Typically good start to the year.
Saw All The Money In The World and Molly’s game this week at the flix. Enjoyed both for different reasons.
The former is the film where Ridley Scott replaced Kevin Spacey after the movie was in the can, when Spacey started getting accused of being a naughty boy.
They re-cast with Christopher Plumber to tell the story of billionaire John Paul Getty’s refusal to pay his Grandson’s kidnapping ransom.
Great film making and astonishing that they re-shot all of Spacey’s part. And actually seamless.
Molly’s game is an Aaron Sorkin talkathon set against an equally bizarre backdrop of a near-miss Olympic skier’s turn towards running high stake poker, and ending up in trouble with the feds.
Based on true story that I’d never come across, and Sorkin’s directoral debut. A bit too much info is spoken at warp speed but it’s still an intriguing story.
Both worth your attention, and if even 50% of each film is true then even more staggering on reflection.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – next week.
(I think technically these films may have been released in very late 2017. Whoops. But not at my cinema.)