We’ve just finished watching The Escapist and I can’t stop thinking about it – don’t you just love it when a movie does that to you!? I wouldn’t have thought this would be my kind of film, and I wouldn’t have watched it if it had been my pick tonight, but Charlotte fancied the look of it and it was on special offer through FilmFlex. It’s a prison escape drama thing-a-my-bob, sort of like a UK version of The Shawshank Redemption but, if you ask me, much more intelligent and thought provoking and I wouldn’t characterise The Escapist as a ‘feel-good’ movie. Charlotte, in the end, wasn’t too impressed with it, and I did have my doubts throughout the first act of the film, but it’s kind of told in reverse and the more it went on the more it came together in to something surprisingly wonderful with an ending that was both happy and sad, and extremely rewarding.

Check out the trailer on YouTube below, or rent it now on FilmFlex if you have Virgin – it’s cheap for the next three days.