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CINEMA & TV FILM REVIEWS
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romance into a series of bullet points on a spreadsheet,
only to find her own love match flopping back and forth
between dapper millionaire Pedro Pascal and struggling
actor Chris Evans. Now it's not hard to see where all this
is heading, but it's the way it gets there that feels off.
None of the participants in this love triangle is
particularly likeable, least of all Johnson, whose
seduction by Pascal finds her more enraptured by the
decor of his apartment than his bedside manner. One
might make a case that the film is intended as a
sophisticated satire of romantic mores, at least until a
grim subplot involving rape arrives out of nowhere and
gets brushed aside just as abruptly. For a film ostensibly
celebrating the power of love it does a great job of
advocating celibacy.
back to La Femme Nikita in 1990 with de Armas as an
orphaned waif who gets recruited into the balletacademy-cum-assassin-training-school run by Russian
mafiosa Anjelica Huston. The cast do their best to stretch
the thin material into something substantial, but director
Len Wiseman has little interest in anything that doesn't
involve automatic weapons and the whole endeavour is
every bit as forgettable as his earlier Die Hard 4.0 and
the Underworld series.
Predator: Killer of Killers (Cert 15)
is streaming on Disney+
In 2022, Prey, the crackerjack straight-to-streaming
Predator Western, completely turned around opinion
Ballerina (Cert: 15) is out in cinemas
As the best thing about the last James Bond movie, No
Time To Die, it was somehow inevitable that Ana De
Armas would get tapped for her own action movie
franchise. It's just a shame that Ballerina makes such
poor use of anything beyond her athletic abilities. A
spinoff from the John Wick series, the movie shamelessly
rehashes every female-centric revenge thriller stretching
about a sci-fi franchise that had been slowly driven into
the ground by a slew of dismal big screen sequels. Now
the moody animated epic Killer of Killers proves that
Prey wasn't simply a fluke. The film is divided into three
individual stories about warriors from different eras – a
vengeful Viking, a disgraced samurai and a hotshot
World War Two pilot – whose individual triumph over a
Predator hunter wins them a place in an intergalactic
gladiatorial arena against the biggest, baddest, ugliest
Predator of them all.
In the best possible way, it feels like a movie made by
fans for fans, with the story relentlessly propelling
forward with barely a pause for breath.
SWINSTEAD VILLAGE HALL
EVENTS
Bourne Road NG33 4PQ
The Ultimate Quiz
Night
Darts Knockout
Tournament
VJ Day Beacon
Lighting
12 July at 7.00pm
2 August at 7.00pm
15 August at 9.30pm
£2 entry
£5 per player
Maximum 6 per team
1st prize £100
Followed by a drink in the
Village Hall bar
