Set in the dismally fledgling British settlement of Jamestown in 1607, Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line) examines how the march of civilisation debases the natural world. The Native Americans, who allow the struggling British to stay one winter on the proviso they leave the following spring, are at ease with the environment. The settlers, who break their word, impose themselves; the first time the indigenous warriors see a wooden fort wall they are mystified. The crossing point between them is John Smith (Colin Farrell), a soldier taken captive by the Native Americans, whose life is summarily saved by a chief's daughter, Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher). The two can barely communicate, but love blooms. Their wordless reverie is second nature to Malick, who transposes their thoughts and physical affection, before Pocahontas enters the European world, marrying tobacco farmer John Rolfe (Christian Bale) and travelling far from nature's embrace. Craig Mathieson

MOVIE
Logan Lucky (2017)
Stan (streaming)

Swapping the Las Vegas of the Ocean's trilogy for a NASCAR race in North Carolina, Steven Soderbergh delivers a hillbilly heist flick that is meticulously constructed, right down to the storytelling deceptions that keep you one step off the pace. The perpetrators are the down on their heels Logan clan – Jimmy (Channing Tatum), Clyde (Adam Driver), and Mellie (Riley Keough) – who are reputedly unlucky (Clyde lost a hand serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army). They are accent-heavy rednecks, although Soderbergh doesn't dig into political allegiances. Instead he lets Daniel Craig have some fun on screen for the first time in years, playing an explosives expert, Joe Bang, who needs to be sprung from jail so he can help out. The machinations are deadpan and the revelations smooth, so much so that you wish the plot had a genuine antagonist to wind up the robbers. CM