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Apollo 13
Universal Pictures
On April 11, 1970, three
Nasa astronauts boarded a spacecraft bound for the lunar surface. The trio was
meant to become the third crew to ever land on the Moon but after an explosion
in the service module two days into their spaceflight, the mission turned into
one where the only goal was survival. Director Ron Howard manages to keep the
tension dial turned all the way up in this dramatization of the real events
which was nominated for nine Oscars after its release in 1995. Tom Hanks, Kevin
Bacon and Bill Paxton star as the astronauts who are forced to carry out
precarious repairs and pilot the spacecraft back to Earth in the face of
terrifying odds.
Sometimes a film is
almost impossible to categorize; such is the case with Velvet Buzzsaw.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Morf Vandewalt, an art critic whose influence means he
has the art world wrapped around his little finger. What starts as an acerbic
send-up of the high-end art scene soon turns into a very different film,
however, when Morf’s friend/lover Josephina (Zawe Ashton) discovers a cache of
haunted paintings left behind by a mysterious dead artist. Thus begins a kind
of supernatural Final Destination plot, with the character after
character suffering increasingly bizarre deaths by contemporary artwork. Not
one for the squeamish.
Warner Bros.
Tom Hanks stars as
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who in 2009 landed a passenger
plane in New York's Hudson River after both engines were disabled by a bird
strike just 80 seconds after takeoff, ultimately saving the lives of all 155
passengers on board. Although the flight itself lasted just three
minutes, Sullyconcentrates on the accident's aftermath as Sully is
brought before the National Transportation Safety Board to explain why he chose
to ditch the plane in the river rather than attempting to land at either
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The
Big Short
Witty, outrageous and at
times chilling, The Big Short will reaffirm your cynicism of
Wall Street. Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carrell, Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling
to name a few, this comedy-drama was one of the more unexpected films to come
out of 2015. Originally a book by Michael Lewis on the financial crash, this
BAFTA and Academy Award-winning adaptation brings to the screen the crisis of
2008 and its roots. Be prepared to be enlightened and enraged.
Always
Be My Maybe
Written by and starring
Ali Wong and Randall Park, Always Be My Maybe tells the story
of two inseparable childhood friends whose lives veer dramatically apart after
a grief-stricken rendezvous in their teenage years. Wong plays Sasha Tran, a
superstar chef whose stratospheric career barely papers over the cracks in her
faltering relationship. Park, meanwhile, plays Marcus Kim, whose ambitions have
taken him no further than the local dive bar and his father's air conditioning
firm. Fate – and a bizarre cameo from Keanu Reeves – conspire to bring the two
leads back together in a film that at long last lifts Asian Americans outside
of Hollywood's clichéd casting and into a thoughtful and hilarious romantic
comedy.
In
Bruges
Before Three
Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, there was In Bruges –
and writer-director Martin McDonagh's 2008 work is just as violently funny and
darkly disturbing. After screwing up at work – which is a problem when you're a
hitman – Ray (Colin Farrell) is dispatched to the Belgian tourist trap to lay
low with colleague Ken (Brendon Gleeson), sparking a bewildering odd-couple the comedy that descends into a discussion of ethics and redemption punctuated by
plenty of gun shots when boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) arrives to clean up the
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Universal Pictures
Eddie Redmayne picked up
an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in this moving the biopic, which documents the life of the renowned astrophysicist from his
student days at Cambridge University through the early years of his career. It
focuses on his relationship with Jane Wilde, and the rapid progression of the
motor neuron disease that would confine him to a wheelchair for much of his
life.
Bridesmaids
Apatow Productions / Relativity
Media
Bridesmaids pretty much redefined the chick flick when
it was released in 2011, plunging buddy comedy-style humor into a thoroughly
feminine setting. Think The Hangover, but with a lot more pink
taffeta. Kristen Wiig plays Annie Walker, a down-on-her-luck single woman who
is appointed maid of honor by her best friend Lilian (Maya Rudolph). It falls
to Annie to organise dress fittings, hen dos and bridal showers, all the while
attempting to corral Lilian’s motley crew of bridesmaids to great comic
effect.
