At The Movies for Wednesday 1 May 2024

AT THE MOVIES #964                      STAR QUALITY

 

Simon Morris wonders if the star system is over, and audiences are now only interested in the movie itself, not who’s in it.

 

The fall guy is a reboot of an old TV series about stunt men which benefits from three suddenly very hot stars – Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Hannah Waddingham (TV’s Ted Lasso) and particularly Ryan Gosling (Barbie).  

 

 

 

Before dawn is an ambitious independent film Western Australia about World War One.   Starring Levi Miller (Pan) and Travis Jeffery (Heartbreak High).

 

 

 

And Golda features Dame Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as she leads her country in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.  Also starring Liev Schreiber as Henry Kissinger.