The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
Leonard Cohen in love
MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE
In the Sixties, documentarist Nick Broomfield and Leonard Cohen shared a girlfriend on the Greek island of Hydra: this was Marianne Ihlen, who died just three months before Cohen did in 2016. Broomfield brings us a tender account of their long-range love story.
12A cert, 102 min
HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE
Lifting its plot from the Rotten Romans instalment of Terry Deary’s books, this intermittently entertaining if cloddish children’s film features the likes of Derek Jacobi and Kim Cattrall.
PG cert, 92 min
THE CURRENT WAR
This prestige piece about the race to harness electricity stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison, Michael Shannon as his rival George Westinghouse, and Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla. Despite the cast’s efforts, there’s a clanking irrelevancy at its core. 12A cert, 108 min