As Hitler’s army nears the United Kingdom, it is up to Winston Churchill to decide between negotiating peace or fighting against impossible odds inDarkest Hour,which arrivedon Digital February 6, 2018 and Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand February 27, 2018, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. With outstanding filmmaker pedigree, Darkest Hour is directed by BAFTA Award winner Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), written by Academy Award nominee Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything) and stars Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman (Harry Potter, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) in his 2018 Golden Globe Award winning role. The critically acclaimed Darkest Hour received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Production Design.
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Darkest Hour on Blu-ray™ and DVD comes with a feature commentary from Director Joe Wright and two exclusive behind-the-scenes featurettes that show Oldman’s extraordinary transformation into Churchill and gives an inside look at the making of this incredible film.
Academy Award® nominee Gary Oldman gives a “towering performance” (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright’s soaring drama Darkest Hour. As Hitler’s forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister. With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Mendelsohn) skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen. Also starring Academy Award® nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (Tomb Raider, The English Patient, Only God Forgives) and Lily James (Baby Driver, Cinderella), Darkest Hour is a powerful, inspirational drama.
BLU-RAY™, DVD & DIGITAL BONUS FEATURES:
Into Darkest Hour – A comprehensive overview of all that went into making this epic wartime drama, including how they maintained authenticity in depicting 1940’s London.
Gary Oldman: Becoming Churchill – Filmmakers, cast, and crew marvel at Gary Oldman’s layered, transformative performance. Oldman himself weighs in on the greatest challenges of portraying a man as iconic and complicated as Winston Churchill.
“I’ll never look like Barbie. Barbie doesn’t have bruises.”
SID AND NANCY (1986) screens Wednesday, February 7th at 8pm at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series. Admission is $5
SID AND NANCY, the powerful and mesmerizing biopic centred around the life and times, and general demise and downward spiral of The Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his drug-addicted American girlfriend Nancy Spungen is nothing short of harrowing and moving in equal measure. This is thanks in part to both the directorial eye of Alex Cox, and the performances of the two leads Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Oldman portrays Vicious as he apparently really was, a moody young man who was easily led, as is portrayed in the movie. Chloe Webb is equally as good, portraying Nancy as a volatile and often loose cannon on even more of a self-destructive mission than Sid. According to former members of the Pistols, she was the defining influence on Sid and was said to have introduced him to the class A drugs that eventually would lead to his death. This film is accurate to the times and events, and the scenes depicted here are based upon true memoirs. SID AND NANCY is primarily the story about the couple, with the Sex Pistols more in the background. There are excellent supporting performances, in particular from Andrew Schofield as lead singer Johnny Rotten, sneering out the words to ‘Anarchy in the U.K’, and a memorable scene along the Thames where the band performed ‘God Save The Queen’. A particular highlight is Sid Vicious’s bizarre rendition of Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’, performed almost identically by Gary Oldman to that of the real video. Don’t miss SID AND NANCY next week at Schlafly Bottleworks.
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Directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten, DARKEST HOUR stars Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, and Ben Mendelsohn.
During the early days of World War II, with the fall of France imminent, Britain faces its darkest hour as the threat of invasion looms. As the seemingly unstoppable Nazi forces advance, and with the Allied army cornered on the beaches of Dunkirk, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the leadership of the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman).
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While maneuvering his political rivals, he must confront the ultimate choice: negotiate with Hitler and save the British people at a terrible cost or rally the nation and fight on against incredible odds.
Directed by Joe Wright, DARKEST HOUR is the dramatic and inspiring story of four weeks in 1940 during which Churchill’s courage to lead changed the course of world history.
Gary Oldman gives an amazing performance as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright DARKEST HOUR, a riveting drama about Churchill and the earliest darkest days of World War II, as Britain faced the crisis of Dunkirk and invasion by Hitler loomed. The film is an admirable work, a mix of historical drama and biopic, but it is Oldman’s remarkable Oscar-worthy performance that is generating the most attention.
