Do you like thrillers featuring hot, naked Australian girls? Who doesn’t! Well, you are all in luck because the Aussie crime drama Swerve arrived on DVD and Blu-ray March 18 , and we’re giving away five Blu-ray copies to lucky skin fans! While driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin ( David Lyons, TV’s Revolution, Eat Pray Love) witnesses a two-car crash that leaves one driver decapitated. The good-hearted Colin pulls a beautiful and mysterious young woman, Jina ( Emma Booth , Parker , The Boys Are Bac k), from the wreckage, along with a suitcase full of money. But soon, he becomes entangled with a crooked local cop ( Jason Clarke , Zero Dark Thirty, The Great Gatsby) – who happens to be the very jealous husband of Jina – as well a murderous thug ( Travis McMahon , Cactus) who is after the cash. The suspense and action build in this gripping thriller set in the breathtaking but unforgiving Australian outback. More after the jump!
A new trailer for The Great Gatsby has hit the web. Let’s see if it has all the ingredients of a Baz Luhrmman joint: Hot, youthful actors with well-defined jaws? Check. Eye-popping colors? Check. Settings suitable for an Architectural Digest cover story, even when they depict abject poverty? Check. Iconic period-piece story juxtaposed with hot-right-now soundtrack? Check. Multiple scenes of operatic emotional outbursts? CHECK! Luhrmann may make cool films, but his cinematic world runs hot. So, it’s amusing — but not surprising — to see that there is quite a bit of screaming going on in this new clip, which you can watch in its entirety at the end of the post. The first example can be found at the 35-second mark when Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jay Gatsby reacts rather emotionally to Joel Edgerton’s needling. (He plays Tom Buchanan.) From there, it’s a glimpse of the hell of war, as seen once more through the gaping mouth of DiCaprio: Next comes a shot of Tobey Maguire all dressed up and looking like he’s auditioning for the part of the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man . A little later, we get Jason Clarke , who was so damn good in Zero Dark Thirty , pulling off a complex running-and-screaming combo. And then it’s back to Maguire for what looks like a five-vein meltdown…. Put those all together and you get this:
Haters are gonna hate on Baz Luhrmann and his anachronistic, super Baz Luhrmann-y big screen version of The Great Gatsby , but if I’m being honest it had me at the first trailer’s reveal of Leonardo DiCaprio ‘s Gatsby, dripping wet, staring bewildered lust-daggers of passion at Carey Mulligan ‘s Daisy Buchanan*. Now we’ve got a second full trailer full of art deco razzle dazzle and brooding glances and Frank Ocean to pore over, so just go with it and let the Bazziness of it all wash over you like the bombastic lit-pop mashup that it is. Because, let’s be real: It’s been years since we’ve seen DiCaprio smolder as a bona fide romantic figure. After melting hearts as Jack Dawson in Titanic he spent the ensuing decade and a half running away from his teen idol past, with entirely respectable results. Now that he’s a man who, to borrow from an episode of GIRLS , looks like he knows how to do things, it’s a whole new ballgame for DiCaprio watchers — and a whole hell of a lot gentler a rich good-time dandy than Leo’s current awards season character, Django Unchained ‘s Calvin Candie. So why not just give over to the madness? Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton in the cast means there’s a Zero Dark Thirty – Great Gatsby multiverse of crossover fanfic possibilities, and Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan plays Meyer Wolfsheim. I’ll say that again: Amitabh freaking Bachchan plays F. Scott Fitzgerald’s shady Jewish businessman from New York, which is just about as random and crazy an idea as casting Pete Postlethwaite as a drug-pushing man of the cloth, and we all know that was just pure awesome. *You know the shot I’m talking about. BOOM : [via Apple ] The Great Gatsby hits theaters May 10, 2013. PREVIOUSLY: The Great Gatsby Trailer: Leo + Baz, Together Again Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
“Can I be honest with you? I’m bad news. I’m not your friend. I’m not going to help you – I’m going to break you. Any questions?” are the haunting words that open the latest Zero Dark Thirty trailer spoken by actor Jason Clarke who plays Dan, a CIA interrogator. [ Related: Oscar Index: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Caught In The Cross-Hairs ] His character is at the center of a mini-controversy that broke this week by critics of the film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow who say it justifies the U.S.’s use of water-boarding and other “enhanced interrogation” techniques — considered torture by many &mdash’ as useful tools in the eventual successful hunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The trailer depicts the worldwide hunt from the boardrooms of the CIA in Washington, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and eventually Afghanistan and Pakistan. Jessica Chastain, who has received multiple critics awards and nominations so far, including a Golden Globe nomination yesterday , is the secret operative at the center of the hunt. The trailer hints at the slick telling of the story and ends with what sounds like a child’s choir singing a haunting version of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters.” [ Related: Should Torture Controversy Blindside ‘Zero Dark Thirty’? ] Zero Dark Thirty Synopsis: For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar-winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal ( The Hurt Locker ) for the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man.
