Tokyo Weekender - January 2016
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PREVIEWS | MOVIES | 31<br />
JAN 30<br />
10 OF THE BEST: THE MUST SEE MOVIES OF 2013<br />
> BEST OF THE REST This Month’s Releases<br />
BLACK MASS<br />
Johnny Depp, whose late stage career seems almost entirely<br />
comprised of playing over-the-top characters while disguising<br />
himself under buckets of makeup, tones it down and gets serious<br />
for his latest role. Ditching the colorful costumes for a bald head,<br />
Depp has taken up the mantle of notorious Irish-American gangster<br />
James “Whitey” Bulger. As crime boss of South Boston’s Winter Hill<br />
Gang, Bulger was unchallenged in the area until Italian mobsters<br />
the Angiulo Brothers arrived on the scene. Bulger is given the<br />
chance to gain an upper hand over his competitors when the FBI<br />
ask him to turn informant—an alliance that will quickly spiral out<br />
of control. “Black Mass” charts the rise and fall of this infamous<br />
murderer and mobster. Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch,<br />
Kevin Bacon, Dakota Johnson and Corey Stoll join Depp in the<br />
stellar cast in a film from “Crazy Heart” director Scott Cooper.<br />
PADDINGTON<br />
JANUARY 15<br />
Charming family comedy with<br />
Ben Whishaw (“Q” in the Bond<br />
films) voicing Paddington, the<br />
little bear from deepest, darkest<br />
Peru who is found by the Brown<br />
family at a London train station.<br />
THE INERASABLE<br />
JANUARY 30<br />
Ai Hashimoto and Yuko<br />
Takeuchi play a student/author<br />
team investigating the series<br />
of unpleasant events that led<br />
to a curse hanging over an<br />
apartment building in this<br />
J-horror throwback.<br />
JAN 16<br />
THE HALLOW<br />
JANUARY 5<br />
Dark fairytale in which a<br />
family move to the Irish<br />
countryside only to be<br />
tormented by an ancient<br />
presence lurking in the woods.<br />
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA<br />
Award-winning “Apollo 13” director Ron Howard returns to tell<br />
the true-life tale that inspired Herman Melville’s classic novel<br />
“Moby-Dick.” Setting sail in the year 1820, the New England ship<br />
Essex undertakes a voyage “In the Heart of the Sea” to catch<br />
whales and harvest them for oil. Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin<br />
Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland and Ben Whishaw form<br />
the ship’s crew as they bond and bicker before an event which<br />
will alter the course of their lives forever. At the height of the<br />
expedition a whale of staggering size appears and destroys the<br />
ship, and after a mammoth battle against the planet’s mightiest<br />
mammal the survivors find that the fight for survival has only<br />
just begun. This period adventure pits man against an opponent<br />
of righteous size with a fearsome hunger for revenge that would<br />
eventually be turned into a story for the ages.<br />
MONSTERS:<br />
DARK CONTINENT<br />
JANUARY 9<br />
Sequel to 2010 indie hit<br />
“Monsters” that increases the<br />
action quota to the detriment of<br />
the film’s drama.<br />
NINA FOREVER<br />
JANUARY 19<br />
Ben’s ex-girlfriend Nina, who<br />
died in a car crash months<br />
earlier, returns from the dead<br />
to sarcastically torment her<br />
former lover and his new<br />
girlfriend every time they have<br />
sex in this jet-black romantic<br />
comedy from the UK.<br />
This month’s movie previews were written by Christopher<br />
O’Keeffe. For more movie news and reviews visit<br />
www.tokyoweekender.com<br />
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