Film News

6th Feb 2010

 

 

This week we take a look at a few films that may have slipped off your radar some­where between Sher­lock Holmes and Iron Man II (curse you RDjr)!

This reviewer is excep­tion­ally excited by the trailer for Legion (release date 5th March): angels with guns, zom­bie grand­mas and Paul Bettany’s dul­cet Eng­lish tones set against a back drop of apoc­a­lypse. It has been met with mixed responses but looks like a laugh.

Another film that has caught my eye this week is called I Love You Philip Mor­ris (17th March), appar­ently based on the true story of con man Steven Rus­sell (Jim Car­rey) who falls for the tit­u­lar Philip (Ewan McGre­gor) in prison, and goes to extreme and twist­ing lengths to keep them together. A basic enough plot, but has enough faith in Car­rey and McGregor’s abil­i­ties to char­ac­ter act, this looks to be a sweet, quirky lit­tle film.

But if you pre­fer viking sociopaths to gun tot­ing angels, or the roman­tic trysts of fel­lons, then Val­halla Ris­ing (19th March) may be right for you. A straight­for­ward hack-and-slash story of blood and vikings with the typ­i­cal reli­gious under­tones. How­ever Nicholas Wind­ing Refn (direc­tor of the infa­mous Bron­son) promises every­thing one expects from a gritty viking gore-fest, as the viking leader ‘One Eye’ says, ‘I slice open stom­achs, bite out throats and get up to lots of grue­some­ness.’ Lovely.

Finally, after check­ing the cre­den­tials of direc­tor David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), one must assume that in his ver­sion of Twi­light: Eclipse, either Edward realises what a mis­take he’s made with his life and tears Bella’s throat out, or she chops his cock off.