The Labour Day holiday is almost upon us, which for many means an extended weekend of leisurely pursuits. During the May Day weekend, cinemas across China will be screening a number of newly released Chinese and foreign films. We’ve rounded up four of the most talked about new releases showing in theatres across the Middle Kingdom this weekend, so get ready to sit back with a bucket of popcorn and let the visual feast begin…
1) Rio
Release date: April 8
Rio is a 3–D animation feature from the makers of the Ice Age films. Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy–adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind. When Blu discovers there’s another – and that it’s a "she" – he leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio. But it‘s far from love at first sight between the domesticated, flight challenged Blu and the fiercely independent, high–flying female, Jewel. Unexpectedly thrown together, they embark on an adventure of a lifetime, where they learn about friendship, love, courage and being open to life‘s many wonders.
The film is directed by Carlos Saldanha and stars Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway.
2) The Lost Bladesman (关云长)
Release date: April 26
The Lost Bladesman is a biopic based on the real life story of a famous Chinese general, Guan Yu, also known as Guan Yunchang. It tells the story of when Guan Yu tries to escape from warlord Cao Cao's territory to rejoin Liu Bei, another powerful warlord in the Three Kingdoms period.
Donnie Yen stars as Guan Yu and the action director / veteran Chinese actor, Jiang Wen, acts as Cao Cao, a famous politician and military strategist in Chinese history. Jiang and Yen's collaboration makes the film more highly-anticipated.
Other actors in the cast include: Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Sun Li and Wang Xuebing.
The film will be screened in Chinese with English subtitles.
3) The Next Three Days
Release date: April 29
The Next Three Days is a 2010 thriller film directed by Paul Haggis and starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks. It is a remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle (Anything for Her) by Fred Cavayé.
Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son Luke (Ty Simpkins) and teaching at community college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking ever for the woman he loves.
4) The Eagle
Release date: April 29
The Eagle is a 2011 Roman epic film directed by Kevin Macdonald, starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland. Jeremy Brock has adapted the screenplay from Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954).
In 2nd-Century Britain, two men – master and slave – venture beyond the edge of the known world on a dangerous and obsessive quest that will push them beyond the boundaries of loyalty and betrayal, friendship and hatred, deceit and heroism…
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The royal family are parasites and the concept of a monarchy is inherently ridiculous.
BUT the British royal family is one of the few links we Anglo-Saxons have to our past that hasn't been washed away in the last 50 years. The royal family are the one constant and unchanging element in a world of constant flux and eradication of our ancient heritage.
And frankly, the current system with a monarch as (a powerless) head of state (or his/her representative in the Dominions) works quite well. Would you really want to replace the monarch with some rambling, slime politician as our figurehead leader? Certainly we would lose a little class, a little prestige, a litle more sanity.
God save the Queen!
Apr 29, 2011 05:38 Report Abuse
Do you people know anything about the monarchy? Obviously not! The queen and royal family give the nation of England a sense of identity. The UK's identity has all but been wiped clean and most of it's citizens don't really know what it is to be British. The queen is the one thing that reminds us of who we are and where we've come from.
Aside from this she acts as a critical overseer of the government the judiciary and the church. She controls the army she has the power to declare war on another country, not the prime minister. She signs and approves statutes of parliament she has her face on our currency and is the reason why many tourists come to England in the first place.
The English stereotype is the 'gentelman' and the graceful lady. Where the fuck do you think this notion comes from? Without this we would be the other seemingly prevailing stereotype, a bunch of savage hooligans and pussy popering slutty hags.
Further more England has few causes for celebration. We are in the SHIT to put it mildly, the economy is in ruins, the financial system fucked...this country needs a moral booster other than 'going to the pub for a pint' getting fucking wasted and then spending the next three days complaining about your hurting head and bragging about how much your drank.
As for the colonies such as australia don't be so fucking ungrateful. Would you rather work than have a day off? You would not be where you are without the monarchy, show some respect for your roots. In the cities your culture is hard to disentangle from that of the british...you drink possibly more are perhaps more racist and closed minded and maybe a little more laid back...but essentially you came from Britain with all your baggage and you cannot escape that fact however much you want to.
what is wrong with William and Kate? People like them I think that's great! Maybe your are just jealous for not having found yourself a prince or a princess...do your research before complaining about things you know nothing about!
Apr 29, 2011 00:34 Report Abuse
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