Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), an unemployed journalist, battered by his own misfortune and self-destructive ways, courts his childhood love interest and babysitter Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) – who is now one of the most powerful and unattainable women on earth.

From the very moment the cinema screen comes to life, Long Shot goes straight for the funny. And this is the type of funny that is packed with the type of in-your-face raunchiness that we’ve come to expect from the likes of Seth Rogen, but now it’s really been dialed up to 11. Combining both the best of the romantic comedy with a serious satirical edge, Long Shot is just flat out hilarious and really commits to this strange tale of total opposites attracting.

Taking up one half of this dynamic duo is Seth Rogen as over-the-hill, burnt out loser journalist Fred Flarsky. When we’re first introduced to Fred he really is a loser at the top of the pile and he’s about to get even lower. That is until he has a chance encounter with Charlize Theron’s Charlotte Field, the graceful yet workaholic United States Secretary of State who actually used to babysit Fred when she was a teenager and whom he’s had a huge crush on his entire life. Through this fortuitous turn of events and needing someone to help spruce up her image, Fred finds himself on the campaign trail with Charlotte as she moves to sell her brand new environmental solution to the world’s governments.

Both Rogen and Theron have great chemistry together with one another and as the movie moves forward we get to see the relationship of this most unlikely couple blossom. While Rogen’s Fred is a 30-something man-child who has never accept any kind of responsibility in his life, Theron’s Charlotte is a stern workaholic who is letting the world pass her by, along with all the sights and experiences that are in it. As they get to know one another further it becomes clearer that each needs the other to help them become a better version of themselves and hence we are see the idea of the ‘soulmate’ become fully realized.

In addition to Theron and Rogen, Long Shot also has a great supporting cast to call upon as well. Hunky Alexander Skarsgard portrays the handsome Canadian Prime Minister James who is not above flaunting his passion for Charlotte very openly, and his performance as the character borders the line between both charm and creepiness perfectly. June Diane Raphael provides plenty of bitchiness as Charlotte’s key staffer Maggie Millikin who really doesn’t like Fred and has no qualms about expressing her distaste for him, and then there’s an unrecognisable Andy Serkis who portrays repellent media baron Parker Wembley and he literally makes your skin crawl.

Audiences should definitely prepare themselves for all kinds of crazy comedy with Long Shot…and trust me it doesn’t let up for a minute. Your jaw will be aching with how much your laughing in Long Shot and just when you think you couldn’t laugh anymore, well Rogen and Theron throw another of their comedic gems our way. While I can’t really go into specifics here without running some kind of risk of spoilers I will say that my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when Fred and Charlotte decide to let loose in Paris and there resulting adventure, which Fred adds to with a few extra ‘ingredients’, had me howling with laughter. It’s frankly uncontrollable and with each passing moment it only gets funnier.

Comedy aside though, Long Shot is a film that really does examine the idea of love and just what it means to all of us when we find ourselves touched by it. While opposites do attract, they’ve never been anything like this before, and there’s a certain cuddly cuteness to this. While the whole world, and I mean the whole world, around them is pulling for them not to end up together, Fred and Charlotte fight this the whole way all in order to find their own sense of love and create a relationship that works them, regardless of how it appears to anyone else. It’s an extremely sweet and heartwarming thing to see and makes Long Shot all the more special.

Long Shot is a far and away the comedy of the year and you won’t be able to stop yourself from laughing. It’s just contagious here. But above the laughter is a very special message about finding that special someone in your life and doing everything you can to make them happy. Movies don’t get much more charming than this so make sure you see get along to Long Shot ASAP.

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Here’s the full synopsis:

Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), an unemployed journalist, battered by his own misfortune and self-destructive ways, courts his childhood love interest and babysitter Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) – who is now one of the most powerful and unattainable women on earth.

Playing up the hysterical interaction of opposite attraction, Long Shot finds Rogen as failing journalist Fred Flarsky who finally has a shot at the girl of his dreams, his former babysitter Charlotte Field (Theron), who is now on her way to making her bid to become President. And this leads to plenty of moments for comedy.

