With the sunshine blazing across Great Britain, cinema box office is likely to take a hit these days. Although maybe the air conditioning will lure people to escape from the heat. I've certainly enjoyed attending press screenings this week, a cool break from the sweaty sunshine. I caught up with Pixar's new animated feature
Elemental, which premiered at Cannes. It's a little uneven plotwise, but the characters are terrific and it looks spectacular. And then there's the return of Chris Hemsworth in
Extraction II, an even more confident thrill-ride. It's ripping entertainment, but very violent.
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Also at Cannes, Wes Anderson's new slice of whimsy is
Asteroid City, in which a vast ensemble of A-listers circle around strange goings on in a desert crater. It's quirky and has moments of genius, but little resonance. Take That's songs were adapted into the British stage musical
The Band, which has now become the comedy romp
Greatest Days. But the laughs are undermined by several pushy dark plot points. And I also saw two smaller films centred around addicts:
God's Petting You is an offbeat, messy heist comedy about a junkie who teams up with a sex addict to rob a pornstar, while
Sunlight is a likeable but contrived Irish drama about an addict trying to have a final connection with his dying sponsor.
This next week I'll be watching Harrison Ford in action in
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, British drama
To Nowhere, French drama
Mother & Son and two documentaries:
Baato from the Himalayas in Nepal and
The Last Rider about the 1989 Tour de France.
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