Out on DVD this month INSIDE OUT
“Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?” So begins ‘Inside Out’. It
assumes that the answer to its question is “yes!”, and shows us - as Pixar often does - by making things talk that don’t actually talk. Toys, cars, and fish have all been charmingly anthropomorphised for our entertainment by the CGI pioneers, and this time around it’s the emotions of Riley, a hockey-loving 12- year-old girl uprooted from her happy Midwest life and relocated to San Francisco, that are made flesh (well, bobbled fabric, actually). It’s a concept that has allowed the imagineers at Pixar to fully flex their already-bulging creative muscles, and they’ve sculpted ‘Inside Out’ into a bona fide masterpiece.
Joy, Anger, Fear, Sadness, and Disgust
delicately explore Riley’s traumatised psyche with every step of their odyssey and, as with all great cinema, the journey leaves you feeling changed – enlightened, even. As for the guts of the film: every frame is a breath-taking masterclass in the use of colour; the numerous belly-laughs are simultaneously high-minded and slapstick; the “abstract thought” sequence is as clever as anything by Nolan; and I swear if I watch that Bing Bong scene again my tear ducts will piss my face off.
Te profundity of ‘Inside Out’ lives in its core message – that sadness is an essential and enriching part of the human experience. But that potentially bleak idea is delivered with such tenderness and, ahem, joy, that it’s difficult not to love learning it, whatever your age. Jay Freeman
November FILM RELEASES 06 November Kill Your FriendsNicholas Hoult blurs the lines of sanity, as he plays a charlatan A&R man killing his way to the top at the peak of the Britpop era. Great cast, definitely maybe worth a look.
13 November Steve JobsOscar tipped biopic of Apple inc CEO, Steve Jobs. Danny Boyle uses three significant moments in Apple’s history to give a glimpse into the life of the controversial tech revolutionary. Imax? Yeah mate, that’s him.
20 November Closer to the MoonBased-on-a-true-story bank heist movie set in post-World War II Communist Romania. Mark Strong and Vera Farmiga are amazing as the ex-resistance colleagues, but the film is more about the social context than the robbery, so don’t be expecting Minis driving over rooftops.
27 November Black MassTrue crime thriller starring Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger, Boston’s most infamously violent criminal king pin. Also starring Brineysnatch Candledick, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson and Kevin Bacon, this film is grittier than the Dakar Rally half-way picnic. Smiley
NovemberDVD RELEASES 02 November Terminator GenisysWhen John Connor, leader of the human resystance, sends Kile Reese back to nynetyn eyty-four to shyeld Sarah Connor and mayntayn the future, an unantycypated yssue establyshes a splyntered tymelyne. Utter shyt, yf Y’m honest.
09 November Spy Self-aware and slick spoof/fish-out-of-water romp sees Melissa McCarthy becoming a spy. And then there’s some helicopters. I’m not sure. It’s been a few weeks since I watched it. I enjoyed it, though, with all the spying and that.
16 November Roger Waters: Te Wall‘Te Wall’ is a work of twisted genius, and if you disagree you are wrong and stupid. Some have said that it’s a trifle self- indulgent, a smidge self-absorbed, and they’re right. But it’s about a rock star’s drug-fuelled descent into megalomania and paranoia, so that’s kinda the point, you fucking idiots.
30 November Ant ManAa-ant man, Aa-ant man, does whatever an aa-ant can, runs towards, su-ugar, gets stuck in, the su-ugar. Look out! Here comes the aa- ant man. Can he fly? No he can’t. Tat’s because, he’s an ant. Ants can’t fly, or spin webs, ants can suck, on my balls. My balls! Here comes the aa-ant man. Jay Freeman
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