TV Magazine’s Film Guide #3

Did you pick up your copy of TV Magazine Issue #3? If so, we hope you’re enjoying it!

As usual, here’s our audio-visual companion to the Film Guide. Feast your eyes on these very exciting trailers, book your tickets for the films*, and of course, look out for Issue #4 of TV Magazine on June 29!

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Entourage

Vince Chase and the boys are back, four years on from the award-winning HBO series. This time Vince is about to direct his first film, with his own celebrity entourage in tow.

Release Date: 19.06.15
Certificate: ​15
Budget: $30 million
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Connolly, Mark Wahlberg, Liam Neeson, Jessica Alba, Armie Hammer, Billy Bob Thornton

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Mr Holmes

​​As if there weren’t enough ​Sherlock​-themed entertainment around already, this film sees the iconic detective in much later life, as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.

Release Date: 19.06.15
Certificate: PG
Starring: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hattie Morahan, Hiroyuki Sanada

Did you know? Director Bill Condon previously directed ​The Fifth Estate (2013), which starred Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Ian McKellen, who has starred as X-Men‘s Magneto, is the second actor from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to portray Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey Jr., who played Holmes in the 2009 and 2011 films, stars as Tony Stark/Iron Man. Benedict Cumberbatch will also soon join the MCU, as Doctor Strange.

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​Slow West

​Set in 1800s Colorado, a bounty hunter keeps his true motives hidden from a Scottish teenager searching for his beloved, whom he has offered to serve as a bodyguard and guide. Dramatic ​​Winner of the Sundance Institute’s World Cinema Jury Prize.

Release Date: 26.06.15
Certificate: ​15
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Caren Pistorious

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Knock Knock

​Hostel ​director Eli Roth is back with a new dose of horror, centring on a pair of stranded femme fatales who wreak havoc on the life of a happily married architect.

Release Date: 26.06.15
Certificate: TBC
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas

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Minions (3D)

​The little yellow organisms that took the world by storm in the ​Despicable Me ​franchise have finally got their own feature. However, without a master to grovel for, the Minions fall into a deep depression which leads them to a super-villainess.

Release Date: 26.06.15
Certificate: TBC
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud

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Don’t forget to grab Issue #4 of TV on 29.06.15 for your guide to the next fortnight’s box office picks!

*Certifications and release dates based on UK information.