It’s pretty hard to go past a movie made of LEGO, but there are a couple of other films out this week that look very well put together – Like Father Like Son and The Invisible Woman.
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Opening today:
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THE LEGO MOVIE……FILM OF THE WEEK
USA, Australia | 100 minutes | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Directors: Phil Lord & Chris Miller (21 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)
Cast: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freema, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Will Arnett, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Shaquille O’Neal, Jake Johnson, Dave Franco, Will Forte
After finding a mysterious object everyman (or should the be everyLegoman) Emmert is prophesied to be the one to free LEGOkind from the crazed dictator President Business. On his quest he meets an incredible array of characters from the LEGO universe and a discovers the mystical realm of Middle Zealand.
What’s not to love!?! The childhood memories are flooding back…and I haven’t even seen it yet!
Distributor: Roadshow
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
Japan | 120 minutes | Drama
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda (I Wish, Still Walking, After Life)
Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky, Jun Fubuki, Shôgen Hwang, Kirin Kiki, Jun Kunimura, Megumi Morisaki, Isao Natsuyagi, Keita Ninomiya, Hiroshi Ohkôchi
A dedicated father and devoted mother discover that their 6-year-old son is not actually their son – they were given the wrong baby at birth.
This looks brilliant and was one of the films I was gutted to miss at the last NZIFF.
Distributor: Rialto
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RIO 2
USA | 101 minutes | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Director: Carlos Saldanha (Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: The Meltdown)
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Jemaine Clement, Andy Garcia, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Will i Am
Blu, Jewel and the kids go from domestic bliss to the wilds of the Amazon for a family reunion, where Blu must go “beak-to-beak” with Jemaine Clement’s vengeful Nigel and his most fearsome adversary of all – his father-in-law.
The first film was a lot of fun and I expect this will be too.
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
UK | 111 minutes | Biography, Drama, Romance
Director: Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Michelle Fairley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Perdita Weeks, Tom Burke, Joanna Scanlan
At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover.
Ralph Fiennes “the director” impressed me with his debut Coriolanus, so I have good reason to think this will be great too. And I’m a big Felicity Jones fan.
Distributor: eOne
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THE OTHER WOMAN
USA | 109 minutes | Comedy
Director: Nick Cassavetes (My Sister’s Keeper, The Notebook)
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nicki Minaj, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Taylor Kinney
Three woman discover they have a lot in common: they are sleeping with the same man – one being his wife and the other two his girlfriends. So they team up to exact revenge on the “cheating, lying, three-timing SOB.”
This isn’t my type of film to begin with and the trailer gives me nothing to inspire a change of heart.
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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Will you be reliving your childhood?