DARKEST HOUR offers more than Gary Oldman’s sterling, stirring performance. It is also a wonderful companion to a couple of other WWII films released this year, DUNKIRK and the less-seen THEIR FINEST HOUR, both set around he same time in Britain. Combined with director Joe Wright’s earlier film ATONEMENT, which contains a riveting depiction of a soldier’s experience pinned down at Dunkirk, these films create a surprisingly rounded picture of an event and time that still resonates, particularly for Brits.
Of the several films about Winston Churchill this year, DARKEST HOUR is by far the best, not only thanks to Oldman but to a well-written script and strong direction. Director Joe Wright has shown great skill in other period films, such as PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and ATONEMENT, and puts those skills to good use here. The film also sports a strong supporting cast and wonderful evocative visual style.
We first see Churchill in typical working mode, in bed having a breakfast that includes whiskey and a cigar, dictating letters to politicians and bullying yet another new young secretary In this case, it is Miss Layton, played by Lily James, who bears the brunt, and the experience nearly leads her to quit her first day. But the situation is saved by Winston’s long-suffering wife Clemmie (the excellent Kristen Scott Thomas), who soothes her and scolds him.
It is 1940, the Nazis are poised to invade Belgium and France is on the brink, the British Parliament has lost confidence in the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup). To gain the support of the opposition, the ruling party must call on an old warhorse, Winston Churchill (Oldman). At 65, the hard-drinking, cigar-smoking rotund politician seems an unlikely pick for leader, and not even King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) is comfortable with the choice. Churchill, on the other hand, seems to have expected it, and springs into action.
While outgoing prime minister Chamberlain councils peace and wants to negotiate with Hitler, Churchill only talks of war. He knows there is no negotiating with Hitler.
The film evokes the time period brilliantly. Visually, scenes are all in desaturated color, leaning to warm sepia tones. Slanting light filters through smokey interiors and gray exteriors. Faces are half-lit or heavily shadowed, lending an air of classic mystery. The murky look reflects the murky situation in which Britain finds itself in the war.
The film is both atmospheric and intimate, taut with tension. It focuses on showing Churchill’s skill as a speechwriter and inspiring orator. Oldman portrays him as a man of great self-confidence, and a bulldog of determination and unreasoning optimism. The combination inspired the British public but worried his politicians at home and leaders of allied countries, some of whom called him delusional or drunken.
But to lead the British people, Churchill at first misleads them about the situation, painting a hopeful picture when things are actually very grim. So grim that the German’s have driven the bulk of British forces back to Dunkirk, where they are trapped with their backs to the sea. The only nearby troops are at Calais, also in dire conditions.
Dunkirk remains a backdrop to this story, which focuses on Churchill himself, which is why this film dovetails so nicely with the earlier two films, DUNKIRK and THEIR FINEST, both of which highlight the role civilians played in rescuing soldiers. In DARKEST HOURS, the battlefield situation is often portrayed in aerial views, showing bombed landscapes and smashed buildings, while leaders strategize in the underground war room.
Audiences are so used to seeing Gary Oldman in roles playing Americans that they may forget the actor is British. Oldman likely relished the chance to play Churchill, Britain’s great wartime leader. Oldman actually looks nothing like Churchill, yet with the help of makeup, completely disappears into the part and is astonishing convincing. He captures the posture, the pattern of speech, familiar from old recordings, Oldman’s Churchill talks incessantly and insistently, saying to an adversary in one scene, “Stop interrupting me while I’m interrupting you.” In another, he shows one of his famous bursts of temper, shouting “You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth,” as he rejects negotiating peace with Hitler.
Churchill’s political adversaries in this struggle are the outgoing prime minister Neville Chamberlain and his supporter Viscount Hallifax (Stephen Dillane). Hallifax declined the office but is helping maneuver Churchill out of it, so Chamberlain can resume his former role.
