The Devil Wears Prada 2 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606<\/p>\n
Directed by David Frankel. Starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci. PG cert, gen release, 119 min<\/p>\n
So-so reteaming of the squad from part one that leans a little too heavily into fan service. Andy (Hathaway) is back working for Miranda (Streep) as they struggle with the harsh realities of the digital age. The clothes are great. The montages swing. The drones whoosh. For all those elaborately simple pleasures, it does feel as if much air has left the balloon. So keen are they on humanising Miranda that they have drafted in Kenneth Branagh as barely ambulatory love interest. By the close she has been sufficiently defanged to barely register as antagonist. Full review<\/a> DC<\/b><\/p>\n Hokum \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by Damian McCarthy. Starring Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Michael Patric, Will O\u2019Connell, Brendan Conroy, Austin Amelio. 15A cert, gen release, 108 min <\/p>\n Scott excels as a novelist who retreats to an isolated Irish hotel to scatter his parents\u2019 ashes. The location comes with its own folklore: a honeymoon suite that harbours a witch. With Oddity, the Irish director Damian McCarthy confirmed his worth as a craftsman of unnerving precision. With Hokum he similarly juggles competing themes and evils into a rangy, disconcerting new animal with a folkish, rabbity form. This is not horror gussied up as allegory or prestige: it is, pleasingly, a straight ghost story, executed with a welcome a swipe at misogyny and a sly sense of fun. Full review<\/a> TB<\/b><\/p>\n The Song Cycle \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by Nick Kelly. Featuring Nick Kelly, Se\u00e1n Millar. 12A cert, limited release, 85 min<\/p>\n A lovely film that makes the most of a simple premise. Nick Kelly, late of The Fat Lady Sings, decides to cycle all the way from Dublin to Glastonbury to play an early slot in one of the British music festival\u2019s less roomy venues. The motivation is partly environmental. It is also about personal landmarks. He will fulfil a lifetime\u2019s ambition to play Glasto on his 60th birthday (not that you would know his age to look at him). If this doc counts as a personal indulgence then it is one that allows others entry. Funny, wise, sweet. Full review<\/a> DC<\/b><\/p>\n Reflection in a Dead Diamond \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cattet and Bruno Forzani. Starring Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, Thi Mai Nguyen, C\u00e9line Camara. No cert, Triskel Cork, 87 min<\/p>\n H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cattet and Bruno Forzani have fashioned a fascinating art-house career by pulling the stuffing out of various genres. Reflection in a Dead Diamond offers a gleeful shaken-not-stirred fragmentation of the Bond film, a vertiginous, high-gloss fantasia replete with casino wheels, assassins, improbable weapons and yachts. Inevitably, the Belgian duo have crafted the most convincing \u201cBond film\u201d since A View to a Kill, albeit one blasted to smithereens and giddily reassembled. Image and sound keep shamelessly bouncing into the red. The experience is exhilarating, even if the jostling crowd of signifiers leave little room for emotional anchoring. Full review<\/a> TB<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Devil Wears Prada 2 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 Directed by David Frankel. 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