Room (2016)

There are minor spoilers for Room in this review, although they are all revealed in the trailer.  If you want to know nothing, you should probably stop here.  It’s brilliant, go see it.

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To call Room harrowing is the mother of all understatements.  At the start of the film, we find Brie Larson’s Ma living in a garden shed barely bigger than a closet, imprisoned by ‘Old Nick’ who kidnapped her seven years previously.  In that time, she has grown to be dependent on him and has also had his child, Jack, who is now five years old.  Despite the circumstances of his birth, she has grown fiercely protective of him, letting Nick nowhere near him and raising him best she can in their horrifying circumstances.

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Frank

It takes a lot of balls to take one of the acting’s fastest rising stars and put him under a mask for an entire film.  Yet that’s exactly what Lenny Abrahamson has done with Michael Fassbender in his latest feature film Frank.  Written by Jon Ronson the film is based on Chris Sievey and his comic alter-ego Frank Sidebottom, who’s band Ronson spent time playing keyboard in.  Although in reality the only concrete link between the two characters is the giant mask that covers Fassbender’s face for the duration of the movie.  The character itself takes not just from Sievey, but troubled musical souls like Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.

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