Jessica Chastain is riding a huge wave of Best Actress buzz this week for Katherine Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty , but let’s not forget the memorable impression she made earlier this year as a bootlegger’s moll in John Hillcoat’s brutal period drama Lawless . See Chastain, Shia LaBeouf , Tom Hardy , and the Lawless gang channel Depression-era chic in Movieline’s exclusive set of never-before-released photos from the Lawless set. I’m particularly enamored of this shot of Chastain as Maggie, the city girl with a past laying low with the Bondurant brothers, posing Bonnie Parker-style LIKE A BOSS. Head here for high-res versions of our exclusive Lawless set photos . Although these Lawless are only available here, the film hits DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday (November 27) with featurettes, audio commentary with director John Hillcoat and author (and Bondurant descendant) Matt Bondurant, deleted scenes and more. They were brothers who became outlaws, and outlaws who became heroes…The three Bondurant boys (Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke), along with their sultry new hire (Jessica Chastain), command the most lucrative bootlegging operation in Franklin County, Virginia. The locals consider them “indestructible.” But the law – in the form of a corrupt special deputy (Guy Pearce) – wants a cut of their action, at any cost. When youngest brother Jack (LaBeouf) gets a taste of power with a deadly gangster (Gary Oldman), the whole business blows sky high. Based on the astonishing true story, the Bondurant brotherhood is the stuff of legend. READ MORE ON LAWLESS AT MOVIELINE ! Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
It had its big debut in Cannes in May and its U.S. release at the end of August. Now John Hillcoat ‘s Lawless is headed to Blu-ray and DVD. Based on Matt Bondurant’s novel The Wettest County in the World , the film stars Shia LaBeouf ( Disturbia ), Tom Hardy ( The Dark Knight Rises ), Academy Award-nominee Gary Oldman ( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ), Mia Wasikowska ( Alice in Wonderland ), Academy Award-nominee Jessica Chastain ( The Help ) and Emmy winner Guy Pearce ( The King’s Speech ). The Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD will include special features. Hitting retail on November 27th, special features include an audio commentary from director John Hillcoat and author Matt Dondurant. It will also have two featurettes: The True Story of the Wettest County in the World and Franklin County, VA: Then and Now . Willie Nelson’s Midnight Run music video is also a part of the nifty additions. Commenting on the film in Cannes last May, John Hillcoat noted : “There are a lot of parallels to today with the economic crisis, today’s Mexican cartels, heroin in New York, crack and cocaine in the ’80s and the war on drugs. All this feeds back to Prohibition in the ’30s.” Lawless opened with just over $10 million in its opening weekend theatrical release in late August, and has taken in over $36.27 million through last weekend. Official logline : They were brothers who became outlaws, and outlaws who became heroes…The three Bondurant boys (Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke), along with their sultry new hire (Jessica Chastain), command the most lucrative bootlegging operation in Franklin County, Virginia. The locals consider them “indestructible.” But the law – in the form of a corrupt special deputy (Guy Pearce) – wants a cut of their action, at any cost. When youngest brother Jack (LaBeouf) gets a taste of power with a deadly gangster (Gary Oldman), the whole business blows sky high. Based on the astonishing true story, the Bondurant brotherhood is the stuff of legend.
