THE BIG SCREEN
Doll maker Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife Esther (Miranda Otto) are devastated by the death of their beloved seven-year-old daughter.. When a local orphanage is forced to close, Samuel and his wife offer temporary refuge to Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) and her young wards. One girl unleashes a dark force to transform the sanctuary of the Mullins’ homestead into a scream-filled slaughterhouse. A Ghost Story is a haunting drama about life and love after death. Intentionally languid pacing will divide audiences, who are used to jump-out-of-seat scares from cinema’s forays into the supernatural. Rooney Mara plays M, who lives in a one-level house with her musician husband C (Affleck). He is killed in a car accident outside the house and M drowns in crashing waves of grief. She is oblivious to the ghost of C, who has walked from the morgue to the house, silently observing her every move. Hard-wired with 1980s nostalgia, Atomic Blonde is a kick-ass blast from the postglasnost past that diverts attention from a flimsy plot and questionable characterisation with the most dazzling hand-to-hand fisticuffs. Charlize Theron plays elite British spy Lorraine Broughton, who is press-ganged into service to retrieve a stolen microfilm in 1989 Berlin. Her contact in the divided city is renegade station chief David Percival (James McAvoy), who knows everyone and has his grubby fingers in various pies.