Baby
Driver
Edgar Wright has quickly
established a reputation as one of the most creative mainstream directors in
Hollywood, which explains the outstanding cast attached to this low-budget
action flick. Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx feature as two of several crooks in this
crime caper where all the action is set to music. Ansel Elgort plays Baby, a
talented wheel-man who listens to music to drown out his tinnitus. But he's a
reluctant criminal and when he tries to go straight to escape with his
girlfriend (Lily James), everything goes badly wrong. Wright's flair for
matching action to contemporary music is unmatched and the result is a film
unlike any.
Spider-Man:
Homecoming
Sony Pictures
A reboot of a
reboot, Spider-Man: Homecoming was the first outing for Tom
Holland as Peter Parker and he brings much-needed youthful energy to the role.
It also features one of the best bad guys in any Marvel movie to date in Adrian
Toomes, an industrious blue collar businessman who starts adapting Alien
technology and selling weapons on the black market in the aftermath of the
Battle of New York. It's fun, action-packed and easy to watch.
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Rush
Netflix
Ron Howard's
pulse-quickening biopic harks back to an era when Formula 1 was packed with
larger than life characters. It tells the story of the epic rivalry between
Niki Lauda (played by Daniel Brühl) and James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) during the
1976 F1 season, and the former's remarkable recovery from a fiery crash at the
Nurburgring. A remarkable true story that is all the more poignant in the wake
of Lauda's recent death.
The Silence of the Lambs
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In 2003,
psychiatrist-turned-cannibal Dr Hannibal Lecter – played expertly by a
terrifying Anthony Hopkins – topped a list of the greatest villains in
cinematic history compiled by the American Film Institute. This iconic movie
sees Lecter engaged in a psychological battle of wits with novice FBI agent
Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, who needs his help to track down
another serial killer before he strikes again. It won the Big Five (Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay) at the
Oscars - only the third film ever to do so (After It Happened One Night,
and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest).
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Wandering Earth
Netflix
The movie has been a
colossal hit in China. The Wandering Earth earned
more than $700 million (£550m) in the country's box office and this prompted
Netflix to snap-up the rights to stream the sci-fi sensation internationally.
The film sees a group of astronauts, sometime far into the future, attempting
to guide the Earth away from the Sun, which is expanding into a red giant. The
problem? Jupiter is also in the way. While the Earth is being steered by 10,000
fire-blowing engines that have been strapped to the surface, the humans still
living on the planet must find a way to survive the ever-changing environmental
conditions.
Jurassic
Park
After a run of repeats
on ITV2 stretching back to when the dinosaurs were actually alive, all three of
the original Jurassic Park movies have landed on Netflix. The
original is obviously the best, with star turns from Sam Neill, Laura Dern and
Samuel L Jackson’s disembodied arm. It won three Oscars – Best Visual Effects
(which stand up surprisingly well), Best Sound Mixing and Best Editing. There
are so many iconic moments – but it’s worth a re-watch for that soaring theme
tune alone.
The
Great Gatsby
Warner Bros.
Baz Luhrmann’s
star-studded 2013 adaptation is visually stunning – it won Oscars for both
production and costume design – but perhaps lacks the depth of the novel, which
carefully skewered the excesses of The Jazz Age years before it all came
crashing down. Leonardo di Caprio plays the titular millionaire, with Carey
Mulligan and Joel Edgerton rounding out the awkward love triangle that forms
the core of the plot, and Tobey Maguire in full blank canvas mode as narrator
Nick Carraway. Watch it on a big screen, with a mojito.
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War
Dogs
Warner Bros.
Based very loosely on a
real story, War Dogs tells the story of two twenty-something
Americans who, through opportunism and more than a little fraud, become
big-time arms dealers by bidding on US Army contracts around the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. It's a black comedy at heart and Jonah Hill is brilliant as
the more unhinged, morally bankrupt of the two opposite Miles Teller's more
sensitive straight guy. It doesn't win awards for depth or complexity – no
surprise given it shares a director with The Hangover – but
it's a fun, easy watch for a weekday evening.
A Ghost Story
Netflix
At the centre of David
Lowery's A Ghost Story is a man (Casey Affleck) wearing a
white sheet. Not just a sheet but a sheet with two eye holes cut out. It's
quite a feat but Lowery manages to take that absurd image and make it tragic in
this intense genre and time-bending look at loss. Rooney Mara, who plays the
wife half left behind by the ghost, carries the whole art house meets haunted
house vibe and somehow it all works.
