The sunshine finally emerged in London this week, which won't bode well for this week's box office as everyone takes advantage of the weather. It's also not great for film critics who spend more time than most in darkened basement screening rooms. At least one of the films this week was bright and summery:
Two Tickets to Greece is a French road trip movie about two old friends island hopping in the Cyclades. It's watchable because of stars Laure Calamy and Olivia Cote (above), plus the always incandescent Kristin Scott Thomas. There was also this week's blockbuster
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which has markedly upped the impressive digital effects and performance-capture work, but feels more formulaic than the previous trilogy.
Less flashy was the British drama
The Almond and the Seahorse, which features Rebel Wilson in a rare serious role in a story about the repercussions of brain injury.
The Image of You is a feverishly trashy thriller with Sacha Pieterse and Parker Young, a proper guilty pleasure.
Lazareth is a gripping but somewhat overserious post-apocalyptic thriller with Ashley Judd.
Hazard is a raucous action comedy from Poland, an enjoyably messy guilty pleasure with an emotional core, And
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a fiercely impressive action thriller from Hong Kong with a vivid narrative and fabulous characters. I also caught rather bonkers and thoroughly crowd-pleasing
The Opera Locos at the Peacock theatre.
This coming week I'll be watching Ryan Reynolds in
IF, Chris Pratt in
The Garfield Movie, Daisy Ridley in
Young Woman and the Sea, Lena Dunham in
Treasure, Elizabeth Hurley in
Strictly Confidential and the horror thriller
In Flames. I'mm also watch Dave Hill's stand-up show
Caveman in a Spaceship.
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