The second major psychedelic experience of their lives, after being born.
What you may need to know:
1. Set during Stalin’s Soviet Union rule, disgraced MGB Agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) is tasked with solving a brutal series of child murders.
2. Fun fact: Did you know that Russians don’t actually speak to each other in Russian? It’s simply too hard to understand, so they just converse in heavily-accented English instead.
3. Just check out Harrison Ford in K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) or Daniel Craig in Defiance (2008) for proof. At least Sean Connery had the cojones to not even try.
5. Tom Hardy’s a busy boy. In addition to Child 44, he has four other movies on the slate for 2015, including Mad Max: Fury Road (2014) and pulling double duty as both Kray twins in Legend (2015).
6. He’s also signed up to play Elton John in the upcoming Rocketman biopic. Really.
7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Strong like bull.
Release Date: 17th April
(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
St Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2, yesterday evening
(Thanks Gary Byrne)
Pesky Myths
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Incredible footage of freediver Guillaume Néry coasting upright through the underwater currents of Tiputa Pass northeast of Tahiti. Filmed late last year by director and underwater camera operator Julie Gautier.
More detail and behind the scenes footage here.
And if you like that, you should really check out Néry’s underwater BASE jump at Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas from 2010.
Old Fashioned.
Billed as a ‘romantic drama about a former frat boy and a young free-spirited woman who try to have an “old fashioned” courtship in modern-day America.’
Meh. Ok.
Carlos The Cinemagoer writes:
“This trailer just popped-up on the Apple Trailer site. Dunno if it’ll be good but thought it was interesting if only for the fact that it’s so vehement in it’s desire to point out it’s not Fifty Shades of Grey which opens the same weekend. Unusual to see a little indie pit itself against a blockbuster like this – but it may get results.”
Hmmm.
Chivalry, eh?
Until you say so.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny inspects a guard of honour at Templemore Garda College this afternoon.
Via Merrion Street
The Duck?
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Allan Dixon tweetz:
The Grand Canal duck with a touch of Irish-ness. He’s chilling here right now #WhatTheDuck
It’s a Betfair thing.
Thanks Marilyn Montroy
Blooey!
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Bomb-alarm at European Parliament's premises at Rue Montoyer (Bxl). Evacuation ongoing, robot investigating the site. pic.twitter.com/MCfWaA45u3
— Kim Bogte (@Mik_EP) February 2, 2015
Bomb alert here at European Parliament in Brussels. Currently being evacuated.
— Luke 'Ming' Flanagan (@lukeming) February 2, 2015
RT.com reports:
Belgian police ordered the evacuation of three buildings, which are part of the EU parliament compound in Brussels, due to a bomb alert.
The precautionary measure was prompted by a suspicious car parked in Montoyer Street, European broadcaster RTF reported.
European Parliament building evacuated in Brussels after bomb alert (RT.com)