Friday, 11 September 2009

Everything But The Kitchen Sink














New Releases: Friday, September 11, 2009

All hail Fish Tank, the grim Essex-set drama from Oscar-winning documentary maker Andrea Arnold (once a presenter on '80s Tiswas-like Saturday morning romp No. 73), which the broadsheets have lapped up — none more than the compulsorily socially-aware Guardian, which anoints Arnold "Ken Loach's natural successor." Praise too, for Greg Mottola's Adventureland, a college coming-of-age comedy which, says The Times, as "an example of the genre takes your breath away."

Julia & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, about pioneering US TV chef Julia Child, wins plaudits, but not universally, The Independent's Anthony Quinn damning it with the faint praise of being "not objectionable". National releases also include panned gross-out comedy Miss March and sci-fi actioner Gamer, starring the questionably ubiquitous Gerard Butler, which opens midweek.

Of the limited releases this week, nice to see the return of The Thing, John Carpenter's 1982 Alien-style shocker, dismissed in its day but rehabilitated as an overlooked sci-fi classic.

All the week's reviews follow below ...

Adventureland

Fish Tank

Gamer

Julie & Julia

Miss March

Audio reviews: Five Live

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