I'm catching up on two weeks of film-watching here, since I took last week to write about theatre and TV instead, and also because screenings have been rather thin. There were two big sequels shown to UK critics: Finding Dory is an enjoyably colourful and slightly less satisfying follow-up to Disney/Pixar's 2003 hit, while Now You See Me 2 is an entertaining and somewhat convoluted continuation of the 2013 heist thriller about magicians.
And then there are the pre-established properties:
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie brings the beloved sitcom characters to the big screen more than 20 years after they first appeared for a film that's better than anyone expected. And
The Legend of Tarzan is an odd hybrid of a sweeping period epic and a silly action blockbuster, with an unusually strong cast. As for original stories, Ira Sach's
Little Men is an exquisitely observed family drama, and Thomas Vinterberg's
The Commune is a complex look at relationships in 1970s Denmark. I also caught up with the seriously stunning, unmissable Italian immigration doc
Fire at Sea and the offbeat, segmented arthouse drama
Like Cattle Towards Glow, exploring the link between lust, love and violence.
Coming up this week: the
Ghostbusters remake starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, the animated sequel
Ice Age: Collision Course, Dave Franco and Emma Roberts in
Nerve, Pedro Almodovar's new drama
Julieta and Michel Gondry's
Microbe and Gasoline.
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