A couple of big films screened to the London press this week, including Marvel's latest blockbuster
Ant-Man, a hilariously engaging action romp that's sure to win over just about everyone in the audience. The adult comedy
Ted 2 carries on the story of Mark Wahlberg and his best pal, a talking teddy bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane. And its nonstop barrage of adult-aimed humour is packed with laugh-out-loud moments. Saoirse Ronan is superb as always in
Brooklyn, an emotional epic about a young woman migrating from Ireland to America in the 1950s.
There were also two very different documentaries:
The Salt of the Earth is the stunning story of photographer Sebastao Salgado, who changed the world (and himself) with his daring, potent photos of humanity and nature, while
The Nightmare is a gimmicky doc about sleep paralysis told as a horror freak-out without any expert commentary. There was also the inventive British indie thriller
51 Degrees North shows considerable promise, even if the found-footage structure leaves it somewhat fragmented. And the American indie
Angels With Tethered Wings felt rather thrown together with jarringly contradictory tones in each plot thread, amateurish direction and a cast that can't keep up.
This coming week we have Ryan Reynolds in
Self/Less, James Franco in
True Story, Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman in
Ruth & Alex, Craig Roberts in
Just Jim, the horror thriller
The Gallows, the animated adventure
Maya the Bee, the romance doc
Looking for Love and two horror comedies:
100 Bloody Acres and
Dude Bro Party Massacre III.
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