[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Movie Group’s choice of films for Tuesday 22 November 2016 are:
10.15am – Hacksaw Ridge
10.00am – I, Daniel Blake
10.30am – Nocturnal Animals
We can meet in the foyer or at the tables outside for a coffee before the films to decide which film you wish to see.
Afterwards we usually go for a light lunch or drink to the ECQ Bar Hacienda with the lovely view of the harbour in the Pullman Quay hotel (3nd floor, entrance from the quay).
Please buy your own ticket.
Please let me know if you can come and if you are able to stay for lunch.
Hope to see you on Tuesday.
Ann Wilson at [email protected]
HACKSAW RIDGE
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
‘Rotten Tomatoes’ gives it 85% – “It’s a blunt-force, but highly effective treatise on the horrors of war as well as those who rise above the brutality to maintain as much humanity as one can on a battlefield”.
I, DANIEL BLAKE
A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
‘Rotten Tomatoes’ gives it a whopping 91% – “A climactic emotional explosion momentarily turns Daniel into something of a working-class hero, although Loach could take up that mantle himself.”
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
A woman named Susan receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband — a man she left 20 years earlier — asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor whose family vacation turns violent.
‘Rotten Tomatoes’ gives it 75% – “Performances across the board are completely attuned to the unusual structure of the screenplay, and convey both a despair and hope that only intensifies as the ending comes into view.”
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