Not Monday! Anything but Monday! Today is, according to science, the most depressing day of the year, except for that time you woke up naked in that barn. So, luckily for you we’re all about making your faces do the happy stretch. This week, get your French TV on with the the first ever French And British TV Festival at the Institut Français. Mon Dieu!
Haywire is a funny little thing, a strange mix of gritty action, suave loitering and lots and lots of running. Star Gina Carano is supremely believable as Woman Who Will Kill Everyone, but she never seems quite at home amongst Soderbergh’s splashy cymbals and stylish basslines. At the end of the day, just as Statham will never be Bond, Carano just doesn’t suit the slick-suited world of pseudo-spying – just let her loose in Dublin with a baseball bat and a score to settle next time, eh?
It’s all the same, but we’re never going to stop.
A jaw-lockingly sinister look at the side of modelling never really explored by Tyra Banks Co, Girl Model is a sparse but affecting documentary about the under-age beauty business, its victims and its beneficiaries. Director David Redmon does well to keep quiet, leaving it to his subjects to sketch out an deeply worrying world of exploitation and sexualisation.
Damn you, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea…
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