8 Out & About MADMAX: FURY


ROAD (15) IMPERATORFuriosa (Char- lize Theron) is the enig- matic driver of a mighty 18-wheeler mobile war rig. She reports to Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), despotic leader of the Cita- del, who is propagating the species in his cruel image using The Wives. Furiosa kidnaps The Wives and flees across the Wasteland with Immortan Joe and his army in hot pursuit. Among the chasing horde is Nux (Nich- olas Hoult), who believes that death in battle will grant him entry to the war- rior paradise of Valhalla. As Nux puts the pedal to the metal, his poisoned blood is replenished by a living do- nor, Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), strapped to the front of the hot rod. During the chase, Max breaks free from Nux and begrudgingly helps Furiosa and The Wives to evade Immortan Joe’s clutches. Rating: Five stars


PITCH PERFECT 2 (12A) THREE years after all-fe- male group the Barden Bel- las triumphed in the Inter- national Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, the girls perform for President Obama and his wife. Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) suffers a wardrobe malfunction .Commentators John Smith (John Michael Higgins) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden (Elizabeth Banks) cast the Bellas into the wilderness and mock Beca (Anna Ken- drick) when she claims they can become the first Ameri- can group to win the World A Cappella Championships. However, the path to glory


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CINEMAWORLD


every decade. On New Year’s Eve, almost 80 years after the fateful accident, Adaline meets handsome San Francis- co philanthropist, Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman). He woos Adaline and persuades her to accompany him to his par- ents’ 40th wedding anniver- sary party. She walks into the Jones homestead and comes face to face with Ellis’ father William (Harrison Ford), who takes one look at his son’s sweetheart and gasps: “Ada- line!” He is her long-lost beau from the 1960s, whom she abandoned without explana- tion. Adaline is distraught. The Age Of Adaline gently plucks heartstrings as the time-defying


protagonist


struggles to let Ellis into her unedifying existence. Rating: Three stars


BIG SCREEN ACTION: Tom Hardy as Mad Max


in Copenhagen is blocked by well-drilled reigning champi- ons, Das Sound Machine, led by the statuesque Kommissar (Birgitte Hjort Sorensen) and her right-hand herr Pieter (Flula Borg). Rating: Four stars


A ROYAL NIGHT OUT


(12A) THE film opens with archive footage of Winston Churchill


announcing the end of the conflict with Germany. Jubi- lant crowds gather outside Buckingham Palace where King George VI (Rupert Ev- erett) is preparing a radio address with encouragement from Queen Elizabeth (Emily Watson). Their daughters, Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and Princess Mar- garet (Bel Powley), yearn to celebrate with the people but the Queen is resistant. Prin-


THE ultimate, jaw-drop- ping circus experience is coming to Cardiff as Pi- rates of the Carabina pre- sent Flown, which takes St David’s Hall by storm for six stunning shows from May 27-30. Featuring astounding acrobats and spectacular stunts, this award-winning show guarantees family fun and entertainment for people of all ages. Flown is a vibrant roll- ercoaster ride mixing comedy with chaos as a motley crew of incredible aerialists, stuntmen and musicians set out to get this showon the road. But not all goes to plan. Along the way things go wrong with disagreements, fear and exhaustion threat- ening to sabotage the spec- tacle. Catastrophe is just


Death-defying acts Competition


one minor movement away on a night of extreme ex- citement that promises to keep a captivated audience on the edge of their seats. Yet, never before has so much going wrong felt so right… Welcome to the world of


the unexpected. You won’t believe the action unfold- ing before your eyes with a stage crammed full of everything from spinning wheels and somersaults to tightropes and tension as the cast cling onto each other for their lives. Plus, it’s all driven by a sensational soundscape as drummers dangle from ropes and gliding guitar- ists reel off riffs from the rafters. As well as amazing


cess Elizabeth persuades her father to let them venture out for one night and the girls ex- citedly don their frocks, only to discover that their mother has arranged for two soldiers, Captain Pryce (Jack Laskey) and Lieutenant Burridge (Jack Gordon), to chaperone them at all times. By chance, the princesses elude their es- corts and head out into Lon- don on their own. Rating: Three stars


THE AGE OF ADALINE


(12A) IN 1937, Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) is the victim of a freak accident, which con- demns her to remain 29 years old. Her daughter Flemming (Cate Richardson) grows up, forcing Adaline to dodge un- comfortable questions about her glowing appearance. She resolves to live alone and to change her identity and home


TOP FIVE (15) CHRIS Rock directs himself as Andre Allen, star of the hugely successful Hammy The Bear film franchise in which he plays a cop in an animal suit with the catch- phrase, “It’s Hammy time!” Audiences and the film stu- dios are hungry for another instalment but Andre is at- tempting to reinvent him- self by headlining a serious drama entitled Uprize. Pro- motional duties for Uprize coincide with Andre’s forth- coming wedding to reality TV star EricaLong(Gabrielle Un- ion) so naturally, cameras are tracking their every move. So too is reporter Chelsea Brown (Rosario Dawson), who has been granted a rare audience with Andre. Top Five is snap- pily scripted by Rock, who generously distributes the best lines and in-jokes among his ensemble cast. Rating: Four stars


athleticism and marvel- lous music, this show also offers a feast of funniness and self-mockery with its tongue firmly in cheek. So it’s no surprise that


Flown won a Total Theatre Award for Best Showin the Physical / Visual Theatre category at the 2013 Edin- burgh Fringe Festival. To book your seats, please


visit stdavidshallcardiff. co.uk or call the Box Office on 029 2087 8444. Tickets for the opening night on Wednesday, May 27, are £10. We have a fam- ily and friends ticket up for grabs, so for a chance of winning, just tell us which award Flown won in 2013. Send entries to SDHpress@ cardiff.gov.uk. Terms and conditions at southwale sargus.co.uk/competit ions. Closing date: May 22.


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