Piranha 3D
Summer break. Babes in bikinis. Toned dudes. Babes taking off bikinis. And babes having their limbs torn off by ravenous fish and drowning in an ocean of blood. In the interests of gender balance, there is also a penis being torn off and devoured by said ravenous fish. In Piranha 3D, we have state-of-the-art 3D technology used to revisit the hokey effects of 1970 horror-comedy; it is a film that dives right in at the trashy end of the B-movie spectrum, and has a thoroughly good time with its vastly over-qualified cast, which includes Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott and Ving Rhames, as well as a cameo from Richard Dreyfuss. Laugh as you barf.
Lourdes
Blurring the line between fiction and documentary, Lourdes is a film firstly about the famous Catholic pilgrimage site in the Pyrenees mountains, and secondly about a woman who visits it with a half-hope that the magic of the place will bring her some relief from the multiple sclerosis that confines her to a wheelchair. Directed by Jessica Hausner, the film moves forward at a leisurely pace, letting Lourdes and its characters, including the shysters hawking cheap salvation found there, and a real concern for Christian ministry and the working of faith, tell their own stories. Hausner avoids any easy explanations, and though the film is too fair-minded to be dramatic, it has many other compensations in its thoughtful approach to religion.
Avatar: Special Edition
As if Avatar, which ran 162 minutes, wasn’t exhausting enough, it is now back with eight extra minutes that had originally been relegated to the editing room floor. The story remains unchanged and the additions provide no new insight, nor spectacle. Strictly for fans who want to spend a few more precious moments in James Cameron’s finely crafted if slightly gaudy alternate reality.
Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride
A massively popular children’s manga character who began life in 1990 in
a serial appearing in a Japanese
weekly magazine.
Crayone Shin-chan, with his inability to understand what the adults around him actually want, is constantly
getting into scrapes that have been brought to life in comic, television,
book and cinematic form over the past two decades.
Starting out from a simple domestic setting when first conceived, this latest offering has Crayon Shin-chin engaged in time travel and other exotic activities.
For fans and small children.
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