Jean Dujardin leads a good French cast (Sandrine Kiberlain, Jeremie Renier) in a dense procedural that follows the cops in the five days after the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015. Andy Garcia, Don Johnson and Craig T Nelson are back, with the addition of perennial ladies man Giancarlo Giannini. There are some good lines in the trailer, so let’s hope they’re not the only ones. Book Club: The Next ChapterĬontinuing the golden girls revival, we have Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Jane Fonda taking the success of the first movie ($US104 million) to Italy, for a long overdue road trip. When de Heer dreams, best to shut up and watch. There is no intelligible dialogue, but the images look spectacular. The result is a fable set partly in the desert, with Congolese refugee Mwajemi Hussein playing a woman who breaks out of a cage. The Survival of Kindnessĭutch-born Australian auteur Rolf de Heer ( Charlie’s Country, Ten Canoes) calls this his COVID-nimble film – an attempt to keep working during the pandemic using only a small crew, shooting outside and staying flexible enough to go where the spirit leads. Underneath all the capers, it’s a film about mad and ruthless love, of course – quite a good one. One is an ageing actress played by Isabelle Adjani, channelling Gloria Swanson the other an estate agent played by Francois Cluzet. It riffs on the plot of Sunset Blvd and To Catch a Thief, as two young grifters (Marine Vacth and Pierre Niney) fall in love while plotting to swindle two rich seniors. Nicolas Bedos wrote this French Riviera comedy as a novel, so the story is complicated. Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday. And cheese.įind out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees.

The kids are back in school, so there’s little for littlies, but lovers of horror comedy will welcome Nicolas Cage as Dracula and Nicholas Hoult as Renfield – his ever-so-humble servant and lord of the tasty flies. The rise of evergreen golden girl movies continues: Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda reunite with Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen for the Book Club sequel, set in Italy. Limbo, with Baker in the Australian desert, looks astonishing in black and white. With Neil Jordan directing Liam Neeson (they did Michael Collins), it’s more of an Irish Marlowe, although still set in LA in the ’50s.īen Affleck and Simon Baker are also playing shamuses, although on different continents. Most curious is a new film about Philip Marlowe, but based on a book by Irish writer John Banville, rather than Raymond Chandler. It’s a good month for detectives – hard-boiled, soft-centred, or gum-shoed.

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