Miami Vice
I saw the trailer for this online and it didn’t really hit, but I saw it at the cinema and now I get it. Michael Mann was the executive producer on the original TV series, and returns as the writer, director and producer for the feature film. Jamie Foxx steps in as Tubs and Colin Farrell (sporting a dodgy-looking mustache) takes up the role of Sonny. Mann certainly has the quality to pull this off, both in terms of looks and action. The question is whether there’s enough story to back up the visuals or whether it’s just postering.
Marie Antoinette
Typically, not a movie that I would have said had a huge amount to draw me to it, but its written and directed by Sofia Coppola and I really like Lost in Translation, and that makes it interesting. It details the life of Marie, who was famously beheaded and who everyone seems to know said ‘let them eat cake’ (not, in fact, accurate). Other than that I know very little about her and, as someone who became queen of France at 19, perhaps there’s some room for exploration there.
RV
Robin Williams seems to fire on and off with his films, one minute so funny, so energetic and so mesmerising you could just leave the camera rolling and let him do whatever he wanted and you’d end up with a movie worth watching, yet he can also bring great gravatas to a role, digging the humanity and making the crazy seem real. RV is more conventional comedy, with a family that has drifted apart trying to get back together through the mutual experience of doing something foreign (going on an RV trip).
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