Movie of the Week

• Deadpool & Wolverine

Cinemas

• I Saw the TV Glow
• About Dry Grasses
• The Echo

Streaming/On-Demand

• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
• Robin and the Hoods

Re-Releases

• Chariots of Fire

CAST: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapičić, Shioli Kutsuna, Randal Reeder, Lewis Tan, Aaron Stanford

CREW: Shawn Levy (director, writer, producer), Ryan Reynolds (writer, producer), Rhett Reese, Zeb Wells and Paul Wernick (writers), Kevin Feige and Lauren Shuler Donner (producers), Rob Simonsen (composer), George Richmond (cinematographer), Shane Reid and Dean Zimmerman (editors)

PLOT: Wade Wilson (Reynolds), having given up his life as the wisecracking mercenary Deadpool, is living a quiet but happy life with his friends, including his fiancé Vanessa (Baccarin). He is soon captured by the Time Variance Authority – an agency that monitors various universes across time and space – and thrust onto a mission that pairs him with a variant of the famed mutant Wolverine (Jackman)…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The Merc with a Mouth finally enters the Marvel Cinematic Universe with as much violent chaos and breaking of the fourth wall as you’d expect
• Not only does Ryan Reynolds reprise his now-iconic role from previous films (made by 20th Century Fox before Disney’s acquisition), but Hugh Jackman is suiting back up as Wolverine for the tenth (maybe final?) time)
• Shawn Levy brings a fierce and brutal new vision to the MCU, which has earned the franchise its first-ever adult rating
• Be on the lookout for plenty of familiar faces, including some from previous X-Men films and possibly even other Fox-made Marvel movies!
• After an underwhelming couple of years, this could well be the project to bring Marvel Studios back into the good graces of audiences everywhere

Deadpool & Wolverine is showing in cinemas from Thursday 25 July 2024

CAST: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst, Conner O’Malley, Emma Portner, Madaline Riley, Amber Benson, Michael C. Maronna, Danny Tamberelli, Ian Foreman

CREW: Jane Schoenbrun (director, writer), Ali Herting, Sam Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone and Sarah Winshall (producers), Alex G (composer), Eric Yue (cinematographer), Sofi Marshall (editor)

PLOT: Owen (Smith), a teenager living in the suburbs, forms a bond with his classmate Maddy (Lundy-Paine) after she introduces him to a strange television show called The Pink Opaque, about a pair of psychic sisters. After the show is mysteriously cancelled, Owen finds his perception of reality beginning to distort…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The surreal sensation from filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun arrives in UK cinemas to disturb (and slightly confound) new audiences
• Schoenbrun (who uses they/them pronouns) plays heavily with the theme of nostalgia, which they use to convey the psychological difficulties of remembering something, or even someone, too fondly
• As in their previous film We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Schoenbrun gets some unnerved and ultimately empathetic performances out of their young leads Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine
• Expect to see some truly odd visuals that align with the filmmaker’s other-worldly and utterly unique style of storytelling
• It’s proven divisive among critics and audiences, but there is enough open space within its strange atmosphere for you to completely make up your own mind about it

I Saw the TV Glow is showing in cinemas from Friday 26 July 2024

CAST: Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bağcı, Erdem Şenocak, Yüksel Aksu, Münir Can Cindoruk, Onur Berk Arslanoğlu, Yıldırım Gücük, Cengiz Bozkurt, S. Emrah Özdemir, Elif Ürse, Elit Andaç Çam, Nalan Kuruçim, Ferhat Akgün, Eylem Canpolat

CREW: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (director, writer, producer, editor), Akin Aksu and Ebru Ceylan (writers), Philip Timofeyev (composer), Cevahir Sahin and Kürsat Üresin (cinematographers), Oguz Atabas (editor)

PLOT: Samet (Celiloğlu) is a disillusioned art teacher living in a quiet Anatolian village who, along with his colleague and roommate Kenan (Ekici), is accused of inappropriate conduct by two of their students. Meanwhile, their friendship becomes strained when they both meet and fall for charismatic teacher Nuray (Dizdar)…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• This atmospheric and profoundly epic Turkish language drama explores love and life in all its complications
• It is the latest feature from award-winning filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who previously won the Palme D’Or for his 2014 feature Winter Sleep
• At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, the film competed for the same top prize, and won Best Actress for the compelling co-lead Merve Dizdar
• With some breathtaking cinematography, there is some truly sublime imagery to match the rather massive scope of its whopping 197-minute runtime
• If you’re eager to get lost in a mesmerising vision of the world, in addition to becoming absorbed in a truly gripping romance, then this should satisfy all your cravings

About Dry Grasses is showing in cinemas from Friday 26 July 2024

CAST: Montserrat Hernández Hernández, María de los Ángeles Pacheco Tapia, Luz María Vázquez González, Sarahí Rojas Hernández, William Antonio Vázquez González, Uriel Hernández Hernández, Ramiro Hernández Hernández, Berenice Cortés Muñoz, Andrea González Lima

CREW: Tatiana Huezo (director, writer, producer, editor), Dalia Reyes (producer), Leonardo Heiblum and Jacobo Lieberman (composers), Ernesto Pardo (cinematographer), Lucrecia Gutierrez (editor)

