It's been a very sticky week in Britain, so I've enjoyed the chance to cool off in some air-conditioned cinemas. Screenings are still a bit thin on the ground, seeing as it's holiday season, but there are plenty of things to be watching. Bob Odenkirk is back in action for
Nobody 2, in which the violence is perhaps a bit too gleeful. But it's also hilariously entertaining, expecially when a villainous Sharon Stone is chomping on the colourful scenery. Joaquin Phoenix leads the sprawling cast of Ari Aster's epic
Eddington, a very dark satire about us-vs-them attitudes set in the pandemic-era Wild West. It's riveting, complex and very important. Costars include Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler.
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter lead the cast of the nuanced romantic drama
On Swift Horses, a beautifully made film that explores hidden desires in 1950s America. Orlando Bloom is a tough-guy boxer in
The Cut, which rather unevenly shifts from gritty drama to psychological horror. Matilda Lutz leads the charge as
Red Sonja in a new take on the comic heroine. Even with flashes of wit, it's too serious for its own good. And the adult-aimed animated comedy
Fixed has a lot of fun with its raunchy premise about a dog getting the snip, but there's not much else going on.
This coming week I'll be watching Helen Mirren and an all-star cast in the whodunit
The Thursday Murder Club, Peter Dinklage in a new take on
The Toxic Avenger, the Irish care-system drama
Christy, the fact-based epic Chinese WWII action film
Dongji Rescue, and the animated racing-mice action romp
Grand Prix of Europe.
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