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Buster (7/10) is a cockney crime drama in a similar vein to McVicar, based on the story of Buster Edwards who was a minor player in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Phil Collins plays Buster in what must be for him a rare dramatic leading role. His cheerful, cheeky constitution is well suited to the part Buster, the so-called 'lucky thief'. Julie Walters plays his wife June and the film's best scenes come when the two flee to Mexico and she cannot bear how different it is from her dear old East End: it's hot! The food's too spicy! It doesn't rain! etc.
A Cock and Bull Story (8/10) is a kind of film inside a film inside another film starring comics Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. They play versions of themselves as well as characters in a period costume drama being shot at a huge country mansion.
The Rules of Attraction (6/10) is a, pseudo hip and cool (and shockingly amoral) college sex romp starring bullet-headed Dawson from Dawson's creek (James Van Der Beek) and long-dead Boone from Lost (Ian Somerhalder). There's plenty to look at from a technical standpoint because the film is at times wildly - and mostly successfully - innovative and experimental. That's fine up to a point but every film needs a way in - some sort of sympathetic or at least identifiable character - and this film doesn't have that. Every character's a dickhead. Also, it feels very dated - like a film from the 90s - even though it's only seven years old.
A Serious Man (?/10) is a film I don't think I can write about or rate out of ten until I see it again.
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