The Cry of The Owl is a unsettling Patricia Highsmith adaptation (starring Paddy Considine & Julia Stiles) about a mentally troubled divorcee getting tangled up in a web of deceit and violence after being befriended by the woman he's stalking. It's a slow burner, building up the tension towards the final act and it certainly kept me guessing about which character was the maddest but I dunno the two leads, though competent, just didn't work very well together.
Heartless is a strange urban/horror/fantasy film with big ambitions it's just a shame it doesn't have the moxie to pull them off. Jim Sturgess plays a photographer with a heart shaped birth mark on face living in a nasty gang ridden part of London & after snapping some hoodies with big sharp teeth he stumbles into a shadowy underworld of demons and chaos with a big bad man pulling all the strings. The first 30mins are pretty good but it soon ends up meandering about, picking up poor actors and kicking over plot holes until it's too-obvious, slightly pretentious ending. Don't get me wrong it's a decent effort but with some editing and tidying up this could have been much better.
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