Films of the Week: 4–10 August
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2024
Horror
Thriller
15
Psychological horror starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. When young Mormon missionaries Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton visit the house of potential convert Mr Reed, he engages them in religious debate. However, his interest in doctrine takes a menacing turn when he traps them in his house and begins to reveal far darker intentions.
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2024
Western
Crime/detective
15
When a band of unlikely heroes pursue a brutal killer in a snowbound wilderness, they follow him into a deadly land known as the Thicket. Director Elliott Lester's drama, starring Peter Dinklage, Juliette Lewis, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Levon Hawke
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2007
Documentary
Crime/detective
12A
Drama documentary that details the preparation for and execution of one of the most daring stunts of all time. On 7 August 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit took a tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center, incurring the wrath of the authorities. His outrageous feat was dubbed by some "the artistic crime of the century".
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2015
Drama
Romance
15
Drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. As the day approaches for Kate and Geoff to celebrate 45 years of idyllic married life, a troubling discovery from Geoff's past throws a cloud over preparations.
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2021
Comedy
Drama
18
Comedy drama starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez. A renowned but eccentric director is hired to helm a prestige picture starring two very different actors. With the trio struggling through a series of bizarre rehearsals, will the film ever make it in front of cameras?
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2024
Drama
Documentary
12A
Biographical drama starring Angelina Jolie. September 1977: opera star Maria Callas is unofficially retired and now largely isolated in her Paris mansion. Over the course of a week, she reflects on her glamorous glory years and attends rehearsals for a planned comeback. But as she struggles to retain her strength and continues to overmedicate with prescription sedatives, her voice threatens to remain a distant memory.
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1950
Drama
PG
Classic drama starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders. Margo Channing is an ageing theatre actress charmed into employing a seemingly innocent young fan as her secretary. But her new assistant is not as naive as she appears and ruthlessly begins to undermine Margo's career in order to fulfil her own acting ambitions.
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1980
Comedy
PG
Disaster-movie spoof starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen. An eccentric collection of passengers and crew sets off from Los Angeles on a flight bound for Chicago. However, disaster looms when the pilots are struck down with food poisoning and former fighter pilot Ted Striker, trying to win back the love of stewardess Elaine, must face his fear of flying to land the plane.
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2022
Horror
Mystery
18
Horror thriller starring Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgård. Researcher Tess Marshall is in Detroit for a job interview but with hotels all booked up, she is forced to stay at an Airbnb in a run-down neighbourhood. She finds the room has been double-booked by Keith, but he kindly offers to take the couch. It's not long before Tess suspects there is more to her accommodation than meets the eye.
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1942
Crime/detective
Romance
U
Classic romantic drama starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid. Rick's Café in wartime Casablanca is a watering hole for criminals, refugees, resistance fighters and Nazis. Its cynical owner, a mysterious expatriate American called Rick Blaine, sticks his neck out for no one. No one, that is, until the arrival of the beautiful Ilsa Lund and her husband Victor Lazlo, who are desperate to escape to America.
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