Advisor: Movies you should see this weekend
With so many film releases to choose from, we’ve made it easy by picking our three favourite movies released this week.
Thriller: The Two Faces of January
Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst star in the thriller The Two Faces of January. Photo: Supplied
Director: Hossein Amini
Main Cast: Oscar Isaac, Kristen Dunst, Viggo Mortensen
Genre: Thriller
Classification: M
Release Date: 19 June, 2014
Running Time: 96 mins
Antonia Acott for The New Daily says: Mortensen, Dunst and Isaac are all intriguing in this old school thriller that has touches of The Talented Mr Ripley.
Comedy: Frank
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Main Cast: Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Domhnall Gleeson, Scoot McNairy
Genre: Offbeat comedy
Classification: M 15+
Release Date: 19 June, 2014
Running Time: 95 mins
Stephen A Russell for thelowdownunder says: Possibly the year’s most surreal, yet perfectly pitched film. Oddly moving.
Arthouse: Good Vibrations
The feel good movie of the weekend, Good Vibrations. Photo: Supplied
Director: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Main Cast: Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Adrian Dunbar, Dylan Moran
Genre: Arthouse, Indie
Classification: MA15+
Release Date: 12 June, 2014
Running Time: 103 mins
Teri Louise Kelly for InDaily says: “Good Vibrations, the biopic of one one-eyed man, one ruptured city and one pivotal musical movement, captures the determination of the individual, the disenfranchisement of youth and the sectarianism of violence in a magnificently understated manner.”