Film - Mary Bello

IN CINEMAS
Anna Karenina
★★★★
Director: Joe Wright
Featuring: Keira
Knightley, Jude Law,
Aaron Taylor- Johnson
Joe Wright has adapted
Tolstoy’s epic novel into a
stunning movie. With a
dreamy score, gorgeous period costumes, drama,
sensuality, betrayal and lust from days of old it’s this
years stand out period drama. Knightley wows as
tortured heroine Karenina. Out 7th September
Cockneys
vs Zombies
★★★
Director:
Featuring: Michelle Ryan,
Honor Blackman, Alan Ford
Cockneys are pitted against
zombies when a trio of East
End siblings attempt to hold
up a bank so that their grandfathers care home can
stay open. Sounds convoluted but watch it, it’ll all
make sense. Some low brow wit and gun tootin’ Brits
in the shape of Michelle Ryan and Honor Blackman
feature. Out 31st August
IN-HOUSE
Lil Wayne: No
Ceilings ★★★
Love him or hate him, Lil Wayne
is one of the most successful
rappers in recent history on his
own merit and with his Young
Money label. Check out the
behind the scenes clips, interviews
and exclusive performances from every artist on the
YM roster. A must for fans. Out Now
All In Good Time
★★★
Focusing on a British Asian
family the main storyline
features newlyweds who can’t
consummate their marriage.
Predictable but heart-warming.
Out 24th September
Marley ★★★★★
A welcome addition to anyone’s
movie
collection
featuring
interviews with those who knew
him best from contemporaries to
friends, lovers and his children- the
documentary details Marley’s
musical journey, the struggles he
faced with being mixed race, his eye for the ladies and
the fact that he left us too soon. Out Now
Film
REVIEWS
LAWLESS ★★★★
Director: John Hillcoat
Featuring: Shia La Beouf, Tom Hardy,
Gary Oldman and Jessica Chastain
The story… based on a
book about true life events,
Lawless centres on the
Bondurant brothers. La
Beouf stars as youngest
brother Jack, Hardy as
Forrest and Jason Clarke as
Howard. Together they run
a bootlegging business in
Prohibition era Franklin
County, Virginia. It’s all pretty
small time but lucrative, until
Special Agent Charlie Rakes (Guy
Pearce) is brought into town to
thwart their activities.
The positives… between the
screenplay by Nick Cave and
direction from Hillcoat, Wettest
Country In The World (the book
upon which the film is based) has
been turned into sublime silver
screen stuff full of action,
suspense, violence and downright
fine fella’s. Shia La Beouf stands
out as the cocky Jack and
although the
brothers are downright wrong
‘uns, you kind of root for them to
get away with their gargantuan
misdemeanours. And Jessica
Chastain plays the perfect requisite
femme fatale, assisting the boys
and falling for Forrest Bondurant
in the process.
The negatives… at times the
violence is a little too raw and you
need to watch through sweaty
palms when the knives, guns and
aggressive men come out to
play… Out 7th September
ONE FROM THE VAULT…
We remember some of the best black films
that rocked the Hollywood movie
establishment.
BOOTY CALL
Oh come on you movie buffs, there is nothing
wrong with a little mindless, rib ticklin’ fodder
every now and then. Split your sides as you
gawp at the audacity of Bunz and Rushon,
friends who have gone without sex for so long
that they will apply any means necessary to
get some (barring illegality of course.) If for nothing else, watch this
movie to see Jamie Foxx when he was all about comedic timing in a
roles very far from Oscar nodding Ray. Full of raunchy moments, racial
stereotypes and a wonderful cameo from the late Bernie Mac. Vivica A.
Fox and Tamala Jones pop up as objet’s du désir.
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