Full
Metal Jacket
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Stanley Kubrick's
searing indictment of the Vietnam War is as visceral and unrelenting today as
it was upon its release in 1987. The first half of the film follows young
Marine draftees as they are subjected to the degrading and dehumanising ordeal
of basic training, while the second half revisits the same recruits as they
confront the horrors of the Tet Offensive. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given its
grim subject matter, Full Metal Jacket an emotionally
exhausting and intense film that bears witness to one of the darkest episodes
of modern history.
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The
Miseducation of Cameron Post
After being caught in
the backseat of a car having sex with her best friend, Cameron Post (Chloë
Grace Moretz) is sent to a gay conversion camp by her devout aunt. Subjected to
the repressive regime by camp guides who claim that their regime can help
"cure" young people of their homosexuality, Post finds herself drawn
to two of the camp's rebellious outcasts.
Moneyball
Sony Pictures
Sport is really about
data. That's the view of baseball manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who can't
compete with the big budgets of rival clubs. To add salt to his wounds, three
of his best players have just moved to a rival team. Instead of trying to raise
more money, he decides to improve his Oakland Athletics side using statistics
rather than tradition wisdom. The movie, which was nominated for six Oscars
including Best Actor and Best Picture, is based on the real-life story, and
book, about the 2002 season of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.
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Ant-Man
Marvel has done a
brilliant job fleshing out the fringe characters in its cinematic universe
and Ant-Man, released in 2015, is another hugely entertaining
entry. Despite a somewhat troubled production, which saw Edgar Wright quit as
director (he and co-writer Joe Cornish retained screenplay and story credits),
Paul Rudd nails the lead role in a film that doesn't get bogged down in the
wider Marvel story arc. There's still signs of Wright's involvement in some of
its inventive set-pieces and Ant-Man was one of the first
films to insert a little more humour into the MCU.
Lion
Screen Australia
Based on the memoir of
Saroo Brierley, Lion follows the life of a young boy who is
separated from his mother and younger sister in Khandwa, India, when he is just
five years old. The film picks up with Saroo (Dev Patel) 20 years later, now
living with his adoptive parents in Australia. When he moves to Melbourne to
start university, Saroo finds himself determined to discover the story of his
childhood and adoption – with a little help from Google Earth.
Get
Out
Universal Pictures
This satirical horror
film written and directed by Jordan Peele was an unexpected hit in 2017, raking
it in at the box office and netting four Oscar nominations. Daniel Kaluuya –
who you might recognise from the Black Mirror episode '15
Million Merits' – plays Chris, a photographer who reluctantly agrees to visit
the family of his white girlfriend, Rose, at their country estate. While Rose's
parents make a disconcertingly over-the-top effort to show they're cool with
their daughter's black boyfriend, Chris begins to suspect that something deeply
sinister is going on in the secluded house. Peele does a phenomenal job of
weaving a gripping horror film around a damning critique of under-the-surface
racism.
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Private
Life
Paul Giamatti and
Kathryn Hahn star as fortysomething New Yorkers who are stuck in a endless
cycle of fertility treatments and despair as they struggle to have a baby by
any means possible. But when their young niece drops out of university to come
stay with her creative aunt and uncle, their journey takes an unexpected
turn. Private Life is hilarious and heartbreaking in equal
measure as it depicts a couple fixated on one goal, to the exclusion of all
else – even their own relationship.
Birdman
Fox Searchlight
You’ll probably want to
watch Birdman twice. On a first viewing, the film’s
cinematography – ingenious though it is – becomes a distraction. Under the
guidance of Emmanuel Lubezki, the entirety of this cult fable appears to be
formed from a single, elaborate tracking shot. Watch it a second time and the
dazzling cinematography becomes a character of its own in the dreamlike
narrative. This is a darkly comic tale of a man haunted by his past facing an
unfolding existential crisis. And, four years after its cinematic release, it’s
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Beasts of No Nation
Netflix
Only great things can
come from the director of True Detectives, and with Beasts
of No Nation Cary Fukunaga doesn’t disappoint. A compelling war drama
film starring Idris Elba and shot in Ghana, it follows a young boy called Agu
who lives in a small village, and who is forced to become a child soldier as
his country is ripped apart by a brutal civil war. This is a poignant depiction
of the devastation that war can bring to a family.
