Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 <\/p>\n
Directed by Lee Cronin. Starring Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, Ver\u00f3nica Falc\u00f3n. 18 cert, gen release, 134 min <\/p>\n
The possessive credit, no less. Cronin, the Irish director of The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise, has tackled the perennially tricky issue of making the shambling Mummy interesting by turning his film into a possessed-child horror decorated with faux Middle Eastern exoticism. Don\u2019t worry. There is a mummy. There are bandages. There is a sarcophagus. But the horror derives mostly from young Grace, as daughter to Reynor and Costa, crawling up the walls and vomiting bile. A blast if you like your horror propulsive, transgressive and (in a good way) nauseating. Full review<\/a> DC<\/p>\n Kiss of the Spider Woman \u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by Bill Condon. Starring Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, Jennifer Lopez, Bruno Bichir, Josefina Scaglione, Aline Mayagoitia.15A cert, gen release, 128 min<\/p>\n During the Argentinean dictatorship, Luis Molina (Tonatiuh), a window-dresser who identifies as female, is imprisoned for \u201cpublic indecency\u201d, with a dour political prisoner named Valentin (Luna) as his unhappy cellmate. The former entertains the latter by recounting an ancient movie that stars a glamorous star (Lopez) as socialite and titular semi-arachnid. Condon\u2019s unthreatening take on Kander and Ebb\u2019s wan musical version of an influential Manuel Puig novel (and Oscar-winning film) profits from Lopez\u2019s pipes, but that is not enough to paper over deficiencies in the source show. This from the men who brought us Cabaret and Chicago? Full review<\/a> DC <\/p>\n The Wizard of the Kremlin \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Keen, Jeffrey Wright, Jude Law. 15A cert, general release, 137 min<\/p>\n Assayas, adapting Giuliano da Empoli\u2019s novel, tackles the rise of Vladimir Putin (Law) through the person of a fictionalised \u00e9minence grise (Dano). For all the clumsy voiceover, Dano remains a twinkling enigma, even if the script, written by the director and Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re, reduces him to more of a witness than a participant. This is principally a showcase for Law\u2019s increasingly impressive late-career metamorphosis. He brings a strikingly controlled energy to his portrayal of Putin as an indifferent, weaponised civil servant. A dense account of power and media manipulation, even if it too often mistakes exposition for drama. Full review<\/a> TB<\/p>\n The Blue Trail \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by Gabriel Mascaro. Starring Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socorr\u00e1s. 15A cert, gen release, 96 min<\/p>\n This trippy lo-fi sci-fi, a sensation in its native Brazil, imagines a near-future in which ageing is quietly criminalised. Reach 77 and you\u2019re honoured with golden laurels, then stripped of your autonomy and sent to colonies from which no one returns. Blending dystopian sci-fi with real-world concerns about elder care, Mascaro\u2019s film stealthily world-builds, introducing government permits for travel and \u201cwrinkle wagons\u201d rounding up the elderly. Original. Humane. Full review<\/a> TB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 Directed by Lee Cronin. Starring Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-399759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}