Movies

Jamie Dornan does not think 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is anti-feminist.
The 32-year-old actor stars as Christian Grey in the eagerly-awaited film adaptation of the best-selling novel by E. L. James and has claimed the film's love story is just as important as the erotic aspects of the script.
He told ELLE UK magazine: "I can understand why people say tying a woman up and spanking her is misogynistic. But actually, more men are submissives than women. Very powerful men. It's a far bigger scene than I imagined.
"The love story is more important than the BDSM aspect. I mean, we are going to tell a love story, you know, it can't just be what happens in the Red Room, that's not a film. There's so much more going on than that."
Jamie previously admitted to visiting a private sex dungeon as research for 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.
He revealed that the show was held at the home of a man who later became the movie's advisor on kinkiness.
'The Fall' actor explained: "I went there, he offered me a beer, and they did... whatever they were into. I saw a dominant with two submissives, and he became our kink advisor on the film."
'Fifty Shades of Grey' is set for release in February.
See Jamie's full photo shoot and interview in the February issue of ELLE UK, on sale 2 January 2015 in print and digital format via Apple Newsstand.

Mark Schultz has blasted 'Foxcatcher' and its director Bennett Miller.
The new film, starring Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum, is based on the book of the same name by Olympic wresting gold medallist in 1984 Mark Schultz, but he's taken to Twitter to launch a scathing attack on the movie, saying he dislikes the way he is portrayed and has insisted it is inaccurate.
The 54-year-old wrestler has also taken to Facebook to clarify his position, writing: "My story and my life are real. I am a real human being. While I may have tweeted out of anger, I in no way regret standing up for myself, nor do I regret calling out the only other man who has had decision making power concerning my image and legacy these past years.
"I apologise for the harshness of my language, but I am firm in where I stand. I will gladly go to any lengths to protect and safeguard the integrity and truth of my story, my life, my character and my legacy.
"If that's not worth fighting over while I'm still alive, I don't know what is."

Jake Gyllenhaal enjoys making difficult movies.
The 34-year-old star has appeared in a wide array of films during his career, such as 'Donnie Darko', 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'Nightcrawler', and Jake says it's important to him to take on challenging roles.
He explained: "I love movies that have currency. Movies are political, whether they're escapist or tackle something head on. There's a responsibility in telling a story. There's a responsibility to know your own mind.
"One of the things that changes in your career is that, at the beginning, people are telling you what you fit into, and later, if you do some things that people like, you make the decisions yourself. You have to know yourself well enough to make those decisions."
Jake also insists he's not in the movie industry to win awards, saying it helps him to "learn about life".
He told The Independent newspaper: "I don't do the job [for awards]. I do it to learn about life. I think acting is an incredibly immature, selfish profession, but on the flipside of that, it helps you practice empathy. When you do your research, you see what real people are doing in the world."

Angelina Jolie didn't feel the same about acting after her mother died.
The 'Maleficent' actress has confessed to deciding to move onto directing after her mother Marcheline Betrand passed away in 2007 because she no longer felt motivated to act.
She shared: "This is all very personal, but I realised when my mum passed away how much of my acting career was motivated by her desire to be an actress, and how happy I was to show her my films and how excited she was. When she was gone, it wasn't the same."
The 39-year-old star is currently wowing critics with her major directorial debut 'Unbroken' - the story of prisoner of war and Olympian Louis Zamperini - but she's confessed she'll still get in front of the camera for the right parts.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I don't love the spotlight and I like shining the light on other people. I still enjoy acting but not like I used to. If it's an interesting role I would do it."

Andy Serkis says people used to think he was a contortionist when he played Gollum.
The 50-year-old actor portrays the creature in the 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Hobbit' franchises, but people often used to mistake him for someone with a very flexible body before finding out he was using motion-capture technology.
He said: "I remember when I was doing Gollum before people were like, 'What is he? Is he a contortionist? Is he some sort of strange dancer?'
"Well, actually no, I'm a pretty regular actor playing a role."
Andy also uses the technology to portray Caesar the ape in the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, and he is glad the perception of the method is changing for the better.
Speaking about this year's 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes', he added: "It's gone through this strange journey performance capture and its perception which is changing finally.
"It could end at the end of next story. But I think that there is still so much room for investigating these characters and their evolution we would learn so much about ourselves. I think these are really important films, I really do.
"I think there is no coincidence that this film has had the reception that it's had this year because we are living on the brink of very dangerous things, very threatening things.
"These films have the potential to reach a very wide range of audiences around the globe when you think about the different experiences these audiences will have according to their world view."

