Films for all tastes are coming to a cinema near you this month with a psychological thriller, supernatural slasher and historical spy among the best features on offer.
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Mauritanian), Rachel Brosnahan (I’m Your Woman) and Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) lead The Courier, which was well received upon its March release date in the US and will arrive here on 13 August 2021.
Directed by Dominik Cooke (On Chesil Beach), Cumberbatch plays Greville Wynne, a British engineer and businessman who transferred classified information between Soviet military intelligence colonel Oleg Penkovksy and the Secret Intelligence Service in London, who recruited him, during the Cold War.
With Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen) as the eponymous character, ‘Candyman’ will slash its way onto the silver screen on 27 August 2021.
Serving as a sequel to the its namesake 1992 film, this is the fourth instalment in the film series overall. One wonders how the horror genre will be adapted this time to explore issues that speak to society today. One of its three screenwriters is Jordan Peele (Get Out) after all. Don’t say ‘Candyman’ into the mirror five times; it may be the last thing you do.
Going up against it in a box office battle is The Nest, with Jude Law (The Third Day) and Carrie Coon (Fargo), also due for release on 27 August 2021. The film’s themes and setting were also positively noted upon its January world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
