silvio-mitsubishi

A remake that neither replicates nor ignores the original. Plenty of knowing jokes (New Chem High School, the St Roma's Village location, with both esses faded) and an opening animation that will feel familiar.

Peter Dinklage and Kevin Bacon having the time of their lives; Jacob Tremblay and Taylor Paige a solid rhythm section; but Elijah Wood in a sadly derivative role (Penguin / Minions bad guy). A band of musician assassins - think Insane Clown Posse / Slipknot - provide slapstick, and a subplot involving the primary villain being in hock to worse villains was entertaining.

No real attempt at moral nuance or intellectual rigour - I loved the doctor explaining the technical stuff - but great fun and well worth the time and ticket money.

A young visually-impaired schoolteacher rules her classroom ruthlessly and the men in her life even more so. A slightly disjointed story that doesn't always hang together but there is no denying the magnetism of the main character, nor the control she has over those around her, in her quest for a different life.

Shorts can avoid the traditional story arc of beginning-middle-end, but this goes further still. Holidaymakers on a Greek island lose internet and telephone communications; the ferry does not arrive; perhaps a few people are falling ill - is this the end of everything we hold dear?

A couple, bored with their marriage, try to find a way to escape the island, but order is breaking down in a very genteel way, complicated by the range of languages encountered.

Perhaps a satire on how dependent we have become on technology and predictability, and how incapable of improvising. Sadly, the idea of nothing happening has been done better before.