{"id":419,"date":"2007-01-05T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T09:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/05\/cinema-picks-for-friday-5th-january\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T09:38:28","slug":"cinema-picks-for-friday-5th-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/01\/05\/cinema-picks-for-friday-5th-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema Picks for Friday 5th January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing to see at cinemas this week (provided you can cope with the extreme levels of violence) is Mel Gibson&#8217;s latest historical epic <strong>Apocalypto<\/strong>. Whilst he may have have a few lessons to learn about alcohol and race relations, he sure knows how to film a sweeping historical drama. Since winning the Oscar with Braveheart in 1996 and making The Passion of the Christ in 2004 he has grown into an accomplished director.<\/p>\n<p>The film depicts the experiences of one tribesman during the last days of the Maya civilization. After being captured and taken for human sacrifice he has to find a way to escape and get back to his village. It is a brutal and at times sadistic film but is also a gripping experience with a dazzling production design. It might not suit everyone&#8217;s tastes but credit to Gibson for using his money to make a film as startling and uncommerical as this.<\/p>\n<p>Also out at cinemas this week is the last film from the late and great director Robert Altman. <strong>A Prairie Home Companion<\/strong> is adapted from the long running US radio show and features a terrific cast with the likes of Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, John C Reilly and Woody Harrelson. There is a nice bittersweet quality to the film and in retrospect it is a nice swan song to the maverick director. However, despite positive aspects to the film it isn&#8217;t in the same league as his best work like Nashville, MASH or The Player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miss Potter<\/strong> is a biopic of famed children&#8217;s writer Beatrix Potter, here played by Renee Zellwegger. Although Renee does a mean English accent the film is sloppy, sentimental and wastes Ewan MacGregor in a poorly written supporting role.<\/p>\n<p>FILM OF THE WEEK: <strong>Apocalypto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/movies\">Get cinema showtimes for your local area from Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing to see at cinemas this week (provided you can cope with the extreme levels of violence) is Mel Gibson&#8217;s latest historical epic Apocalypto. Whilst he may have have a few lessons to learn about alcohol and race relations, he sure knows how to film a sweeping historical drama. Since winning the Oscar with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}