Your Sister's Sister

 

Your Sister’s Sister 2011

• Director: Lynn Shelton
• Cast: Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt
• Why? Possibly good
• Seen:  21 April 2026      

       Jack (Duplass) is a mess since his brother died a year ago and his friend Iris (Blunt) sends him to her father’s cottage to get his head straight. When he gets there, though, he discovers that her sister Hannah (DeWitt) is already there.

       Drinks lead to talk leads to bed leads to Iris showing up unexpectedly.

       It’s very talky but quite sweet. 

3* of 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

 

The Eyes of Tammy Faye 2021

• Director: Michael Showalter
• Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield
• Why? Andrew Garfield
• Seen:  20 April 2026      

       American TV evangelist Tammy Raye Bakker (Chastain) – yuck. And she was born and raised in my hometown. Yuck.

       Poor kid. Brainwashed into evangelism as a child. She grows up to marry Jim (Garfield) and they become TV evangelists. Make lots of money, get famous. Drugs and scandals.

       It’s so sickening I have to fast forward. Too bad reality can’t be fast forwarded. Disgusting people, disgusting organisation. How can people fall for all this? Is the film meant to make us feel sorry for her? It doesn’t. See them as exceptions in the evangelical movement? They’re not.

       Both Chastain and Garfield overdo it. Or maybe underdo it. Tammy Raye and Jim were probably even worse.

       And the evangelists march on. It’s scary. 

2* of 5

 

 

 

The Kindness of Strangers

 

The Kindness of Strangers 2019

• Director: Lone Scherfig
• Cast: Zoey Kazan, Esben Smed, Jack Fulton, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Andrea Risborough, Caleb Landry Jones, Tahar Rahim, Bill Nighy, David Dencik
• Why? Possibly good
• Seen:  14 April 2026      

       A series of vignettes about losers in New York, who through acts of kindness of strangers get by. It’s gripping and sad and unusual. It doesn’t hurt that Bill Nighy is in it. 

4* of 5

 

 

 

 

Kingsman the Secret Service

 

Kingsman the Secret Servilce 2014

• Director: Matthew Vaughn
• Cast: Colin Firth, Taron Eggerton, Samuel L Jackson, Mark Strong, Mark Hamill, Michael Caine
• Why? The cast
• Seen:  13 April 2026      

       Oh dear, a spy story. But what a cast. ‘Funny and violent’ are words often used in the reviews.

       Young, tough working class Eggsy (Eggerton) is recruited into the posh, violent, gentlemanly, upper class spy organisation Kingsman. Violent, yes, funny, not so.

       Fun to see the actors though. 

2 ½ * of 5

 

 

 

 

 

The Society of the Snow

 

The Society of the Snow 2023

• Director: J A Bayona
• Cast: Enzo Vogrincic, Augustin Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Rigliardi·       
• Why? Possibly interesting
• Seen: 8 April 2026      

       A plane crashes in the Andes. Among the passengers is a young team of Uruguayan rugby players with friends and relatives..

       The few who aren’t killed outright face impossible odds. Freezing temperatures, injuries, almost no food. How can they possibly survive?

       Harrowing moral questions, madness, despair, the cruellest of nature, and yet 16 of them lived to be rescued.

       The visuals are absolutely stunning.

       True story. 

4* of 5   

 

 

 

 

Leave the World Behind

 

Leave the World Behind 2023

• Director: Sam Esmail
• Cast: Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Bacon, Myha’la, Farah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans·       
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 4 April 2026      

       Executive producers: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama! 

       Amanda (Roberts) and Clay (Hawke) take a spontaneous holiday in a rented house near the sea. Late the first evening the owner George (Ali) and his daughter Ruth (Myha’la) show up saying they need a place to stay because there has been a blackout in New York and they can’t get back. Amanda thinks it’s a con and is hostile.

       However, something weird is clearly going on.

       It’s thought-provoking, eerie, atmospheric and too realistic for comfort. The acting is excellent.        

4* of 5   

 

 

 

Delirium

 

Delirium 2018

• Director: Dennis Illadis
• Cast: Topher Grave, Patricia Clarkson, Genesis Rodriguez, Callan Mulvey, Robin Thomas
• Why? Possibly interesting
• Seen: 31 March 2026

       Tom (Grave) is released on parole after twenty years in a mental institution. His father has committed suicide and left him the family mansion. He is convinced his father hated him for what he and his brother had done when they were children.

       He’s alone in the mansion and scary ghostly things happen. Either the place is haunted, or he is still mentally ill, or it’s all really happening.

       Not completely logical but spooky and entertaining.      

3 * of 5