Movie of the Week
Cinemas
- Babygirl
- Maria
- The Girl with the Needle
- It’s Raining Men
- The Damned
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story
- Fateh
Streaming/On-Demand
2025 continues to be the movie gift that keeps on giving, with this week’s Movie Menu being packed with even more certified bangers like a humorous Holocaust trip, an erotic reawakening, and a opera diva biopic, among many others…
Movie of the Week
Cinemas
Streaming/On-Demand
CAST: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes, Ellora Torchia
CREW: Jesse Eisenberg (director, writer, producer), Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Ewa Puszczyńska, Jennifer Semler and Emma Stone (producers), Michał Dymek (cinematographer), Robert Nassau (editor)
PLOT: David (Eisenberg), a reserved family man, travels with his free-spirited cousin Benji (Culkin) to the childhood home of their late grandmother in Poland, while also connecting with their Jewish heritage during a Holocaust tour…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
A Real Pain is showing in cinemas from Wednesday 8 January 2025
CAST: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Gaite Jansen, Esther McGregor, Vaughan Reilly, Victor Slezak, Anoop Desai, Bartley Booz, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Leslie Silva, Dolly Wells
CREW: Halina Reijn (director, writer, producer), David Hinojosa and Julia Oh (producers), Cristobal Tapia de Veer (composer), Jasper Wolf (cinematographer), Matthew Hannam (editor)
PLOT: Romy (Kidman), a high-ranking CEO, embarks on an erotic and ultimately liberating affair with her younger intern Samuel (Dickinson)…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Babygirl is showing in cinemas from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Valeria Golino, Alessandro Bressanello, Caspar Phillipson, Aggelina Papadopoulou
CREW: Pablo Larraín (director, producer), Steven Knight (writer), Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Simone Gattoni, Janine Jackowski, Juan de Dios Larraín and Lorenzo Mieli (producers), Ed Lachman (cinematographer), Sofía Subercaseaux (editor)
PLOT: In 1970s Paris, world-renowned opera singer Maria Callas (Jolie) confronts her identity and her life during her final days…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Maria is showing in cinemas from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, Avo Knox Martin, Anders Hove, Ari Alexander
CREW: Magnus von Horn (director, writer), Line Langebek Knudsen (writer), Malene Blenkov and Mariusz Wlodarski (producers), Frederikke Hoffmeier (composer), Michal Dymek (cinematographer), Agnieszka Glinska (editor)
PLOT: In 1919 Copenhagen, young pregnant factory worker Karoline (Sonne) learns of a clandestine adoption agency run by a mysterious older woman named Dagmar (Dyrholm), but soon uncovers a much more frightening reality at its heart…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
The Girl with the Needle is showing in cinemas from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Laure Calamy, Vincent Elbaz, Suzanne de Baecque, Sylvain Katan, Laurent Poitrenaux, Ismaël Sy Savané, Alexandre Steiger, Olivia Côte, Pascal Rénéric, Myriem Akheddiou, Zoé Richard
CREW: Caroline Vignal (director, writer), Noémie de Lapparent (writer), Laetitia Galitzine and Aurélie Rouvière (producers), Benjamin Esdraffo (composer), Martin Roux (cinematographer), Dorothée Auboiron and David Bertrand (editors)
PLOT: Iris (Calamy) is happily married, a devoted mother, and a successful dentist. However, she craves a sex life that her husband Stéphane (Elbaz) cannot seem to give her, so she sets up a profile on a dating app to find a potential lover – and becomes overwhelmed with her many unexpected matches…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
It’s Raining Men is showing in cinemas from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Lewis Gribben, Francis Magee, Mícheál Óg Lane, Andrean Sigurgeirsson
CREW: Thordur Palsson (director), Jamie Hannigan (writer), Conor Barry, Tim Headington, Kamilla Hodol, Emilie Jouffroy, Nate Kamiya, John Keville and Theresa Steele Page (producers), Stephen McKeon (composer), Eli Arenson (cinematographer), Tony Cranstoun and Nathan Nugent (editors)
