Apostasy (PG) ****
Dir: Daniel Kokotajlo
With: Siobhan Finneran, Sacha Parkinson, Molly Wright
Runtime: 95 minutes
DANIEL Kokotajlo’s British drama is set in the rarely explored world of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley) plays Ivanna, a mother of two daughters. Ivanna’s dedication to the church has been absolute, but as her girls come of age, mum’s loyalties are tested as never before. Finneran is superb in the lead role, ditto Molly Wright and Sacha Parkinson as the sisters. Just as impressive is the way writer-director Kokotajlo, here making his feature debut, handles a difficult story in such a low-key, but intensely moving, way.
GFT; Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (U) **
Dir: Genndy Tartakovsky
Voices: Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi
Runtime: 97 minutes
THE monster bunch, led by the Adam Sandler-voiced Dracula, return for a third bite of the box office cherry with this busy but underwhelming caper. Dracula’s daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) decides her old man needs a holiday so books the family on a cruise, much to his dismay. Could bubbly Captain Ericka change his mind about a life on the ocean wave? While the animation is typically slick and there’s a rousing finale featuring poptastic tunes, good jokes are few and far between. Like Dracula as the sun rises this is a franchise growing weaker by the minute.
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