Movies to Watch This Mar/Apr 2023
SHAZAM! Fury Of the Gods
The Sequel to DC’s most fun movie to date. Our boy in a man’s body joke is still going strong in this one as Shazam (Zachary Levi) attempts to find his place in an uncontrolled super hero team. Meanwhile Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu step in as the villains of the movie. One of the few cape movies that fully commits to being a giant cheese ball.
In Cinemas 13 Apr
John Wick Chapter 4
This is the fourth movie in the series, you should know what you’re getting by now, you don’t need me. John Wick (Keanu Reeves) takes things global this time as he hunts down the heads of the underworld in major cities around the world. The opening sequence starts in Jordan and then it’s all globetrotting across Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and Osaka.
This is the longest film in the series to date, with the last movie clocking in at just over two hours. Keanu describes the movie as, and I quote, “Oh my god, it’s crazy, man! It’s banana cakes!”
“John Wick: Chapter 4 was the hardest physical role I’ve ever had in my career so far. They really trained me up to be able to have what we call the toolbox,” he told Total Films. This movie also includes a lot more Car-fu than previous films, which necessitated that Keanu actually build up the skills to pull off some of these stunts. “There’s 180s, forward-into-reverse 180s, reverse into-forward 270s, drifting… So it was really fun to get a chance to learn those skills, and to play.”
Chapter 4 and 5 were supposed to film simultaneously, unfortunately Covid played havoc with that plan. Despite this, the film has grown in scope over its predecessors. It’s now breaking the tried and true formulae and adding multiple storylines intertwined. The lore of John Wick has truly started to get out of control, enough for spin-offs to start spawning. Ana de Armas is going to be heading her own film Ballerina set in the same universe.
We can’t get enough, and they can’t make these fast enough.
In Cinemas 23 Mar
RENFIELD
We’re in the middle of a Nicholas Cage Renaissance and when it comes to playing an eccentric dracula in a comedy horror film, there’s no better man for the job.
The movie centres around Dracula’s long suffering henchman Renfield, played by Nicholas Hoult just trying to escape this toxic working relationship. Strangely relatable. Directed by Chris McKay (Tomorrow War, Don’t watch it! It sucked!). With that said, he has some top comedy talent backing him up in the script department in the form of Ryan Ridley, who worked on Rick and Morty (producing and writing the first 3 seasons, the good ones). “Renfield is a story about Dracula’s assistant set in modern times, and it’s kind of a codependency success story. And it’s a comedy. It’s a horror movie. It’s an action movie. It’s about bad bosses,” he said. ”It’s gonna be like a hard-R action movie, crazy-violent in an Evil Dead 2 kind of way.”
In Cinemas 14 Apr
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