It’s seems a while since I did a round up, and what a fantastic week to catch a film. Tracks, John Curran’s moving testimony to the human spirit and the cruelty of nature, tells the true story of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) and her 1,700-mile trek across the western Australian dessert towards the Indian Ocean with four camels.
Calvary is a dark comedy thriller starring Brendan Gleeson as a rural Irish priest who is told by a mysterious figure during confession that he will be killed in a week. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone return as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider Man 2.
Tom Hardy has been captivating cinema audiences in Locke
, Steven Knight’s tale of one man’s seething inner turmoil as his life begins to unravel whilst driving from Birmingham to London. Set in Mumbai The Lunchbox sees a withdrawn widower and a lonely housewife forming an emotional bond through when their lunch boxes are wrongly delivered.
Jesse Eisenberg is having a bit of an identity crisis in Richard Ayoade’s idiosyncratic The Double
. In Half A Yellow Sun Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a Nigerian academic whose comfortable lifestyle is torn apart by violent political conflict. Lukas Moodysson’s We Are The Best looks like the Scandinavian equivalent of the excellent Linda, Linda, Linda (2005). A group high school girl misfits in early eighties Stockholm decide to form a punk band despite being unable to play any instruments and constantly being told that punk is dead. But can punk rock save their lives? Of course it can!
