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This refreshing, surprising ghost story opens with a scene that could come from an Insidious knock-off, as a family are driven from an isolated, affordable house by a spectral presence. Enter a character type who all too rarely figures in haunted house movies – handyman Jack (MacLeod Andrews), who fixes up vacated properties for the next tenants.
A kind of phantom himself, Jack is forced out of his own apartment while his building is fumigated, and is homeless because none of the people he tries to cadge couch-space from bothers to call him back. Having slipped into a kind of marginal existence, caring for places he has no emotional or financial investment in, he’s disconnected from humanity.
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of A Glitch In The Matrix, Falling, Malcolm & Marie, Rams and Greenland By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 5. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Falling
(Viggo Mortensen)
Mortensen’s first feature as a writer/director finds the actor shaping a simple father-son story into a powerful meditation on compassion at any cost. It’s not perfect, but it’s powerful. Mortensen plays John, a gay man who’s taken a week off to bring his ailing father Willis (Lance Henriksen) out west from his rural New York farm. Willis is suffering from dementia and rapidly deteriorating, and John is looking to make things easier on the old man – but Willis’s illness has only amplified the fury, misogyny and homophobia that drove his family away decades earlier. Falling is rough in the way that first films can be, but even when something doesn
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