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ON RELEASE: October 2021
ATTACHED: PARANORMAL (15) Another found-footage, CCTV camera slice of sheets moving after long gaps of nothing happening, etc.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 (PG) More CGI comedy hijinks with the creepy and kooky family.
NEXT DOOR (15) Daniel Bruhl directs and stars in this ho-hum, Berlin- set social drama.
EVEN MICE BELONG IN HEAVEN (PG) Animated capers as a fox and a mouse meet in heaven, are returned to Earth in opposite bodies and learn to become, like, real mates.
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER(S) (15) Weighty, lengthy documentary detailing why 99% of people who carried out murders during the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Disturbing stuff.
FREAKSCENE – THE STORY OF DINOSAUR JR (15) Documentary about the influential rock band from America’s East Coast. Guitar riffs aplenty.
I AM BELMAYA (15) A Nepalese woman escapes her life of oppression by picking up a camera and becoming a documentary maker. Powerful and uplifting stuff.
RON’S GONE WRONG (PG) The story of a boy and his walking, talking digital device, discovering friendship in the social media age. Aww. Comedy heavy hitters Rob Delaney, Olivia Colman and Zach Galifianakis provide voices.
QUANT (15) Documentary about influential fashion designer Dame Mary Quant, featuring a host of glamorous talking heads and Quant’s family. Fascinating for would-be Edna Modes.
KEIRON SELF ANTLERS Dir: Scott Cooper (15, 99 mins)
A creature feature with director Scott Cooper, who has brought us layered, gripping dramas like Crazy Heart, Out Of The Furnace, Black Mass and Hostiles, at the helm. Luckily, his sideways shift into the horror genre has producer Guillermo Del Toro also on board: a maestro of monsters for an unsettling tale of something eating its way through a small Oregon town. Keri Russell plays a teacher who takes an interest in one of her pupils, a bullied boy played by the haunted-looking Jeremy T Thomas. He has no real family, it seems, but is harbouring a dark secret that he is trying to contain in a bedroom – a wendigo with a taste for blood. Enlisting the help of her brother, the local sheriff, played by Jesse Plemmons, Russell tries to get to the heart of the mystery before it is too late. Expect classy chills, gore and alarming monstrosities. Out Fri 29 Oct
DEAR EVAN HANSEN Dir: Stephen Chbosky (12A, 137 mins)
This award-winning musical comes to the big screen with its original star Ben Platt in the lead as Hansen, a high schooler who writes a letter to himself on the advice of his therapist. When jockish classmate Connor (Colton Ryan) first steals the letter, then commits suicide, the letter is presumed to be a suicide note, written by Connor to his closest friend. Platt is now the centre of attention and invents a role for himself in the tragedy, adding backstory emails between them and eventually going viral with a memorial speech: a rollercoaster ride of emotions, many of them played out in song. He also has a crush on Connor’s sister (Kaitlyn Dever), yet getting closer to her has a price, and Platt is forced to continue his self-imposed charade – until, inevitably, there comes a reckoning. This should satisfy fans of the original and find more. Out Fri 22 Oct
DUNE Dir: Denis Villeneuve (12A, 155 mins)
Frank Herbert’s seminal masterwork, first published in 1965, has been tricky to tame, like a giant sandworm. A failed attempt at Dune in the 70s, using designs by HR Giger and Alejandro Jodorowsky, was succeeded by David Lynch’s take in 1984 that boasted Sting in a blue nappy. If anyone can pull this story off, it should be Denis Villeneuve. Already the helmer of two excellent sci-fi films, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, he can balance intelligence with spectacle. Timothee Chalamet is Paul Atreides, a teenage leader on the desert world of Arakis, or Dune. His father Duke Atreides (Oscar Isaac) is betrayed by Stellan Skarsgaard’s Baron Harkonnen, and Chalamet is forced to find safety with his warrior-psychic mother Lady Jessica, played by Rebecca Ferguson. It’s a dense book, with multiple characters played by the likes of Jason Mamoa, Josh Brolin, Zendaya and Dave Bautista – and this is only part one. Out Thurs 21 Oct
HALLOWEEN KILLS Dir: David Gordon Green (18, 106 mins)
The last remake of Halloween proved a size- able hit back in 2018, so an inevitable sequel beckoned. Envisioned as a trilogy, this middle sequel offers more stabby gore from the man in the Shatner mask. A boogeyman since 1978, when original director John Carpenter created a new horror genre, the Haddonfield killer contin- ues to wreak mayhem. This time, however, the community goes after Michael Myers rather than the other way around, the sequel turning its at- tention on whether violence should be taken into the hands of the populace. Judy Greer returns as Curtis’ daughter Karen, as does Andi Matichak as granddaughter Allyson, and original cast members Charles Cyphers and Nancy Stephens appear. The supporting cast of the Haddonfield residents also get a chance to shine – all reeling from trauma, evil having not been eradicated. Hopefully this won’t be a retread but have some smarts and surprises, together with another John Carpenter score. Out Fri 15 Oct
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