Movies This Week – 14-08-19

Well, it’s finally here! Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood arrives on the back of a very successful marketing campaign that kept it in the media for several months at this stage! It’s worth seeing but don’t expect too much from it. Otherwise, we’d recommend Transit and that’s about it for this week! Dora The Explorer and the Lost City of Gold is a half decent kids’ film, Uglydolls isn’t!

Dates for all upcoming movies can be found here.

Our Top Five Films This Week –

5. Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
4. Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
3. Only you
2. The Chambermaid
1. The Transit

In Cinemas Now –

Animals – 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
Angry Birds 2 – 80% on Rotten Tomatoes
Annabelle Comes Home – 69% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Art Of Racing In The Rain – 64% On Rotten Tomatoes
Blinded By The Light – 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Brink– 82% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Chambermaid – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Current War – 33% On Rotten Tomatoes
The Dead Don’t Die – 54% on Rotten Tomatoes
Dora The Explorer and the Lost City of Gold – 71% On Rotten Tomatoes
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw – 66% on Rotten Tomatoes
Gaza – 100% On Rotten Tomatoes
Good Boys – 78% On Rotten Tomatoes
Horrible Histories: The Rotten Romans – 60% On Rotten Tomatoes
The Lion King – 59% on Rotten Tomatoes
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – 79% on Rotten Tomatoes
Midsommar – 83% on Rotten Tomatoes
Never Look Away – 79% on Rotten Tomatoes
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood – 85% on Rotten Tomatoes
Only You – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Pavarotti – 89% on Rotten Tomatoes
Playmobil – 21% On Rotten Tomatoes
Spider-Man: Far From Home – 90% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Sun Is Also A Star – 48% on Rotten Tomatoes
Toy Story 4 – 98% on Rotten Tomatoes

16th August 2019

Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood – 85% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie

A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

Dora The Explorer and the Lost City of Gold – 71% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Paul Tibbitt
Writers(s): Jonathan Aibel (screenplay), Glenn Berger (screenplay), Stephen Hillenburg (character created by), Kyle McCulloch (story), Paul Tibbitt (story)
Actors: Clancy Brown, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass

Plot unknown. This is the third feature film in the ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ franchise based on the popular TV series.

Good Boys – 78% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky
Writers(s): Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky
Actors: Jacob Tremblay

A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest in the San Fernando Valley to fix their broken toy before their parents get home.

Transit – 95% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Christian Petzold
Writers(s): Christian Petzold (adaptation), Anna Seghers (novel)
Actors: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman

When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband – the very man he’s impersonating.

Uglydolls – 27% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Robert Rodriguez
Writers(s): Blaise Hemingway, David Horvath (story), Sun-min Kim (story), Larry Stuckey (screenplay)
Actors: N/A

A story centered around the plush specialty toys.

August 16th 2019

Angel Has Fallen – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Ric Roman Waugh
Writers(s): Katrin Benedikt, Robert Mark Kamen, Creighton Rothenberger
Actors: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Piper Perabo, Tim Blake Nelson

Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.

Crawl – 83% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Alexandre Aja
Writers(s): Alexandre Aja, Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
Actors: Ross Anderson, Anson Boon, George Somner, Ami Metcalf

A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a Catagory 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.

Hail Satan? – 97% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Penny Lane
Writers(s): N/A
Actors: Jex Blackmore, Nicholas Crowe, Lucien Greaves, Malcolm Jarry

A look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple.

Haunt – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Writers(s): Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Actors: Katie Stevens, Will Brittain, Lauryn Alisa McClain, Andrew Caldwell

On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an “extreme” haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.

Mary – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Michael Goi
Writers(s): Anthony Jaswinski
Actors: Emily Mortimer, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Esposito, Stefanie Scott

A family looking to start a charter-boat business buys a ship that holds terrifying secrets once out on isolated waters.

Nekrotronic – 33% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Kiah Roache-Turner
Writers(s): Kiah Roache-Turner, Tristan Roache-Turner
Actors: Dave Beamish, Monica Bellucci, Charmaine Bingwa, William Cheung

A man who discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet.

Never Grow Old – 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Ivan Kavanagh
Writers(s): Ivan Kavanagh
Actors: John Cusack, Emile Hirsch, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Danny Webb

An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.

Pain & Glory – 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Pedro Almodóvar
Writers(s): Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth

A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark – 81% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): André Øvredal
Writers(s): Dan Hageman (screenplay by), Kevin Hageman (screenplay by), John August (screenplay), Guillermo del Toro (screenplay), Marcus Dunstan (screenplay), Patrick Melton (screenplay), Alvin Schwartz (book)
Actors: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Gabriel Rush

A group of teens face their fears in order to save their lives.