Quite a quiet week in cinemas overall but everyone should rush to check out Molly’s Game – opening today – as soon as is humanly possible.
Friday sees the release of All The Money In The World, made famous for having managed to completely replace Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer as John Paul Getty in remarkably short order after the film was almost complete. We also have Hostiles, a western drama with Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike, Brad’s Status, where Ben Stiller travels across the country with his son to look at colleges and meets up with some old friends who make him feel bad about his lack of ‘success’ and Renegades, in which a group of Navy Seals try to ‘recover’ some gold from a lake in Sarajevo during the 90s conflict.
Over on Netflix there’s not a great deal to slake your thirst for movies this week. They’ve added the entirely unnecessary Die Hard 4.0 where Bruce Willis and Justin Long have to end cyber terrorism – by blowing shit up, natch.
The world of documentaries is much better served with He Named Me Malala – a look at the events leading up to the attack by the Taliban on Malala Yousafzai and including her address to the United Nations – and AlphaGo – a documentary about Artificial Intelligence taking on the world’s leading player of Go, a game long considered the true test of AI due to the incredibly large number of different combinations.
Amazon Prime is doing slightly better with A Dog’s Purpose and Sleepless both available to watch right now. Coming on Wednesday we have a bunch of stuff to suit most tastes – Jailhouse Rock, Syriana, The Hangover Part II, The Rite, Fallen, Inception, Interview With A Vampire and my pick of the week, V For Vendetta.
DVD/Blu-Ray:
Slim pickings on DVD/Blu-Ray this week – the only film I can find is Jungle starring Daniel Radcliffe. I haven’t seen it so I can’t tell you whether it’s the best or worst thing you could ever buy but scores on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes tend to suggest it’s decidedly average!
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