Inspired by this week’s main feature, Reegs took the easy way out and nominated the Top 5 Prisoners for our discussion. As it happens this was pretty fruitful territory as there has been one or two movies made featuring prisoners over the years.
With the release of Denis Villeneuve's DUNE imminent we decided to look back at his 2013 English language debut PRISONERS. A kidnapping thriller exploiting parents worst fears, with incredibly intense performances from leads Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal and able support from Terence Howard, Melissa Leo and especially Paul Dano, it's the confident film-making and gorgeously grey suburban cinematography courtesy of the Oscar winning Roger Deakins which elevates this film in the face of some laboured symbolism and plot contrivances which occasionally stretch credulity.
Co-created by Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi, the 1983 classic animation INSPECTOR GADGET was rebooted as a 3D CGI monstrosity back in 2015 and then streamed by Netflix from 2017 onwards. Set approximately 5 years after the events of the original series, this sequel to the original cartoon sees the clueless cyborg cop’s retirement put on hold until his nemesis, Dr Claw, has been defeated. We are asking the big questions this week: how did Gadget receive his horrifying abilities? Is he a man or a simulation of a man? What percentage of his head is taken up with storing helicopter blades? Can Gadget ever be killed? And how was it that the genius Dr Claw never realised his schemes are being foiled by a 10-year-old girl and her curiously surly dog?
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