Film Chat

It's authoritarian capital city week on Film Chat! Danny checks out The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. the latest blockbuster taking up all the advertising space on the tube. The final chapter of the young-adult juggernaut features a bunch of sexy kids up to their eyeballs in the horrors of conflict, the war-crossed lovers dividing their time between wide-eyed longing for one another and preparations for PTSD. Sam opts for another film whose characters suffer under an oppressive regime, though in this case the setting is non-fictional and the budget is approximately one zillion times smaller: Taxi Tehran, in which a cheery film director moonlights as a cab driver in Iran's capital city. A drama in a documentary style, the film's series of sunny urban vignettes coalesce into a quietly passionate political protest. PLUS! The US Army attempts to drive it's enemies mad using LSD, piquing the interest of Jennifer Lawrence; Kenny Branham capitalises on the success of Cinderella by readapting Murder on the Orie