Martin Scorsese's new film tells the real-life story of a high- and hard-living stockbroker, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), who made millions of dollars through securities fraud and eventually spent 22 months in jail for it.
That would be very Game of Thrones in approach.'' - 'Geoff Boucher ''Or I could ram it straight down into the stump. ''Maybe I will have to learn to use the hammer with the left hand, you know?'' he says. The stakes (and consequences) are high - a new trailer suggests that Thor loses a hand to Loki's sword. In the film, Asgardian warrior Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston) wages an intergalactic war that threatens Thor's beloved earthling Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), while Thor's evil brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), plots his own revenge. The spires of Asgard still gleam as they did in Kenneth Branagh's 2011 film, but star Chris Hemsworth says there's now a grit to go with the gloss. Winter in this case is an edgier, earthier tone for Thor: The Dark World that director Alan Taylor no doubt imported from distant Westeros and his work on HBO's Game of Thrones. Winter is coming to Asgard - and that suits the planet's resident storm god just fine. ''When I told my visual-effects supervisor what I wanted to do, his eyes nearly popped out of his head.'' - Josh Rottenberg
''In the book, the Battle Room is a big black box, but I thought it would be more visually exciting to make it a huge glass orb so you could be looking down at Earth and up at the stars,'' says director Gavin Hood ( X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Much of the action takes place in a zero-gravity Battle Room, where young soldiers are trained to fight aliens in intense combat simulations. ''There are a lot of really important themes - leadership, bullying, compassion - and Ender is an intriguing, complex character,'' says Butterfield. But as fans of author Orson Scott Card's much-loved 1985 novel know, there's plenty more to the futuristic tale than that. On the surface, Ender's Game looks like a straightforward sci-fi adventure, a sort of teen Starship Troopers about a wunderkind named Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) who's recruited by the military to lead humankind's last stand against an insectlike race of aliens.