Film Releases 21/8/2014.

After missing a couple of weeks of film releases, here's a round up of what's coming out this week. A fairly exciting week for independent films. 

20,000 Days on Earth

This is the Nick Cave 'documentary' that has me pretty excited. I'm not a huge Nick Cave fan, I appreciate his work, but as a person Cave interests me greatly. I'm curious to hear his discussions in the film and see about his process.

Boyhood

Richard Linklater is a cinematic master. He manages to have such a wide variety of films in his catalogue. To think that whilst he was making Boyhood, he also managed to create two Before films, Bernie, and a heck of a lot of other Linklater classics. A cinematic must see.

The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Nope, surprisingly this is not a sequel to the Hugh Grant smash hit 'The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain'. Fans of that film will just have to wait in hope that one day a sequel will come. This film is equally as title spoilerly as The Englishman Who Yada Yada Yada but I guess this is more about why he climbs out a window and why he disappears. People have said this is a good film. I, however, am not one of them.

Freedom

On the back of the 'success' of 12 Years a Slave comes the first of many 'I'm a slave, feel sorry for me films'. This one tries to remind audiences that a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Cuba Gooding Jr. could act. I do wonder if this would be more successful if it was called Ikea though.

Locke

Locke comes out in select states this week with others to follow next week. This is Thomas Hardy in a car talking on a phone for ninety minutes. Apparently this is more riveting than the social experiment that was the failed Ryan Reynolds vehicle Buried. I am still curious whether Buried would have been more successful if Reynolds was actually buried under ground, you know, like his film career is.

Deepsea Challenge 3D

When James Cameron was talking about 3D films overtaking cinema, what he was really talking about was his ability to make 3D documentaries. This should actually be an interesting film to watch and is nice to see Cameron still able to continue his love of the deep sea. Sidenote: Given the next Avatar film may take place mostly under water, it's possible this was merely an exercise in getting an understanding of what deep sea environments look like.

Doctor Who Deep Breath

In select theaters is Doctor Who Deep Breath, the first episode of season eight with new Doctor Peter Capaldi. I am interested in watching this simply for Capaldi's presence and to see whether he slips a horse cock in there or not.