With Oscar night on Sunday, all eyes are on how Hollywood wraps up this year's surprisingly unpredictable season. There are very few sure winners for this ceremony, so let's hope for lots of upsets. My predictions will be posted on Saturday as usual. Meanwhile, movies keep arriving in cinemas. Woody Harrelson has a lot of fun in the inspiring remake
Champions, about a lively young basketball team. Yes, it's full predictable, but director Bobby Farrelly adds some spark.
Scream VI takes the franchise to New York for another meta-horror with comical touches. This one's unusually grisly, and also sometimes properly scary. And there's also the clumsy horror pastiche
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, set up as a sequel to the iconic tale. Except that this is mindlessly misogynistic and sadistic.
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
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Further afield is Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's offbeat Canadian drama
The Middle Man, a stylised story about grief that's moving but rather bleak.
Lola is a fiendishly inventive British thriller about two sisters in 1941 who build a device that receives future broadcasts, changing their lives and then some. Also inventive, Italian ghost story
Sound of Silence is packed with visual panache, although the story feels thin. From Australia,
Lonesome is a powerfully honest drama about a runaway who makes a connection in the big city. And the documentary
Brainwashed astutely explores the impact of the gender-bias that's ingrained in moviemaking. It should be essential viewing at film school.
Films this coming week include the superhero sequel
Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in
80 for Brady, Alec Baldwin in
Supercell, Mike Faist in
Pinball and the British drama
Rye Lane. There's also
The Stroll, the opening night film at BFI Flare, plus three theatre press nights (reviews here soon).
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