This month's QFT guide is a look at Cornball's… sorry, Joe Cornish' new indie film, Attack The Block. Written by the best half of Adam and Jo, this is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. A London tower block is transformed into a fortress under siege and teenage street kids are forced to become heroes. Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block when she's robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She's saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang are attacked by a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage. The gang chase the creature and kill it, dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block, which they treat as their territory. While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time, the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade and nothing will stand in their way. The estate is about to become a battleground. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block's, only hope. Also in May, the theatre is celebrating the 35th anniversary release of the Martin Scorsese's classic, Taxi Driver, digitally restored and back on the big screen. The restoration of Scorsese's 1976 masterpiece, starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel and Cybil Shepherd, was premiered at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. The film is a dark rumination centering on one man driven to violence by loneliness and desperation, from an original screenplay by Paul Schrader. The film is running from May 27 to June 2. Following the release of this classic, the QFT will also be screening a digitally restored version of Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now, which has been painstakingly restored by Coppola's Zoetrope studios under his close supervision. The film runs from June 27 to June 18. Attack the Block is showing in the QFT until May 26. For more information visit www.queensfiltheatre.com for details.
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