COMING SOON
TEENAGE CULTURE CLASH
READY OR NOT (18) MOST cinemas stopped offering double bills several decades ago.
But with clever planning, you can keep this tradition alive by scurrying between screens at a modern multiplex.
If you fancy a lively pairing, I recommend following Downton Abbey with Ready Or Not.
Both are set in lavish country houses and both feature loaded families and loyal servants.
Downton will be busier, but this horror comedy is bloodier, funnier and only a tad more preposterous.
Here the big event isn’t a royal visit but a family wedding. Grace (Home And Away’s Samara Weaving), an orphan, is marrying Alex (Mark O’Brien), the heir to the Le Domas board game fortune.
After the ceremony, she has to take part in a bizarre ritual – whenever someone joins the family they play a game that is selected by a mysterious antique box. When Grace takes a card marked Hide And Seek, worried looks are exchanged across the table. As she seeks a hiding place, the family select antique weapons and prepare for a hunt.
It turns out the box belonged to an ancestor who made a pact with the devil.
If the family do not sacrifice Grace they will all die THE LAST TREE ★★★★
WRITER and director Shola Amoo’s stylish, semi-autobiographical drama takes us from the sun-drenched fields of Lincolnshire to the grimy streets of London.
It charts a boy’s difficult (15) by sunrise. Master-of-the-house Tony (Henry Czerny), his wife Becky (Andie MacDowell) and their spoilt grown-up children don’t want to kill anyone but know someone must suffer for them to enjoy their life of luxury.
Much of the comedy stems from the fact that they are all useless murderers. After the weapons journey to manhood. Carefree Femi (Tai Golding) grows up quickly after he is plucked from his nurturing foster mum (Denise Black) by his disciplinarian mother, played by an excellent Gbemisola Ikumelo.
He is taken to a council are doled out, one family member heads to the toilet to watch a YouTube video which is entitled Getting To Know Your Crossbow.
But Grace turns the table on her complacent assailants.
As in Downton, the person most determined to maintain the status quo is the butler.
It makes you wonder extremes Carson would gone to if Lady Mary shacked up with a plasterer. estate in south London. When we jump forward five years, Femi (Sam Adewunmi) is an embittered teen who is involved with a local thug.
The schoolboy is struggling to find an identity but he still harbours a sensitive what have had soul. In a clever touch, he has Tupac on the wall of his bedroom but The Cure playing on his headphones.
We’re never sure which side of him will win out, but great writing and touching performances keep us rooting for a happy ending. NEXT WEEK: The brilliant Joaquin Phoenix enters the Oscar race in Joker – a gritty 1970s-set origins story for Batman’s grinning nemesis.
THE WEEK AFTER: Will Smith’s hitman has to fight off his younger, fitter self when he’s stalked by his clone in sci-fi action flick Gemini Man.