PLOT: In 19th century Iceland, young widow Eva (Young) runs a fishing station in a small coastal village. During a particularly harsh winter, a sinking ship is spotted in the distance, forcing Eva and her workers to make an impossible choice over whether to save the shipwrecked crew or to prioritise their own survival, with their ultimate decision coming back to haunt them…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
The Damned is showing in cinemas from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Mike Smith, Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay, Patrick Roach, Billy Bob Thornton, Ronnie Wood, Eric Burdon
CREW: Charlie Lightening (director), Mike Smith (writer, producer), Jamie Brown, Gary Howsam, John Paul Tremblay, Lewin Webb and Robb Wells (producers), Daniel Lightening (cinematographer), Pablo D’Ambrosi and Jeremy Harty (editors)
PLOT: Bubbles (Smith), a resident of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia, forms a new country band known as the Shitrockers, and after a clip of their initial disastrous performance goes viral, Bubbles and his bandmates are invited to accompany Billy Bob Thornton (as himself) and his own band the Boxmasters on a European tour…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story is showing in cinemas from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Sonu Sood, Jacqueline Fernandez, Vijay Raaz, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Shivjyoti Rajput, Naseeruddin Shah, Vijayant Kohli, Binnu Dhillon, Insane Ashraf, Jahangir Khan, Nishan Cheema, Suraj Jumani
CREW: Sonu Sood (director, writer, producer), Vincenzo Condorelli (cinematographer), Yash Parikh and Shekhar Prajapati (editors)
PLOT: Fateh (Sood), a former gangster, is hired to protect a young woman (Fernandez), using his ruthless skills to eliminate those who want to silence her…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Fateh is showing in cinemas from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Rory Kinnear, Rob Delaney, Hugh Bonneville, Chrissy Metz, Dan Fogler, Leila Farzad, Jo Hartley, Pearce Quigley, Amit Shah, George Rainsford, Ashley Tabatabai, Calvin Dean, Bill Blackwood, Shaun Chambers, Liz Thompson, Catherine Dryden, Jenny Fitzpatrick, Michaella Moore, Mark Conway
CREW: Chris Foggin (director), Piers Ashworth (writer), Lauren Cox, Carl Hall and Piers Tempest (producers), Christian Henson (composer), Mike Stern Sterzynski (cinematographer), Mark Thornton (editor)
PLOT: Two years after successfully opening his own community bank, Dave Fishwick (Kinnear) takes on the predatory payday lenders that are terrorising his home town of Burnley…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger is streaming exclusively on Netflix from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Maisie Ayres, Anitta Suikkari
CREW: Steffen Haars (director), Nick Frost (writer, producer), Maxime Cottray, John Hegeman, Miles Ketley, Lee Kim, Nick Spicer and Aram Tertzakian (producers), Hybrid (composer), Joris Kerbosch (cinematographer), Brian Ent (editor)
PLOT: Richard (Frost) takes his wife Susan (Bea) and their teenage children Sam (Croft) and Jessie (Ayres) on a family getaway to a remote Swedish island, where they soon learn that a serial killer is lurking about…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Get Away is streaming exclusively on Sky Cinema from Friday 10 January 2025
CAST: Sophie Cookson, Alba August, Claes Bang, Emily Beecham, Adam Pålsson, Ulrich Thomsen, Jakob Oftebro, Wilf Scolding, Thomas Chaanhing, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Kate Ashfield, Matias Varela, Wayne Brett
CREW: Mikael Håfström (director), Nora Landsrød and Erlend Loe (writers), Helena Danielsson (producer), Lorne Balfe and Steffen Thum (composers), Pär M. Ekberg (cinematographer), Rickard Krantz (editor)
PLOT: In 1500s Stockholm, sisters Anne (Cookson) and Freja (August) seek revenge on those who killed their family on Anne’s wedding day, only to be drawn into a much larger conspiracy involving the Danish King Christian II (Bang)…
FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:
Stockholm Bloodbath is available to rent/buy on digital platforms from Monday 6 January 2025
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