Double Lover (L'Amant Double) (2017)

Like an add-on chapter to David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, one that no-one wanted or asked for, this François Ozon movie tells of mentally fragile Chloe's therapy sessions (read 'sex sessions') with a pair of pouty Calvin Klein-model psychotherapists - twins - and is a movie that quickly forgets that one of the twins that Chloe marries - the dowdy cardigan-wearing one - is driving her crazy with his secrets - but that must have been just to progress the story because lickety-split and before you can say, "This is not going to end sensibly," he reverts to being a model citizen, no hint of a lie, while she starts a torrid affair with the twin brother - the wild one with smart shirts unbuttoned to expose a hard, hairless chest - and from that point, things start to make less and less sense with the movie's raison d'etre simply being repetitive sex scenes including a centrepiece involving both brothers.

★★☆☆☆

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Airport (1970)

As if there were any doubt airports are the dullest places in the world to have to spend a few hours, here is the daggy 1970 drama Airport to drive - no, fly - home the idea, giving audiences an all-access pass to the very unscintillating world of Trans Global Airlines' operations out of a Chicago airport, with highlights including a "flight-attendant cam" scene that lets viewers experience first-hand what it is like to walk the aisle of a plane facing complaints from passengers about things like stale inflight snacks, and a bomb threat (a highlight, but mainly for bringing an end to the whole mindnumbing business).

★★☆☆☆

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Murder On The Orient Express (1974)

Given it is essentially a string of twelve or thirteen dialogues between Hercule Poirot and one suspect after another aboard the snowed-in Orient Express, scene of a ghastly murder, it is surprising how engaging Sidney Lumet's 1974 film version of Agatha Christie's book is, helped of course by its all-star cast and the fact the story is inspired by the real-life Lindbergh kidnapping, a crime that captivated and so outraged the world one suspects it would have even turned Agatha Christie's world famous eggheaded Belgian detective into a revenge-murder conspirator.

★★★★☆

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