Something to watch tonight: Thursday 28 March

Source Code (Jones, 2011)

I’ll be quick as I’ve just got out of a screen­ing of Rachel House’s The Mountain – which New Zealand sub­scribers to F&S should def­in­itely go and see this long Easter week­end – and the 3.15 dead­line is looming.

Source Code was Duncan Jones’ high concept follow-up to Moon (which I was not hot on). I reviewed it for Capital Times back in May 2011:

Jake Gyllenhaal is a mil­it­ary heli­copter pilot unwill­ingly enlis­ted in a secret tech­no­logy pro­ject: the boffins can recre­ate the last eight minutes before a ter­ror­ist (that word again) event in soft­ware, inject him into it and ask him to find out who did it. And they can do it over and over again until he finds out what they need to know.

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It’s a clev­er set up and Jones (who will one day dir­ect a Bond film, I feel it in my bones) works it extremely well.

Also reviewed in that CT column: the import­ant loc­al doc­u­ment­ary Operation 8, Wellington indie Hook, Line & Sinker, Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison in a not-very-good his­tor­ic­al loc­al drama The Tracker, the des­per­ately unfunny Your Highness (“I feel I too went on a quest – to the sum­mit of Mt Dismal. Where’s my prize?”) and a doc­u­ment­ary called Babies.

Where to watch Source Code

Aotearoa: Streaming on TVNZ+ (freee with ads)

Australia: Digital rent­al from the usu­al out­lets (except Apple)

Canada: Streaming on Hollywood Suite On Demand

USA: Streaming on Showtime

UK: Streaming on Netflix or Studiocanal Presents

Editor’s note

I’d love to take cred­it for how clev­er I was choos­ing the last two fea­tured images but it was entirely accidental:

Also, a remind­er that there’ll be no Friday reviews news­let­ter tomor­row as it is a pub­lic hol­i­day. I’ll be back on Tuesday with anoth­er recommendation.