The promise of Marcus’s investment powers leading to the town being welcoming to the point of suffocation, when getting the hell away is all that’s on the leads minds. The film has some interesting things to say about the friction between the city and countryside. In no small part to the de facto town elder Logan McKay (Tony Curran) A more obvious film would have gone into violence and bloodletting with gusto, but here, while there is violence, it stays grounded. The slow ratcheting of tension as that mistake looms over Vaughn and Marcus is carefully played out. The movie does make it clear that they’re a long way from home, and that Marcus in particular needs to be a little less cocky, but this isn’t a bad place to be….until a horrible mistake is made. There’s the obligatory Heid tha baw* squaring up to the outsiders but most of the townsfolk are fine. Yes, the village is remote, yes there’s the possibility of Straw Dogs/Deliverance locals and yet…most of the people are fine. Matt Palmer makes an excellent job of not zigging where you’d expect him to without entirely zagging either. This is shown to be Marcus’ idea, his character the more cocky, flash city guy. Vaughn and his buddy Marcus are setting up for one last jolly before he’s lost to the world of nappies and night feeds, a hunting trip to the Scottish Highlands. It opens idyllically, with Vaughn (Jack Lowdon) and his pregnant girlfriend bathed in warm sunlight. Every action in this feels like something a real person would do, even as the tension increases. Calibre – (2018)Ī Scottish thriller with a superficial similarity to Shallow Grave, this movie stays more grounded with very few characters that could be reduced to easy labels.

What about streaming movies? What hidden gems or washed up flops are hiding under the “_ Original” tab? Lets see what is awash in the stream. As steaming services play a bigger and bigger role in the film and television industry, a lot of attention is going to their original content–but mainly streaming television shows.

Calibre movie guide