You can’t accuse Ben Drew, aka Plan B, of lacking ambition. In his debut film as a writer-director, he flits between numerous overlapping stories, and jumps back and forth in time, as he chronicles the lives of the crack addicts, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes who haunt a London council estate.
Ridley Scott’s muddled Alien prequel is, essentially, a remake of the original film with a far higher budget, a thick coating of pseudo-science, and a screenplay that seems to be cobbled together from a dozen different drafts.
If there’s macramé or anything vaguely knotty in a British film you know it’s going to be creepy – this country’s foremost genre.
RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) Conan the Barbarian This is a laughable, ineptly made remake of the 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger epic, with newcomer Jason Momoa as a barbarian bent on revenge. Rated R