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ON RELEASE: May 2022
A FILM OF THE MONTH A MAY DR STRANGE IN THE
MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS Dir: Sam Raimi (15) (120 mins)
A-ha The Movie
FATHER STU (15) Mark Wahlberg becomes a priest in this drama from Mel Gibson. Insert meme here.
EMERGENCY (15)
Three partying college students find themselves with a dilemma in this racially aware comedy.
A-HA THE MOVIE (12A) Well, take on me, I’ve been hunting high and low for a music doc about a Norwegian music band like this, it stunned the living daylights out of me when I found it. Still, the sun always shines on TV.
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (15) French drama about the hardships of modern life, starring the always excellent Juliette Binoche and set around the port of Caen in Northern France.
LANCASTER (12A) A feature-length documentary about the British plane and those who flew in them. Chocks away!
PSYCHO (15) Hitchcock’s classic black and white shocker gets a re-release. Avoid showers.
FILM PREVIEWS by KEIRON SELF
THE INNOCENTS Dir: Eskil Vogt
(15) (117 mins)
A creepy psychological horror from Norway that draws on many familiar superpowered- children tropes but appears to have a more original Scandi take on the subject than, say, Chronicle, The Midwich Cuckoos or X Men: First Class. It follows nine-year old Ida (Rakel Lenora
THE ROAD DANCE Dir: Richie Adams
(15) (114 mins)
Flottum) and Anna (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad), her older autistic sister, who move to a tower block near some woods and play with the local kids whilst their busy parents leave them to their own devices. Chief amongst these misfits are Ben (Sam Ashraf), whose unpleasant tendencies include animal cruelty, and Aisha (Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim), a young moral compass. When they are together, though, they find their latent abilities are magnified – cue bouts of telekinesis and mind control, inevitably leading to a tense if decidedly un-Marvel-esque showdown. A twisted, uncomfortable arthouse horror written and directed by Worst Person In The World collaborator Vogt, this should grip and disturb in novel ways.
Out Fri 20 May Psycho 28
Based on the best-selling debut novel by John MacKay, The Road Dance is a WWI drama set in a tiny coastal village on the Isle Of Lewis and will no doubt boast some superb cinematography. Hermione Corfield plays Kirsty, who lives in the tight-knit community with her mother (Morven Christie) and sister (Ali Fumiko Whitney). Kirsty has two suitors: Murdo (Will Fletcher), recently returned from Army training, and Iain (Tom Byrne). As the boys are about to be sent off to war, the village organises a quasi-celebratory dance, during which a sexual assault takes place. The fallout from this has melodramatic and devastating results for the community. Mark Gatiss adds some weight to the cast as the village doctor, as does Alison Peebles’ local busybody. Set to please those who love a romantic drama with some fantastic Outer Hebridean scenery, this historical yarn promises to be predictable Sunday evening television viewing.
Out Fri 20 May
Benedict Cumberbatch returns as Stephen Strange in his second standalone movie that expands on the multiverse tampering that he opened in Spiderman: No Way Home. Directed by Evil Dead and original Spider-man trilogy director Sam Raimi, this should be Marvel’s most horrific and trippiest film yet, bringing to life many alternate Stranges and universes in an SFX-heavy but hopefully characterful way. Strange needs help to keep the fabric of the universe unravelling, coming in the shape of Elisabeth Olsen’s Scarlett Witch and erstwhile wizard Wong. There are cameos, it seems, from many, with Patrick Stewart’s Professor X teased, along with callbacks to WandVision, and the reappearance of Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Rachel McAdams as Strange’s beloved. Further revelations are expected, but this will be the next chapter in the ever-expanding, hopefully not too confusing Marvelverse. Open up that third eye… the one in your forehead, you dirty-minded necromancers.
Out Fri 6 May
BENEDICTION Dir: Terence Davies
(PG) (127 mins)
A stately, emotional biopic of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon from a master of delicate humanity writer/director
Benediction should be a gratifying, moving drama. Jack Lowden stars as the poet whose subordination at the horrors of life in the trenches got him sent to a mental hospital where he befriended another superb war poet: Wilfred Owen played here by Matthew Tennyson. These men raged against the inhumanity of war, but Sassoon’s poetic light did not shine as brightly. The film also looks to document Sassoon’s homosexuality, his failed male relationships and an unhappy marriage leading to a search for meaning through Catholicism. Peter Capaldi plays the older Sassoon, riddled with sadness and brittleness. It promises to be epically human and deeply sad, dealing as it does with man’s inhumanity to man and a poet who deemed himself a failure despite his terse poetic brilliance in poms like They and Suicide In The Trenches.
Terence Davies, Out Fri 13 May
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