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Inception
Warner Bros.
Christopher Nolan’s
Oscar-winning sci-fi headache is now on Netflix. If one level of 2019's reality
isn’t enough for you then what better way to escape than through Nolan’s
multi-levelled, action-packed dreamscape? Remarkable visual effects are
combined with an equally remarkable intellectual feast for one of the most
original action films of the last decade. It’s a bit like playing a board game
you don’t understand. And it’s got Leonardo DiCaprio in it. What more could you
ask for?
The Square
Curzon
This art world farce
from Swedish director Ruben Östlund makes for slightly uncomfortable but
seriously funny viewing, like a two and a half hour episode of European,
hipster Peep Show. You can’t look away but you can’t not look. The
set pieces are sublime tributes to stupidity and even if it doesn’t quite match
Östlund’s Force Majeure, Claes Bang (soon to play Dracula for
Steven Moffat and the BBC) is magnetic as the muppet at the centre of the
chaos.
T2
Trainspotting
TriStar Pictures
This spot-on sequel to
the much-acclaimed 1996 black comedy picks up twenty years after the events of
the first film. Each member of the original cast is back, with Mark Renton
(Ewan McGregor) returning to Edinburgh as his life in Amsterdam starts to
unravel, despite being clean from heroin for two decades. Inevitably, Renton
ends up running into his old friends Spud (Ewen Bremmer) and Sick Boy (Jonny
Lee Miller) and finds himself embroiled in an ill-advised scam while Begbie
(Robert Carlyle) seeks to exact his revenge for Renton's betrayal in the first
film.
Matilda
TriStar Pictures
This is without doubt
one of the best children's films of the 1990s. Don’t agree? Stop reading. Matilda is
a dark, witty and touching adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book of the same name.
Danny DeVito is at his ludicrous, comic best, while Mara Wilson is a perfect
fit for the understated but mischievous lead role. If you watched this film as
a kid, it’s a great trip down memory lane. And even if you’re a bit too old for
that, it’s still a great family film today.
Roma
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Roma, Alfonso Cuaron's newest release since Gravity in
2013, is very different from any film he's made before. Set against the
backdrop of unrest in Mexico City in the early 1970's, the film follows Cleo
(Yalitizio Aparicia), who works as a housekeeper for a young, well-off family.
The specificity of the film arises from Cuaron's direction, as the film is
based on the life of the nanny who raised him, Libo, and much of the
mis-en-scene in the film is actually from his childhood. While the film is in
black and white, and entirely in Chilango Spanish, it's incredibly moving and
absorbing, especially given how gorgeous the cinematography and direction is.
Fans of Cuaron who have watched Gravity or Children of
Men might be surprised, but this side of Cuaron is worth watching,
and Roma is already generating Oscars buzz.
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The
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Netflix
A lot is expected from each
new Coen brothers film. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is
something slightly different – but it still delivers. The movie is a set of six
Wild West short stories. Each tale is about 15 minutes long, has its own cast
and isn't connected to any of the others. The entire package is entertaining
and the stories are well-told. By the time it finishes, you'll be wanting more.
Lord
of the Rings Trilogy
Prepare yourself for a
marathon. All three of the Lord of the Ringsfilms have been added
to Netflix's catalogue. Totalling almost nine and a half hours (for the
theatrical versions) the three movies are the definitive screenplay telling of
J. R. R. Tolkien's action-packed trilogy. Despite the first of the series
– The Fellowship of the Ring – first being released in 2001,
none of the movies have aged in a away that decreases their brilliance.
The
Wolf of Wall Street
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Martin
Scorcese, The Wolf of Wall Street follows Jordan Belfort
(Leonardo Dicaprio), who starts as a stockbroker on the Wall Street trading
floor in the late 80s. As he makes more money and his lifestyle races to catch
up, he sets up a firm, Stratton Oakmont in the early 1990s and starts to
swindle wealthy financiers out of their fortunes, even as the authorities close
in. It's all the more compelling because the film is based on the memoirs of
the real-life Jordan Belfort, who is now a motivational speaker. With an
all-star cast featuring DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie, The
Wolf of Wall Street is ridiculous and exhilarating.
