Movies reviewed this week: The Decameron, Hopscotch, It’s Always Fair Weather, The Sweet Hereafter, The American Soldier, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Category: Reviews
Movies reviewed this week: The Gleaners and I, The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later, Shadow in the Cloud, and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.
Saskia Reeves is awfully good in Slow Horses. As with more or less everything in both the original novels and the TV show, it’s a slow reveal. They show us the failures that the Slough House denizens have become, and you have to be patient to see the talents — however rusty — that balance out the failings.
So up front, Catherine Standish is an aging grey haired alcoholic. I’ve just finished episode 5 of the first season, which is where she lifts her head and sees a chance and takes it. The really good bit is when Reeves makes it clear that her character is incredibly pleased to have gotten this one right, with the slightest shy smile.
I won’t spoil the books but I did say that the talents “balance out” the failings, didn’t I? Not “overcome.” Such a good series. I’ve read them and can promise that reading them won’t mar your enjoyment of the TV show.
Episode 5 shows that transition for a few characters, actually, protagonists and antagonists alike. People get serious. It’s a nice inflection point before the season finale, in which much of that seriousness will be at cross purposes.
Movies reviewed this week: Take Me Somewhere Nice, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Closely Watched Trains, The Batman, Election, …And God Created Woman, and The Northman.
Movies reviewed this week: Donkey Skin and Watermelon Man.
Movies reviewed this week: Stormy Weather, Hell Hath No Fury, and Three Colors: White.
Movies reviewed this week: The Parallax View and Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.
Movies reviewed this week: Hotel Monterey, Three Colors: Blue, Cléo from 5 to 7, Daguerréotypes, The Vanishing Lion, Rue Daguerre in 2005, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and The Quiet Man.
Movies reviewed this week: Forbidden City, U.S.A., The Last Days of Disco, and A Bay of Blood.
Movies reviewed this week: Johnny Guitar, Shaft, Matador, After Yang, and Polytechnique.