Screen Time By Nic Jeune

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CINEMA

PLAZA CINEMA DORCHESTER West Side Story (2021)

Stephen Spielberg homage to 1957 musical adapted by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) “West Side Story was actually the first piece of popular music our family ever allowed into the home. I absconded with it—this was the cast album from the 1957 Broadway musical—and just fell completely in love with it as a kid. West Side Story has been that one haunting temptation that I have finally given in to.” Director Stephen Spielberg

ODEON CINEMAS DORCHESTER Belfast (2021)

The award winning actor director and knight of English theatre, Kenneth Branagh, explores his roots. “Belfast avoids many of the clichés in favor of a more personal look back, through child’s eyes. The affectionate cine-memoir is rendered all the more effective on account of young discovery Jude Hill and its portrayal of a close-knit family (Ciarán Hinds and Judi Dench and stay-put grandparents) crowded under one roof.” Variety. PeterDebruge

NETFLIX

Netflix have a slew of new releases this month

Power of Dog (2021)

Whilst we were in lockdown New Zealand become a key place for filmmakers. Jane Campion (The Piano, Top of The Lake) shot this in the wonderful landscape of Otago NZ.“It’s a brawny, brooding drama about the wreckage caused by men, beautifully framed in muted neutral tones as the camera circles the ranchhouse with a deliberate, stealthy tread.” The Guardian. Xan Brooks

The Unforgiveable (2021)

Back in 2010 Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) won The Royal Televison Society Award for best drama serial for Unforgiven Unforgivable is a new US remake starring Sandra Bullock and is directed by Nora Fingscheidt who wrote and directed the brilliant System Crasher (2019)

Don’t Look Up (2021)

Director Adam Mackay cut his teeth writing and directing for Saturday Night Live and his films often have an edge of satire as in Big Short (2015), the Oscar winning film on the financial crash. Here he takes on the end of the world! The cast boasts five Oscar winners: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and Mark Rylance; two Oscar nominees: Timothee Chalamet and Jonah Hill; and one recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar: Tyler Perry. The cast also includes two Grammy winners: Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi. As McKay told Empire Magazine, Streep’s character is “an amalgam of all the ridiculous, ineffective Presidents that the United States has had over the past 40, 50 years.”

BBC iPlayer Let The Right One In (2008)

“In the basest terms, a horror flick. But it’s also a spectacularly moving and elegant movie, and to dismiss it into genre hood, to mentally stuff it into the horror pigeonhole, is to overlook a remarkable film” Washington Post John Anderson.