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COMING TO A CINEMA NEAR YOU IN MARCH MAR 25 BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Not even Spider-Man can trump the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight in terms of enduring popularity and global impact. Now these two iconic figures are going head-to-head on our cinema screens for the first time ever, whilst also setting the groundwork for a sprawling new DC film universe to rival that of the all-conquering Marvel. Ben Affleck dons Batman’s dark cowl for the first time and he’s got serious questions about the intentions of the seemingly benign yet staggeringly powerful alien interloper who’s appeared among us. Henry Cavill returns to his Man of Steel role as Clark Kent/Superman, along with Amy Adams as Lois Lane. Jesse Eisenberg will be pulling our heroes’ strings as archnemesis Lex Luther. Even Wonder Woman, in the form of Israeli actress and model Gal Gadot, makes her first big-screen appearance. Zack Snyder, a director known more for flashy visuals than substance and storytelling, takes the reins of a film that puts the fate of the entire world, and a new film franchise, at stake. THE DANISH GIRL MAR 18 Eddie Redmayne won a Best Actor Oscar last year and he’s in with a good shout at this year’s ceremony for a similarly transformative role. In “The Theory of Everything” the actor was outstanding as internationally renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. In “The Danish Girl” Redmayne once again provides a strikingly physical performance to tell the story of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Einar Wagnar and his wife Gerda are painters. When Gerda has her husband step in for an absent female model, a lifelong identification with that gender—and the Lili Elbe persona—is revealed. Redmayne’s costar Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina,” “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”) puts in an equally sensitive performance in a film from “Les Miserables’” director Tom Hooper. MR. HOLMES London’s most notorious supersleuth Sherlock Holmes has enjoyed something of a revival in recent years, epitomized by the BBC series “Sherlock,” which catapulted Benedict Cumberbatch to stardom. While Sherlock and many other recent works place the character in a modern setting, “Mr. Holmes” treads a different path. By 1947, the world-famous detective is reaching the end of his storied years. Retired and living a life of relative seclusion, the old investigator is bitter at the sensationalized take on his exploits and tormented by the memory of the one case that he couldn’t solve. Much admired thesp Ian McKellen heads the cast in an exceptional turn as the tortured old genius. MAR 18 THE BIG SHORT MAR 4 The housing and credit collapse that lead to the financial crisis at the end of the last decade may not seem like a laughing matter but that’s exactly how director Adam McKay has approached it. Focusing on the Wall Street moneymen who saw the bubble’s impending burst, “The Big Short” zips along at a frenetic pace as Ryan Gosling narrates much of the financial wheeling and dealing going down. Hollywood big shots Brad Pitt, Steve Carell and Christian Bale play some unquestionably smart men of extremely questionable moral character who saw the system’s weakness and exploited it. Picking up five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, the film deals with a complex subject matter but it’s delivered in such a way as to make it both palatable and blackly comic. MARCH 2016 www.tokyoweekender.com
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