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ON RELEASE: April 2023
LOLA (15) A lo-fi monochrome British time travel thriller set in the 1940s that really rocks as two women discover they can contact the future.
CAIRO CONSPIRACY (15) Egyptian political thriller sees a student forced to become a spy as he attends his elite Sunni Islam university. Gripping.
A CLEVER WOMAN (15)
Brit drama as sisters played by Josie Lawrence and Tanya Myers return to their Isle Of Wight home and re- examine their relationship with their adulterous mum.
SICK OF MYSELF (15)
Controversial Oslo set drama set in the world of contemporary art, that has competitive artists going to increasing extremes in a stomach-churning satire.
THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY (12A)
Feelgood heartfelt drama as Jim Broadbent walks from Bristol to Berwick-Upon-Tweed in a bid to keep a woman suffering from cancer alive. Based on the best-selling book.
LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA (15) A 12-year-old is taken out of an abusive relationship with her father and has to relearn what it is to be a child in this moving, powerful drama.
RODEO (15)
Dirt-riding French misfit Julia struggles to fit in with her male peers, until an accident changes everything. Lots of wheelies amidst the social commentary.
LEAVING TO REMAIN (15) A documentary following three Roma as they try and navigate their way through Britain in the time of Brexit and COVID.
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING (12A)
Documentary about the rock’n’roll icon, with plenty of high-profile contributors offering their thoughts.
FILM PREVIEWS by KEIRON SELF
(15) (120 mins) A FILM OF THE MONTH A APRIL
RENFIELD Dir: Chris McKay
Another take on the Dracula story, with the focus switching from the Prince of Darkness himself to his manservant Renfield: a barely developed footnote in the source material, but here given personable flesh and action-hero moves by Nicholas Hoult. Renfield has been a slave to his master for 100 years, gaining superpowers vis eating bugs but still bringing Dracula victims to feast upon. Ryan Ridley’s comedic/horror script frames their workplace relationship as a toxic one, with Nicholas Cage mauling the scenery as the vampire himself, adding his unique Cage-ness to the fanged oppressor Renfield is belatedly trying to escape. Renfield’s path crosses with Awkwafina’s cop who is dealing with a murderous mobster played by Ben Schwartz, leading to a collision course pitched firmly in gory horror-comedy territory. Referencing Tod Browning’s 1931 Dracula with nods to Christopher Lee’s incarnation via bloody slapstick, this supernatural rejig under the direction of The Lego Batman Movie helmer McKay should prove scarily entertaining.
Out Fri 14 Apr AIR
Dir: Ben Affleck (15) (112 mins)
The tale of the reinvigoration of Nike, and of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro: the man who secured Michael Jordan for the brand and gifted the world the Air basketball trainers gets the big screen treatment. Reteaming old muckers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, this has the latter on directing duties and co-starring as Nike CEO Phil Knight; Damon takes the lead as the dogged Vaccarro, courting Jordan’s family to get them to agree to his branding strategy. It might not seem like the most cinematic of ventures, but there is a stellar supporting cast, including Viola Davis (as Jordan’s mother), Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans and a calm Chris Tucker adding weight. The script, by Alex Convery, was on Hollywood’s Blacklist as one of the best unproduced screenplays around, with Damon and Affleck doing a final pass before getting it greenlit. Expect a Moneyball-esque level of classy storytelling amidst the capitalism.
Out Wed 5 Apr
MISSING
Dir: Nicholas D. Johnson / Will Merrick (15) (111 mins)
A young woman tries to find her missing mother from home using every online tool at her disposal – with thrilling results – in a film that shares its DNA with 2018’s excellent Searching. There, dad John Cho was looking for his missing daughter and trying to navigate the online world in doing so, the film never leaving anything that could not be seen on a computer screen. This follows the same template, but with Storm Reid (recently ace in The Last Of Us) an 18-year-old, tech-savvy daughter searching for mum Nia Long, after she fails to return from a holiday in Colombia with her new boyfriend, played by Ken Leung. Utilising every internet-based source she can, from Google Translate to TikTok, and the aid of errand runner Javi (Joaquim De Almeida) on the ground in Cartagena, she closes in on what is really happening amidst excessively twisty plotting. Should be a breezy nailbiter with a likeable lead.
Out Fri 21 Apr Lola
ONE FINE MORNING Dir: Mia Hansen-Love
(15) (112 mins)
The latest from Bergman Island director Mia Hansen-Love is another small emotional epic, following Lea Seydoux’s translator Sandra as she deals with her father’s neurodegenerative disease and finds new love. Pascal Greggory plays her philosophy professor father Georg – cruelly struck down by Benson’s Syndrome, which robs him of his mental acuity and vision, meaning he can no longer live alone. Seydoux and her mother – Georg’s ex-wife, played by Nicole Garcia – step into the breach to try and meet the challenge. As she deals with this slow-burning family decline, Seydoux finds love with Clement (Melvil Poupaud): the only trouble is he’s married with a child. Another of Hansen-Love’s acutely observed human dramas, dealing with the limbo of potential loss and potential heartbreak with Seydoux apparently on luminous form, this will be an involving empathy-fuelled drama.
Out Fri 14 Apr
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