Monday

Mickey and Chloe on a motorbike

If youth is a party weekend, what happens when the fun stops? The answer is Monday – Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s glum follow-up to Suntan, another detailing of the goings-on in a “fun” place where not much fun was happening. I warn you, this is a slog, but it’s an instructive one, reminding one and all that good times are great fun and all that, but eventually clothes have to be straightened, facts have to be faced and the serious business of real life has to be engaged with. Chloe is a woman at the wrong end of her thirties first met in the middle of drunken break-up with some vile dude on the end … Read more

Thunderbolts*

The Thunderbolts group shot

What is that little asterisk doing at the end of Thunderbolts*? Yes, that one there. By the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 36th adventure all has been revealed. Or maybe not. Thunderbolts is both a sequel and an origin story tonally harking back to the MCU when Joss Whedon had a hand in it. It’s not quite as quippy and doesn’t reference popular culture as much as Whedon would, but it’s on his spectrum, and the film is full of actors who do that sort of thing well. Like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Harbour and Geraldine Viswanathan (underused, word of her upstaging superpower obviously having got out). Florence Pugh, though, Florence Pugh. She … Read more

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