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 Set in Mumbai The Lunchbox sees a withdrawn widower and a lonely housewife forming an emotional bond through when their lunch boxes are wrongly delivered.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!