While Rogen’s natural abilities for physical comedy and his diamond in the rough approach is made out to be extremely funny as he is placed next to the flawless Theron who slowly begins to step out of her shell and let her guard down.

Along with its hilarious premise and great performances from its co-leads, Long Shot also has a really great supporting cast who includes O’Shea Jackson as Flarsky’s best friend, Randell Park as Flarsky’s boss, Alexander Skargard as the Prime Minister of Canada who is described as ‘very handsome’ and Bob Odenkirk as the President of the United States.

Get ready for a very funny love story when Long Shot arrives in cinemas on May 2.

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Berlin, 1989. On the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall Western intelligence agents are being hunted down and killed. To stop the carnage MI6 sends their best operative Lorraine Broughton (Theron) to investigate. What she finds is an altogether different espionage landscape where there are no rules and you can trust no one.

You have never seen Charlize Theron this fierce before. Known as a Hollywood risk taker, Theron bends all the rules of the action genre to suit her own new take on the classic spy film. Queen’s aptly named ‘Killer Queen’ (which is included on the soundtrack) applies perfectly to Theron’s antisocial, yet capable intelligence operative Lorraine Broughton. Quick-witted and sassy, Broughton is one super spy audiences won’t soon forget and her desire to throw away the book in terms of behaviour and cadence really caught on with me. And there’s also the fact that she kicks some serious ass.

Matched with Theron is the always dependable James McAvoy, and as MI6 Berlin station chief David Percival he’s an absolute shitbag. Cocky, arrogant beyond belief and playing all sides of the fence you never know what he’s going to do next. While Broughton might be MI6’s wrecking ball, Percival is the snake and his behaviour and actions pull Broughton in all kinds of different directions.

Starring alongside these these two heavy hitters are a dependable cast of supporting players who include Sofia Boutella as young French agent and Lorraine’s eventual lesbian lover Delphine, Bill Skarsgard as gifted Berlin black marketer and hustler Merkel and Til Schweiger as The Watchmaker.

If you want action then you’ve come to the right place because Theron and director David Leitch deliver on this. Having been put through her paces by Leitch’s own speciality stunt training school 87Eleven, Theron is a lethal weapon who storms her way through a pack of very nasty Soviet spy’s. But she has her work cut out for her, and her victories often occur because of her skills, improvised weaponry and just plain luck. The director made sure to play up the fact that she couldn’t overwhelm her opponents through sheer physicality and had to out think them and out work them. The film’s defining fight is five minutes of pure badassness and after it, well, you’ll never look at a set of car keys or a cork screw in the same way again.

Style and substance also feature heavily in Atomic Blonde and make for a film that is equal parts gorgeous and cool at the same time. Theron must go through at least thirty different costume changes in the film, and Dominic Sela’s cinematography is just beautiful to watch thanks to the film’s neon lit atmosphere and perfect framing. Atomic Blonde also has one of the coolest soundtracks you’ll hear all year and is packed out with tracks by the likes of New Order, George Michael, Queen and David Bowie along with featuring contemporary artists like Marilyn Manson and German additions of classic songs like Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’. All of it makes for one engaging cinematic experience and I was hooked from the very first frame.

Atomic Blonde is without-a-doubt one of this year’s most engaging thrillers and really changes the game in terms of action cinema. If you’re looking for a rush and something that will really suck you in then Atomic Blonde is it.

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The latest trailer offers fans greater insight into Theron’s unstable MI6 operative Lorraine Broughton, who in the final days of the Berlin Wall must uncover a sinister conspiracy that is leaving allied spies dead, and could ignite World War 3.

Theron has a real grunge look going on thanks to her peroxide blonde hair, and is a multi-talented lady of action who mows through the bad guys with lethal effect. She’s matched perfectly with James McAvoy’s quirky David Percival, who somehow has to contain her raw aggression.

Director David Leitch (John Wick) captures some truly awesome action moments and is making the most of the film’s 1980s setting, including the use of a wicked soundtrack packed with the likes of New Order and Eurythmics.

Atomic Blonde is set to release on July 28 in the US and UK, and on August 3 in New Zealand and Australia.

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