‘Timestalker’
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In Alice Lowe is very dry, very funny satire of historical novelsAgnes (Lowe) continues to die – often brutally – then reincarnating in various historical eras. In each, she pursues the same Scamp, Alex (Aneurin Barnard). “You are the love of my life,” she said. At the same time, she remains unconscious that her faithful friend Meg (Tanya Reynolds) might want a little more of her. Lowe has mastered a distinctive touch which incorporates caricatural gore, a surrealist bite and a precisely written dialogue. “I have everything I always wanted,” explains Agnes, then an aristocrat, in 1793 while caressing a pink cat. “Good teeth. My books. A beautiful house. A hale and warm husband, who is often absent. ”
Of course, what Angnes has always wanted is the bad eternal boy. One of the best sequences takes place in 1980, when Alex presented himself as a Pop star of the Adam Ant and Agnes type features the best perm on this side of Nancy Wheeler in “Stranger Things”. Does it ever work? Does Agnès learn? Our Hopscotch doctoral heroine over centuries and goes after the object of her desire while looking halfway, which is at least very fun for the spectator.
‘Repel’
Simply think: if Kim (Crystal Foster) and Reid (Zack Gold) knew Greek mythology, they could have noticed that the shortcut which looked so good on the map would lead them to the county of Charon – a possible allusion to the passer who transports the dead to the underground world. It is one of the many pleasant details integrated into the film by Cody Ashford, a horror-SCI-Fi hybrid that offers above what his premise Normie could suggest.
On the way back after their engagement party in a country cabin, Kim and Reid get lost and find themselves on a distant road which happens to be a space-time loop, as if they found themselves stuck in an Escher drawing. “Drive Back” treats fairly well with inevitable spaghetti, which is quite rare in this genre to be mentioned. But what is really interesting in the film is how he uses different perceptions – the two main characters often disagree on what they see or hear – to symbolize a troubled relationship. This couple never seems on the same wavelength, and the film uses good dramatic use of their discord. The main interrogation that hovers above their heads is whether they have to work together to survive their test or if it will put them for good. “Back drive” provides a satisfactory response.
‘Slingshot’
We all have favorite cinematographic sub-genres and we will look at everything that is connected to them remotely. Mine include underwater films and their science fiction equivalents: claustrophobic thrillers placed on a small spacecraft. In the film by Mikael HAFSTROM, such a ship goes to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The members of the crew of three men, led by Captain Franks (Laurence Fishburne), are awake from their sleep at regular intervals to carry out tests. The polished computer voice that is essential in such environments tells us, however, that hibernation drugs can have “light side effects”. UH-OH. After the ship fell into an accident, astronauts must decide whether they should go back or continue. No one can agree on anything and paranoia settles.
“Slingshot” is told mainly from John’s point of view (Casey Affleck, whose lack of regular affect is very effective in this context), the only one to achieve what is happening, unless, of course, to go crazy. This could be both: what happens when the person who seems to get it is not there? The film is not enough of this intriguing idea, preferring a touch of shyamalan. Some might see it as a cop, but it actually corresponds to this clever psychological thriller.
‘The last film never made’
It is difficult to find family dishes that are not based on pre -existing intellectual properties, so Nathan Blackwell’s film must be congratulated to be far from the franchisee world. The premise has been that for the past hundred years, humanity has been a gigantic computer simulation created by future scientists in order to model behavior. Unfortunately, we have all failed and our future suzerains take the catch. (While he arrives them? Regardless.) With remaining weeks, the underperforming Slob Marshall (Adam Rini) decides to finish a science fiction film that he had started in high school, when he was perhaps even more nervous than he is now. It brings together the old gang together and they are going to make their masterpiece worthy of Ed Wood with aluminum foil, cardboard and a lot of enthusiasm.
The films on the end of the earth as we know it are not uncommon these days, but the light approach of Blackwell has an atmosphere in a small town which brings it out of its peers Doomy-as well as the meta-feat that “the last film never made” resembles a low budget and sincere effort. The best parts concern the manufacture of the Marshall epic, but the greatest surprise is how to touch the end of this film is.
‘During this time on earth’
It was quite surprising when the beginnings of French director Jérémy Clapin, “I lost my body”, was nominated for the best animated feature at the 2020 Academy Awards. This film, after all, was the sweetness story of a man and his cut hand – not quite “Toy Story 4” (which won the Oscar). Clapin has taken action live for his follow -up, but he is always interested in the idea of connection and always has a quirky perspective. Elsa (Megan Northam) lost his brother, Franck (Sébastien Pouderoux), to a space mission from which he never returned. She is drifting, consumed by sorrow, so it is easy to understand his desire to keep all hope – even if it comes in the improbable form of a disembodied voice informing her that Franck is still alive, but held by extraterrestrials. Hearing instructions through a gelatinous earphone, Elsa calls for tenders of the mysterious being, hoping to save her brother. But is it really in contact with extraterrestrial beings, or has its understanding of reality become so tapered that it hears voices? “Meanwhile, on earth” can look like a sober science fiction family drama, but below, it’s very strange, quite macabre and sometimes violent.