Ruislip & Eastcote & Northwood Gazette
THE BOX 10 OFFICE TOP
(15) ★★★★★
IDRIS ELBA’S feature directorial debut opens in 1973 Kingston, Jamaica, a capital stained with the blood of innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of the rival Tapper and Spicer gangs.
Ten-year-old Dennis Campbell, aka D (Antwayne Eccleston), lives with his older brother and idol, Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary), who is determined to end the feud through the power of music.
Jerry organises a block party on neutral ground, but when a gunshot rings out he becomes the latest casualty of the turf war.
A decade later, D (now played by Aml Ameen) is
SEARCHING
A FATHER’S quest to track down his missing daughter unfolds in overlapping windows on a desktop computer screen in writer-director Aneesh Chaganty’s thriller.
Tapping into timely concerns about cyberbullying and social media peer pressure, Searching employs the same stylistic conceit as 2014 supernatural horror Unfriended and its sequel, to test the bond between a parent (John Cho) and 16-year-old child (Michelle La) in a 24-hour digital age where appearances can be dangerously deceptive.
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(12A) a lieutenant for music impresario King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd), who dispatches his best man via plane to England with a consignment of drugs.
D senses something is awry at the handover and he flees the lair of hardman Rico (Stephen Graham). He seeks refuge with estranged wife Yvonne (Shantol Jackson) and their child but Rico is determined to track down his man.
In a cruel twist, Jerry’s murderer Clancy (Riaze Foster) is also in London and D scents an opportunity to avenge his brother.
“This thing ain’t gonna stop until Clancy is dead!”
Sadly, for us, that’s true and the film grinds through the gears before an inevitable showdown. together evidence by following the distraught pater familias’ cursor as he clicks on video files, initiates a video conference call or makes several wrong guesses at his daughter’s passwords.
Every second could mean the difference between the closing shot of a funeral or a tearfilled reunion.
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