PLOT: El Eco is a remote village in north Mexico where the children care for both their parents and their land. When natural events cause chaos across the village, the inhabitants learn vital lessons about life, love, death, and growing up…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• A captivating blend of fly-on-the-wall documentary and whimsical fiction, this is a gorgeous celebration of life and its hardships
• Filmmaker Tatiana Huezo captures the everyday lives of the young inhabitants within a remote Mexican village that thrives on its prosperous community
• It is a return to the documentary format for Huezo, who made a memorable narrative debut with her 2022 feature Prayers for the Stolen
• The director simply lets the images she captures speak for themselves, without narration or interviews to back them up
• You’ll be spellbound by the poetic filmic language on display here, which is enough to possibly restore your faith in the power of the visual medium

The Echo is showing in cinemas from Friday 26 July 2024

CAST: Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding, Alex Pettyfer, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Babs Olusanmokun, Cary Elwes, Til Schweiger, Henry Zaga, Rory Kinnear, Danny Sapani, Freddie Fox

CREW: Guy Ritchie (director, writer, producer), Arash Amel, Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy (writers), Ivan Atkinson, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joh Friedberg and Chad Oman (producers), Christopher Benstead (composer), Ed Wild (cinematographer), James Herbert (editor)

PLOT: In 1941, as the United Kingdom struggles to contain Nazi Germany’s slow takeover of Europe, Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Kinnear) authorises a daring covert plan to neutralise a fleet of German U-boats. British commando Gus March-Phillips (Cavill) is recruited to assemble a team of operatives, including Graham Hayes (Tiffin), Marjorie Stewart (González) and Danish naval officer Anders Lassen (Ritchson), for a daring mission to the Spanish-controlled island of Fernando Po, where the Nazis have based their naval resupply chain…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Guy Ritchie unleashes utter chaos in his action-packed and heavily fictionalised take on the legendary WW2-era covert mission known as Operation Postmaster
• Henry Cavill leads an all-star cast that also includes Henry Golding, Eiza González, Cary Elwes and Reacher himself Alan Ritchson, all as a group of commandos considered the world’s first team of special forces
• Cavill’s character in particular, based on a real-life war hero, would become a major inspiration for Ian Fleming’s most famous creation, James Bond
• The filmmaker inserts plenty of his trademark playfulness into a number of wild and over-the-top action sequences depicting the mission itself
• It is a fun, violent and decisively crude take on war history that should go down very well with audiences looking for something fresh to put on

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is streaming exclusively on Prime Video from Thursday 25 July 2024

CAST: Naomie Harris, Gwendoline Christie, Darcey Ewart, Gloria Ishikawa, Dexter Sol Ansell, Bruno Edgington-Gibson, Eddison Burch, Mark Williams, Morgana Robinson, Christine Bottomley, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lucas Welbourne, Harry Connor, Jack Attenborough

CREW: Phil Hawkins (director), Stuart Benson and Paul Davidson (writers), Claudia Bluemhuber and Matt Williams (producers), James Everingham (composer), David Meadows (cinematographer), Andrew Walton (editor)

PLOT: 11-year-old Robin (Ewart) and her band of friends, collectively known as “the Hoods”, frequently escape to an overgrown scrubland at the end of their cul-de-sac that they imagine to be a magical kingdom. When untrustworthy property developer Clipboard (Harris) sways the local residents with plans to build on top of the scrubland, Robin and her friends face the prospect of saying goodbye to their kingdom forever – unless they make a final stand…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• There’s plenty of magic and laughs to be had with this lively and imaginative new family feature
• The power of imagination is a core theme of the film, which comes from director Phil Hawkins of the delightful festive flick Prancer: A Christmas Tale
• Fiery young lead Darcey Ewart leads an ensemble cast that also includes Oscar-nominee Naomie Harris and Game of Thrones alumni Gwendoline Christie
• Some eye-popping visuals bring the imagined kingdom within these kids’ minds to vibrant and colourful life
• It’s a real treat for parents and kids looking for a new family favourite to tap into their inner child

Robin and the Hoods is streaming exclusively on Sky Cinema from Friday 26 July 2024

CAST: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Struan Rodger, Nigel Davenport, Patrick Magee, David Yelland, Peter Egan, Daniel Gerroll, Brad Davis, Dennis Christopher, Richard Griffiths

CREW: Hugh Hudson (director), Colin Welland (writer), David Puttnam (producer), Vangelis Papathanassiou (composer), David Watkin (cinematographer), Terry Rawlings (editor)

PLOT: In post-WW1 Britain, young Jewish university student Harold Abrahams (Cross) and devout Christian Eric Liddell (Charleson) both become known as talented fast sprinters, and are selected to represent Great Britain at the 1924 Olympics in Paris…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The inspiring British sports classic is back in cinemas to commemorate both the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Olympics, and the launch of the current games (both, incidentally, in Paris)
• It tells a story of hope and perseverance that should put anyone in a deeply patriotic mood as their national team aims for gold in the French capital this summer
• The film became a huge box office hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and went on to win four Oscars including Best Picture and three BAFTAs including Best Film
• The late Vangelis’ iconic electronic score was a major departure from other contemporary historical films at the time, but today it is remembered as some of the greatest film music of all time
• With plenty of feel-good scenes, powerful dialogue and an overall winning personality, this is a timeless piece of cinema that should be fondly remembered by audiences everywhere

Chariots of Fire is showing in cinemas from Friday 26 July 2024