THE LEISURE SEEKER (full review at Screen Realm)

Will and Jane Spencer arrive at their family home one morning to find their parents, John and Ella (Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren) have absconded in the family Winnebago, the Leisure Seeker. They want to hit the road one last time, to have a final vacation in the trusty vehicle of their family holidays, and to allow John, a retired English professor, to finally visit the house of his idol Ernest Hemingway.

Paolo Virzi’s, The Leisure Seeker, is a road movie which forgoes the usual odd-couple conflict, in favour of a couple who know each other very well. Long married and embarking on what they both know is likely their last holiday, because Ella is sick, and John is battling dementia. Which leaves an underlying sense of sadness to The Leisure Seeker, as we get to know John and Ella, we share the sorrow of their mutual deterioration.

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IMDB: The Leisure Seeker

OCEAN'S 8 (full review at Screen Realm)

Freshly released from prison, Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) teams up with her best friend Lou (Cate Blanchett) with a plan to pull off an elaborate jewel heist. Having spent the past five years plotting every aspect of their perfect crime, Debbie and Lou set about recruiting a team to steal an extremely valuable necklace from famous actress Daphne Kluger (Anne Hathaway) at the prestigious Met Gala in New York.

Ocean’s 8 is threaded into the Soderbergh iteration of Ocean movies as Bullock’s character, Debbie Ocean, is the sister of George Clooney’s character Danny. It’s worth it as an excuse to see Elliot Gould cameo as Reuben, but beyond establishing a thin continuity with the previous trilogy, it’s not that necessary. Soderbergh’s version (itself a remake of the 1960 Brat Pack movie) and the sequels, although fun, are unlikely to have left anyone believing the movies to be sacred ground. In fact, in these times of superfluous remakes, the Oceans series actually looks like a perfect candidate for reinterpretation.

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IMDB: Ocean's 8

THE BLOOD OF WOLVES (KORO NO CHI) (full review at Screen Realm)

The Blood of Wolves (Korô no chi) is a Yakuza movie from director Kazuya Shiraishi, based on a 2015 novel by Yûko Yuzuki.

Set in 1988 it follows rookie cop Hoika (Tori Matsuzaka) as he is assigned to partner gang squad legend Ogami (Kōji Yakusho). Their beat is the streets of Hiroshima, and they must mediate the uneasy balance of power between the city’s two powerful Yakuza gangs, the Kakomura-gumi and the Odani-gumi.

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IMDB: The Blood Of Wolves