Leigh and Tim clash over Greenland, the disaster film starring Gerard Butler as a father trying to save his family from a planet-killing comet. Plus, there's a sci-fi take on Dracula coming; the Wicked adaptation gets a new director; and prepare for Uno, the movie?

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GREENLAND MOVIE REVIEW

Leigh: Let's talk about how this movie stacks up against other disaster movies because it seems like we're absolutely tearing it apart. But you know what, I actually thought Greenland was pretty decent in terms of the genre.

Tim: Okay, well, I'm really keen to hear why you thought that, to be honest.

Leigh: At several points it had me wondering, genuinely engrossed, in how they were going to wrap it up. I was invested.

Tim: Okay. I did for a moment really lean into the whole premise around random selection; that was quite intriguing to me because only certain people were chosen to be taken to the secure shelter to protect the human race from the destruction of the comet. And this should have offered really great drama and the moral conundrum of leaving people behind and making that personal choice. How effective do you think they were in exploring that as a theme?

Leigh: It was a lot more character-driven and drama-driven than your typical disaster flick. Usually the spectre of the meteor or comet or whatever is a looming, far-off notion that just weighs on everyone all the way throughout. But in this one, what's interesting is that it was immediate and all the way through. It happens really quickly in the film…

Tim: True… 

Leigh: … and then keeps impacting, if you will, all the way through. There's the peaks and troughs that you get in disaster flicks; so, they give hope and then they snatch it away, and then they give a bit of hope again, and then they've thrown in some obstacles. That measures up, don't you think?

Tim: I hear you on that, and I think that it did attempt to achieve that, but I don’t agree…

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