After a very nice break, screenings have started up in London again, and I've had a couple this week. It's been a gentle start to a new year, with the usual offbeat January releases alongside awards-season gems that are being released this month. My first screening was the comedy-horror
Get Away, written by and starring Nick Frost (Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres, pictured, play his kids). It's nutty and gleefully grisly enough to keep fans happy, but is a bit undercooked. Claes Bang stars in a big-scale account of the Swiss legend of
William Tell. The settings are gorgeous and the starry cast is terrific, even if it's never hugely involving.
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From France, the always enjoyable Laure Calamy stars in
It's Raining Men, a comedy about a middle-aged woman who tries to spice up her marriage by hooking up with other men. It feels a little simplistic, but is likeable enough. A UK production filmed in India, filmmaker Sandhya Suri's
Santosh is a riveting if slightly underpowered procedural thriller with very strong character beats. And the meta-comedy
Extremely Unique Dynamic his hilariously packed with layers of gags as it highlights the friendship between filmmakers Harrison Xu and Ivan Leung.
This coming week, among the films I'll be watching are Michelle Yeoh in
Star Trek: Section 31, Julia Garner in
Wolf Man, Tom Hanks in
Here and the documentaries
Changing the Game and
Zodiac Killer Project.
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