Lockdown 2 has finished and certain cinemas, depending on your Tier, have re-opened. There are plenty of new films to dive into this weekend: ranging from star-fuelled pleasures to smaller indie dramas.
Considering the uncertain future ahead, supporting cinemas is more important than ever. So, if you feel up to it, buy some tickets and return to the big screen
George Clooney stars in and directs this post-apocalyptic space movie starring Felicity Jones and David Oyelowo.
Clooney plays Augustine, a lone scientist who lives in the Arctic with his daughter. He sees that the famous spaceship Ether is coming back to a decimated Earth, and he needs to send out a warning message. The only way to do that? By crossing the icy desert to reach a communications station.
David Fincher's latest film looks at the theory that Orson Welles wasn’t the true genius behind Citizen Kane. The legend goes that Herman J Mankiewicz, the writer, was the true party responsible. Fincher examines Mankiewicz's writing process and the corrupted world of 30s Hollywood, shooting in glossy black-and-white and starring Gary Oldman.
The last film starring Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer this year, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is adapted from the play by Pulitzer winner August Wilson (Fences). The story's set in 1920s Chicago during a recording session for black musicians. Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), the ‘Mother of the Blues’, fights with a white manager for control over her music.
The latest project from prolific film-maker Ryan Murphy is a glittery, glamorous delight, adapted from the Broadway musical. With a starry cast that includes Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, The Prom follows a gay high-school student who's desperate to take her partner to the end-of-year dance. But same-sex partnerships have been banned by the PTA...
At this time of year we’d usually be expecting another season of the bedazzling Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which has been delayed because of Covid. But, in a completely different capacity, Rachel Brosnahan is still appearing. In I’m Your Woman, set in the 70s, she plays a suburban housewife whose criminal husband pays for everything. But when he sells out his partners, she’s forced to go on the run with her baby.
You thought your parents were bad? Wait till you meet Willis. In Viggo Mortensen’s film-making debut Falling, he’s a conservative, homophobic, xenophobic father-of-two with little interest in being kind. But after getting dementia, his kind and resilient son John (Mortensen) – a liberal gay man living in California – feels a duty to look after him. But with antiquated attitudes so contrary to his own, John struggles under the pressure and abuse.
Sometimes you need movies to bring you down to earth, and Henry Blake’s harrowing social drama County Lines is unflinching. The film examines how county lines gangs surreptitiously move drugs from London into the countryside, grooming children to do their dirty work, some as young as 11. Newcomer Conrad Khan plays 14-year-old Tyler, a lonely and bullied kid whose flat is facing financial uncertainty. He joins the county lines system, in the hope of earning some cash.
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