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This week, there are FIVE new films out for you to choose from, led by Calm With Horses. Here are the titles, with more info below:Calm With Horses
The Hunt
Bloodshot
My Spy
Misbehaviour
Calm with Horses centres around Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong, who has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father. Torn between these two families, Arm’s loyalties are tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
This film looks like a stunning piece of work, and while Barry Keoghan was good in Dunkirk, he was exceptional in The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, so I’m very much looking forward to this.
Director: Nick Rowland
Writer: Joseph Murtagh
Stars: Ned Dennehy, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
The Hunt centres around 12 strangers, led by Emma Roberts (We’re The Millers), who wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don’t know they’ve been chosen – for a very specific purpose – The Hunt!
The start of this premise sounds rather like 2010’s awful Predators, but this actually looks pretty good.
Director: Craig Zobel
Writers: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Also stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ethan Suplee, Justin Hartley, Glenn Howerton, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Wayne Duvall, Macon Blair, Sturgill Simpson
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
Bloodshot effectively turns Vin Diesel (Fast And Furious 8) into a Universal Soldier as he’s brought back from the dead.
Taken from the comic book, written by Yvel Guichet, he plays Ray Garrison, a slain mobster, who is re-animated with superpowers. I’ve never heard of that one before, but anyone who follows me long enough will know I’ve rather had enough of this sort of thing in the main.
Bloodshot is released in the UK on February 21st 2020, so in that Jan/Feb dumping ground for non-Oscar films so terrible they can’t get seen at a decent time.
Director: Dave Wilson
Also stars: Eiza González, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell, Guy Pearce, Talulah Riley, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Siddharth Dhananjay
Check out the trailers below:
My Spy is another of those incredibly lazy ideas masquerading as a cheap kids film, this time starring Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2) being all large and clumsy in a mismatch comedy where he’s partnered with a tiny, annoying kid.
Naturally, they’ll learn to love each other’s differences and overcome barriers, etc.
Synopsis: A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
And it’s a pun on the song ‘My Guy’.
….so, yeah, it IS that movie.
Director: Peter Segal
Screenplay: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber
Also stars: Kristen Schaal, Ken Jeong, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Nicola Correia-Damude, Chloe Coleman
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Miss!
Misbehaviour
In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
Just looking at the poster, below, you can tell this sort of movie sucks! And that’s Greg Kinnear on the right, and not Harry Enfield!
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Stars: Keira Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keeley Hawes, Charlotte Spencer, Suki Waterhouse, Greg Kinnear, Rhys Ifans, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Manville, Alexa Davies, Katy Carmichael
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Miss!
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