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Read our 5 star review of Carol Knives Out (2019) Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) works at a department store in Manhattan where she encounters the beautiful Carol (Cate Blanchett leaping over her own highest standards with a subtlety that’s little short of phenomenal.) An illicit relationship begins. In a nutshell: Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel. Genre: Drama Dir: Tod Haynes Cast: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler Cert: 15 Time: 118 min. We follow David – adorably played as a boy by Jairaj Varsani and with consummate sparkle and charm as a young man by Dev Patel – from idyllic-then-abused childhood, through his raucous schooldays to a promising and ambitious youth, hampered by family hardships. In a nutshell: A rollicking, colour-blind Dickens adaptation from master satirist Armando Iannucci. Genre: Drama Dir: Armando Iannucci Cast: Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Jairaj Varsani, Hugh Laurie, Ben Whishaw, Peter Capaldi, Daisy May Cooper Cert: PG Time: 119 min. Read our review of 1917 The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) The entire film is presented in just two extended, head-spinningly complex tracking shots, though both are in fact stitched together from shorter sequences, and the joins are mostly, if not entirely, invisible. In a nutshell: Two young British soldiers, played by George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, set out on a death-defying no-man’s-land scramble to deliver an urgent message that could save 1,600 lives. Genre: Drama Dir: Sam Mendes Cast: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, Richard Madden, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong. Read our four star review of The Invisible Man 1917 (2019) Equal parts haunted house ride and sober treatise on domestic abuse, this is horror with more on its mind than up its sleeve. In a nutshell: Elisabeth Moss senses her controlling ex-lover lurking unseen in every corner in this ingenious and often terrifying new spin on the classic HG Wells novel. Read our four star review of Portrait of Lady on Fire The Invisible Man (2020) Sciamma’s splendid, multi-layered conceit manages to carry equal weight as a love story and a manifesto of sorts for feminine art. Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a noblewoman living on the coast in 18th-century Brittany is observed from afar by painter-in-disguise Marianne (Noémie Merlant). In a nutshell: Writer-director Céline Sciamma examines the suppressed but lasting power of the female gaze through the life of a reluctant sitter for an undercover artist.
Read our five star review of Never Rarely Sometimes Always Portrait of Lady on Fire (2020)ĭir: Céline Sciamma Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino Cert: 15 Time: 120 mins As Autumn responds to each of the intensely personal questions with one of the title’s four straightforward multiple-choice options, the fog suddenly rolls back and she recalls how she became pregnant.
In a nutshell: This scalding abortion drama centers on teenage heroine Autumn, who’s magnetically played by first-time actress Sidney Flanigan, as she tried to explain herself in a New York abortion clinic. The next batch of Amazon kids pilots includes four cartoons – The Adventures of Knickerbock Teetertop, Lost in Oz (“a serialised action adventure comedy reimagining L Frank Baum’s universe in a textured, contemporary vision”), Lily the Unicorn (“In Lily’s world, anything is possible: a simple song she hums can go viral and top the charts”), and Bear in Underwear (“If there’s one thing any forest creature needs before stepping out to greet the day it’s … underwear?”) as well as two live-action shows, A History of Radness (“siblings Jack and Tessie from their less-than-cool middle school beginnings at Pleasant Meadows Middle School to the start of their music careers as they put together a band”) and The Kicks (“Devin Burke was the star player on her football team back home until her family moved to California midway through the school year”).Dir: Eliza Hittman Starring: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Sharon Van Etten, Ryan Eggold, Théodore Pellerin. New Amazon Original Kids Pilots – now showing Set includes White Sky, Saturns Pattern, I’m Where I Should Be, Above the Clouds and The Changingman. An exclusive secret gig with Paul Weller playing for 500 fans at The Great Escape’s 10th Birthday in Brighton.