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Wind
River
Lionsgate
Written and directed by
Taylor Sheridan, Wind River is a tense drama set in the snowy
depths of Wyoming and forms part of his 'frontier trilogy', which also
features Sicario and Hell of High Water. Jeremy
Renner plays a hunter who discovers the body of a young Native American woman,
a friend to his own daughter who died in mysterious circumstances several years
earlier. He joins forces with an FBI agent, played by Elizabeth Olsen, to
investigate. It's an absorbing drama where the location is as much a character
as the actors.
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The
Grand Budapest Hotel
Ralph Fiennes stars as
Gustave H, the eccentric concierge of a hotel in a fictional European country
between the first and second World Wars. When Gustave becomes implicated in a
bizarre murder plot, he turns to his lobby boy (Tony Revolori) for help.
Director Wes Anderson ramps his distinctive directorial style all the way up in
this comedy which alternates between being bewitchingly beautiful and absurdly
funny.
Four
Weddings and a Funeral
Hugh Grant cemented his
reign over 90’s British rom-coms in this sweet, classic film from 1994, as
Charles, an awkward Englishman whose run of bad luck in love seems destined to
last forever. He falls in love with Carrie, played by a charming Andie
McDowell, an American who has to return home soon after they meet. Even though
their timing is never quite right, they continue to bump into each other over
the course of their lives, and Charles eventually is convinced that they’re
destined to be together. A classic Richard Curtis film through and through,
it’s saved from being too soppy by a genuinely funny script and supporting
cast.
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Social Network
Columbia Pictures
Look on helplessly as
Mark Zuckerberg unleashes The Facebook on an unsuspecting world. Jesse
Eisenberg gives an uncanny portrayal – both physically and behaviourally – of
Zuck, the flawed entrepreneur. Written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David
Fincher, The Social Network is all quick dialogue and
lingering, artful frames. And, as the horror unfolds, you realise that
Facebook's unstoppable rise was pretty much all your fault.
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Capote
United Artists
The late Philip Seymour
Hoffman delivers one of his finest performances as the American author Truman
Capote. Such is his dedication to the character that at times his acting is
more possession than portrayal. It's utterly uncanny. The film itself follows
one of the most intense and remarkable periods of Capote's life as he begins
the process of researching his landmark novel In Cold Blood.
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Fargo
Marge Gunderson is a
small town Minnesotan cop who has a problem. Her town, Fargo, has been hit by
some rare murders. What's worse, one of the bodies is a state police officer.
Two other witnesses are also dead. Gunderson who is expecting a baby in two
months starts to hunt down the killer and in the process discovers fraud,
kidnap, and a plot to extort ransom money. and when you're done, head
across to the series Netflix created based
on the film.
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Will Hunting
Miramax Pictures
The drama that launched
the careers of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both wrote and starred in this
drama set between the city of Boston and the prestigious Harvard and MIT
universities nearby. Will’s self-taught academic talent inspires a professor to
save him from a prison sentence, in exchange for studying maths with him, and
seeing a therapist to temper his arrogant and confrontational personality. The
story plays out fairly simply, but the strength of the characters and their
relationships, particularly Damon as Will and Robin Williams as psychologist
Sean, are what propelled the film to its two Oscar wins in 1997.
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God's
Own Country
When Johnny's father has
a stroke, he is left to tend to the family's disintegrating Yorkshire farm –
and only source of income – by himself. But destructive nightly binges mean
sullen, aggressive Johnny (Josh O'Connor) isn't much of a farm hand. His lot
begins to turn around, though, with the arrival of Romanian migrant worker
Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu). This stunning debut from writer and director Francis
Lee, who himself grew up in Yorkshire before turning to acting, won the
Sundance Film Festival's world cinema directing award, and recalls the rugged
intensity of Andrea Arnold's 2011 Wuthering Heights.
