RYAN Gosling, who showed his comedy side at this year’s Oscars, stars in The Fall Guy, the most in-demand film for September from Moviola audiences around our region.
In this very funny action thriller, Gosling, looking decidedly more butch than he did either in Barbie or at the Academy Awards, plays Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman fresh off an almost career-ending accident.
Colt is persuaded to return to his stunt career when he’s told his ex, Jody (Emily Blunt), is directing a film and asked for him specifically. With hopes of winning back the love of his life, Colt returns to set only to find the movie’s leading man missing and production in peril. Ensnared in an increasingly wild conspiracy, he must solve the mystery to save Jody’s film and get one last shot with her. What could possibly go right?
The Fall Guy is directed by David Leitch, and is being shown at Kingsbury Episcopi, Codford (Woolstore Theatre), South Petherton (David Hall), Fawley (Jubilee Hall), Charlton Marshall, Hanging Langford, Royal Wootton Bassett (RWB Academy), Whitchurch, Hardington Mandeville, Frogham, Edington (Somerset), Hardington Mandeville, Bishopstone (near Salisbury) and West Camel (Davis Hall).
For dates and venues see the Arts Diary, and for more information or times (we assume 7.30pm), visit www.moviola.org
Another popular film this month is Wicked Little Letters, with the dream casting of Olivia Coloman as an uptight, prim busy-body in a seaside village in the 1920s and Jessie Buckley as the Irish woman who doesn’t fit into this rather staid community and is blamed for a series of obscene and insulting letters. It is based (loosely) on a true story, and is more popular with audiences than it was with critics. Go figure.
You can judge for yourselves at Hawkchurch, Beaminster (Public rooms), Chilthorne Domer, Trent (near Sherborne), Motcombe, Broadhembury, Ditcheat (Jubilee Hall), East Knoyle,East Stour, Cheddon & West Monkton and Martock (Parish Hall).
Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling story of how she and her husband re-wilded Knepp in Sussex, Wilding tells the story of a young couple who make a massive change to save the future of their failing, 400-year-old estate. They battle entrenched attitudes as they place the fate of their farm in the hands of Nature. Ripping down fences, they let the land go back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of wild and domestic animals. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.
Wilding is being shown by Moviola at Yetminster. Shrewton, Winsford, Shepton Montague, Kingston St Mary, Winterslow, Westbury-sub-Mendip and Netherbury.
Filmed in Somerset around Shepton Mallet, Swede Caroline is a hilarious mockumentary set in the world of competitive vegetable growing. Caroline’s prized marrow plants are stolen, and her life turns upside down, so she hires two private detectives. Catch this unexpected hit film at Membury (Devon), Kilmington Community Cinema (Devon), Donhead St Mary, Nether Wallop, Chard (Guildhall) and South Petherton (David Hall).
September’s other films are:
Vindication Swim at Churchinford, Calne and Halstock. the story of Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel, showing her struggle to overcome the cold Channel waters and the oppressive society of 1920s Britain, and how she had to repeat the swim after a rival comes forward claiming to have accomplished the same feat;
and One Life, the story of Nicholas Winton and his astonishing achievement in saving hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the start of the Second World War, on screen at Sixpenny Handley.
Pictured: The Fall Guy and Wilding.