Movie of the Week

• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Cinemas

• The Secret Agent
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Wasteman
• Cold Storage
• The Moment
• EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
• Collective Monologue
• Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare

Re-Releases

• A Knight’s Tale

CAST: Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor, Juno Temple, Dino Fetscher, Anna Acton, Daniel Barnett, Dominique Maher, Adam Burton, Georgia Goodman

CREW: Gore Verbinski (director), Matthew Robinson (writer), Denise Chamian, Robert Kulzer, Oliver Obst, George Parra and Erwin Stoff (producers), Geoff Zanelli (composer), James Whitaker (cinematographer), Craig Wood (editor)

PLOT: One evening at a Los Angeles diner, a strange man (Rockwell) who claims to be from the future recruits its reluctant patrons for a one-night quest to save the world from the imminent threat of a rogue artificial intelligence…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• After ten years away from the director’s chair, Gore Verbinski returns with a bonkers sci-fi action comedy that plays heavily into the filmmaker’s irreverent style
• The director assembles a stellar ensemble cast, led by Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell and also featuring character actors Michael Peña, Asim Chaudhry and Juno Temple
• Verbinski is working from a script by Matthew Robinson, which has been likened to Everything Everywhere All at Once for its genre-bending narrative and surprisingly deep themes
• Given its subject matter, expect some sharp social commentary on the current rise of AI and how far it could truly go, even if it is to catastrophic lengths
• Audiences are bound to have an irreverently fun time as they get lost within Verbinski’s much-missed directorial vision

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Wagner Moura, Alice Carvalho, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Isabél Zuaa, Udo Kier, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria, Robério Diógenes, Roney Villela, Hermila Guedes, Laura Lufési, Thomás Aquino, Italo Martins, Igor de Araújo, Kaiony Venâncio, João Vitor Silva, Enzo Nunes

CREW: Kleber Mendonça Filho (director, writer, producer), Emilie Lesclaux and Wagner Moura (producers), Mateus Alves and Tomaz Alves Souza (composers), Evgenia Alexandrova (cinematographer), Matheus Farias and Eduardo Serrano (editors)

PLOT: In 1977 Brazil, during the midst of the country’s military dictatorship, former professor Armando (Moura) seeks political refuge in his home city of Recife, only to find that peace does not come easy anywhere he goes…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The latest Brazilian epic from filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho is a hugely entertaining historical drama that dives deep into the corruption of the country’s former authoritarian regime
• Wagner Moura is on permanent cool-as-hell mode as the political refugee caught in the middle of some rather tense scenarios straight out of a 70s thriller
• It plays around with tone and style quite a bit, often to absurd degrees, but always keeps its focus on the relatable mission of its central character
• The film has become a major awards contender, having won two awards at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and at the recent Golden Globes (including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor (Drama) for Moura), and is currently up for four Oscars including Best Actor, Best International Feature Film and Best Picture!
• With the critical and commercial success of last year’s I’m Still Here, the world is more than ready for yet another hard-hitting drama from Brazil about one of its most difficult periods in history

The Secret Agent is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, ASAP Rocky, Ivy Wolk, Daniel Zolghadri, Delaney Quinn, Ronald Bronstein, Lark White, Josh Pais, Eva Kornet, Mark Stolzenberg, Helen Hong, Ella Beatty, Manu Narayan, Amy Judd Lieberman

CREW: Mary Bronstein (director, writer), Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Richie Doyle, Conor Hannon, Sara Murphy, Josh Safdie and Ryan Zacarias (producers), Christopher Messina (cinematographer), Lucian Johnston (editor)

PLOT: Linda (Byrne), a psychiatrist, is constantly pushed to the edge by various stressful aspects of her life, from having to deal with her high-maintenance young daughter (Quinn) and her mysterious illness while her husband Charles (Slater) is away on extended business, to unsupportive co-workers and mentally imbalanced patients…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Motherhood is turned into a waking nightmare in writer-director Mary Bronstein’s darkly funny study of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown
• Rose Byrne is phenomenal as the overworked mother at its centre, with the actor scoring an Oscar nomination as well as a Golden Globe and the Silver Bear at last year’s Berlin Film Festival for her fearless performance
• Bronstein takes after husband Ronald Bronstein and his Marty Supreme co-writer Josh Safdie (both producers here) by applying a heavy dose of anxiety-inducing intensity to the increasingly stressful narrative
• The film takes many unpredictable directions that venture into surreal territory but always make the painful drama all the more engaging
• It may have you thinking twice about becoming a parent, especially women who have to deal with more than half of the anxiety that Byrne goes through here!

