MovieStyle: Across the uncanny valley

In this week's MovieStyle, our new guy Stephen Jones reviews South African director Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, a sci-fi thriller about a renegade police robot with the ability to think and feel.

It stars Hugh Jackman and Dev Patel — who plays the proprietor of a successful but once-seedy Indian hotel contemplating opening a second branch in the sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Our Piers Marchant handles reviewing duties.

There's also Unfinished Business, in which Vince Vaughn and colleagues Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson, jet off to Europe to close an important business deal. Hilarity is intended.

Meanwhile, in his OnFilm column, Philip Martin considers the movies he watches “off the clock.” And Karen Martin writes about this week’s home video releases in her Home Movies column.

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