TV
The Seven Deadly Sins
1 November
Netflix’s anime strand continues with this series about a bunch of knights.
Master of None
6th November
Best known for playing Pawnee’s hippest entrepreneur Tom on Parks and Recreation, Aziz Ansari has written and directed Master of None, an original 10-part comedy “loosely based on his own life experiences”.
W/ Bob & David
13th November
These days, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are best known for their roles on two other Netflix favourites: Odenkirk as Saul on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul; Cross as Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development. But between 1995 and 1998 they starred together on HBO’s Mr Show – aka Mr Show With Bob And David, a surreal sketch show that’s become a real cult classic in the years since. From the looks of this first clip, W/ Bob & David is mining similar territory…
Marvel’s Jessica Jones
20 November
The second entry in Netflix’s Marvel originals takes the noir stylings of Daredevil and runs with it. Krysten Ritter plays Jones, a young woman with powers who’s had enough of the hero game and has opened a detective agency. Working for equally tough lawyer Carrie Anne Moss, she runs across Luke Cage (played with real charisma by The Good Wife’s Mike Colter) and is haunted by the mysterious Kilgrave – an edgy turn from David Tennant. Jessica Jones is not just the first woman superhero to get her own title (Agent Carter doesn’t have powers), she’s also the booziest.
Films
The French Connection
11th November
“William Friedkin’s 1971 thriller set in New York is nihilistic, unapologetic and even racist. But it still feels contemporary.” Review here.
Nebraska
14th November
“About Schmidt’s Alexander Payne takes us on another unsentimental road journey about male disappointment” Review here.
The Voices
15th November
“Ryan Reynolds finds a creepy niche as a meds-skipping murderer advised by a dog and cat in Marjane Satrapi’s grisly thriller.” Review here.
Testament of Youth
16th November
“Vera Brittain’s 1933 source text may be one of the key works of 20th-century English literature (an authentic feminist voice amid a cacophony of male war novelists and poets), but James Kent’s handsomely well-behaved film has the air of a footnote about it.” Review here.
Love Is Strange
22 November
“An ageing gay couple are forced by circumstances to live apart in Ira Sachs’s restrained and believable film.” Review here.
Force Majeure
29 November
“Ruben Östlund’s tale of a couple’s disintegrating relationship in the wake of an avalanche is a triumph of calm detachment” Review here.
