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Halloween is almost upon us, but this week’s film releases are already here to terrify avid viewers, including a monstrous Marvel sequel, a sinister mother-in-law horror, and the big-screen return of not one but two slasher icons…
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CAST: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Graham, Clark Backo, Cristo Fernández
CREW: Kelly Marcel (director, writer, producer), Avi Arad, Tom Hardy, Hutch Parker, Amy Pascal and Matt Tolmach (producers), Dan Deacon (composer), Fabian Wagner (cinematographer), Mark Sanger (editor)
PLOT: Eddie Brock (Hardy) and the symbiote Venom are forced to go on the run when they are hunted by foes from their respective worlds, forcing them to come to a potentially devastating decision that could change their dynamic forever…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Venom: The Last Dance is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botta, Melina Matthews, Raúl Arévalo, Victoria Luengo, Esther McGregor, Alex Høgh Andersen, Alvise Rigo
CREW: Pedro Almodóvar (director, writer), Agustín Almodóvar (producer), Alberto Iglesias (composer), Eduard Grau (cinematographer), Teresa Font (editor)
PLOT: Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore) are close friends who reunite after years of little to no contact, after Martha makes a poignant request…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
The Room Next Door is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: Brandy, Kathryn Hunter, Andrew Burnap, Neal Huff, Mary Testa
CREW: Max Eggers and Sam Eggers (directors, writers), Babak Anvari, David Hinojosa, Julia Oh and Lucan Toh (producers), Marcelo Zarvos (composer), Ava Berkofsky (cinematographer), Eric Kissack and Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. (editors)
PLOT: Belinda (Brandy), a heavily pregnant woman, and her husband Norman (Burnap) attend the funeral of his father, where they receive an offer from Norman’s widowed mother Solange (Hunter): if the couple let her stay with them for her final days, then they will receive her hefty inheritance. However, Solange quickly makes Belinda’s life a living hell…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
The Front Room is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: Makenzy Orcel
CREW: Mati Diop (director, writer, producer), Judith Lou Lévy and Eve Robin (producers), Wally Badarou and Dean Blunt (composers), Joséphine Drouin-Viallard (cinematographer), Gabriel Gonzalez (editor)
PLOT: The stories behind numerous artefacts from the ancient West African Kingdom of Dahomey, which were put on display in a museum in Paris before being returned to Benin…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Dahomey is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: Shiori Itō
CREW: Shiori Itō (director, writer, producer), Hanna Aqvilin and Eric Nyari (producers), Mark De Gli Antoni (composer), Yuta Okamura (cinematographer), Ema Ryan Yamazaki (editor)
PLOT: Shiori Itō, a journalist in Japan, investigates her own sexual assault by a high-profile figure, and in doing so she exposes the flaws within her country’s judicial and societal laws…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Black Box Diaries is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: Kelsey Asbille, Finn Wittrock, Daniel Francis, Moray Treadwell
CREW: Brian Netto and Adam Schindler (directors), T.J. Cimfel and David White (writers), Zainab Azizi, Alex Lebovici, Sam Raimi and Sarah Sarandos (producers), Mark Korven and Michelle Osis (composers), Zach Kuperstein (cinematographer), Josh Ethier (editor)
PLOT: Whilst hiking in the middle of the woods, Iris (Asbille) is suddenly injected with a paralytic agent by serial killer Richard (Wittrock), which will shut down her entire body in 20 minutes. Now, she must try and escape as she slowly loses her ability to walk, speak, and eventually move…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Don’t Move is streaming exclusively on Netflix from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: Kate Beckinsale, Rupert Friend, Ray Stevenson, Saffron Burrows, Ben Miles, Goran Kostić, Michael Brandon, Charles Nishikawa
CREW: Pierre Morel (director), Matthew Kennedy (writer), Jeff Elliott, Carsten H.W. Lorenz, Sébastien Raybaud, Renee Tab, Christopher Tuffin and John Zois (producers), Jessica Rose Weiss (composer), Thierry Arbogast (cinematographer), Tania Goding (editor)
PLOT: After terrorists kidnap her husband (Friend), CIA operative Avery Graves (Beckinsale) is forced to betray her country by retrieving coveted intelligence that could, in the wrong hands, have dire consequences for the rest of the world…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Canary Black is streaming exclusively on Prime Video from Thursday 24th October 2024
CAST: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Johnny Depp, Ronee Blakley, John Saxon, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Leslie Hoffman, Joseph Whipp, Charles Fleischer, Lin Shaye
CREW: Wes Craven (director, writer), Robert Shaye (producer), Charles Bernstein (composer), Jacques Haitkin (cinematographer), Pat McMahon and Rick Shaine (editors)
PLOT: A group of teenagers, including Nancy Thompson (Langenkamp), find themselves mysterious targeted in their own dreams by an menacing figure known as Freddy Krueger (Englund), and must find a way to stop his murderous spree before it’s too late…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
A Nightmare on Elm Street is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell, Terence Rigby, Roy Kinnear, Richard O’Callahan, Denholm Elliott, Lynn Farleigh, Mary Maddox, Zero Mostel, Harry Andrews, Hannah Gordon, Nigel Hawthorne, Clifton Jones, Derek Griffiths, Michael Hordern, Joss Ackland, Michelle Price
CREW: Martin Rosen (director, writer, producer), Angela Morley (composer), Terry Rawlings (editor)
PLOT: A colony of rabbits, led by Hazel (Hurt) and his brother Fiver (Briers), escape their soon to be demolished warren and head toward a new safe haven, encountering many perils along the way…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Watership Down is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
CAST: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, Jeffrey Weissman, James Tolkan, Billy Zane, Casey Siemaszko, J.J. Cohen, Ricky Dean Logan, Darlene Vogel, Jason Scott Lee, Stephanie E. Williams, Flea, James Ishida
CREW: Robert Zemeckis (director), Bob Gale (writer, producer), Neil Canton (producer), Alan Silvestri (composer), Dean Cundey (cinematographer), Harry Keramidas and Arthur Schmidt (editors)
PLOT: Marty McFly (Fox) travels with Dr. Emmett Brown (Lloyd) to the futuristic year of 2015, where he picks up a sports almanac filled with useful knowledge about past sporting games, which soon falls into the hands of an elderly Biff Tannen (Wilson). Upon returning to 1985, Marty finds that Hill Valley has become corrupted by a now-powerful Biff, and that the only way to restore the proper timeline is to stop Biff from giving the almanac to his younger self in 1955…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Back to the Future Part II is showing in cinemas from Monday 21 October 2024
CAST: Donald Pleasance, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Castle, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, Brian Andrews, John Michael Graham, Nancy Stephens, Arthur Malet, Mickey Yablans, Brent Le Page, Adam Hollander, Robert Phalen, Sandy Johnson, Peter Griffith, David Kyle Foster, Tony Moran, Will Sandin
CREW: John Carpenter (director, writer, producer, composer), Debra Hill (writer, producer), Dean Cundey (cinematographer), Charles Bornstein and Tommy Wallace (editors)
PLOT: Michael Myers (Castle), an incarcerated killer, escapes custody and heads back to his hometown of Haddonfield, where he stalks and sets his murderous focus on teenage babysitter Laurie Strode (Curtis) and her friends on Halloween night. Meanwhile, Michael’s psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Pleasance) is in close pursuit of his patient…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Halloween is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 October 2024
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