Suicide Squad, The Carer, Up for Love The Film Review

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To take us through this week's cinema releases is Anna Smith.

Suicide Squad, the film everyone on the internet is talking about the

moment. DC comics adaptation, super villains trying to save the world.

Margot Robbie stars with Will Smith and a host of other stars. Then we

The Carer. Ryan Cox plays a man who befriends his care. And finally, not

for love. It is a Franco-Belgian film. His digitally shrunk, the

actor here, to appear forfeit five. We will get to that in a moment.

Suicide Squad, lots of people want to see it. They do. There has been a

lot of talk about the fact that a number of critics have hated this

film and fans are up in arms. I am in the middle. I found it vaguely

disappointing although it has some merits. The setup is this. The

Government won't to face up to a new enemy and they go to these super

villains who are in high security prisons. Will Smith plays Deadshot,

who is one of them. There are laws with superpowers. They are all

gathered together and given lots of weaponry and sent off into

guaranteed danger. Let's look at the clip.

The injection you got is an Alnwick explosive. It is as powerful as a

hand grenade. You disobey me and you die. You try to escape, you die. If

you otherwise irritate or vex me, guess what, you die. I am knowing to

be quite vexing. I am just for warning you. Lady, shut up! This is

the deal. You're going somewhere very bad to do something that will

get you killed. Until that happens, you're my problem. Is that like a

pet? Yes. Grab what you need for a fight. Wheels up in ten.

That scene is the dirty dozen with superheroes. You have got it. We

have quite a fund set up where we are introduced to each one with

their own soundtrack. Unfortunately, this is the point after which it

gets quite dull. It gets into long extended action sequences against

enemies that seem a bit vague. There is the Enchantress conjuring up

armies, played by Cara Delevingne. All a bit odd. What you saw is the

best and worst part of this movie, Margot Robbie. She was quite funny

in that scene. She's a great actress and very charming. She plays this

character called Harley Quinn, a cycle Barbie type. -- cycle Barbie.

But she is basically a victim of abuse. With the Joker, played by

Jared Leto, she was his psychiatrist and becomes hypnotised and

enthralled by him. One of the criticisms is that these bad people

just aren't bad enough. They could, with a herbal It is like it was a

movie made by committee and what about. To return to the dirty dozen,

one of my ten great films, Delhi Savalas and others, they are pretty

evil people. It works as a plot idea. -- Telly. It is setup like

that and then it is a bit a let down. The Carer, Brian Cox. This is

a gentle paste registrar. But it is a certificate 15 with some choice

language. He is an ageing thespian who has a carer who is an aspiring

actress. The two former Dutch born. The nice thing is that you often see

these films with the grand mansion and romance. This is a platonic

friendship and a man who is vile to his family, led by Emilia Fox, who

is his daughter, but there is a rather sweet friendship developing.

Brian Cox is wonderful. Brian Cox is brilliant. One of the best things to

come out of Dundee ever. He is excellent. It really is his show.

There are some clunky dialogue and obvious expedition in here. Some

poor setups. But, you know, he is fantastic. The film is about growing

old, which happens to us all. The sort of On Golden Pond, that type of

thing, it sometimes gets to me, the sentimentality. It is on the

sentimental side. You have to be in an indulgent mood. The first time I

saw it... I can forgive Bangkok 's anything. He is terrific. Up For

Love. This is almost a shot for shot remake of another film. The main

actor plays a man who is four feet five and digitally shrunk. All sorts

of techniques, like body doubles, have been used. It is quite

distracting. The as a blind date with who is tall. The fault of each

other but she is kind of uncertain about it, especially when she

introduces him to her family. Let's look at the clip.

Of course, the unspoken joke there is that size does matter, actually.

It's a matters to her. Yes, and it is quite believe in that it does

examine that. She says, I love you but I dreamt that my Prince Charming

would look assembly. It transfers the lot of relationships. People

thinking, should I be searching for what I imagine in my mind's I should

I be compromising or should I not be so prejudiced? Being friendship can

be quite un-PC about that. It seems to have more fun when it is not

examining that issue, when it is actually having a bit of a laugh at

his size in a very affectionate way. It is a very open and one film. The

way that it is shot, he is five foot nine, playing forfeit five -- four

feet five, is a distracting? He's not always in proportion. It is very

difficult with visual effect to keep consistency because they are using a

variety of things. Actually, I felt, why not, in the spirit of the film,

cast someone who is actually four feet five? If they had a Hollywood

remake, beaded English could be -- Peter Ebdon -- Peter Dinklage would

be perfect. It is an interesting question. Anyway, The Commune. I

love this film. The Danish director who did The Hunt, tremendous

director. This is slightly lighter. It is about a commune in the 1970s,

and he should not abated because he grew up in one in 70s. A teenage

girl represents his character. It is not from her point of view, it is

from the point of view of the adults. Some terrific adults, they

are playing a couple who inherit this house and are a bit bored and

think, let's just have a commune. She's a newsreader, interestingly.

They decide to throw the doors open to friends and hippies. But it has

its cost. It is a funny and light film in many ways but in terms of

the depiction of her relationship with him, it gets quite dark and

interesting as she struggles to live up to the ideals that she is trying

to live by. This idea of free love. Can she actually do it? Commune with

a newsreader... It is my idea of hell. That kind of setting is quite

common in North Germany and Denmark in the 1970s. The period to which it

relates. It is. It is treated as quite normal. It is an interesting

insight into the time. We might think of it now as bed-hopping but

actually it is more about communal living. And males sharing their

lives together, sharing money. It is a very hippy ideal. The DVD is

Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures. Mapplethorpe, who was incredibly

controversial and eight US in the 70s and 80s because of the subject

matter of his pictures. Very exposed. Very exposed pictures. --

explicit. Lots of family and friends and former lovers, of which there

are many, talk on camera about him. I like the fact that they are not

the Reverend. Often you find people being too polite. Nobody is that

polite about him. You get a real picture and it is a very ambitious,

hedonistic man. Edi Delhi of aids at age 40 two. Extraordinary talent. It

raises all question of what is per Lord Rooker, what is art, Brazil

away at the heart of this? -- he died early of Aids at the age of 42.

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