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A brand-new year is upon us, and it’s set to be yet another incredible twelve months for film, if the very first week of 2025 is anything to go by, with such offerings as a creepy vampire epic, a starry romance, a first-person look at historical injustice, and a bleak look at the future…
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CAST: Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney
CREW: Robert Eggers (director, writer, producer), Chris Columbus, Eleanor Columbus, John Graham and Jeff Robinov (producers), Robin Carolan (composer), Jarin Blaschke (cinematographer), Louise Ford (editor)
PLOT: In 19th-century Germany, Thomas Hutter (Hoult) is sent to finalise a deal with the mysterious Count Orlok (Skarsgård), who reveals himself to be a vampire with a fixation on Thomas’s troubled wife Ellen (Depp)…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Nosferatu is showing in cinemas from Wednesday 1 January 2025
CAST: Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, Adam James, Marama Corlett, Aoife Hinds, Nikhil Parmar, Heather Craney, Douglas Hodge, Lee Braithewaite, Grace Delaney, Amy Morgan, Niamh Cusack, Lucy Briers, Robert Boulter, Kerry Godliman
CREW: John Crowley (director), Nick Payne (writer), Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke and Guy Heeley (producers), Bryce Dessner (composer), Stuart Bentley (cinematographer), Justine Wright (editor)
PLOT: Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh) meet and fall in love, igniting a years-long relationship that tests their unbreakable bond…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
We Live in Time is showing in cinemas from Wednesday 1 January 2025
CAST: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ethan Cole Sharp, Jimmie Fails
CREW: RaMell Ross (director, writer), Joslyn Barnes (writer, producer), Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and David Levine (producers), Scott Alario and Alex Somers (composers), Jomo Fray (cinematographer), Nicholas Monsour (editor)
PLOT: In 1960s Florida, young African-American student Elwood (Herisse) is accused of stealing a car, and is promptly enrolled in the notorious Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school where he and fellow Black students receive cruel treatment from the faculty. Elwood soon befriends a fellow student named Turner (Wilson), and together they attempt to survive the school’s abuse…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Nickel Boys is showing in cinemas from Friday 3 January 2024
CAST: Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie, Hector Hewer, Maria Ressa, Carole Cadwalladr, Rana Ayyub, Ben Rhodes, Rahima Mahmut, Silkie Carlo, Cori Crider, George Monbiot, Nina Schick, Chris Smalls, Douglass Rushkof, Carmody Grey, Tristan Harris, James O’Brien, Anne Applebaum, Antony Lowenstein
CREW: Asif Kapadia (director, writer, producer), Tony Grisoni (writer), George Chignell (producer), Bradford Young (cinematographer), Chris King and Sylvie Landra (editors)
PLOT: A terrifying look at our growingly authoritarian present, and the potential future that could result from our current path…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
2073 is showing in cinemas from Wednesday 1 January 2025
CAST: Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mekhi Phifer, Mark Strong, Michael Eklund, Djinda Kane, Katrina Lupi
CREW: Brad Anderson (director), Dan Hall (writer), Eric Paquette (producer), Anton Sanko (composer), Daniel Aranyó (cinematographer), Matt Lyon (editor)
PLOT: After an on-the-job accident leaves him with permanent hearing loss, Boston detective Frank Shaw (Kinnaman) is recruited by his partner Doug (Strong) to protect Ava (Frank), a deaf woman who witnessed a brutal murder. However, when a group of criminals and corrupt cops enter Ava’s apartment building to subdue her, Frank must do what he can to spare her from harm…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
The Silent Hour is streaming exclusively on Prime Video from Monday 30 December 2024
CAST: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Alessandra Panaro, Corrado Pani, Roger Hanin, Spiros Focás, Paolo Stoppa, Suzy Delair, Claudia Cardinale, Rocco Vidolazzi, Claudia Mori, Adriana Asti, Enzo Fiermonte, Nino Castelnuovo, Rosario Borelli, Renato Terra
CREW: Luchino Visconti (director, writer), Pasquale Festa Campanile, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Massimo Franciosa and Enrico Medioli (writers), Goffredo Lombardo (producer), Nino Rota (composer), Giuseppe Rotunno (cinematographer), Mario Serandrei (editor)
PLOT: In early 60s Italy, the impoverished Parondi family – including brothers Rocco (Delon), Simone (Salvatori), Ciro (Cartier) and Luca (Vidolazzi) – migrate from the south to the industrial city of Milan, where the brothers seek new paths in life. However, their growing obsession with local prostitute Nadia (Girardot) threatens to break their familial bond…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Rocco and His Brothers is showing in cinemas from Friday 3 January 2025
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