DECEMBERFILM RELEASES
04 December Out of the FurnaceTis thriller stars Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as two impoverished brothers, one of who goes to prison, the other into a world of crime. Violent, tense - this film is grittier than an explosion in a salt bin.
06 December OldboySpike Lee directs this remake of one of the most disturbing films to ever come out of South Korea. Josh Brolin stars as a man kidnapped, locked in solitary confinement for 20 years, then released and given 24 hours to find out who and why is after revenge.
18 December ParklandJust when I thought I might have a month without a bad word to say about a movie, they go andrelease this pile ofsycophanticshit. JFK gets shot, everyone else howls like lost 3 year olds in a cemetery, that’s it. Utter bollocks!
20 DecemberAnchorman 2: Te Legend ContinuesYES! Arguably Will Ferrell’s greatest creation returns for more newsroom based antics. Te gang are all back and this time, they’re going 24 hour! Cue madcap antics, star cameos and scotch.enty – yay! Smiley
DVDOF THE MONTH ELYSIUM
One of the strengths of the Sci-Fi genre has always been its ability to sneak
forward-thinking social commentary into curmudgeonly conservative heads by allegorising it as stories about sexy aliens, or things exploding, or sexy aliens exploding. It’s no surprise that TV’s first inter-racial kiss was seen on Star Trek. After all, by that point we’d already seen Kirk rutting with women of various colours many times. In 2009 Neill Blomkamp continued this noble tradition with the surprise hit District 9 – a cannily disguised attack on racism in post-apartheid South Africa. So, Elysium, then, would be more of the same gritty, biting satire wrapped up in an action packed roller- coaster ride, right? Well, kinda… It’s 2154 and the rich live on a brutally protected orbiting utopia called
(you guessed it) Elysium, while the rest of us live on an impoverished Earth. Matt Damon’s an Earthbound ex-con trying to do the right thing, but an industrial accident leaves him needing medical treatment, and that’s only available on (you guessed it) Elysium, so he has to do one last etc. etc. And therein lies the problem with (you guessed it) Elysium for me. “Yes, you’re right, Neill Blomkamp,” I found myself saying, “the ever-widening disparity between rich and poor in our present-day ultra-capitalist hegemony IS a huge concern,” I continued. But I was saying that after 20 minutes. From thereon in it’s a competent but standard heist- gone-wrong flick and I knew exactly how it was going to end. Unless you’re a piss-witted Tory boy that thinks the poor get what they deserve, Elysium has little to say. Jay Freeman
DECEMBERDVD ROUNDUP
02 DecemberTis is the EndWell, this one crept up on us a bit. You’d’ve thought we’d have heard about a Partridge film, what with him being from around here, but no. Anyway, I’m sure it’s very good.
16 DecemberOne Direction: Tis Is UsWell, it would be, wouldn’t it? Imagine the broken hearts on Christmas morn’ if simply awful teenage girls put this in the DVD player and it was the Wurzels.
23 December LovelaceAmanda Seyfried plays prodigious nob-gobbler Linda Lovelace in this gritty biopic. Just in time for Christmas with Gran, too.
Jay Freeman
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