You may have seen everything new that has been released online over the past few months, so why not check out some classics again.
Leave No Trace
I still can’t believe how few people saw this movie when it came out two years ago. Tom is an ex military man who is suffering from PTSD. He decides to move off grid but brings his young daughter with him.
They live and survive in the woods. This is director Debra Granik’s feature follow up to the incredible Winters Bone from 2010. In that film she discovered Jennifer Lawerence and in Leave No Trace she has uncovered another incredible young actress in Tomasin Mckenzie. It is an interesting film about isolation, parenthood and turning back on government. Available on Netflix.
Lost In Translation
Before going to Japan last year I gave this a rewatch. It is about a young girl who builds a friendship with an older actor while they are both holed up in a hotel in Tokyo alone.
Some of the humour now seems a little out of date, the Japanese characters are basically there to be the butts of jokes. They speak English funny and that is really all the movie has to say about the locals.
However, the good stuff, is still really good. A fantastic soundtrack mainly from Irishman Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, really great chemistry between the two leads and some really beautiful footage of Japan. It is not a flawless movie but there is a lot here worth your time. Available on Netflix.
Sense And Sensibility
I will admit I had a bit of a bias against this movie, when the film came out to rent on video in 1996. I wanted to rent Goldeneye but my dad and sister chose this.
I didn’t watch it because it looked boring (and in fairness a 12-year-old me would have found it boring ). I kept that opinion (without having ever watched it ) until a few years ago when Alan Rickman died.
Emma Thompson (who won an Oscar for the screen play, and still the only person to have won an Oscar for screenplay and acting ) wrote a beautiful short obit for Rickman, I decided to watch some of their many movies together and this was by far the best. Clever film with a sharp and genuinely funny script. Available on Netflix.
Brexit: The Uncivil War
This was a made for TV movie that came out a few months ago where Benedict Cumberbtach plays the man of the hour Dominic Cummings.
Written for the screen by James Graham who just did a rather excellent mini series on ITV about the coughing major from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. I’m excited for the sequel of the last year or so. My suggestion for the title “Herd impunity”. Available on Netflix.
