through this week's releases
is jason sullivan.
what have you got for us?
this week, we go to beirut in 1982.
it's mad men in the middle east,
wherejohn hamm tries to negotiate
the release of a hostage
in the negotiator.
and there's a big goldfish,
an angry one coming up.
there it is, jason statham
getting his teeth into the meg,
and a prehistoric shark
is on the loose.
can he save us from it?
and we take a rare cinematic trip
to paraguay for a film
called the heiresses.
it's about late flowering freedom
found amongst older women.
so let's start with the negotiator.
this has been billed as sort of bond
or bourne meets mad men, in beirut.
that's right, bourne
is a particularly good example,
because it's written by tony gilroy,
the scriptwriter who wrote the first
four bourne films and directed
one of them himself.
so he's very good on the shady
operations of the cia
and the negotiations that happen,
and mad men, because donald draper,
one of the great tv characters
of our time, was...