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TENET
An American operative known as the Protagonist (John David Washington, son of Denzel) accepts a new assignment with cryptic instructions to perform a secret hand gesture (interlaced fingers) in conjunction with a palindromic code word: Tenet.
The Protagonist and his mission partner Neil (Robert Pattinson) find themselves tumbling down the rabbit hole of bullying Russian billionaire Andrei Sator (Sir Kenneth Branagh) and his wife (Elizabeth Debicki).
Tenet is an intricately assembled puzzle box inlaid with outlandish action set-pieces and eye-popping special effects, which visualise time flowing simultaneously in opposite directions.
It’s a rush of blood to the head that will inspire as many headaches as whoops of delirium.
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SON OF THE SOUTH
LUCAS TILL takes the lead role in this drama, which is based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.
Set in the early 1960s, it follows college student Bob, whose grandfather is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, as he sets out to research a paper on race relations.
As he learns more about such prominent figures as Ralph
Abernathy (Cedric the Entertainer) and Rosa Parks (Sharonne Lainer), he is moved to get involved in the fight against social injustice.
Some viewers may question the need for another film that frames the Civil Rights Movement through the perspective of a white character, but Son of the South is sensitively handled and well-acted.
■ Sky Cinema Premiere