At The Movies for Wednesday 30 November 2022

 AT THE MOVIES #903            YOU HAD TO BE THERE

 

Simon Morris warns against assuming an audience shares your enthusiasms, whether it’s haute cuisine, high stakes poker or cannibalism!

 

 

The menu is a dark comedy about a gala night at an exclusive restaurant run by a chef with a hidden agenda.  Starring Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Anya Taylor-Joy (Last night in Soho), and Nicholas Hoult (Tolkien), and directed by Mark Mylod (Succession).

 

 

Poker face stars Russell Crowe – who also wrote and directed it – as a billionaire gambler.   Featuring Liam Hemsworth (The hunger games).

 

 

And Bones and all is the Venice Film Festival-winning horror film by Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Call me by your name).  It stars Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as two young people on the run, sharing a disturbing secret.