Jan 6th
Don't Look Up* (15)
(Curzon Colchester)

US 2021. Netflix/Hyper Object. 138m.

Two scientists discover a meteor is heading straight towards Earth, but the impending catastrophe is lost in the modern media circus.
Typically overblown American satire (intended as an allegory about climate ignorance), with its potent points about the Trump era and misinformation, although overlength and a closing element of pathos slightly undoes it.

Written by: Adam McKay, David Sirota.
Producers: Adam McKay, Kevin Messick.
Director: Adam McKay.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Leonard DiCaprio, Rob Morgan, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance, Himesh Patel, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, Melanie Lynskey.
Photography: Linus Sandgren.
Music: Nicholas Britell.

DON'T LOOK UP. Ironic casting to have the beautiful anti-Trump campaigner Meryl Streep play the most Trump-like of US Presidents (with added elements of Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton). Overloaded with stars including Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence (behind Streep and Jonah Hill), which threatened to blunt the message of the film, in a similar satirical vein to Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!