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NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (LFF 2016)
An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.
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INFERNO (2016)
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
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FREE FIRE (LFF 2016)
When two Boston gangs meet in a deserted warehouse in 1978, a shootout triggers a tense fight for survival…
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TOWER (LFF 2016)
50 years ago, a gunman rode the elevator to the 27th floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire. This animated documentary reveals the untold story of that horrifying day, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
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HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.9 & 3.10 – ‘NIM’ & ‘NeXT’
There was a surprise four-year time-jump for the penultimate episode, “NIM”. That’s a lifetime in technology circles. It’s 1990 and Donna’s (Kerry Bishé) using Windows 3.0 and wearing pantsuits as a senior partner at Diane’s firm, following Mutiny’s collapse. But that’s far from the only thing to have changed. Gordon (Scoot McNair) and Donna have divorced,…
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ARRIVAL (LFF 2016)
An expert linguist is recruited by the US military to communicate with an alien race that have arrived on Earth in levitating spaceships…
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WESTWORLD, 1.2 – ‘Chestnut’
Most doubts I had about Westworld last week (of which there were few) were washed away by its second episode, “Chestnut”; a remarkably confident and engrossing hour of intelligent, carefully constructed science fiction. I already love how this show doesn’t seem to be stretching out the story, but is plowing ahead and letting us know…
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PERSONAL SHOPPER (LFF 2016)
An American personal shopper in Paris starts receiving messages from the afterlife, believing she may share her late brother’s psychic powers…
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ELLE (LFF 2016)
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of ‘cat and mouse’ as she tracks down the man who raped her.
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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
An alien arrives on Earth and sets about creating enough wealth to allow him to finance a return to his own world.
