At The Movies for Wednesday 19 May 2021

AT THE MOVIES #838                     THE NEW 1940S?

Simon Morris sees parallels between the current war against Covid and the Second World War – both featured strong representation of women in their movies, for a start.  Like this week’s quartet.

 

From Netflix, two contrasting films about movie fans – The woman at the window puts Amy Adams in a deliberately Rear window predicament, while The Mitchells vs The Machines interrupts Katie’s trip to film school with a robot apocalypse!  Featuring Olivia Colman as an evil smart-phone.

 

Litigante is a sharp character study by Colombian director Franco Lolli.   A mother and daughter – played by Lolli’s real life sister and mother Carolina Sanin and Leticia Gomez – argue over work, health, romance and children.

 

And Those who wish me dead sees Angelina Jolie (Maleficent) return to the action genre as a fire-fighter trying to protect a child who witnessed a murder.  Featuring Aiden Gillen (Game of Thrones), Nicholas Hoult (About a boy) and a ferocious forest fire.