Movie of the Week
Cinemas
- Cat Person
- Typist Artist Pirate King
- Doctor Jekyll
- How to Save the Immortal
- 20,000 Species of Bees
- Suitable Flesh
- Beyond Utopia
- Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn
- Savage Waters
Streaming/On-Demand
Re-Releases
We’re almost at that spookiest of days, but before Halloween comes around for another year, we’ve got a whole week of chilling new releases to get through, among them a much-anticipated video game adaptation, an unnerving dating satire, a look at corrupt pharmaceutical companies, and a creepy British horror classic…
Movie of the Week
Cinemas
Streaming/On-Demand
Re-Releases
Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023, dir. Emma Tammi)
CAST: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Kat Conner Sterling, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lucas Grant, Jessica Blackmore, Cory DeVantè Williams
CREW: Emma Tammi (director, writer), Scott Cawthon (writer, producer), Seth Cuddeback (writer), Jason Blum (producer), The Newton Brothers (composers), Lyn Moncrief (cinematographer), William Paley and Andrew Wesman (editors)
PLOT: Desperate for work, Mike Schmidt (Hutcherson) accepts a job as the night-time security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an abandoned family entertainment restaurant. However, Mike soon learns that the restaurant’s various animatronics are not only alive, but brutally kill anyone who is still there after midnight, forcing him to try and make it out alive…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Five Nights at Freddy’s is showing in cinemas from Wednesday 25 October 2023
Cat Person (2023, dir. Susanna Fogel)
CAST: Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Isabella Rossellini, Hope Davis, Fred Melamed, Christopher Shyer, Liza Koshy, Josh Andrés Rivera, Isaac Cole Powell, Liza Colón-Zayas, Michael Gandolfini
CREW: Susanna Fogel (director), Michelle Ashford (writer), Helen Estabrook and Jeremy Steckler (producers), Heather McIntosh (composer), Manuel Billeter (cinematographer), Jacob Craycroft (editor)
PLOT: Margot (Jones), a college student working at a cinema, agrees to go on a date with older patron Robert (Braun) after flirting with him over text. However, she soon finds that Robert himself is not quite as charming as he seems…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Cat Person is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
Typist Artist Pirate King (2023, dir. Carol Morley)
CAST: Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald, Gina McKee, Christine Bottomley, Kieran Bew, James Jaysen Bryhan, Kya Brame, Joanne Allen, Gavin Kitchen, Matilda Firth
CREW: Carol Morley (director, writer), Ameenah Ayub Allen and Cairo Cannon (producers), Carly Paradis (composer), Agnès Godard (cinematographer), Alex Mackie (editor)
PLOT: Audrey Amiss (Dolan), an artist suffering from mental illness, convinces her psychiatric nurse Sandra (Macdonald) to take her across the country to display her work at an art gallery, resulting in a road trip where Sandra learns the full extent of her patient’s artistic talent…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Typist Artist Pirate King is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
Doctor Jekyll (2023, dir. Joe Stephenson)
CAST: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Robyn Cara, Jonathan Hyde, Morgan Watkins, Simon Callow, Tony Jawawardena, Isabella Inchbald
CREW: Joe Stephenson (director, producer), Dan Kelly-Mulhern (writer), Louis Coutts and Guy de Beaujeu (producers), Blair Mowat (composer), Birgit Dierken (cinematographer), TBA (editor)
PLOT: The reclusive scientist Dr. Nina Jekyll (Izzard) hires ex-convict Rob (Chambers) as her new assistant, and soon forms a friendship with him. However, when Jekyll’s evil alter-ego Rachel Hyde (also Izzard) slowly reveals herself, Rob must team with Jekyll to prevent Hyde from destroying both their lives…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Doctor Jekyll is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
How to Save the Immortal (2022, dir. Roman Artemyev)
CAST: Andrey Kurganov, Liza Klimova, Daniel Barnes, Michael Kleeman, Jordan Worsley, Stephen Peter Krisel, Richard Wilson, Petrr Scott, Kate Lann, Leadie Jo Flowers, Brodey Milburn, Bernard Jacobsen, Nikki Aaron, Richard Epstein, Katrin Assi
CREW: Roman Artemyev (director, writer), Genrikh Nebolsin (writer), Sergey Selyanov, Vadim Sotskov and Sergey Zernov (producers), Anton Silaev (composer), TBA (editor)
