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ON RELEASE: April 2022
(15) (120 mins)
Director Robert Eggers takes a step up into the bigger budget league in this Viking epic – based on the Icelandic saga of Amleth, which
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Criminal animals attempt to go straight in this starry Tarantino-esque CGI caper for kids.
MTMT . A train journey changes two of its passengers lives in this riff on Before Sunrise.
Documentary about the famous, groundbreaking chef Julia Childs.
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Italian supernatural drama set in 1900 as a woman goes on a journey to save her daughter’s soul from limbo.
Singing and dancing animation involving robots and cosmetic surgeons.
Dark French bullying drama that will resonate uncomfortably with parents.
M A sequel to the strangely successful fishing drama that set sea shanties loose in the charts. More blandly, watery feel good vibes await in a cash- in sequel.
M A teenage girl attempts to escape her controlling father in this uncomfortable drama.
FILM PREVIEWS by KEIRON SELF
ponderings of Hamlet. After Eggers’ previous films The Witch and The Lighthouse, both idiosyncratically excellent, this is his chance to do brutal battle scenes and paint on a broader canvas than a house in the woods or a weather- beaten lighthouse. Alexander Skarsgard is more muscle than man as the wronged son of a slain father than Hawke out for vengeance after witnessing his killing as a boy. Nicole Kidman is his mother, Claes Bang the usurping uncle. On his brutal quest, Skarsgard picks up Anya Taylor- Joy’s gifted maybe-sorceress and encounters Willem Defoe’s fool and Björk’s seeress, before a naked swordfight on a volcano. Brutal and bloody, with prolonged single-take bouts of swordwielding and an arthouse vibe, this should be another dynamic watch from director Eggers.
Shakespeare turned into the moody Out Fri 15 Apr A FILM OF THE MONTH A APRIL
THE NORTHMAN Dir: Robert Eggers
THE OUTFIT Dir: Graham Moore
(15) (104 mins)
The Outfit is a claustrophobic thriller mostly set in one 1950s-era Chicago location over one night; showcasing another great performance from Mark Rylance as an English tailor caught up in the workings of the Mob. Rylance plays Leonard, a master tailor, who left England penniless and was given a shop by the head of a local mob family, played by Simon Russell Beale. His shop has since become a dropoff point for ill-gotten cash and nefarious information, and when his boss’ son – played by Dylan O’Brien – turns up shot with loose cannon mobster Johnny Flynn, he has to use his stitching ability to tend to wounds. There’s also the matter of a tape, which has the identity of a snitch in the family. A tense, thoroughly enjoyable puzzle looks set to unfold in this handsome-looking drama from director Moore, who also wrote The Imitation Game. Snitches get stitches.
Out Fri 8 Apr
THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT
OF MASSIVE TALENT Dir: Tom Gormican (15) (100 mins)
Nicolas Cage stars as Nicolas Cage in this meta-action comedy that will please fans of the histrionic actor’s excesses. Cage is a performer who can do subtle, as his award-winning turn in Leaving Las Vegas or the more recent Pig proves, but he’s also the guy who shouts bees, takes his face…off, and gurns with abandon in supremely variable nonsense. He still remains good value, however, and this escapade looks to be on a different level to his more recent and prolific VO stodge. He’s a broke icolas age, facing divorce from wife Sharon Horgan and estrangement from his daughter. When his agent, played by Neil Patrick Harris, organizes him a gig at a billionaire fan’s birthday Pedro Pascal, it’s an easy million-dollar payday it seems. Turns out the fan is an international drug lord and would- be screenwriter, desperate to create a film for his hero. age then finds himself embroiled with CIA agents Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz as they attempt to take his superfan down. High- octane nonsense that should be fun and have weird Cageian dialogue… pauses.
Out Fri 22 Apr 32
THE LOST CITY Dir: Aaron & Adam Nee mins
Owing a very heavy debt to the likes of 80s action film comedies like Romancing The Stone and Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Lost City looks set to be a brisk bit of popcorn fun. Sandra Bullock plays reclusive romance novelist Loretta Sage who goes on a book tour with the cover model of her books, Alan, a game Channing Tatum. Tatum has spent his career embodying her romantic hero, but when Sage is kidnapped by eccentric billionaire Daniel Radcliffe he is forced to be a real hero… of sorts. Radcliffe believes he can use Bullock to find a lost city’s treasure from one of her books, much to her bemusement. So, it’s up to Tatum to ineffectually try and save her in the middle of the ungle and find the treasure while escaping the bad guys. A fun, action-packed Brad Pitt cameo adds to the silly tone, and the comedic chemistry between Bullock and Tatum looks set to provide some welcome escapist silliness.
Out Fri 15 Apr
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