Joel Edgerton, Jai Courtney, Melissa George, Tom Wilkinson police drama FELONY is out now in North America and next week in the UK. Brad Pitt on Sunday at the press conference for his new war film, FURY.
With him, actors Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pena, Logan Lerman and THE WALKING DEAD's Jon Bernthal; and director David Ayer Out to Own Today - 20,000 Days on Earth, Belle, Cold in July, Maleficent and Two Days, One Night20/10/2014 Out to own today: 20,000 Days on Earth
Belle
Cold in July
Maleficent
Two Days, One Night
FURY ★★★☆☆
Shares too many story/character beats with SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. But, as an action-thriller, it delivers. ROBOT OVERLORDS ★★☆☆☆ Joins REAL STEEL as another half-baked family automaton flick. TRIPODS-lite. THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM ★☆☆☆☆ Wading through a dire martial arts romance is a chore when it's this inept. MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT ★☆☆☆☆ Beauty and wonder of predecessor jettisoned, for pseudo-gung-ho garbage. Appalling directed. That's it for LFF 2014. My top five: - WHIPLASH - THE TRIBE - A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT - BIRDMAN - THE SATELLITE GIRL AND THE MILK COW ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS ★★★☆☆
Energetic, diverting documentary on the B-movie production house. 3 HEARTS ★★★½☆ Gainsbourg-Deneuve-Mastroianni-Poelvoorde. Pure class on screen in a suspenseful, theatrical romance. THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN ★★★½☆ Enjoyably meta horror in SCREAM vein. Can't sustain clever-cleverness until climax unfortunately. THE SATELLITE GIRL AND THE MILK COW ★★★★½
Bonkers, hilarious Korean animé. Universal love story between robot girl & male milk cow. Merlin the Wizard turns up as sentient, magical toilet paper. What a cliché! ;) WHEN ANIMALS DREAM ★★☆☆☆ BREAKING THE WAVES meets THE HOWLING. Not as interesting as that sounds. FAR FROM MEN ★★★★☆ Impossible situations, friendship, duty. THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD meets MIDNIGHT RUN. Viggo kills it. THE LITTLE DEATH ★★½☆☆ Muddled sex comedy of interwoven vignettes. Odd tonal shifts & choices of illustration don't sit right. FOXCATCHER ★★★★½
Old fashioned in its fascinating co-dependency relationship dynamics. Handsomely made. Mark Ruffalo is the key. SON OF A GUN ★★½☆☆ Ewan McGregor, in charming badass mode, takes on a criminal padawan, in a minor heist caper. A LITTLE CHAOS ★★★☆☆ A step up for Alan Rickman as director. Oscillates between the twee and eye-moisteningly romantic. |
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