Keda is very soft-hearted, reluctant at first to kill any living being, which is not a particularly desirable quality in a hunter. But Tau assures her that Keda will be fine, and that he’s much stronger than she thinks. She pushes back against this plan, worried that he won’t return - she thinks he leads too much from his heart, and not his spear, to really be safe. Tau tells his wife Rho (Natassia Malthe) that Keda will accompany them. As the (relatively) warm season arrives, the men prepare to embark on the journey that will bring them to the hunting grounds. In that prehistoric world lives a clan of hunters led by Tau (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), a wise man who’s preparing his young son, Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), to eventually take over as his role. I don’t know how historically accurate it is, but you sure feel the raw urgency of trying to scratch out a living as a hunter in the unforgiving climates of northern England without much protection from the elements. Ice Age?Īlpha is set 20,000 years ago, and not in a cute or playful way. Kodi Smit-McPhee and the wolf-dog in Alpha Sony Pictures Releasing Alpha is a coming of age story set in the. If the boy-and-his-dog movie plot attracts you, you’ll like Alpha, but even if it doesn’t, the movie probably still deserves another look. But it’s genuinely affecting at times, too. That almost makes Alpha worth seeing just to witness how audacious it is. But its unexpected setting, images, set pieces, and even language balance out the sentimentality with a strangely raw and cinematically adventurous aesthetic that’s uncommon for a film of its sort. Directed by Albert Hughes ( The Book of Eli), Alpha is definitely sentimental, even pandering at times. Already fielding offers for new action-adventure pics.Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markīut on the other hand, Alpha is way, way off the map for such a film. He reportedly break-danced for Kimberly Peirce at his audition for the Iraq veteran drama “Stop Loss,” one of the most anticipated Oscar-hopeful projects of the fall. Though his movies haven’t yet demanded any acting range, his charisma has wowed insiders. In the comic book adaptation “Wanted,” he plays opposite Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman as a young man enlisted into a secret organization of assassins.Ī former model whose big break came in Ricky Martin’s video “She Bangs.” Tatum, 27, starred opposite teen star Amanda Bynes in “She’s the Man” and headlined Disney’s dance movie “Step Up,” which cost $20 million and made $100 million worldwide. Tumnus in “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Career went into overdrive when he held his own opposite Forest Whitaker’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland.” McAvoy, 28, has already picked up the British equivalent of an Oscar for best supporting actor and rising star.Ī Glasgow native with a thick brogue, McAvoy has acting chops and a kicky insouciance but hasn’t been tested in the box office arena.
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Virtually unknown in America until he was cast as the lead of James Cameron’s upcoming “Avatar.” Previously starred in Australian TV and movies, with bit parts in the little-seen American war films “The Great Raid” and “Hart’s War.” Upcoming, Worthington, 30, plays the lead character in a gangland retelling of “Macbeth” from director Geoffrey Wright, the man who unleashed Russell Crowe on the world. Hirsch’s films haven’t yet connected with audiences, although he’s landed the commercial role of a lifetime in the upcoming Wachowski brothers’ (“The Matrix” trilogy) PG version of “Speed Racer,” based on the 1960s cartoon. Hirsch, 22, spent his youth playing vulnerable adolescents in such films as “The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys” and “The Emperor’s Club” before going edgy and playing troubled anti-heroes in “Alpha Dog,” based on the notorious Jesse James Hollywood case, and the skateboard movie “Lords of Dogtown.” Stars in Sean Penn’s upcoming directorial effort, “Into the Wild,” based on the bestselling book by Jon At this moment, LaBeouf is the only break-out star of the new generation, someone who in the wake of “Disturbia” can actually get movies greenlighted on the basis of his own mojo.