Renoir Interviews
As part of the Rendez Vous with French Cinema festival in London, Red Carpet News sat down with Director Gilles Bourdos and beautiful star Christa Theret to chat about sumptuous French historical drama Renoir. Christa Theret plays Andrée Heuschling, the model that inspired the final masterpieces of painter Auguste Renoir and subsequently married his son and celebrated filmmaker Jean Renoir.
Check out the exclusive in depth video interviews below:
Captain America 2 Plot Details
Marvel has started production on superhero sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The second solo adventure for Chris Evans as shield wielding hero Steve Rogers will pick up just after the events of The Avengers and focus on Captain America finally coming to terms with the fact he’s now living in the 21st century.
Teaming up with fellow Avenger Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, played by a catsuit clad Scarlett Johansson, Captain America will this time do battle with a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present day Washington D.C.
Sebastian Stan who played Cap’s sidekick Bucky Barnes in the first film will return, this time as the titular Winter Soldier. Robert Redford is also confirmed to join the cast, playing “A senior leader within the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization.”
Rush Teaser Trailer
Two-time Academy Award winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon), teams once again with fellow two-time Academy Award nominee, writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), on Rush, a spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
The epic action-drama stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt and Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, whose clashes on the Grand Prix racetrack epitomized the contrast between these two extraordinary characters, a distinction reflected in their private lives.
Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, Rush portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy Hunt and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Lauda. Taking us into their personal lives on and off the track, Rush follows the two drivers as they push themselves to the breaking point of physical and psychological endurance, where there is no shortcut to victory and no margin for error. If you make one mistake, you die.
Check out the first Official Teaser Trailer below:
BAFTA Television Awards Nominations 2013
Full list below of BAFTA Television Awards 2013 nominations. This year sees shows like Game of Thrones, Twenty Twelve, Homeland, The Hollow Crown and The London Olympics Broadcast.
Leading Actor
Sean Bean – Accused (Tracie’s Story)
Derek Jacobi – Last Tango in Halifax
Toby Jones – The Girl
Ben Whishaw – Richard II (The Hollow Crown)
Leading Actress
Rebecca Hall – Parade’s End
Sienna Miller – The Girl
Anne Reid – Last Tango in Halifax
Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs
Supporting Actor
Peter Capaldi – The Hour
Stephen Graham – Accused (Tracie’s Story)
Harry Lloyd – The Fear
Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV Part 2 (The Hollow Crown)
Supporting Actress
Olivia Colman – Accused (Mo’s Story)
Anastasia Hille – The Fear
Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango in Halifax
Imelda Staunton – The Girl
Entertainment Performance
Alan Carr – Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Ant and Dec – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Sarah Millican – The Sarah Millican Show
Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme
Olivia Colman – Twenty Twelve
Miranda Hart – Miranda
Jessica Hynes – Twenty Twelve
Julia Davis – Hunderby
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme
Hugh Bonneville – Twenty Twelve
Peter Capaldi – The Thick of It
Steve Coogan – Welcome to the Places of My Life
Greg Davies – Cuckoo
Single Drama
Everyday
The Girl
Murder
Richard II (Hollow Crown)
Drama Series
Last Tango in Halifax
Ripper Street
Scott and Bailey
Silk
Mini-Series
Accused
Mrs Biggs
Parade’s End
Room at the Top
Continuing Drama
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Shameless
International
The Bridge
Game of Thrones
Girls
Homeland
Factual Series
24 Hours in A&E
Great Ormond Street
Make Bradford British
Our War
Specialist Factual
All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry
The Plane Crash
The Plot to Bring Down Britain’s Planes
The Secret History of Our Streets
Single Documentary
7/7: One Day in London
Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest
Lucian Freud: Painted Life
