In a week when I discounted the main release that was Man of Steel, I found myself at Senior Screen on a Wednesday morning to see Safe Haven. Avoiding superheros and horrible comedies, there are so few dramas that when one that falls into the romantic category, I am always a little wary. At least this one looked really good on the screen, but a predictable story had the biggest crazy twist at the end of any movie I can remember.
It is not very often that a blockbuster comes with a 15 Certificate, so World War Z does not pander to a younger audience. A zombie disaster movie on a huge scale, it pulled no punches. As predicted, a pretty flimsy story has Brad Pitt travelling the world in an attempt to solve the mystery of how the virus started. It says everything that the climax is in Cardiff of all places, complete with Peter Capaldi as a world health doctor. However, the director Marc Forster does his best with some epic set pieces, and it all goes to make for a passable couple of hours.
Much more to my liking was The East, where Brit Marling works for an elite security firm and goes undercover at a group who are making revenge attacks against corporations who they believe have committed crimes. It works well in it's ambiguous contradictions and while highlighting corporate greed, it also questions the motives of the anarchists who include Alexander Skarsgard and the terrific Ellen Page. Written by Brit Marling herself with the director Zal Batmanglij, this is an interesting movie with things to say, while at the same time being a good thriller
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