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  • A Haunting in Venice

    • Action
    • Drama
    • 2023
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • 103 mins
    • 12A

    Summary:

    Murder mystery directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Famed detective Hercule Poirot has retired from the sleuthing game and is now living a quiet life in Venice. At the insistence of an American writer friend, he attends a seance on Halloween, ostensibly to help unmask the medium hosting it as a fraud. But when a murder is then committed, Poirot questions whether supernatural elements have played a part in the fiendish crime.

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  • Alien

    • Horror
    • Sci-fi
    • 1979
    • Ridley Scott
    • 116 mins
    • X

    Summary:

    Sci-fi horror thriller starring Sigourney Weaver. On its way back to Earth at the end of a routine voyage, the spacecraft Nostromo picks up signals from a nearby planet. When three of the crew go to investigate, one of them is attacked by a mysterious creature that emerges from a repository of eggs.

    Almost 50 years after his first Alien film was sold on the tagline “In space, no one can hear you scream”, producer Ridley Scott remains determined to test that theory. With the franchise’s latest, Alien: Romulus, recently in cinemas and a prequel TV series coming in 2025, it’s well worth catching up with the movies to date, all available on Disney+. Scott’s 1979 original, probably the best sci-fi horror ever made, introduces Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, trapped — along with crewmates including John Hurt, Ian Holm and Harry Dean Stanton — on the claustrophobic spaceship Nostromo alongside a grotesque stowaway that grows ever larger and hungrier. James Cameron’s fist-pumping thrill-ride Aliens (1986) gives Alien a run for its money, delivering on its simple title by pitting Ripley against a whole colony of those nasty xenomorphs. But the more maligned later entries are pretty good, too: Alien3 (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997) push the series down ever more bizarre avenues while featuring some solid, imaginative action; and Scott’s eventual returns to the franchise, with prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), show there’s plenty to explore of this terrifying universe — even without the iconic Ripley. CALUM BAKER

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  • All of Us Strangers

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • 2023
    • Andrew Haigh
    • 105 mins
    • 15

    Summary:

    Romantic fantasy drama starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. Lonely screenwriter Adam, who lives in a near-empty London tower block, finds connection in a burgeoning relationship with his mysterious neighbour, Harry. Soon afterwards, Adam revisits his suburban childhood home, where he has a surreal encounter: his parents, who died decades ago, appear to still be living there.

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  • Deadpool 2

    • Action
    • Comedy
    • 2018
    • David Leitch
    • 114 mins
    • 15

    Summary:

    Fantasy action adventure starring Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin. In the wake of a personal tragedy, Deadpool joins forces with a couple of fellow mutants, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. They come to the aid of an unstable pyrokinetic orphan who is being targeted by Cable, a cybernetic soldier from the future, but is Deadpool really up to the task?

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  • Heat

    • Action
    • Drama
    • 1995
    • Michael Mann
    • 163 mins
    • 15

    Summary:

    Crime thriller starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Detective Vincent Hanna is closing in on notorious professional thief Neil McCauley. But even though he realises that the police are watching his every move, McCauley decides to go ahead with one final heist before leaving the US for a new life.

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  • LA Confidential

    • Action
    • Drama
    • 1997
    • Curtis Hanson
    • 132 mins
    • 18

    Summary:

    Oscar-winning crime drama based on the novel by James Ellroy, starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kim Basinger. Three detectives become embroiled in a labyrinth of corruption, intrigue and murder involving a prostitute and the editor of a sleazy magazine.

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  • Let It Be

    • Documentary and factual
    • Music
    • 1970
    • Michael Lindsay-Hogg
    • 80 mins
    • U

    Summary:

    Documentary charting the recording sessions that would provide the material for the Beatles' final released album, Let It Be. Moving from Twickenham Film Studios to the band's Apple offices on Savile Row, this fly-on-the-wall feature captures John, Paul, George and Ringo in candid detail and culminates in the famous rooftop concert that would mark the Beatles' final live appearance.

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  • Poor Things

    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • 2023
    • Yorgos Lanthimos
    • 141 mins
    • 18

    Summary:

    Sci-fi fantasy starring Emma Stone. In his Edinburgh lab, eminent Victorian scientist Dr Godwin Baxter conducts his greatest experiment yet: Bella, an adult woman whose brain has been replaced with that of a foetus. As her mind rapidly develops, Bella grows restless and decides to leave her home for an adventure in Europe, where she will learn much about the world, herself and the foibles of humanity.

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  • The Beach Boys

    • Documentary and factual
    • Drama
    • 2024
    • Frank Marshall
    • 115 mins
    • 12

    Summary:

    Documentary charting six decades of success for the Californian rock 'n' rollers, from their early days harmonising at family get-togethers through to selling out arenas across the States. New interviews with the surviving members are interweaved with archive footage to tell the story of "America's band".

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  • West Side Story

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • 2021
    • Steven Spielberg
    • 156 mins
    • 12A

    Summary:

    Musical starring Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler. In 1950s New York, two rival teenage gangs - the "American" Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks - fight to control the streets. When former Jet Tony, who's trying to leave the gang life behind, falls for Maria, the sister of the Sharks' leader, their forbidden romance causes the turf war to escalate with tragic consequences.

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