![]() ![]() What follows is a deft two-hander that relies on the uneasy chemistry between the men to drive up the tension. Patrick Brice’s horror follows a videographer (Brice) hired to film a guy, Josef (Mark Duplass), for a day in his home in the woods. Exhibit A: Creep, which failed to get a theatrical release and instead went straight to Netflix in the UK. Creepīlumhouse has made its name with a string of promising low and micro-budget horrors, but the peril of that approach is that some can simply go unseen. Swanberg’s surprisingly structured script makes for his most accessible film yet, but Johnson and the cast elevate a conventional screenplay to make for something as engaging as it is bumbling. Given money to look after by an old friend going into prison, he inevitably spends most of the cash, leaving him rushing about to recoup his debt – all the while dealing with his brother (Joe Lo Truglio) and starting a romance with a kind nurse he meets in a bar. Joe Swanberg and Jake Johnson team up once again for this hugely likeable drama about a gambler trying to get his life into shape. The script doesn’t always land its dialogue and it lacks Edge Of Tomorrow‘s witty humour, but this is thrillingly imaginative stuff. There’s the gradual learning of our scientist, as he figures out how to use the cycles to get one step ahead of his enemy – but there are twists aplenty to unravel along the way, which soon leave everything open to manipulation from everyone, allowing for unexpected detours and unpredictable hijackings. ARQĭon’t you hate it when you finally invent a machine that generates free energy for everyone, only for bad people with guns to turn up and try to steal it? And, to make matters worse, the machine then makes time loop back on itself so the whole thing happens again? And again? And again? That’s all you need to know about Tony Elliott’s brilliant sci-fi, which combines Chain Reaction and Source Code to dizzying effect. ![]() If that tickles your fancy here are some more great documentaries to watch on Netflix. Shirkers is a tale of thwarted artistic expression and the strange tricks that the world can pull on us. This documentary tells the strange and unexpected story of what happened to Tan’s work and how she finally recovered it. Then their mentor stole the film and disappeared. ![]() In the early ’90s, young filmmaker Sandi Tan and her friends shot hours of footage across Singapore for their surrealist student film. You know that feeling when you go to dinner with your ex and everything’s really awkward? Karyn Kusama takes that to the umpteenth degree with this highly effective little genre flick, which deftly captures the horrors of uncomfortable social interactions – and slowly turns the dial to something more sinister. What emerges is a complex, nuanced study of motherhood that raises questions and tugs at heartstrings with subtle skill. That includes Tallulah, a homeless girl who finds herself kidnapping a baby who’s being neglected, her boyfriend’s mother (Allison Janney), who takes them in, and even the baby’s self-absorbed mother, who panics when she finds her child has gone. A veteran of Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black, it’s perhaps no surprise that she delivers a drama that nudges you to sympathise with every person on screen. TallulahĮllen Page delivers a remarkable performance in this indie film from writer/director Sian Heder. Directed by Matt Palmer, Calibre is oppressive, stressful and totally thrilling. Town vs country tropes are explored in a totally fresh way, and Jack Lowdon and Martin McCann as the out of towners are terrific. But an accident involving one of the locals causes tensions to heighten. This incredibly tense British drama looks like it’ll be another scrappy Brit horror movie (nothing wrong with those) but instead manages to traverse genre from folk horror to crime thriller as two old friends embark on a hunting weekend in the Scottish Highlands. Snowpiercer gives Chris Evans a chance to show off his non-Captain America acting chops, and Tilda Swinton’s role might be her weirdest ever (no, really). Why? We’re not sure, but director Bong Joon-ho throws so many weird and beautiful things at the screen, that it’s hard to sweat the small stuff. Global warming might be the big issue of the day, but in Snowpiercer‘s world, it’s a permanent winter that forces the last survivors of mankind onto a train that endlessly circles the frozen equator. ![]()
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