Oban Phoenix Cinema

• 2018
• UK / US
• 1h 51min
• 15

• Directed by: Wash Westmoreland
• Cast: Keira Knightley, Eleanor Tomlinson, Fiona Shaw

Biopic of French writer Colette (Knightley), focusing on her early years and her wild days in fin-de-siecle Paris after her marriage to Henry Gauthier-Villars (West). Knightley is fantastic as the bisexual icon and the film becomes more playful as it goes on. A pleasurable rite of passage about a woman striving for independence.

• 68%
• 74%

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• 2019
• US
• 1h 44min
• PG

• Directed by: Dean DeBlois
• Cast: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Kit Harington, Justin Rupple, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, F. Murray Abraham, Gerard Butler

Hiccup (voiced by Baruchel) is now a chief with growing responsibilities, while Toothless the dragon is in love; but then dragon hunter Grimmel (Abraham) is determined to spoil people’s fun. The franchise is running out of steam; there’s too much going on and the central bond is obscured.

• 79%
• 74%

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• 2019
• US / Australia / Denmark
• 1h 46min
• U

• Directed by: Rob Schrab
• Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Stephanie Beatriz

Despite living in the Mad Max-style nightmare of Apocalypseburg, Emmet (Pratt) is still his cheery self—until his friends are kidnapped by the alien queen (Haddish). There are lots of good jokes and plenty of fun, but it’s not quite up to the magical original.

• 72%
• 65%

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• 2018
• UK/US
• 2h 4min
• 15

• Directed by: Josie Rourke
• Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, David Tennant, Martin Compston, Joe Alwyn, Brendan Coyle, Guy Pearce

Mary Stuart (Ronan) and Elizabeth (Robbie) would like to be sisters but political rivalry drives them apart. Ronan gives a sophisticated performance and Robbie as Elizabeth is a blend of nervous uncertainty and confident outrage. Over the top, perhaps, but its ridiculousness hits a raw nerve in the current political climate, where women politicians are attacked for dancing.

• 64%
• 60%

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• 2018
• US
• 15

• Directed by: Clint Eastwood
• Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest

Earl (Eastwood) is a prize-winning horticulturist who, when his business faces foreclosure, becomes a drug mule for the cartels. Despite a clumsy script (based on a true story), Eastwood the director keeps the whole thing humming along to a quietly satisfying conclusion.

• 72%
• 58%

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• 1954
• US
• 1h 42min
• U

• Directed by: Stanley Donen
• Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

When a backwoodsman takes his wife to his home farm in Oregon back in 1850, his six brothers realise they would also like to find wives.

• 74%
• 75%
• 88%

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