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This month, Vietnam gets a
double dose of 3D adventure, as
well as an offering of action and
comedy.
In a remake of classic monster
flick The Wolfman, traveling
actor Lawrence Talbot (Benicio
del Toro) returns to his home
after his brother’s mauled body
is found. While investigating the
murder, Lawrence stumbles into
a werewolf attack and is bitten in
the fray. After transforming into a
werewolf himself, he must get to
the bottom of his brother’s death
while battling his inner beast.
In Cop Out, Bruce Willis and
Tracy Morgan star as Jimmy and
Paul, long-time partners who get
suspended from the police force
after a failed drug sting. Their
bad luck continues when a thief
(Sean William Scott) steals Paul’s
favourite gun and the vintage
baseball card Jimmy wants to sell
to pay for his daughter’s wedding.
opening dates
CINEMAS
C: Cinebox
www.cinebox212.com.vn
G: Galaxy
www.galaxycine.vn
L: Lottecinema
www.lottecinemavn.com
M: Megastar
www.megastarmedia.net
T: Thang Long
www.giaitrithanglong.com/cinema
In pursuit of their possessions,
Jimmy and Paul face a series of
comical obstacles.
Originally set for February
release, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter
Island follows U.S. Marshals
Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and
Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who
are dispatched to Shutter Island,
where a patient of the island’s
hospital for the criminally insane
has escaped. When a clue sparks
tension between the investigators
and the hospital staff, a conspiracy
begins to unravel and Teddy
starts to lose his grip on his sanity.
Also pushed back, Did You
Hear About the Morgans? features
a wealthy New York couple
in a deteriorating marriage. Paul
(Hugh Grant) and Meryl (Sarah
Jessica Parker) are sent to a small
town in Wyoming for protection
after they witness a murder. Starting
a new life in an utterly different
world, they are forced to sort out
The Wolfman
March 25
COP OUT
April 2
SHUTTER ISLAND
April 2
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE
MORGANS?
April 2
their rocky marriage.
Vietnam gets another dose of
3D with Clash of the Titans. This
remake of the 1981 cult classic
stars Sam Worthington as the
hero of Greek myth, Perseus,
who leads humanity’s campaign
against Hades (Ralph Fiennes)
after the god of hell strikes down
his family. Throughout his voyage,
Perseus employs his power as
a demi-god to face off against a
series of gruesome beasts.
Also in the fantasy genre is
Daybreakers, a vampire story set
in the not-too-distant future. With
humanity on the brink of extinction,
vampires must find a blood
substitute or face transformation
into bat-like beasts. When
hematologist Edward Dalton
(Ethan Hawke) comes across a
group of humans trying to rebuild
their race, they reveal something
amazing: Elvis (Willem Dafoe), a
man cured of his vampirism.
THE CLASH OF THE TITANS
April 9
DAYBREAKERS
April 16
DE MAI TINH
April 23
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
April 24
On the local front, Dustin
Nguyen and Kathy Uyen co-star
in new romantic comedy De Mai
Tinh (Deal With It Tomorrow) directed
by Charlie Nguyen. Dustin
Nguyen plays Dung, a 5-star hotel
employee who quits his job and
devotes himself to winning over
lounge singer Mai (Uyen).
There’s more 3D adventure
with How to Train Your Dragon,
a film adaptation of the children’s
book that follows Hiccup (Jay
Baruchel), the black sheep of
a Viking community famed for
slaying dragons. When Hiccup
comes of age, he hopes to earn
the respect of the community and
his father (Gerard Butler) by proving
his skill in fighting dragons.
But that proves unlikely when he
befriends his first capture, who he
names Toothless. Inspired by his
friendship with Toothless, Hiccup
seeks to end violence against
dragons.
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Occupied City
David Pease
Knopf
In January 1948, a man claiming to be a doctor entered the
Teikoku Bank in occupied Tokyo. He told employees he had been
sent to immunize the bank’s workers against dysentery, and
proceeded to administer a “vaccine.” He actually poisoned 16
people, killing 12, in one of the most notorious criminal cases in
Japanese history. Pease’s novel, the second in a planned trilogy
about Tokyo, takes this real-life event as its basis, weaving a
highly stylized, Rashomon-like tale of differing voices and perspectives
including newspaper articles and police reports. One
observer, a U.S. army doctor named Murray Thompson, believes
the poisoning is evidence of Japanese bioweapons experimentation,
a theory which was attached to the incident at the time but
never proven.
Still Life: Adventures
in Taxidermy
Melissa Milgrom
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Far from its heyday during the Victorian-era natural sciences
boom, taxidermy has long come to seem dated, kitschy, creepy
and outright morbid. (Stuffing animals was the favorite hobby
of Norman Bates in Psycho, after all.) But for journalist Melissa
Milgrom, it was a subject she had grown interested in since a
chance encounter with the last chief taxidermist at the American
Museum of Natural History. Still Life traces the colourful history
of taxidermy from the days when British naturalists composed
painstaking dioramas of port-drinking squirrels to a hands-on
account of contemporary practice. Milgrom attempts to stuff a
squirrel herself and takes a trip to the ultra-competitive World
Taxidermy Championships. Along the way, a more nuanced and
human picture emerges of a practice that is equal parts science
and art.
bookshelf
The Ask: A Novel
Sam Lipsyte
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In a pair of novels and a short story collection, Sam Lipsyte has
tapped mind-numbing boredom, crushing failure and the banality
of consumer culture as material for his darkly comic vision. His
latest hero, Milo Burke, follows in the same vein. He’s a washedup
painter living in Astoria, Queens with a wife who doesn’t
want to be touched by him and their young son. Milo works as
a fundraiser for a mediocre university, which he is—you guessed
it—also failing at. He is fired, but then given a shot at salvation,
of sorts: a rich and aristocratic old college acquaintance, Purdy
Stewart, may be willing to make a large endowment, and wants
Milo to act as the intermediary with the university. This arrangement,
however, is not what it seems (of course).
The Big Short:
Inside the
Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
W. W. Norton & Company
In looking to make sense of what exactly drove Wall Street
and the U.S. economy over the cliff, there’s no better guide
than Michael Lewis. The author of Liar’s Poker and Moneyball
takes readers on a ride through the toxic wasteland of complex
financial instruments, where Wall Street firms were able “to hide
the risk by complicating it.” Lewis focuses on a few individuals
who were smart enough to see the looming real-estate mortgage
disaster and make a fortune by betting on its collapse in the
bonds market. These include a doctor with Asperger’s syndrome
and a pair of friends who started a “garage band hedge fund” in
a backyard shed. It’s a character-driven, storytelling account of
one of the world’s great financial messes.
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