PLOT: Drybone (Kurganov), an immortal demon who has been living for three hundred years, is forced to kidnap the noble warrior Barbara the Brace (Klimova) as part of the evil King Lentil’s (Kleeman) plan to take over the world. However, as he begins to form a bond with Barbara, he becomes willing to sacrifice his immortality to stop the nefarious plot…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
How to Save the Immortal is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
20,000 Species of Bees (2023, dir. Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)
CAST: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain, Itziar Lazkano, Sara Cózar, Martxelo Rubio, Miguel Garcés, Unax Hayden, Andere Garabieta
CREW: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (director, writer), Valérie Delpierre and Lara Izagirre (producers), Gina Ferrer (cinematographer), Raúl Barreras (editor)
PLOT: Lucía (Otero), an eight-year-old transgender girl, slowly discovers more about her gender identity as she spends the summer with her family in a village house by a bee farm…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
20,000 Species of Bees is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023 (and will be available to rent exclusively on Curzon Home Cinema)
Suitable Flesh (2023, dir. Joe Lynch)
CAST: Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Davison, Johnathon Schaech, Giovannie Cruz, JD Evermore, Ann Mahoney, Drake Malone, Chris McKenna, Brett Newton, Jonah Ray, Hunter Womack
CREW: Joe Lynch (director), Dennis Paoli (writer), Barbara Crampton, Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh and Joe Wicker (producers), David Matthews (cinematographer), Jack N. Gracie (editor)
PLOT: Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby (Graham) becomes obsessed with helping her young and troubled new patient Asa (Lewis), who has an extreme personality disorder. However, she soon finds herself drawn into a terrifying nightmare that she can’t seem to escape from…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Suitable Flesh is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023 (and will be available to rent/buy on most digital platforms)
Beyond Utopia (2023, dir. Madeleine Gavin)
CAST: Kim Sung-Eun, Lee Hyeun-Seo, Lee So-Yeon, Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-Un, Kim Jong-Nam, Barbara Demick, Douglas MacArthur
CREW: Madeleine Gavin (director, editor), Rachel Cohen, Jana Edelbaum and Sue Mi Terry (producers), Taylor Page and Adam Taylor (composers), Kim Hyun-Seok (cinematographer)
PLOT: The personal stories of the last known defectors from the oppressive regime of North Korea, including Pastor Kim Sung-Eun who has made it his life’s mission to assist those brave enough to escape the place they believed to be paradise…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Beyond Utopia is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn (2023, dir. Sheila Hayman)
CAST: Isata Kanneh-Mason, Alison Langer, Chi-Chi Nwanoku, Robinson McClellan, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Anna Beer, Éric Heidsieck
CREW: Sheila Hayman (director, writer, producer), Claudia Steffen (producer), TBA (cinematographer), Evelyn Franks (editor)
PLOT: A look at the life of Fanny Mendelssohn, the sister of celebrated composer Felix Mendelssohn who, like her more famous brother, set out to compose her own music before her tragic early death, only for her work to finally be discovered more than 100 years later…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
Savage Waters (2023, dir. Mikey Corker)
CAST: Charles Dance, Matt Knight, Andrew Cotton, Alex Botelho, Ross Edgley, Suzanne Hobbs, Harriet Knight, Jemima Knight, Peony Knight, Taz Knight, Ed Smith
CREW: Mikey Corker (director, writer, cinematographer), Ghislaine Couvillat and Kathleen Glynn (producers), Aisling Brouwer and Anna Phoebe (composers), Jordan Montminy (editor)
PLOT: After discovering a passage in a nineteenth century explorer’s journal, thrill-seeking skipper Matt Knight and big wave surfer Andrew Cotton set out with their friends and family to uncharted waters within the Atlantic Ocean to find and surf a mythical wave…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Savage Waters is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
Pain Hustlers (2023, dir. David Yates)
CAST: Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Andy García, Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass, Brian d’Arcy James, Chloe Coleman, Aubrey Dollar, Amit Shah, Willie Raysor
CREW: David Yates (director, producer), Wells Tower (writer), Lawrence Grey (producer), James Newton Howard and Michael Dean Parsons (composers), George Richmond (cinematographer), Mark Day (editor)
