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If you fall inside hole and person hand you shovel, wetin you go do? The obvious but reckless answer na keep digging. Na there you go find philosophy of Digger Rockwell, the swaggering Texan oil tycoon wey Tom Cruise play for Alejandro González Inarritu bombastic satire Digger. Grey hair, pot belly, pale like corpse, Digger outside na opposite of the forever young Cruise wey people see dey jump between rooftops for Mission Impossible films. But both versions carry the can-do American spirit, wey no dey concede defeat under any circumstance. That attitude get downside, as we learn when one of Digger technicians call from oil rig for Greenland to tell him say methane leak don open crack for ice. (MA) 128 minutes.
I go talk this for Verity, the latest film adaptation of Colleen Hoover novel after It Ends With Us, Regretting You and Reminders of Him: e lay im cards on table right from title. Verity mean truth, from Latin veritas. E also happen to be name of bestselling crime fiction author, Verity Crawford, wey Anne Hathaway play. Her novels dey tap into her own thoughts, longings and anti-social impulses reach level wey her husband Jeremy, played by Josh Hartnett, stop reading them after first one, because he no want make perception of woman he love get tainted. Is the book version of her the truth, or the version he know? The story no be Verity own; narrator and central character na Lowen Ashleigh, played by Dakota Johnson, also novelist, but she dey very much for other end of publishing mountain. We first meet her as she dey do apologetically hushed-voice reading for sparsely attended book store, when one attendee phone ring interrupt. Sorry, the woman talk. Sorry, timid Lowen answer. (MA15+) 114 minutes.
There is unmistakable echo of The Brutalist about The Great Arch, another riveting tale about brilliant architect wey feel, with good reason, say people wey pay for him visions no understand am and no appreciate am enough, even as dem make the visions concrete. Similarities extend to trip to quarry for Italy where Carrara marble dey sourced, visual centrepiece for both movies. Big difference be say Brady Corbet film, wey win three Oscars including best actor for Adrien Brody in 2025, na fiction, even though e draw heavily on real characters, but the French movie anchored firmly in fact. Written and directed by Stéphane Demoustier, The Great Arch star Claes Bang, from The Square and Bad Sisters, as Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, the Danish architect dem select in 1982 as winner of competition to design major new building as centrepiece of La Defense business park for Paris. (PG) 107 minutes.