Nightcrawler
A taut, clever crime
thriller, Nightcrawler explores the world of 'stringers',
freelance videographers who scour late night LA for violent events to film and
then sell to local news TV stations. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou, who lucks into
the trade and quickly discovers the profits to be made, especially when he
bends the law for juicier material. Desperate to feed demand and ratings, a
local morning news director (Rene Russo) doesn't care how the footage is
obtained so long as it's good. An outstanding central performance from
Gyllenhaal, who lost weight to portray the desperate Lou, drives the action
forward and it features an early Hollywood appearance for Riz Ahmed as his
sidekick, Rick.
The
World's End
Universal
The final film of the
'Cornetto Trilogy' also featuring Shaun of the Dead and Hot
Fuzz, The World's End sees a group of middle-aged men
reunited to attempt a famous pub crawl in their hometown. Simon Pegg and Nick
Frost return, albeit with roles reversed as Frost plays the straight man and
Pegg the fool. While considered the weakest of the three films, it's
nonetheless an outstanding and deceptively poignant comedy that touches on
alcoholism and the dangers of rose-tinted nostalgia.
Mudbound
Netflix
Everyone in this period
drama from director Dee Rees is trying to drag themselves out of the
Mississippi mud, in one way or another. Henry McAllan (Jason Clarke) moves his
young family to a farm on the Mississippi delta, although his wife Laura (Carey
Mulligan) is less than pleased by the news that he's also bringing his horribly
racist father to live with them too. The Jackson family are tenants on the
farm, led by Hap Jackson (Rob Morgan) who hopes he can work his way out of
sharecropping and own his own slice of land one day. When Hap's son and Henry's
brother return to Mississippi from World War II, the two men find themselves
locked in a struggle against the ugly oppression of Jim Crow America.
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Annihilation
Writer and director Alex
Garland won numerous plaudits for his directorial debut Ex Machina,
including Oscar and BAFTA nominations for best original screenplay. Annihilation is
his second feature as a director and it's another serious, enthralling sci-fi
exploration that's much better than its 'straight to Netflix' status would
suggest.
Channelling a sci-fi
horror vibe reminiscent of Soviet-era mind trip Stalker, Annihilation's main
antagonist is a slowly expanding zone called The Shimmer in which all life is
undergoing rapid and inexplicable mutation. Natalie Portman travels with an
all-female team of scientists to try and reach the centre of The Shimmer and
understand what's causing it, and what happened to her husband after his own
journey into Area X. Cerebral and dream-like, it's the kind of film that begs
discussion, interpretation and repeat viewings. It's also an absolute visual
treat.
What
happened to Monday
Netflix
What happened to Monday is so ridiculous that it’s brilliant. Part
of the ever-growing list of sci-fi dystopian flicks, this Netflix Original
tells the ever-unraveling story of six septuplets who had the misfortune of
being born into a world with a strict one-child policy. To avoid government
capture, they must pretend to be the same person. When one sister goes missing,
this proves easier said than done. With an impressive performance by Noomi
Rapace, as all six sisters, and Willem Dafoe as their guardian,
Dallas
Buyers Club
Netflix
Set in 1985 in Texas, a
bigoted rodeo bull rider, Ron Woodroof, is diagnosed with AIDS. His refusal to
accept his fate sends him on a journey to track down the drug AZT, the only
known treatment. On his journey he meets a transgender business partner, who
agrees to help him distribute the drug amongst the gay community. Based on a
true story, Dallas Buyer Club is as harrowing as it is
inspiring. Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, subverts the macho man,
making him an unexpected hero to a generation of gay men. McConaughey's
celebrated performance won him an Academy award and Golden Globe for Best Male
Actor.
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The
Fundamentals of Caring
Netflix
This on-the road indie
flick is many things at once. Based on a novel
by Jonathan Evison, it's heartwarming, witty,
thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud hilarious. The Fundamentals of
Caring is lifted with just the right balance of dark comedy and drama
making it both a poignant story and an easy watch. Paul Rudd stars as
beaten-down Ben who decides to go on a course to become a carer after divorcing
his wife, and Trevor (Craig Roberts) is wry, hilarious and complicated as the
teenager Rudd begins caring for. It's refreshing to see disability presented in
a way that feels honest without being afraid to address self-depreciation
through comedy. Go have a slightly teary laugh over on Netflix.
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