Without wanting to exaggerate, there’s at least four thousand new releases this week! I guess it was a week without a blockbuster, so all the little guys put their film out. Is that the way it works? Who knows.
Within the four thousand movies, none of them look earth shatteringly good. I guess we can blame the football? Quirk of faith? Why fight it, feel it. See the details below.
Belle – An illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle.
Director: Amma Asante
Writer: Misan Sagay
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watso
Oculus – A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Director: Mike Flanagan
Writers: Mike Flanagan (screenplay), Jeff Howard (screenplay)
Stars: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff
Of Horses and Men – A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses’ perception.
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Writer: Benedikt Erlingsson
Stars: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Charlotte Bøving, Helgi Björnsson
Benny and Jolene – The trials and tribulations of the latest Indie Folk Star – Jolene.
Director: Jamie Adams
Writer: Jamie Adams
Stars: Craig Roberts, Rosamund Hanson, Dolly Wells
The Young and Prodigious T.S.Spivet – A ten-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family’s ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writers: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay), Reif Larsen (novel)
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Maillet, Callum Keith Rennie
Heaven is for Real – A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.
Director: Randall Wallace
Writers: Randall Wallace (screenplay), Chris Parker (screenplay)
Stars: Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church
Guide to Food and Love –
Directors: Dominic Harari, Teresa Pelegri
Writers: Teresa Pelegri, Dominic Harari
Stars: Richard Coyle, Leonor Watling, Ciara Bailey
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