The dialog is sparkling, with witty quips sprinkled into discussions that reveal the historical situation, the war abroad and political maneuvering at home, and Churchill’s personal life. Scriptwriter Anthony McCarten built his screenplay around three of Churchill’s speeches, culminating with the famous rallying cry “we will never surrender.” McCarten thoroughly researched the man and the events, drawing on the minutes of Churchill’s War Cabinet meetings. The notes revealed moments of doubt or uncertainty unexpected given his confident public image. Privately, Churchill recalled mistakes of the past, and was particularly haunted by World War I and Gallipoli.
Oldman’s Churchill is often bullying, a man of such strong will that even the King admits to being frightened of him, then he surprises us with his sharp sense of humor and sudden kindness, illustrated in a touching scene where his young secretary talks about her soldier brother. Lilly James is perfect in her role, a young woman who at first seems ready to bolt from her challenging job and the later coming to understand and admire the complex, difficult man for whom she works.
Kristen Scott Thomas is simply wonderful as Clemmie Churchill, the only one unafraid of Winston, and the only one able to rally her husband in his private moments of doubt. Her scenes with Oldman are highlights of the film, filled sharp wit and conflict, as well as warmth and romance.
The rest of the cast is good as well, particularly Samuel West as Churchill’s loyal assistant, Sir Anthony Eden and Mendelsohn as the king.
Overall, the film is masterfully crafted, creating character and building tension with a sure hand. The film’s one stumble is an awkward, unconvincing scene in which Churchill makes the far-fetched decision to take the London subway, the Tube, to discuss with ordinary citizens the possibility of peace negotiations with Hitler. While Churchill really did sometimes sneak out to talk to ordinary citizens to get a sense of public opinion, this fictional scene just does not play as real.
DARKEST HOUR is an excellent historical film, one that perfectly captures the time period and critical point in history time, and creates a portrait of a great man at his finest hour, who exemplifies leadership at its best.
Leading an all-star cast, Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, The Proposal) and Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Marvel’s Cinematic Universe) take viewers on an outrageous action-packed, comedic adventure in The Hitman’s Bodyguard, arriving on Digital HD November 7 and 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand November 21 from Lionsgate. When Michael Bryce, an elite bodyguard, and Darius Kincaid, a renowned hit man, are forced to work together, they don’t just have to avoid getting killed…they also have to avoid killing each other. The film, which was #1 at the summer box office three weeks in a row, also stars Oscar nominees Gary Oldman (2011, Best Actor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Salma Hayek (2002, Best Actress, Frida).
Now you can own THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD on Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has 4 copies to give away.All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie co-starring Samuel L. Jackson ? (mine is JACKIE BROWN!). It’s so easy!
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The world’s top protection agent (Reynolds) is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world’s most notorious hit men (Jackson). The relentless bodyguard and manipulative assassin have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years, and are thrown together for a wildly outrageous24 hours. During their raucous and hilarious adventure from England to the Hague, they encounter high-speedcar chases, outlandish boat escapades, and a merciless Eastern European dictator (Oldman) who is out for blood. Hayek joins the mayhem as Jackson’s equally notorious wife.
Directed by Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3, Red Hill) and written by Tom O’Connor (Fire with Fire), The Hitman’s Bodyguard 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Digital HD features exclusive bonus content including outtakes; four featurettes; deleted, extended, and alternate scenes; and audio commentary with director Patrick Hughes. The DVD will include director commentary and a behind-the-scenes featurette. The 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $42.99, $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.
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Leading an all-star cast, Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, The Proposal) and Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Marvel’s Cinematic Universe) take viewers on an outrageous action-packed, comedic adventure in The Hitman’s Bodyguard, arriving on Digital HD November 7 and 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand November 21 from Lionsgate. When Michael Bryce, an elite bodyguard, and Darius Kincaid, a renowned hit man, are forced to work together, they don’t just have to avoid getting killed…they also have to avoid killing each other. The film, which was #1 at the summer box office three weeks in a row, also stars Oscar nominees Gary Oldman (2011, Best Actor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Salma Hayek (2002, Best Actress, Frida).
