Naive young banker steals money and loses it all gambling. I always wiped my mouth after I had kissed you.” The cockney accent is imitation cockney and doesn’t feel real to English ears She has a great tirade: “I never cared for you. It was not a role any Hollywood actress wanted to play – except Bette Davis and it made her a star in 1934. What does he see in her? She is manipulative, dislikeable, contemptible and dead common. A club-footed medical student (Leslie Howard) becomes besotted with a cockney actress who needles, humiliates and bankrupts him. Somerset Maugham’s autobiographical novel is very misogynist. Juliette Lewis is allowed free rein and goes wildly over the top. The massacre at the wedding banquet is second only to the wedding massacre in Game of Thrones. Both roles are played by Stephen McHattie, particularly charismatic as the hit-man who also saves a 14-year-old girl from a forced marriage to a vampire paedophile (Thomas Lemarquis). A hit-man is ordered to cut off a finger of a trumpeter. Canadian director Brian McDonald comes up with an extremely weird and creepy children-trafficking thriller, which will (no doubt about it) have a classy cult following but will also be too disturbing and incoherent for many viewers. This is an excellent little thriller and it moves to a gripping climax leaving you wondering how you would cope in similar circumstances.ĭREAMLAND (Bulldog DVD). How will the young men fare? Can they survive and on what terms? Director Matt Palmer keeps up the tension. The marginalised locals are a rough lot and their idea of justice is Biblical, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. They make matters far worse by a misjudged reaction. Whilst they are deerstalking something goes terribly wrong. Two young men (Jack Lowden and Martin McCann) decide to take a hunting trip to the remote Scottish Highlands. CALIBRE (Netflix) won Best British Film at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018 and well deserves the large audience it will now at last reach.
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