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On DVD now
Director, Ron Howard’s sequel is in many ways as good as the first movie, The Da Vinci Code. With Torquay in mind, there is an Agatha Christie whodunnit plotline. Just when you think you know who the good guys and bad guys are, Howard turns it all around and to good effect. When four Cardinals are kidnapped, there is only one man that the Vatican can turn to, Tom Hanks of course in the role of Robert Langdon. Being one of the world's greatest experts on art and codes, Langdon is quick to understand that a historic cabal known as the Illuminati may be behind the kidnappings. His problem is that as one of the Cardinals is being executed every hour he has little time to solve the crisis.
In good old murder mystery style, several suspects come to the fore. Could the Head
of the Vatican's secret police (Stellan Skarsgard) be in on the plot? Or what about
creepy Papal officer Ewan McGregor? There's even a shadowy Mr Gray (played by Danish
actor Nikolaj Kaas) who seems to be controlling events. Langdon dashes around Rome
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Zurer's role is the trickiest: she is very much the traditional female who sticks in the background until she brings a vital clue forward. This usually involves some 'antimatter' which has also been hijacked from the CERN facility in Switzerland, and while this is one of the film's more confusing strands (although faithful to Brown's book) it does at least lead to a grandstand climax.
Released on DVD Sept 14, Angels and Demons is well worth a rental and for anyone who owns the Da Vinci Code, sure, why not purchase this too and complete the set. Although, as so often is the case, there will probably be a third instalment to immortalise the movies in trilogy format.
On DVD now
The Boat That Rocked. Philip Seymour Hoffman, January Jones, Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans.
Is Anybody There? Michael Caine, Sylvia Sims, David Morrissey and Leslie Phillips.
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Review
District 9 (Cert 15)
From Hobbits and Orcs to Aliens crash landed on earth, this Peter Jackson film couldn’t be more different to Lord of the Rings. With no big name actors and documentary style production, District 9 is a little offbeat. However, the clever plot is strangely compelling making the movie very watchable. When Aliens crash land on earth, we (humans) cordon them off in a sort of shanty city, where they are guarded by a government agency intent on understanding their weapons technology. However, the Aliens of course have other ideas and try to escape back to their home world. Lots of action and excellent CGI Aliens. Well worth a watch, quite scary and gory for a 15 certificate though.
Film footage of Torquay in the 1920’s, courtesy of the BFI.
CLASH OF THE TITANS
Following the current remake tradition, Clash of the Titans adds 3D to the mix to help really bring those underworld creatures to life. The story departed somewhat from the original, but the broad concept was the same. Well worth seeing!
The second movie in the Twilight trilogy is released on 20 November. The second instalment of this teenage vampire romance saga continues the conflict and drama of a forbidden love between a vampire and a human and introduces some werewolves for good measure. If you liked the first film, this is one to see.
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver star in Cameron’s magical sci-