Nina Conti – A Ventriloquist’s Story: Her Master’s Voice
Features
Bank of Dave
Grand Designs
The Great British Bake Off
Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs
Reality and Constructed Factual
The Audience
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Made in Chelsea
The Young Apprentice
Current Affairs
Britain’s Hidden Housing Crisis (Panorama Special)
The Other Side of Jimmy Savile (Exposure)
The Shame of the Catholic Church (This World)
What Killed Arafat? (Al Jazeera Investigates)
News Coverage
BBC News at Ten: Syria
Channel 4 News: Battle for Homs
ITN/Channel 4
Hillsborough – The Truth at Last (Granada Reports)
Sport and Live Event
The London 2012 Olympics: Super Saturday
The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isle of Wonder
The London 2012 Paralympic Games
Wimbledon 2012 – Men’s Final
Entertainment Programme
Dynamo Magician Impossible
The Graham Norton Show
Have I Got News For You
A League of Their Own
Comedy Programme
Cardinal Burns
Mr Stink
The Revolution Will Be Televised
Welcome to the Places of My Life
Situation Comedy
Episodes
Hunderby
The Thick of It
Twenty Twelve
Audience Award
Call the Midwife
Game of Thrones
The Great British Bake Off
Homeland
The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Strictly Come Dancing
Olympus Has Fallen Review
The Plot:
A disgraced secret service agent finds himself at the center of a terrorist takeover of the White House 18 months after he failed to save the First Lady during a freak car accident. With the FBI, Navy Seals and Homeland Security outgunned and outsmarted, the President and his young son are both taken hostage. Now one man is a nations only hope.
The Good:
Gerard Butler has been largely treading water for the past few years, in rom-coms like Playing for Keeps and P.S. I Love You. An easy way of keeping the actor well paid and consistently on screen. It’s been a while since his breakthrough performance as King Leonidis in the brutal graphic novel adaptation 300, but it’s good to see him back on form here as agent Mike Banning.
Apart from a few dodgy accent slips, it’s easy to see him as a high profile security guard who has a charismatic relationship with both the President and his son. He brings an everyman quality to this performance which makes him more convincing in the role. Butler is thankfully self-aware enough to recognize when he’s delivering a particularly cheesy line. A playful glimmer in his eyes let’s audience know he’s definitely in on the joke
Accompanying him in supporting roles are Angela Bassett (Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs) and Morgan Freeman (Speaker Trumbull). Having actors of this understated caliber helps counterbalance the ridiculousness of some of the scenes and forces a sense of credibility into what we’re watching.
Rick Yune is perfectly cast as the villain of the piece. Amidst all the chaos of the epic take over scene, the criminal mastermind is cool, calm and calculated. It’s almost sinister how relaxed he is, and you automatically think back to his Bond villain Zao in Die Another Day. You find yourself intrigued as to what happen will happen next with him. As an actor, Yune really does play the ‘less is more’ card very well.
The Bad:
Olympus Has Fallen is a guilty pleasure, unashamedly packed with patriotic cliché’s. There’s far more American flag waving and triumphant exclamations of “God Bless America” than most international audience will appreciate. You almost feel a little bit naughty for enjoying the film in spite such obvious flaws. However, Olympus has Fallen is still a very enjoyable film.
Director Antoine Fuqua is best known for gritty police drama Training Day. That film proved to be an Oscar winning vehicle for Denzel Washington. Fans misguidedly expecting anything similar from Olympus Has Fallen will obviously be left disappointed, alhough Fuqua does certainly tackle the new action genre with uninhibited and violent enthusiasm.
The Ugly Truth:
Overall, the film is a combination of cheese, violence (in parts verging on ultra-violence) and an almost worrying example of the most protected building in the world being overtaken by terrorists. Despite lacking some of the gravitas of a classic action flick, it’s really worth a watch. The fight scenes are exciting and you almost fear for your own safety a little when the terrorist takeover begins. Apart from a few dodgy lines Olympus Has Fallen makes for an engaging and solid watch – definitely one for the boys though.
Red Carpet Video Interviews below with stars Gerard Butler & Aaron Eckhart and the European premiere in London: