This film news update is aaaall about one of my very favourite actors/faces, Chris Hemsworth!
Hemsworth fans have two upcoming performances to look forward to. One very typical of Chris, "Red Dawn", and one something quite different, "Rush".
"Red Dawn" stars Hemsworth as a US marine forced to protect his country as it is invaded and taken over by North Korean soldiers. A remake of the 1984 film of the same name which starred Patrick Swayze (and in which the enemy were Soviet troops, as would be expected in a 1980s American flick), this looks to basically be an American propaganda piece in which (the Australian) Hemsworth spouts a lot of lines about freedom and justice and American nobility, aka "America, fuck yeah"! However, the casting means I will definitely be watching this movie, not only Hemsworth, but I am also starting to develop a bit of a girl crush on "Transformers 2"'s Isabel Luca (another Aussie).
"Rush" is the new film by Ron Howard. It is a biopic of Formula 1 racer, Niki Lauda, played by Daniel Bruhl, and focuses on his rivalry with fellow driver, James Hunt (Hemsworth). Not my kind of film generally (Formula 1 bores me to tears), but I may have to make an exception here as it stars Hemsworth and Bruhl, another favourite of mine (he is German after all).
Also, for fans of the other Hemsworth, aka Liam, aka Gethin Jones #2, "The Expendables 2" out next Thursday stars the young "Hunger Games" actor as a bit of youth amongst the old fogies which dominate the film.
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