Nicolas Winding Refn's Cannes-winning thriller
Drive was the big movie for London critics this past week, and it certainly didn't disappoint. Stylish filmmaking and a terrific central performance from Ryan Gosling He's definitely on a roll this year with this,
Crazy, Stupid, Love and George Clooney's forthcoming
The Ides of March.
Other screenings took us on a world tour, starting with two Australian films - the scruffy-endearing
Red Dog with Josh Lucas and the bizarre and beautiful art-film
Sleeping Beauty with Emily Browning - then it was off to Greece for the quirky and very clever
Attenberg, to West Africa for the inventive zombie romp
The Dead, to Spain for the ghostly freak-out
Atrocious, and finally to America for the realistic and engaging indie romance
The One, the skilfully unsettling misogyny of
The Woman and the hilariously entertaining backwoods horror comedy
Tucker and Dale vs Evil. If it seems like there were an inordinate number of scary movies there, this is mainly due to the fact that London's notorious
FrightFest took place over the long weekend.
This coming week we have another eclectic bunch of movies, including the ultimate fighting drama
Warrior, starring Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton, Zoe Saldana fighting her way through
Colombiana, the French rom-com
Romantics Anonymous, the 3D horror doc (yes really)
Cane Toads: The Conquest, the doc
Ultrasuede about iconic designer Halston, and a digital restoration of Terrence Malick's 1978 classic
Days of Heaven.
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