8 Out & About Event to get people reading


ON APRIL 23 – UNESCO international day of the book and Shakespeare’s birthday – 250,000 books of 20-specially printed World Book Night titles will be given out around the UK, focusing on reaching the 35 per cent of people who don’t read for pleasure. Since it began in 2011,


World Book Night has created an extraordinary


group of 56,000 volunteers, giving books away to over 2.25 million people. Over 260 book lovers from


Wales have successfully applied to be World Book Night volunteers this year. Almost 90 institutions in Wales will also be taking part, including hospitals, prisons, care-homes and homeless shelters. This year’s list sees a sen-


sational and diverse line up designed to bring read- ing and books into people’s lives. Join the team at Penarth Library on April 22 for a World Book Night Teen Game Night, for ages 14 and over. Tickets are just £1 on the door. Follow the event on Twit-


ter @worldbooknight or worldbooknight.org.


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CINEMAWORLD


DRAMA: Xavier Atkins stars as Young Leo Demidov in Summit Entertainment’s Child 44. Photo: Larry Horricks


CHILD 44 (15) WAR-HARDENED soldier Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) is the man wielding the stand- ard, cheered on by best friend Alexei Andreyev (Fares Fares), while cowardly comrade Vasi- li Nikitin (Joel Kinnaman) watches enviously from the sidelines.


Fast-forward eight years and these three men are working side-by-side as Moscow’s secret police under the aegis of Major Kuzmin (Vincent Cassel). Alexei’s young son dies on


the train tracks in suspicious circumstances and the griev- ing father becomes convinced that a murderer is on the loose. When Leo investigates,


Kuzmin shoots him down: “Sta- lin tells us murder is strictly a capitalist disease.” Soon after, Leo’s wife Raisa (Noomi Rapace) is branded a traitor but the policeman re- fuses to disown her and they are banished to the bleak in- dustrial town of Voualsk. Leo is determined to unmask


the boy’s murderer and joins forces with local lawmaker General Nesterov (Gary Old- man) to disprove Stalin’s asser- tion that there can be no mur- der in paradise. Meanwhile, the unlikely cul-


prit, a factory worker called Vladimir (Paddy Considine), hunts more unsuspecting vic- tims with impunity. Based on the real-life case of Andrei Chikatilo, the so-called Butcher of Rostov, who was sentenced to death for 52 mur- ders, Child 44 is a slow burn that gets bogged down in expo- sition.


Rating: Three stars


A LITTLE CHAOS (12A) The director makes his mark in front of the camera as King Lou- is XIV, who has hired renowned landscape gardener Andre Le Notre (Schoenaerts) to transform the grounds of Versailles into a fantasia “of exquisite and match- less beauty”. It is a Herculean task, so Le No-


tre hires fellow landscapers to oversee different sections of the garden. Sabine De Barra (Winslet) catches his eye. She flouts rigid form and pre-


fers a more haphazard approach to her planting. The arrival of Sabine in the


court sets tongues wagging – “You are no one where everybody is someone,” a chaperone tells her – and incurs the wrath of Andre’s jealous wife, Madame Le Notre (Helen McCrory). Fellow labourers including Moulin (Danny Webb) rush to support Sabine in her epic under- taking and the gardener wins the approval of the king’s mistress Madame De Montespan (Jennifer Ehle) by challenging the mon- arch’s description of women in his court as faded and overblown roses.


Rating: Three stars


THE SALVATION(15) Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) settles on the outskirts of the godforsaken town of Black Creek, where he establishes a homestead. His wife Marie (Nanna Oland Fabricius) and young son Krest- en (Toke Lars Bjarke) follow some years later but the tearful family reunion culminates in the rape and slaughter of mother and child. Consumed by grief, Jon hunts


down and slays those responsible but one of the assailants turns out to be the brother of sadistic local land baron, Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Black Creek’s mayor (Jonathan


Pryce) and weak-willed sheriff (Douglas Henshall) cower when Delarue swaggers into town with his right-hand man Corsican (Eric Cantona) to demand retribution for his brother’s death. Delarue makes good on his prom-


ise in order to impress his broth- er’s mute widow (Eva Green) and the townsfolk respond by betray- ing Jon.


Thankful-


ly, the Dane has a sharp- shooting brother, Pe- ter (Mikael Persbrandt), to stage a daring res- cue from the jaws of death.


Embel - lished with a strident orches- tral score composed by Kasper Wi ndin g, The Salva- tion dazzles many of our senses.


Ratin g: Three stars


Cinema


Whiplash(15) 1hrs 37 mins


Monday 20,Tuesday21 7.45pm, Wednesday22 April1pm &7.45pm


1hrs 55 mins


Wild (15)


Monday 27,Tuesday 28, Wednesday29 April7.45pm


£5.50, reductions £5.00


or book four films in one booking and see them all forjust£16!


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