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Movies Monday!

New flicks from Will Smith, Joaquin Phoenix and Robert DeNiro...

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 16 Jul 2012

It’s wet, grey and the start of the working week, but things could be worse. Movies Monday is just back from a couple of nights in London where special Olympic lanes, inpenetrable one-way systems and a lack of people knowing what the fuck’s going on means that the capital is an insufferable place to be. Which bloody well serves them right for all those years of tyranny and, worse still, Jimmy Hill.

Anyway, we digress. We don’t think they had any part in Katie Holmes giving hubby the heave-ho, but the makers of The Master won’t complain about the currency the Scientology debate is giving their film.

Due in October, it stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a World War II veteran who, haunted by his experiences, decides to set up his own hatstand religion, The Cause.

Its fine ensemble cast also includes Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rami Malek and Laura Dern who after a quiet decade now seems to be back in the Hollywood swing of things.

The select few reviewers who’ve seen it reckon that Hoffman and Phoenix are both shoo-ins for Oscar nods.

We doubt it’s big or remotely clever, but lovers of dumb ass American comedies will lap up Fun Size for managing to get Victoria Justice, Jane Levy, Chelsea Handler – she has to get a job doing John Terry’s PR – and Jonny Knoxville onto the same set.

The first time The O.C.’s Josh Schwartz has directed for the big screen, its ‘sarcastic teen with a dopey brother who has to be taken trick or treating’ plot sounds painfully contrived, but the US reviews have all been gushing.

Having penned it in 1999, Stephen Chbosky now gets to direct the big screen version of his The Perks Of Being A Wallflower novel.

Starring Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Emma Watson, it’s a coming of age tale in the left-of-centre Juno vein and drops in September.



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