Daddy’s boy proves his originality
Sky Cinema
You could be forgiven for wanting to ditch planet Earth with all that is going on at the moment.
And that’s exactly what humanity is forced to contemplate in Christopher Nolan’s homage of sorts to Stanley Kubrick’s seminal sci-fi 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Once again scripting with brother Jonathan, Nolan’s head-spinning spectacular follows a group of explorers – led by Matthew McConaughey’s Cooper – going on a crucial space mission to try to save the human race.
In many ways Interstellar is a tough film to review as the less you know going in the better.
Worm holes, a frighteningly realistic dying Earth and the space-time continuum are a step up from your average blockbuster intellectual fare and, while there’s a lot of science talk, you’ll just about manage to keep up.
Linking up with Nolan for the first time, McConaughey’s family man
DVD
Brandon Cronenberg proves he’s a chip off the old block as he follows in his dad David’s body horror footsteps.
Showing a much surer footing than he did with his 2012 debut Antiviral – when he was aping his father too much – his sophomore effort is a much more original, disturbing piece of work.
Andrea Riseborough and David Cronenberg favourite Jennifer Jason Leigh are among the strong performers in this at times difficult to watch tale of a secretive organisation using brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies.