The world seems to be falling further apart by the day, with insane chaos within the governments of both the UK and the US (which has the added nightmare of an imminent election). So it's been nice to have a tiny bit of normality return with more press screenings, including the international premiere of
The Eight Hundred, China's biggest blockbuster ever, which looks awesome on the Imax screen. It's a thrilling battle epic on a jaw-dropping scale. The other big movie this week was
The Devil All the Time, an epic backwoods morality tale featuring formidable performances from Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Riley Keough.
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Other films this week included the collection of to-camera monologs in
Coastal Elites, which is a bit preachy for its own good; David Cross on an intrepid and rather charmingly hapless true-life wilderness adventure in
The Dark Divide; Ciaran Hinds traversing France in the quirky and almost silent comical road movie
The Man in the Hat; and the stylish and rather nutty
The Wall of Mexico, a nicely blurred satire about culture and ethnicity.
This coming week's films include Millie Bobbie Brown in
Enola Holmes, Kevin James goes villainous in
Becky, Alison Steadman in
23 Walks, Nicole Beharie in
Miss Juneteenth, Francois Ozon's
Summer of 85, the teen adventure
Shortcut, the romantic drama
Two of Us and two documentaries:
Little Girl and
The Painter and the Thief. I also have my first theatre press night - review coming soon.
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