Bright Hill Road: 3
LOCKED DOWN: A lot of movie recommendations these days seek to take your mind off COVID-19. Not this film. Instead of escape, you watch people put up with it. You feel the restrictions and boredom. You watch online meetings and laptop chats and bristling arguments between two people (played by Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor) who no longer want to be together, but are stuck cooped up for the time being. He’s morose; complains about “the psychological hell-chain … the screw of isolation.” She’s “disgusted” with her management job after being ordered to lay off her best people (via Zoom, of course). The film’s depiction of life right now is accurate and timely, except the 7 p.m. pot-banging is still going on. Maybe it lasted longer in London, where this film is set.
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including Tom Hanks in News Of The World, Regina King s One Night In Miami and buzzy Sundance hit Promising Young Woman By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie
Jan 15, 2021
NOW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of January 15. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
News Of The World
(Paul Greengrass)
Set five years after the Civil War, Greengrass’s prestige-minded Western stars Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kidd, a former Confederate officer who wanders America as a sort of travelling town crier, performing theatrical readings of newspaper stories. Things grow more complicated when Kidd decides to return preteen Johanna (Helena Zengel), a German immigrant raised among the Kiowa people since infancy, to the family she’s never known. Stately in its pacing, and just cynical enough about America to pass for contemporary commentary, News Of The World plays just fine when it zooms in o
‘Rock Camp: The Movie’ and ‘My Little Sister’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio For all of those weekend warrior musicians, the new film “Rock Camp: The Movie” provides a summer camp-meets-”Spinal Tap” experience.
The documentary feature wannabe rock stars from around the world meeting and learning from their heroes and camp counselors such as Roger Daltrey, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Jeff Beck and Slash. It premiers online Jan. 15, via virtual screening rooms at both The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas.
‘Nightshift’ and ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio The Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee, the Capitol and Chagrin Cinemas) beginning Jan. 8 will be screening a new film, “Nightshift.”
Not to be confused with 2018 horror film “Nightshift” (or Ron Howard’s ’80s comedy “Night Shift”), director Anne Fontaine’s new suspenseful drama finds three Parisian cops forced to accept an unusual mission to escort a foreigner to the border.
After discovering the prisoner risks death if he returns to his country, one of the officers struggles with the moral dilemma.