Red Riding trilogy is the only new release worth seeing this week

With a great deal of TV dominating the new releases for the week, this is a very light week. The Pick of the Week is it. It’s part recommend and part Buzzed About.  You’ll see what I mean.
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This is the first film in a trilogy based on David Peace’s novel, which was produced for the BBC. The first installment of this crime drama series was directed by Julian Jarrold (BRIDESHEAD REVISITED). He brings a somber ominous tone to the material that puts an increasing weight on the shoulders of the viewer as it’s central character gets more and more bogged down in the corruption that surround the case he is investigating.

Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield, upcoming SPIDER-MAN reboot) is a young reporter digging into a string of child murders that have gone unsolved. His friend Barry Gannon (Anthony Flanagan, STATE OF PLAY) takes him to meet the mother of one of girls, Paula Garland (Rebecca Hall, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA) at first she throws him out for being insensitive, but over time she comes to realize that he might the only person truly dedicated to finding the killer. Barry gets an ominous warning that he’s in danger for his investigation into the murders from the mental ill wife of powerful businessman John Dawson (Sean Bean, LORD OF THE RINGS). When Barry turns up dead, Eddie begins to see the cover-up that surrounds the child murders.
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