PLOT: Liza Drake (Blunt), a high school dropout and single mother, is offered a job by Pete Brener (Evans) at a failing pharmaceutical start-up company in Florida, which she accepts in order to build a better future for her and her daughter Phoebe (Coleman). Soon, Liza’s charm and ambition catapults her and the company into the big leagues, but also towards the heart of a major criminal conspiracy…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Pain Hustlers is streaming exclusively on Netflix from Friday 27 October 2023
Retribution (2023, dir. Nimród Antal)
CAST: Liam Neeson, Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Modine, Arian Moayed
CREW: Nimród Antal (director), Chris Salmanpour (writer), Jaume Collet-Serra, Shanna Eddy, Alex Heineman, Andrew Rona and Juan Sola (producers), Harry Gregson-Williams (composer), Flavio Martínez Labiano (cinematographer), Steve Mirkovich (editor)
PLOT: Matt Turner (Neeson), a successful American bank executive based in Berlin, is driving his kids Zach (Champion) and Emily (Aspell) to school, when he receives a mysterious phone call informing him that a bomb rigged underneath his seat will explode unless he completes a specific number of tasks in a short space of time. Forced to race across the city with his kids in tow, Matt must find a way to solve the mystery and keep his family safe…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Retribution is streaming exclusively on Sky Cinema from Friday 27 October 2023 (and is also showing in selected cinemas)
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023, dir. Stephen Kijak)
CAST: Rock Hudson
CREW: Stephen Kijak (director), Greg Berlanti, George Chignell, Will Clarke, Carolyne Jurriaans and Sarah Schechter (producers), Laura Karpman (composer), Brian Rigney Hubbard and Derek Wiesehahn (cinematographers), Claire Didier (editor)
PLOT: The life and times of renowned actor and popular movie star Rock Hudson, who famously led a private life as a gay man, in contrast to his public persona as a sought-after womaniser…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed is available to rent/buy on digital platforms from Monday 23 October 2023
Beetlejuice (1988, dir. Tim Burton)
CAST: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett, Glenn Shadix, Maree Cheatham, Tony Cox, Jack Angel, Susan Kellermann, Adelle Lutz, Annie McEnroe, Patrice Martinez
CREW: Tim Burton (director), Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren (writers), Michael Bender, Richard Hashimoto and Larry Wilson (producers), Danny Elfman (composer), Thomas Ackerman (cinematographer), Jane Kurson (editor)
PLOT: On the way to their idyllic country home, couple Adam (Baldwin) and Barbara (Davis) are killed in a car accident, leaving their spirits to haunt their house. When the property is sold to the Deetz family, including Charles (Jones), Delia (O’Hara) and their teenage daughter Lydia (Ryder), the ghosts struggle to scare them away, forcing them to contact the bio-exorcist known as Beetlejuice (Keaton) for assistance…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Beetlejuice is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
Peeping Tom (1960, dir. Michael Powell)
CAST: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson, Esmond Knight, Martin Miller, Michael Goodliffe, Jack Watson, Nigel Davenport, Shirley Anne Field, Pamela Green, Columba Powell
CREW: Michael Powell (director, producer), Leo Marks (writer), Brian Easdale (composer), Otto Heller (cinematographer), Noreen Ackland (editor)
PLOT: Mark Lewis (Boehm), a troubled young man who works among a film crew and aspires to become a filmmaker himself, lives a double-life where he murders young women and films their dying expressions of fear, which he then splices together into a feature-length snuff film to satisfy his own pleasure…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Peeping Tom is showing in cinemas from Friday 27 October 2023
Crossroads (2002, dir. Tamra Davis)
CAST: Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, Anson Mount, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Long, Beverly Johnson, Kool Moe Dee, Jamie Lynn Spears, Dajiné Colón, Crystal Milton
CREW: Tamra Davis (director), Shonda Rhimes (writer), Ann Carli (producer), Trevor Jones (composer), Eric Edwards (cinematographer), Melissa Kent (editor)
PLOT: Lucy (Spears), Kit (Saldana) and Mimi (Manning) are former childhood friends who reunite for a road trip to Los Angeles for a record contract audition…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Crossroads is showing in cinemas from Monday 23 October 2023
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