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2/5 In Taylor Sheridan’s tale of a boy hunted by two assassins, Jolie plays a smokejumper whose heroism is oddly muted and comes too late 12 May 2021 • 4:00pm Angelina Jolie battles a raging inferno – and a lukewarm script – in Those Who Wish Me Dead Credit: Warner Bros
Dir: Taylor Sheridan. Cast: Angelina Jolie, Finn Little, Nicholas Hoult, Aidan Gillen, Jon Bernthal, Medina Senghore, Jake Weber, Tyler Perry. 15 cert, 100 min It’s no one’s fault that a whole wodge of forthcoming films, shot before the pandemic, may come out looking a trifle dated. Still, Those Who Wish Me Dead doesn’t have much of an excuse for feeling like it might have been made in 1998. Billed as a “survival thriller” and starring a weirdly underutilised Angelina Jolie, this is a musty amalgam of fire-fighting action flick, John-Grisham-esque conspiracy hokum and outdoorsy bonding adventure. All it lacks is a web search using Ask Jeeves. ....
From Jerry Goldsmith to Bernard Herrmann: what makes a great film soundtrack? As a Telegraph reader noted this week, the greatest film scores have long been intelligent and richly informed by classical music 16 April 2021 • 5:00am Can you hear the sound of Vertigo? Jimmy Stewart in the Hitchcock classic, scored by Bernard Herrmann Credit: Collection Christophel A reader’s letter this week pointed out the indebtedness of film scores to classical music. “Film composers may be awarded ‘best original score’ at the Oscars,” wrote Ian France, “but their art is always a synthesis of existing styles.” He singled out the great Bernard Herrmann, for his various homages to Jules Massenet and Richard Strauss (in Citizen Kane); the Bartók-esque rhythms of those diabolical strings in Psycho; and the striking resemblance of the love theme in Vertigo to Wagner’s Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. ....
Dylan O Brien in Netflix s Love and Monsters Credit: Jasin Boland Dir: Michael Matthews. Cast: Dylan O’Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Ariana Greenblatt, Dan Ewing. 109 mins Milking doomsday for comedy sounds counterintuitive, but it isn’t – in fact, maniacal laughter, in something like Dr Strangelove, comes across as the only sane response. But there’s a related subgenre for filmmakers to dabble in: the end-of-the-world romcom. Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg got it together in Zombieland; the very title Pride and Prejudice and Zombies speaks for itself. The bromance of all time kicked off between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Shaun of the Dead. ....
Denzel Washington and Jared Leto fail to bring The Little Things to life Credit: Warner Bros Dir: John Lee Hancock. Cast: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Chris Bauer, Michael Hyatt. 15 cert, 128 mins The Little Things, a wobbly police thriller, has been long in the works. It’s set in early 1990s Los Angeles, the same time and place in which writer-director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr Banks) wrote his first draft. There’s something admirable about sticking to your original conception and era after waiting three decades for lift-off. Firmly dating the story was necessary for one particular reason, too: advances in DNA matching have changed the nature of criminology since Hancock first wrote it. ....