Gwyneth Paltrow worries about being replaced by a younger actress in the 'Iron Man' franchise.
The 37-year-old beauty has portrayed Pepper Potts opposite Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and his titular alter ego in three movies, plus ensemble film 'Marvel Avengers Assemble', and would love to return for another outing but isn't sure bosses would want her.
Asked if she will reprise the role again, she said: "I don't know. I'd like to do it. But they might swap me out for an 18-year-old Pepper Potts or something."
The 'Mortdecai' star - who has children Apple, 10, and Moses, eight, with estranged husband Chris Martin - also admitted she "burned herself out" by throwing herself into work in her early 20s, and credits her career success partly down to "luck".
Speaking to the new issue of Harper's Bazaar magazine, she said: "[It was] a lot of good luck and a lot of hard work and a lot of being in the right place at the right time.
"But I burned myself out. I was doing three films a year, sometimes appearing in every single scene."
Despite her years of success, Gwyneth - whose parents are late actor Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner - insists she never set out to gain public recognition.
She said: "I just wanted to do what my mother did. I grew up watching her in rehearsals and struggling with lines and weeping with joy after a standing ovation. The camaraderie of the cast appealed to me so much - and it didn't have to be on an Oscar-winning movie."

Keira Knightley felt like she was back in physics class when learning about code for 'The Imitation Game'.
The 29-year-old actress stars as wartime codebreaker Joan Clarke in the drama and admits she and her co-stars - which include Benedict Cumberbatch - were left baffled during preparatory sessions with experts who tried to explain how the systems used worked.
She said: "These people were geniuses! I think you'd at least need some form of higher mathematics to understand. Did I take any of it in? No. Can I explain any of it? No. They tried to teach us, they brought in enigma machines and tried to bring in this very lovely man who was desperately trying to explain to us how it worked and how the machine Alan [Turing] made would work but it just went straight over... there was nothing.
"I said immediately [that I didn't understand], I felt like I did when I was 14 and in physics class and didn't understand a word, so I had to admit straight away, it took me straight back."
The movie follows technological pioneer Alan Turing - who was later prosecuted after admitting to be homosexual - and Keira was shocked at how little she knew of him and his story before filming began.
She said: "'Imitation Game' is an amazing story. I didn't know that much about Alan Turing, I first read about him a few years ago when there was a big push to get him pardoned and I remember thinking 'How do I not know anything about this?'
"Particularly because I am someone who is interested in history so I have read around it, I thought it was really weird.
"But the whole of Bletchley Park and what was done there was fascinating."

Liam Neeson has received letters from people too scared to travel after watching the 'Taken' films.
The 62-year-old actor stars as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills in the action franchise and admits fans have written to him saying they're frightened of travelling abroad due to the storylines in which his wife and daughter are kidnapped.
He said: "Just the other day I got a letter from a school teacher in Texas who had tried to take 60 students to Europe and the families of 40 of them got the kids out of it because they had seen 'Taken 2'.
"And then this year she wanted to take 20 of them and the parents all said, 'No, because we've seen that movie!' "
The 'A Million Ways To Die In The West' star also confessed he was reluctant to return for the upcoming third instalment until the premise was altered slightly from the first two films.
Speaking on 'The Graham Norton Show' - which airs tonight (31.12.14) on BBC One at 10.15pm - he explained: "I said the second one wouldn't happen and I said I wouldn't do a third one if someone got taken.
"It's insulting to an audience as well as me. It's a good storyline and I'm the hunted instead of the hunter."
However, Neeson is disappointed so much of the film has been given away in the previews.
He added: "I hate trailers, they give everything away. There's no mystery anymore."
'Taken 3' is set for release in the UK on January 9.

Tilda Swinton's relationships with directors is her priority in choosing work.
The 'Snowpiercer' actress insists she never "looks for" roles but would rather strike up a bond with a filmmaker, look at their forthcoming projects and then work with them to find out if there is a way she can appear in any of them.
Asked how she looks for roles, she explained: "I don't look for roles. I've always gone for the conversation with the filmmaker because that's how I started.
"I started working with one filmmaker, Derek Jarman, who I worked with for nine years over seven films, and that was the first principle.
"Then the second principle was, 'What's the film going to be?' And then the third principle was, 'What might I do in it?' Sometimes there was nothing for me, and sometimes there wasn't even a mild-mannered man in a suit. Going for the role is not something I've ever learned to do.
"So in answer to your question: whatever comes along. What comes along is conversation, so it'll either be a conversation with someone I know, or it'll be someone new, like Bong [Joon Ho, 'Snowpiercer' director], who I didn't know before, and we'll just whip up some idea that's interesting."
The 54-year-old actress admits she wouldn't feel comfortable working on her role alone and prefers to be involved in collaborative projects.
She added in an interview with Deadline: "I feel in terms of my own wiring it's so important to be in league with my comrades; I wouldn't want to just sit in my trailer, working out a role by myself. I really like to feel in a conversation with the filmmaker."