FRIDAY FILM BEAT: August: Osage County

This is a new feature we are adding to the blog. Every Friday, we will have the Friday Film Beat - a movie review which takes in the best of the big screen in 2014 (and hopefully beyond). This week, it's August: Osage County. This movie is one you need to see if you haven't already done so. The plot may at times be as hard to understand as that of Inception, but there's a reasonably good choice of casting, with one caveat: Meryl Streep probably wasn't the best fit for the role of Violet Weston - they should've picked somebody who a) actually has talent, b) was born in Detroit on 18 October 1951 to parents named Thelma and Eugene, and c) looks like the woman in the photo below: