sequel. Chris Evans returns to star, with Community
director/producers Joe and Anthony Russo helming. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
The
Lego Movie ✪✪✪✪ ½
Opens
in Australia: 3rd April 2014
USA: 7th February 2014
UK: 14th
February 2014
Other Countries: Release Information
OUR THOUGHTS
This is one of the best animation films you will
see this year. It’s cute, irreverent, and the voice talent is clearly having
fun. It is a rare occurrence that adults can enjoy a film as much as the kids.
Usually we parents sit there barely awake while wriggling in our seats
wondering how much longer before its over.
I do believe this film is on par with the wit,
fun and originality of Shrek. The pop culture references are rife and clever.
What is so amazing is that as you watch you start to look at the Lego
characters as real actors. This is despite the fact that they are obviously
plastic pieces with legs, arms and faces that don’t move except for the minimal
facial inflections.
It’s the type of film my whole family would be
very happy to sit through again. Bravo, a film made about a toy that actually
transitions well to the screen and has real heart. Go see it. Everything about
it is awesome (you will get this comment if you see the film and listen to the
catchy song in the film).
STUDIO BLURB
"The LEGO (R)
Movie" is the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO (R) adventure. The
original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet (Chris Pratt) an ordinary,
rules- following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly
identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He
is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil
tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
(c) Warner Bros
The
Grand Budapest Hotel ✪✪✪✪ ½
Opens
in Australia: 10TH
April 2014
USA: 28th March 2014
UK: 7th
March 2014
Other Countries: Release Information
Perth: Luna
Palace Cinemas
OUR THOUGHTS
The writer and director of The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson, is an intriguing
storyteller. I go along every time to his films thinking how great they look
from the trailers—quirky, funny, sentimental, and starring a cast of incredible
talent. Sometimes, though I’m left with nothing more than “It was just okay.”
Wes Anderson’s version of the world is populated with surreal characters who
are not just oddball, but sometimes certifiable. I find it hard to identify
with them and the storyline.
Not so, though, with The Grand Budapest Hotel. This film does not miss a beat. There’s a
cast of many A-list actors, the story is adventurous and wonderful, and the
color palette Anderson’s uses is gorgeous. Think of his Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I did love, but with people instead of animation,
and you have the feel.
Do go check in to The Grand Budapest Hotel. I
think you will fall in love with it as much as I did and want to return there
again.
If you live in
Perth, Western Australia, my hometown, I suggest you see it at Luna Cinemas in Leederville
on its opening weekend of Friday 11th
through to Sunday 13th.
Luna is creating an immersive experience. On the opening weekend, the Oxford
St exterior façade of the building will be transformed at night with spectacular
projection imagery. In the film, Wes Anderson has created a fictional
world in Eastern Europe known as The Republic of Zubrowka. With specialist
projected light and animation by Roly Skender, the hotel in Zubrowka will come
to Oxford St Leederville!
Visitors
to the Luna Leederville can expect to see some of the characters from the film
brought to life. For those wanting to swan about the hotel there is also plenty
to do. Enjoy a themed cocktail at The Grand Budapest Lobby Bar, browse the
Grand Budapest Gallery, enjoy a complimentary Mendl’s cake (courtesy of
Baked180), take in a game of the custom-made game “Guess Who” featuring the
film’s characters, and take your picture at the Mendl’s cake box wall (and
share it: #thegrandbudapesthotel).
All
the best people will certainly be there to enjoy the experience. I’m going down
to take a look myself. Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it?
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
WINDSOR
SOIREE
To
celebrate The Grand Budapest Hotel at the Windsor you are cordially invited to join us for an afternoon soirée on Sunday 13 April from
4.00pm featuring Brown Brothers Sparkling Pinot Chardonnay Non-vintage and a musical ensemble of the talented WA Youth Jazz Orchestra musicians playing from prior to the screening of the film at 4.45pm
Tickets
now on sale and online now
STUDIO BLURB
Following his
succesful Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderon's latest comic delight, THE GRAND
BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a
famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who
becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a
priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune --
all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.
Featuring
an A-list cast that includes Ralph Fiennes, newcomer Tony Revolori, who plays
Zero, a lobby boy in the hotel , Tilda Swinton,
F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jude
Law, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman and Léa
Seydoux and many more...
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