This past week's big screening for London press was for Darren Aronofsky's biblical flood thriller
Noah, which pretty evenly divided critics. While I admired Aronofsky's stunning time-lapse version of creation, I was a bit put off by the fact that these militant vegans wear leather accessories. The other big movies were Arnold Schwarzenegger's gritty cop drama
Sabotage and the Emma Thompson-Pierce Brosnan rom-com heist romp
The Love Punch, both of which I'm embargoed from discussing quite yet. I also had a chance to interview Arnie and Emma for those films - Arnie was surreally accompanied by British anti-comic Keith Lemon; Emma came with costar Celia Imrie. Both were charming.
Smaller films included Juliette Binoche's storming performance as a photojournalist in the complex Irish drama
A Thousand Times Good Night, Kristin Scott Thomas' steely turn opposite Daniel Auteuil in the repressed French drama
Before the Winter Chill, and a trio of terrific Guatemalan teens as youngsters trying to travel to California in the astonishingly well-made and rather bleak
The Golden Dream. There were also two British comedies:
Almost Married is a somewhat under-cooked stag night farce, while
Downhill is a superbly telling and very funny doc-style road movie about four middle-aged men walking coast-to coast-across England.
This coming week's movies include Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff in
The Motel Life, Gina Carano and Cam Gigandet in the action movie
In the Blood, the offbeat drama
Concussion, a new 3D animated version of
Tarzan, the Lisbon gang thriller
After the Night, and the superbly titled Swedish hit
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
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