Round-up of the week’s new films
(12A) 99mins
IF THE words "kooky" and "quirky" – when used to describe a comedy – make you excited, then you might enjoy this kooky and quirky comedy.
It's certainly a unique take on the traditional American college movie.
Gross-out humour and awkward romances are out, replaced with discussions about the aroma of soap creating a sense of happiness and attempts to start a dance craze known as the Sambola.
Greta Gerwig (Arthur) plays Violet, the leader of a group of girls who run The Suicide Prevention Centre at their college and adhere to a set of rules – such as only dating guys who are less intelligent.
Kooky ... Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody
Director Whit Stillman (The Last Days Of Disco) delivers a movie that is full of surreal humour – people trying to commit suicide by jumping off a one-storey building that's "only high enough to maim" – but the film seems so aware of its inherent cool that, ultimately, it's difficult to love.
RATING: TWO OUT OF FIVE
(12A) 101mins
IF you've ever watched Planet Earth and thought, "You know what? I'd enjoy this more if David Attenborough gave the animals names and made up a story about them" then look no further.
A\ll right, it's not Attenborough, but the dulcet tones of Patrick Stewart narrate this story of big cats surviving on the plains of Africa.
One story centres around Fang's pride of lions, another follows the amusingly named Sita the cheetah and her attempts to protect her young from the dangers posed by gangs of hyenas.
While the story element might draw in younger viewers – Fang is trying to protect his pride from the threat of his "greatest enemy", another lion called Kali – some might find the script a little overblown.
Like a river full of crocs being referred to as a place "where dragons dwell".
Still, it is beautifully shot – the super slo-mo scenes of Sita running are amazing.
And giving the animals names does make it all the more emotional when nature eventually takes its toll on some...
RATING: TWO OUT OF FIVE STARS
(15) 113mins
By GRANT ROLLINGS
THIS costume drama about a butler working in a 19th Century Dublin hotel for the upper classes is more about what goes on downstairs than any shenanigans upstairs.
And in particular what the ironically named Albert Nobbs doesn't have downstairs – because she's a woman posing as a man.
Hollywood star Glenn Close received an Oscar nomination for her performance as the permanently worried looking Mr Nobbs.
In this adaptation of the stage play there are a couple of moments where Close wonderfully expresses her character's sexual confusion.
The best is when Nobbs nervously steps out in a dress in public before running freely along a beach.
But these are rare flourishes in an otherwise constrained film where a fine supporting cast, which includes Aaron Johnson, Mia Wasikowska and Brendan Gleeson, get one-dimensional roles.
It's Mrs Doubtfire without knobs on.
RATING: THREE OUT OF FIVE STARS
(U) 89mins
IF you've ever watched Planet Earth and thought, "You know what? I'd enjoy this more if David Attenborough gave the animals names and made up a story about them" then look no further.
A\ll right, it's not Attenborough, but the dulcet tones of Patrick Stewart narrate this story of big cats surviving on the plains of Africa.
One story centres around Fang's pride of lions, another follows the amusingly named Sita the cheetah and her attempts to protect her young from the dangers posed by gangs of hyenas.
While the story element might draw in younger viewers – Fang is trying to protect his pride from the threat of his "greatest enemy", another lion called Kali – some might find the script a little overblown.
Like a river full of crocs being referred to as a place "where dragons dwell".
Still, it is beautifully shot – the super slo-mo scenes of Sita running are amazing.
And giving the animals names does make it all the more emotional when nature eventually takes its toll on some...
RATING: THREE OUT OF FIVE STARS
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