Exberliner JAN: Flight, House at the End of the Street

Robert Zemeckis' Flight. Actual footage.

After saving the lives of 98 passengers on a doomed aircraft, a heroic pilot with a taste for the sauce (Denzel Washington) must fight accusations of in-flight-intoxication which threaten to destroy his name and put him behind bars. Robert Zemeckis’ return to live action film making- for the first time since Castaway way back in 2000- is a morally muddled affair which seems to preach sobriety while sloppily- and with zero subtlety- advertising the booze it looks to condemn.

The House at the End of the Street.

Elyss (Jennifer Lawrence) and her single mom set up in a new town only to find that a double murder took place in the titular house on their street; a deranged girl having slain her parents before disappearing into the woods. Elyss falls for the victim’s brooding son (Max Thieriot) unaware of the secrets he harbours. Unsure of where it stands, Mark Tonderai masquerades the film as a small town coming-of-age story until well into the final 3^rd. Terribly written, poorly executed and an unfortunate anomaly in an otherwise defining year for Jennifer Lawrence.