The world’s top protection agent (Reynolds) is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world’s most notorious hit men (Jackson). The relentless bodyguard and manipulative assassin have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years, and are thrown together for a wildly outrageous24 hours. During their raucous and hilarious adventure from England to the Hague, they encounter high-speedcar chases, outlandish boat escapades, and a merciless Eastern European dictator (Oldman) who is out for blood. Hayek joins the mayhem as Jackson’s equally notorious wife.
Directed by Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3, Red Hill) and written by Tom O’Connor (Fire with Fire), The Hitman’s Bodyguard 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Digital HD features exclusive bonus content including outtakes; four featurettes; deleted, extended, and alternate scenes; and audio commentary with director Patrick Hughes. The DVD will include director commentary and a behind-the-scenes featurette. The 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $42.99, $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.
4K ULTRA HD / BLU-RAY / DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURES
Focus Features will release Darkest Hour in select cities on November 22, 2017
This new trailer looks amazing:
During the early days of World War II, with the fall of France imminent, Britain faces its darkest hour as the threat of invasion looms. As the seemingly unstoppable Nazi forces advance, and with the Allied army cornered on the beaches of Dunkirk, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the leadership of the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman). While maneuvering his political rivals, he must confront the ultimate choice: negotiate with Hitler and save the British people at a terrible cost or rally the nation and fight on against incredible odds. Directed by Joe Wright, DARKEST HOUR is the dramatic and inspiring story of four weeks in 1940 during which Churchill’s courage to lead changed the course of world history.
DARKEST HOUR is directed by Joe Wright and stars Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, and Ben Mendelsohn
Ah, it’s almost that quiet (well quieter) time at the old multiplex, as Summer mayhem winds down and the end-of-the-year award bait anxiously awaits. You know… what with Labor Day here in just a couple of weeks. But what’s that rumbling in the distance? Why, it’s another car-smashin’ action flick, charging in with guns ablazin’! Is it another comics-based thriller, or the exciting newest installment of a spy franchise? No, but it’s pretty familiar, as it’s another adrenalin-fueled fable concerning two really different guys, who’ve got to team up to start a huge threat. And, in the tradition of Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in 48 HOURS and Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in the RUSH HOUR trilogy (oops, maybe another’s on the way), these fellas, besides their personalities, are, well, of different ethnicities. Perhaps this film will start a dialogue and help this divided nation. Aw, come on, it’s not DETROIT. No, it’s two Marvel heroes let loose for some R-rated rampaging in THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD.
The title character is actually Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds), who we first meet at the top of his game, prime of his life really, as the head of a triple A-rated personal security agency. This day that rating is flushed away when his current employer become his late employer. Cut to the present and Michael is still in the biz, though with a far less classy firm, and handling far less classy clients. Next we meet his former girlfriend Amelia (Elodie Yung) who has just been given a top assignment at Interpol. Notorious assassin for hire Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) has been captured. But he’s not off to prison. They need to take him from London to the Hague where he will testify against a vicious former Russian official, the genocidal Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman). So, why is Darius doing this? Civic Duty? Yeah, right! He’s cut a deal, not for himself. He wants to free his incarcerated wife Sonja (Salma Hayek), who’s stuck in a cell in Amsterdam. Of course disaster strikes the Kincaid convoy (there must be a mole at work), and Amelia and Darius barely escape to a “safe house”. Her only choice is to call in a third party, so she dials up her ex, Michael. Though they’ve had violent dust-ups in the past, Michael agrees to get Darius to the big trial. But with Dukovich’s thugs and the compromised Interpol on their heels, can they get there in time, as they said on the old “Odd Couple” TV show, “without driving each other crazy”?
