Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - coming soon

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa











Cast
Credited cast:
Idris Elba     ...Nelson Mandela
Naomie Harris     ... Winnie Mandela
Tony Kgoroge     ... Walter Sisulu
Riaad Moosa     ... Ahmed Kathrada
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Rush

Those who have seen the trailer will know that Rush is the "cinema Formula 1" . The presence of Ron Howard and Chris Hemsworth names above the title may put some bums on seats , but the fact that it is a film about motor racing certainly ostracize some potential viewers .
So stop there. Fever is not a movie about racing speed fans than the Titanic was sailing merchant seamen . Rush is a great shot, edited and directed the film made ​​that transcends the sport of auto racing, as well as the main protagonists themselves made almost forty years ago .
The rivalry between F1 drivers James Hunt ( Hemsworth ) and Niki Lauda ( Daniel Brühl ) is common knowledge. Just a couple of minutes drive of gifts Google tells you how many championships won every driver, how they met, how they trained , how they lived and (almost ) dead ... Fever is not a film that tells his story. Rush is the film that takes you into his world and shows how the story unfolded in all its fast , crazy, wild , dazzling cynical, too , fearless. At the end you may still not want to be an F1 driver or even see a great prize, but sure would like to have been there for at least part of the 70 .

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Lee Daniels' The Butler

Butler begins as a fascinating personal biopic about a man that many people have never heard of, but soon finds himself lost between growing political program , with nothing interesting as far as history is concerned. It plays like a TV movie lame, and probably would have been much more interesting as a miniseries .Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker ) is a White House butler who served under eight presidents of the United States. The film sheds light on their history, their family problems and his involvement in the Civil Rights Act .The major flaw of this film is that its protagonist is not really that interesting. It's great that worked for many presidents , in such an important moment in the history of our country , but there really much more to him than that. The family members are much more interesting , with his wife Gloria ( Oprah Winfrey ) being a lazy alcoholic who changed her life as she grew up, and his son Louis ( David Oyelowo ) who helped fight in the civil rights movement . Make it a point from the beginning that Cecil is not a political person , and tried to get away as he could to not cause any problems . This means that it spends most of the film just to see other people argue politics.

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