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: David Jonsson, Tom Blyth, Corin Silva, Alex Hassell, Neil Linpow, Keaton Ancona-Francis, Layton Blake, Paul Hilton

CREW: Cal McMau (director), Hunter Andrews and Eoin Doran (writers), Sophia Gibber and Myles Payne (producers), Forest Swords (composer), Lorenzo Levrini (cinematographer), James Demetriou and Ryan Morrison (editors)

PLOT: Taylor (Jonsson), a convict currently serving time in prison, is preparing for his upcoming parole after years of being locked up, but the arrival of volatile new cellmate Dee (Blyth) endangers his fresh start…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• This is a tense and often violent thriller that delivers a far more brutal vision of prison life than most movies set behind bars
• Rising stars David Jonsson and Tom Blyth continue to impress as two complete opposite personalities who bring out the worst in one another
• Director Cal McMau dabbles in some disturbing set-pieces that bring to the surface plenty of underlying anger and chaos within the dangerous residents of this prison
• With Adolescence director Philip Barantini on board as an executive producer, you can expect said sequences to come with a heavy sense of style as well as some shocking truths about our current society
• For those wanting a far darker alternative to more upbeat prison-set classics like The Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke, this is exactly what you’re probably after

Wasteman is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery, Sosie Bacon, Vanessa Redgrave, Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Darrell D’Silva, Daniel Rigby, Rob Collins, Ellora Torchia, Andrew Brooke, Aaron Heffernan

CREW: Jonny Campbell (director), David Koepp (writer, producer), Gavin Polone (producer), Mathieu Lamboley (composer), Tony Slater Ling (cinematographer), Billy Sneddon (editor)

PLOT: After a highly contagious mutating fungus escapes from a top-secret government facility and goes on an explosive rampage, self-storage employees Naomi (Campbell) and Travis (Keery) find themselves at the centre of a mission to save humanity from extinction…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Screenwriter David Koepp, who previously provided the scripts for Jurassic Park and Spider-Man among other modern classics, adapts his own novel of the same name with all its bonkers B-movie carnage
• There’s plenty of gruesome sci-fi horror carnage with a deadly parasitic fungus providing the vast majority of the hilariously gory imagery
• The ensemble cast includes Barbarian star Georgina Campbell, Stranger Things alumni (and recent chart-topper) Joe Keery, and screen legend Liam Neeson
• You’ll come away with an all-new fear of fungi as well as plenty of inspiration for whatever manic B-movie you may have brewing in your head
• Most of all, it’s silly entertainment that does its job and gives the audience everything they could possibly want from a movie like this

Cold Storage is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Charli XCX, Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, Isaac Powell, Alexander Skarsgård, Rish Shah, Trew Mullen, Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott, Arielle Dombasle, Mel Ottenberg, Richard Perez, Tish Weinstock, Michael Workéyè, Shygirl, Alexander Guy Cook

CREW: Aidan Zamiri (director), Bertie Brandes (writer), David Hinojosa and Charli XCX (producers), Alexander Guy Cook (composer), Sean Price Williams (cinematographer), Neal Farmer and Billy Sneddon (editors)

PLOT: International pop star Charli XCX (as herself) navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressure while preparing for her upcoming tour…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Get ready for Brat Cinema as modern music icon Charli XCX sends up her public image in a funny and enlightening mockumentary
• It is based on an original idea by the pop star, which is brought to life by director and co-writer Aidan Zamiri who worked with her on several music videos
• Playing an exaggerated version of herself, Charli XCX encounters numerous larger-than-life figures who satirise the cutthroat and clout-seeking environments of the music industry
• The film also incorporates footage from Charli XCX’s actual Brat tour, further blending reality from the heightened fiction taking place behind the scenes
• Fans of the singer will obviously eat it up, while less familiar viewers will go in with a mindset not dissimilar to last year’s The Weeknd project Hurry Up Tomorrow (interpret that how you will)

