Films Aug/Sept
02/08 – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Overly long-titled action/sci-fi movie from French auteur Luc Besson (The Fifth Element). Besson’s sense of style has previously served him well in space, and this looks promising. It’s full of shining stars, from T Tauris such as Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, to Red Dwarves such as Rutger Hauer and John Goodman. Vers l'infini et au-delà!
18/08 – The Dark Tower
Long awaited (nervously, by fans of the books) Stephen King fantasy about an alternative wild-west-esque reality where a gunslinger called Roland (Idris Elba) is hunting a demonic sorcerer known as the man in black (Matthew McConaughey). By the way, if you’ve read the books and you’re hung up over the fact that Roland is black in the movie, have a fucking word with yourself.
08/09 – IT
It’s Stephen King-tastic this summer, as September kicks off with the remake of the movie that did more harm to the world of clowns than John Wayne Gacy – IT. It may not have Tim Curry in it (sorry, in IT) but it does have a budget, and that’s almost as good. Is it (Sorry again, IT) scary? Well Stephen King apparently thinks so, and he thought that The Shining was shit so what does he know.
29/09 – Flatliners
Remake/reboot/rebirth of the cult 80s classic. Kiefer Sutherland (Flatliners, duh!) returns to find a whole new gang of students willing to top themselves in a controlled way to find out the truth of whether there’s an afterlife. It didn’t quite go to plan the first time, will he be better at it by now? Ellen Page, Diego Luna, and James Norton are among the would-be quacks about to find out.
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