In Cinemas: Friday, February 19, 2016 — Embrace Of The Serpent, The Witch, Lady In The Van, Touched With Fire, Race, Risen

Carbon Arc is doing a single screening on Friday night of Embrace Of The Serpent, the Best Foreign Language Film contender from Colombia.

embrace-of-the-serpent-poster

We’ve heard great things about the film, and so have others given that advance tickets are sold out. There’ll be handful available at the door, but get there early: Doors are at 6:30pm. Go here for more details on the film, and check out my recent Writer-in-Residence post about last week’s Heart Of A Dog screening here.

The Witch is a stylish new horror aesthetically indebted to The Shining, which is definitely to its credit. The film’s about a 17th Century Puritan family that find death and religious paranoia out in the bush. Go here for my full review.

It took awhile for this Maggie Smith drama to get here, but it has finally arrived, ousting 45 Years from The Oxford after only a single week: Lady In The Van is based on the true story of the friendship between a playwright and a homeless woman who moved onto his property in her van in 1973 and stayed there for more than a decade. (45 Years is moving to Park Lane.)

Touched With Fire is a passion project of its director, first time feature filmmaker Paul Dalio, and stars Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby as lovers trying to navigate their dual bipolar diagnoses. Here’s my review.

A biopic arrives with almost no buzz, the story of legendary African American runner Jesse Owens, and his achievements at the 1936 Olympics in front of Hitler.  It stars Stephan James and, appropriately, it’s called Race.

And, finally, we have the most recent version of the story of Jesus to reach the big screen, Risen, starring Joseph Fiennes as a Roman centurion investigating the mystery of the resurrection. Because we haven’t heard that story before. Feels tailor-made as a double-feature with Hail, Caesar

About the author

flawintheiris

Carsten Knox is a massive, cheese-eating nerd. In the day he works as a journalist in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At night he stares out at the rain-slick streets, watches movies, and writes about what he's seeing.

Twitter