The Moment is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Elvis Presley

CREW: Baz Luhrmann (director, producer), Jeremy Castro, Matthew Gross, Colin Smeeton and Schuyler Weiss (producers), Jonathan Redmond (editor)

PLOT: A unique concert experience featuring the legendary Elvis Presley…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Fresh from his all-encompassing biopic Elvis, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann returns to the world of the King with an all-new vision of his timeless showmanship
• It is compiled from hours of previously unseen archive concert footage that Luhrmann originally intended to use for his 2022 film, with he and his team spending the following two years restoring their lost sound from existing source files
• Neither a documentary nor a traditional concert film, it offers an all-new insight into Presley’s head that few other movies, including Luhrmann’s previous biopic, couldn’t wholly replicate
• It’s packed with live performances of Elvis’s most iconic songs, many of which reinforce how much of a live talent he truly was, as well as how tragically his life was cut short
• Not only does it make a more than appropriate companion piece to Luhrmann’s Elvis, but it somehow makes that already pretty strong movie all the more, erm, epic

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Alicia Delgado, Franco Elio Itri, Juanita, María José Micale, Macarena Santa María Loydi

CREW: Jessica Sarah Rinland (director, writer, producer, editor), Melanie Schapiro (producer), Wojciech Staron (cinematographer)

PLOT: A series of intimate encounters between the dedicated workers of various zoos and animal rescue centres across Argentina, and the enclosed creatures they’ve been tasked with caring for…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The fragile bond between humans and animals is presented up close in Argentine-British filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland’s expansive documentary
• As we see various animal carers hard at work, there is a quietly powerful spark among them that will make the hearts of any zoophile leap with joy
• The animals themselves, ranging from tortoises to monkeys to flamingos, are wondrous to watch via the tight close-ups that Rinland chooses to capture them with
• Its music-free soundtrack allows the viewer to become more lost within the compact world of these animals and the human subjects, to a point where you might not want to return from its natural silence
• You will come away with a newfound respect for the creatures we share this planet with, as well as those who make it their life’s mission to care for them

Collective Monologue is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Various

CREW: James Jones (director), Megumi Inman (producer), Jean-Louis Schuller (cinematographer), Rupert Houseman (editor)

PLOT: The story of Japan’s struggle to contain a potentially catastrophic thermonuclear disaster after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 breached the seawalls of the Fukushima nuclear plant…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Fifteen years on from Japan’s biggest natural disaster comes a new documentary that shows exactly how much closer the country was to an even bigger crisis
• Filmmaker James Jones, who’s no stranger to factual movies about real-life nuclear catastrophes having directed the acclaimed doc Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, focuses on every important aspect of the Japanese response to immediate danger
• It reveals the courageous story of numerous engineers, firefighters, soldiers and technicians who risked their lives to prevent the country’s worst nuclear fallout since the Hiroshima bombings
• Jones blends their story with powerful archive footage from the actual events that allows the crisis to unfold minute by minute
• Though initially distressing, the film is ultimately hopeful in how it depicts people who can unite to save their fellow people from certain doom

Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026

CAST: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk, Laura Fraser, Christopher Cazenove, Bérénice Bejo, James Purefoy, Nick Brimble

CREW: Brian Helgeland (director, writer, producer), Todd Black and Tim Van Rellim (producers), Carter Burwell (composer), Richard Greatrex (cinematographer), Kevin Stitt (editor)

PLOT: In 14th century Europe, peasant squire William Thatcher (Ledger) is inspired to pose as a knight and compete in jousting tournaments…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The crowd-pleasing medieval action-comedy gallops back into cinemas with an all-new 4K restoration to mark its 25th anniversary
• Writer-director Brian Helgeland based his film (albeit loosely) on the classic Geoffrey Chaucer story The Knight’s Tale from his Canterbury Tales anthology
• The late Heath Ledger cemented his leading man status as the dashing hero, while there are further memorable supporting turns from Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, and Paul Bettany as Chaucer himself
• While the film became a solid box office hit, it is best remembered for its wildly anachronistic tone with numerous rock anthems on the soundtrack and various pop culture references littered throughout the Middle Ages-set story
• It may follow the Rocky formula to a tee, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had from watching the template play out in classic medieval environments

A Knight’s Tale is showing in cinemas from Friday 20 February 2026