After scoring a huge hit as DEADPOOL, Reynolds gets into a similar groove with his motor-mouth, snarky “hired gun”. And once again, that comic timing serves him well, although it’s tempered with a touch of sadness as Bryce confronts past regrets and assumptions while dodging shrapnel. As does Jackson, who also has the gift of gab, though peppered with many, many “MF-bombs”, in almost a parody of some previous roles (a couple Tarantino ones come immediately to mind). Plus, his hitman becomes almost a “life coach” to Michael prompting him to change his current course. Oh, and his glare still speaks volumes. Another grimace is provided by Oldman, also in a take-off of some previous baddies (he’s his AIR FORCE ONE villain with higher aspirations). Of course, Vlad is pure banal evil hotwired with a swift sadistic streak. Yung, as the lone “good cop” or agent, graduates from her breakout small screen role as Elektra on Netflix’s “Daredevil”, and does a superb job with the underwritten character (after the first 20 minutes she’s regulated to the “woman on the phone” cliché’). Unfortunately Amelia has none of the flash of the sultry, and often scary, Sonja played with fiery energy by the sizzling Salma Hayek. She’s explodes off the screen, real 3D without those glasses, especially in a flashback showing how she met her hubby. No wonder he risks everything to free her, although many might think, “I wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark alley”, while others would hope for such an encounter.
Patrick Hughes, fresh off directing the destruction in THE EXPENDABLES 3, once again choreographs the chaos in this two-fisted European travelogue of mayhem. Oddly, the action becomes more than a touch tedious. The exchanges between the two leads are often engaging, but it’s as if the film makes looked at their time pieces and said ,”Oh, oh. Nearly ten minutes have gone by without another car chase…let’s go, schedule to keep!”. You can only watch a vehicle blasted to bits so many times before the novelty wears very thin. Also, the JOHN WICK-style nastiness (point-blank shots to noggins, throat slitting, etc) dilutes some the high-spirited comedy (guess they wanted to guarantee that R-rating). Oh, and could the Interpol mole be any more obvious (unless they added a facial blemish)? This culminates into an ending that doesn’t know quite when to stop trying to top itself (liked seeing that semi-truck flip in THE DARK KNIGHT, well…). Some of the locales are lovely during a few brief tranquil seconds, until the carnage pummels the viewer into a stupor. Sam and Ryan are a winning team, but they deserve a better, more original story than THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD. And squeeze in a lot more Salma next time, will ya’?
The world’s top protection agent [Ryan Reynolds] is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world’s most notorious hitmen [Samuel L. Jackson]. The relentless bodyguard and manipulative assassin have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years and are thrown together for a wildly outrageous 24 hours.
During their raucous and hilarious adventure from England to the Hague, they encounter high-speed car chases, outlandish boat escapades and a merciless Eastern European dictator [Gary Oldman] who is out for blood. Salma Hayek joins the mayhem as Jackson’s equally notorious wife.
The film will be “hitting” theatres on August 18.
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Surrounding Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson in THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD is an especially crack cast including Oscar® nominees Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek, and rising French star Elodie Yung.
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“Do not let us speak of darker days; let us rather speak of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.” Winston Churchill, 29 October 1941.
If you’re a British history aficionado as well as a film buff, 2017 is your year at the cinemas.
THEIR FINEST, DUNKIRK and now DARKEST HOUR starring Gary Oldman as Sir Winston Churchill have or will be filling the theaters. Check out the brand new trailer for the film below.
Focus Features will release DARKEST HOUR in select cities on November 22, 2017.
Oldman’s look as the statesman is nothing short of amazing!
Here’s a list of the team who designed the hair and makeup:
David Malinowski – personal make-up artist Gary Oldman / prosthetic makeup supervisor: Gary Oldman
Lucy Sibbick – Prosthetic make up and hair artist to Gary Oldman / prosthetic makeup and hair artist: Gary Oldman
Kazuhiro Tsuji – prosthetic makeup and hair designer: Gary Oldman
Heather Manson – hair and makeup artist
Flora Moody – key makeup artist key hair stylist
Ivana Primorac – hair designer / makeup designer
Figure the film to loom large over the upcoming awards season and in all categories. DARKEST HOUR is a film that should definitely be on your radar for Oscars 2018.
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman) must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation.
As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.
The film also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, and Ben Mendelsohn.
