What's new in Odeon's this week : 30th April 2015.

Last week when Reviewing the latest cinematic releases to grace our big screens I spoke of opposites, but in a very different context to this weeks opposites - just two films that are diametrically opposed and vastly different to each other in just about every conceivable way. But that then is the draw card of cinema is it not? Not everything is created equal, and one man's meat is another's poison . . . as someone once said - profoundly!

Being resident now in South Australia's capital city, Adelaide, it is always pleasing to support a local offering and so it is with this low budget indie psychological thriller that has been creating quite a stir Stateside - let's hope it does here too! And then there is a love story of a couple in their twilight years discovering each other, their lives and that they can still have fun . . . together!

And so with just two new movies to choose from in the week ahead, you can choose either one of these or any of the great content still doing there rounds as Reviewed and Previewed in previous weeks and previous Blog Posts. Whatever you catch, be sure to drop us a line under this or any other Post and share your cinematic observations, thoughts and opinions with the rest of the world in the Blogosphere. Enjoy your film.

ONE EYED GIRL (Rated MA15+) - Directed by first timer Nick Matthews for about AU$1M and shot in and around Adelaide in South Australia and most notably in Mount Barker in the Adelaide Hills, this is an intense, thought provoking, stirring and perhaps disturbing psychological thriller that picked up the Jury Prize at the 21st annual Austin (Texas) Film Festival. Our story here surrounds a troubled young psychiatrist Travis (Mark Leonard Winter) whose mental state is on the brink of collapse following the recent untimely death of Rachel (Kate Cheel) with whom he had more than just a doctor/patient relationship. As he prescribes various medicines for himself to get him from one day to the next he finds himself increasingly unable to cope with life.

He encounters Grace (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) handing out pamphlets at a train station and becomes infatuated with her, but not enough that it prevents him from attempting suicide. First though he attends a self-help group as touted by Grace in the pamphlets she is distributing, and comes to the attention of Father Jay (Steve Le Marquand) - the charming leader of the group. Travis is then brought to an isolated community on Adelaide's outskirts to rest, rejuvenate and recover where he has to engage in various unsavoury rituals to become cleansed and rehabilitated from all the evils of the world and those living under his skin and inside his brain! When this 'cult' comes under the media spotlight Travis has to muster all his physical and emotional strength to rescue himself, Grace and his soul from burning damnation . . . well, maybe!

ELSA AND FRED - (Rated M) - set in New Orleans and Directed by Michael Radford this romantic comedy drama sees ageing but independent neighbours thrust together and forging a relationship, reluctantly at first, but as time passes it offers so much more. With Christopher Plummer as 80 year old Fred Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine as 74 year old Elsa Hayes the two are opposites but as we know opposites attract and in time they fall in lurve! Fred has all but accepted his life of inactivity, bitterness and resentment whilst Elsa is an outgoing, fun loving, vivacious, adventurous and romantic woman at heart. In coaxing and cajoling Fred from out under his rock, Elsa makes up several stories about her life to snare him in and keep him engaged, including that Picasso once paitned a picture of her which is now locked away for safe keeping, but, she has lost the key! Elsa also has a dream on the top of her bucket list, and that is to visit Rome and place  few coins in The Trevi Fountain, just as Anita Ekberg did in 1961's 'La Dolce Vita'. Does she make it and does she do so with Fred - you'll just have to watch? Scott Bakula, George Segal, James Brolin, and Marcia Gay Harden also star.

Two films only this week but plenty out there in moviedom to choose from. Share your thoughts of your film experience with the rest of our world, and do your bit to keep cinema alive - I know you will!

Movies - see as many as you can!

-Steve, at Odeon Online-