![]() Yup, it's another anguished Marvel superhero, and Ben Affleck makes a decent enough job of him. Matt Murdock, blinded as a child in an accident involving radioactive stuff, grows up to be an honest New York lawyer by day and a radar-guided, red leather-clad crime-fighter by night. Chiwetel Ejiofor is quietly charismatic as the Nigerian Okwe, slogging away as a taxi driver and hotel night porter Audrey "Amélie" Tautou is a Turkish asylum-seeker working as a cleaner. A simple-minded, enjoyable comedy in the spirit of It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.Ī sympathetic and sensitive depiction of what life is like for illegal immigrants scratching a living in a downbeat, backstreet London. Meanwhile Cleese and his high-roller chums sit back and make big bets on the outcome. John Cleese's ridiculous Las Vegas casino owner sets half-a-dozen fruit-machine players on a race hundreds of miles to a New Mexico railway station where $2m is stashed in a locker: the winner gets the cash. a pretty risible pair of rubber gnashers. ![]() Canny Spielberg keeps the fish mainly out of sight, a horror lurking on the edge of consciousness, until in the explosive denouement it is revealed as. ![]() It's the heavy-bass John Williams score that instils the menace of the great white shark, feasting on holidaymakers in this terror-classic. Anne Bancroft plays Helene Hanff, who wrote a book about the wistful postwar affair of mind and heart and Anthony Hopkins is the bookseller, Frank Doel: both far too good to fall into brash American/diffident Englishman stereotypes. ![]() The true story of a spiky New York writer and an antiquarian bookseller whose literary correspondence develops into a warm relationship, though they never meet. More Hitch thrills with The Lady Vanishes at 2.40pm, and Young And Innocent tomorrow morning. Robert Donat is suitably confused as innocent murder suspect Richard Hannay, chased by the police from London to the Scottish Highlands and back while himself tracking dastardly spies and dallying with Madeleine Carroll and all the time old whatsisname, the Memory Man, holds the key to the mystery. This classic boy's own adventure rattles along at a furious pace. ![]()
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