★★★
Three years on from Rob Letterman’s inaugural adaptation of the popular R. L. Stine Goosebumps books, a new cast and crew have been assembled to tell much the same story in a sequel. This one lacks its forebear’s ingenuity and zest but should still give youngsters a spooktastic, Slappy-dash ride as the nights draw in.
★★★
Perhaps all too aware that the memoir of John Callahan plays very friendly to his brand of no-hopers-done-good cinema, director Gus Van Sant tackles this adaptation of the cartoonist’s biopic Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot with a wilful, often alienating, idiosyncrasy. The film marks an admirable attempt to break Hollywood moulds and actually comes pretty close in the hands of its exceptional cast.
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Blindspotting | Review
★★★★★
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have said that ninety per cent of their first draft for Blindspotting made it to the final film. That means that the vast majority of the racial and social inequality attacked in this hugely topical production was penned in from the start. Diggs and Casal wrote Blindspotting – which is a film primarily concerned with nature of moving on – over a decade ago.
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