LFF 2016: Nocturnal Animals ****
What comes across with Ford’s Nocturnal Animals is a passion for a project, attention to detail and dramatic Hitchcockian production values.
Category: Drama
Inferno **
We all like a good mystery and chase, it’s just there is little imagination injected into Inferno, and a distinct lack of fear of the unknown that the other Brown books pedal so well.
War on Everyone ****
Beats with the blackest of hearts, with good and irony born out of evil. The buddy journey with Skarsgård and Peña is an incredibly satisfying one too.
The Girl on the Train ***
A very compelling modern story of female struggle, with Blunt doing justice to Rachel being the most important thing.
Ben-Hur (3D) **
Still consumable – if you haven’t seen the 1959 powerhouse version – as the two leads try their damnedest to command a real screen presence. However, the film itself lacks spirit. Bekmambetov’s subdued cinematography does make the whole affair feel rather ‘televised’, rather than like an old-school, silver-screen epic
Jason Bourne ****
Still has the energy it needs to get you – and its star – through to the bitter end. We actually don’t want Bourne to disappear forever, or find out the punch-line. Hence, Jason Bourne can carry on searching and searching for a long time yet.
LFF 2015: Men and Chicken ****
An extraordinary dark comedy for those wanting pitched blackness and heaps of lunacy. Strip away social conditioning and religion, while the insane might run the asylum their actions begin to appear explainable, even normalising, when compared to the outside world’s perspective.
Now You See Me 2 ***
Now You See Me 2 is not a bad gig to attend, and even though there are new tricks to be thrilled by, it just doesn’t have anything new up its sleeve, plot-wise.
LFF 2015: Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) ***
Husson has a powerful first vehicle to drive home with, if not as a critique of modern-day pressures on youth.