Agatha Christie "Marple": The Sittaford Mystery (2006)

Despite not really fitting the image I have in my head of the character, Geraldine McEwan is a good Miss Marple - shrew and mischevious, her eyes positively twinkle as she contemplates twisted human psychology and murder, so much that you can forgive her spritely frame and impish energy - and even though she has been thrust into this adaptation of a book she didn't even appear in, she adds good value to the story, quietly solving a murder that takes place in a snowed-in inn populated with a star-studded array of likely suspects (Carey Mulligan, Timothy Dalton, Mel Smith, James Murray, and more, in a scenario very reminiscent to the one in The Mousetrap).

★★★☆☆

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Promising Young Woman (2020)

** SPOILER ALERT **

** SEE IT WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING IF YOU CAN **

Cassandra's behaviour, taking unsuspecting others by surprise, appears peculiar in the extreme and might be the product of a deranged mind - and possibly even a serial killer the way she returns home and scratches tally marks in a secret scorebook kept under her bed - but watch this excellent, very dark and often very funny comedy thriller and see how she is in fact simply mirroring the actions of problem-enablers and doling out shocking, terrifying, delicious, well-deserved truth bombs.

★★★★☆

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Drive (2011)

A likeable stunt driver moonlights as a getaway driver for thieves and even though you want to believe him to be a good and caring man, his involvement with some really very nasty people, er, drives him to some dark places in this rivetting thriller full of 80s stylings and low affect characters.  

★★★★☆

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The Great Gatsby (2013)

The camera sweeps around, never stopping for longer than two seconds, in Baz Luhrmann's overwrought, overthought adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, with the heart of the novel buried in too much of Bazzle's razzle-dazzle and, with the exception of Leonardo DiCaprio, the cast lacks gravitas, coming across like high school kids playing dress-ups.

★★☆☆☆

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