From writer/director Nicholas Jarecki; new drama/thriller Crisis stars Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly and Greg Kinnear.
The focus is on three stories about the world of opioids.
I’m not fully loving this trailer edit, but, hopefully the actors involved will deliver something memorable overall. I know that I’ve been hoping for a good movie about the opioid crisis.
Michelle Rodriguez, Kid Cudi, Indira Varma, Lily-Rose Depp, Mia Kirshner, Michael Aronov, Adam Tsekhman, Veronica Ferres, Nicholas Jarecki, John Ralston and Martin Donovan also star.
Lily James, Armie Hammer, Keeley Hawes and Kristin Scott Thomas are the stars of new drama/mystery Rebecca.
Directed by Ben Wheatley and based on the best selling book by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is the story of a young newlywed who arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. A place where she finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca.
The visuals a a key reason. I haven’t read Du Maurier’s book but I imagine this movie will be good, especially since Scott Thomas is involved.
Ann Dowd, Sam Riley, Bill Paterson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Lewis Jones, Ben Crompton, Jane Lapotaire, Jeff Rawle, Lucy Russell, Bryony Miller and John Hollingworth also star.
Death on the Nile (2020), Gal Gadot, 20th Century Studios
Following Murder on the Orient Express (2017), a new murder mystery movie directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh is here. Gal Gadot, Russell Brand, Armie Hammer and Rose Leslie are among the key cast.
Death on the Nile has Hercule Poirot (Branagh) investigating the murder of a young heiress while, while he’s on vacation on the river Nile.
I still need to watch Murder on the Orient Express. I’m a little intrigued by this new story but in truth, I’m mostly interested in the style and elegance on that boat.
Tom Bateman, Adam Garcia, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright, Sophie Okonedo, Annette Bening, Emma Mackey, Dawn French, Nikkita Chadha and Ali Fazal also star.
My favourite thing about the latest Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz and Armie Hammer horror/mystery, Wounds, is how well writer/director Babak Anvari captures the tension, especially in the first thirty minutes.
Centred on the strange things that start happening to a bartender after he picks up a phone left at his bar, I found that things began to go wrong with this movie when Hammer’s character made/didn’t make a decision that seemed so obvious to me. And because the rest of the story hung ever so loosely on his character’s decision, one that I did not buy, the film simply lost my trust.
In light of this, the real main issue with Wounds is that it barely makes sense. By the very end, I decided that Anvari’s film is based on a script that needed much more work. Yes, some moments were well-written and acted. However, the glaring gaps in the script were simply that, far too glaring.
If you’re a die-hard Hammer and Johnson fan, then sure, give it a chance if you’re especially curious, and also if you don’t mind swarming bugs. I definitely watched the swarming bugs scenes through my fingers. Otherwise, it’s very much the tension in the first half of the film that’s most notable, in a good way.
Have you seen Wounds, the film with the ‘very appealing’ name? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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