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THE CAPOTE TAPES (15) ★★★
IF YOU’VE seen the Toby Jones and Philip Seymour Hoffman biopics, you may think you know more than enough about novelist and socialite Truman Capote. And don’t expect the titular Capote tapes to add much, either.
Documentary film-maker Ebs Burnough definitely overplays the importance of old interviews recorded with pals of the Breakfast At Tiffany’s writer. As they don’t contain any bombshell revelations, he gradually loses interest, focusing instead on fresh interviews with Capote’s adopted daughter Kate Harrington. For me, there was way too much talk about a party he threw in the 60s, but his final years of disco and drug-fuelled debauchery hold a morbid fascination.
■ On digital now
■ Review by Andy Lea
ASSASSINS (12) ★★★★
IN FEBRUARY 2017, CCTV cameras captured shocking footage of Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean despot Kim Jong-un, being fatally poisoned by two young women in Kuala Lumpur airport.
Grainy footage of them rubbing a nerve agent into his eyes, which played on the world’s news bulletins, was as bizarre as it was shocking.
This fascinating and rigorously researched documentary relates what happened to the two assassins, Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong.
Director Ryan White leaves no stone unturned, interviewing cops, intelligence officers, diplomats and family members to examine the girls’ claims that they were duped into believing they were performing a prank for a Youtube channel.
I won’t reveal what happens in the end but I’d advise against Googling their names. This is a shocking, heartbreaking and at times unbearably tense true crime thriller.
■ On digital now
■ Review by Andy Lea
GREENLAND (15) Preview
STRUCTURAL engineer John Garrity (Gerard Butler) leaves work early to prepare for a neighbourhood party with his estranged wife
Allison (Morena Baccarin) and their young son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd).
A comet named Clarke is due to pass perilously close to Earth, providing 24-hour TV news channels with an interstellar light show to broadcast live to the world. The Garritys and their friends watch in horror as a fragment of Clarke hits Florida, razing miles of heavily populated land.
As the gravity of the situation sinks in – the world is witnessing an extinction-level event – John and his loved ones are selected for immediate evacuation to underground bunkers in Greenland.
The family race against the clock to make a flight from Warner Robins Air Force Base and the fabric of society unravels around them at sickening speed.
■ Stream from Friday on Amazon Prime Video