At The Movies for Wednesday 21 February 2024

AT THE MOVIES #954                                 1973

 

Simon Morris checks out three films with something in common.  They all take place in the mid Seventies.   They include an Amazon explorer, a Jamaican superstar and an eccentric New Zealand theatre troupe whose influence long outlasted them.

 

Madame Web is the comic book heroine who’s inspired a thousand memes.  Can it really be as bad as everyone says?  Stars Dakota Johnson (50 shades of Grey)

 

 

 

 

Red Mole:  A romance is a documentary about the underground New Zealand theatre group that set out to conquer New York – and very nearly did!   Directed by Annie Goldson (Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web). 

 

 

 

 

And Bob Marley: One love is a year in the life of the reggae legend, from the attempted murder of Marley and his family to the recording of the Exodus album and the famous One Love peace concert.   Stars Kingsley Ben-Adir (One night in Miami), directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard).