Movies This Week – 18-09-19

Two days before release and Rambo: Last Blood still doesn’t have a review. Hmm, sounds like a turkey to me! Also, the Kitchen is released and again isn’t very good. If you’re looking for something worth seeing, we’d steer you towards the Farewell.

Dates for all upcoming movies can be found here.

Our Top Five Films This Week –

5. Extra Ordinary
4. The Farewell
3. Hustlers
2. For Sama
1. Pain & Glory

In Cinemas Now –

Ad Astra– 80% on Rotten Tomatoes
Aniara – 68% on Rotten Tomatoes
Animals – 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
Asterix: The Secret Of The Magic Potion – 72% on Rotten Tomatoes
Crawl – 83% on Rotten Tomatoes
Dora The Explorer and the Lost City of Gold – 71% On Rotten Tomatoes
Downton Abbey – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Extra Ordinary – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Farewell – 99% On Rotten Tomatoes
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw – 66% on Rotten Tomatoes
For Sama – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Gaza – 100% On Rotten Tomatoes
Honeyland – 98% on Rotten Tomatoes
Hustlers – 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
It: Chapter Two – 76% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Lion King – 59% on Rotten Tomatoes
Never Grow Old – 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood – 85% on Rotten Tomatoes
Pain & Glory – 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Rojo – 96% on Rotten Tomatoes
Souvenir, The – 90% on Rotten Tomatoes
Toy Story 4 – 98% on Rotten Tomatoes
Transit – 95% On Rotten Tomatoes

20 September 2019

The Farewell – 99% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Lulu Wang
Writers(s): Lulu Wang
Actors: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Gil Perez-Abraham, Diana Lin

A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

The Kitchen – 21% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Andrea Berloff
Writers(s): Andrea Berloff (adaptation), Andrea Berloff, Ollie Masters (comic)
Actors: Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson, Tiffany Haddish

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands’ rackets after they’re locked up in prison.

Rambo: Last Blood – ?% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Adrian Grunberg
Writers(s): Matthew Cirulnick (screenplay by), David Morrell (based on characters created by), Sylvester Stallone (screenplay)
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Joaquín Cosio

Rambo goes up against a Mexican cartel in what’s reported to be his last adventure.

27 September 2019

The Goldfinch – 25% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: John Crowley
Writers: Peter Straughan (screenplay by), Donna Tartt (based on the novel by)
Stars: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman

A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hunt, The – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Laurence James Sargent
Writers(s): Stuart Smith
Actors: Suzie Haines, Laurence James Sargent, Lucas Eagans, Michelle Lewis

Poms – 34% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Zara Hayes
Writers(s): Shane Atkinson (screenplay by), Shane Atkinson, Zara Hayes (story)
Actors: Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Celia Weston, Alisha Boe

POMS is a comedy about a group of women who form a cheer leading squad at their retirement community, proving that you’re never too old to ‘bring it!’

Ready or Not – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Writers(s): Guy Busick, Ryan Murphy
Actors: Samara Weaving, Andie MacDowell, Mark O’Brien, Adam Brody

A bride’s wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.

Sea of Shadows – 96% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Richard Ladkani
Writers(s): N/A
Actors: Andrea Crosta, Carlos Loret de Mola, Jack Hutton, Cynthia Smith

The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the “cocaine …

The Woman In The Window – ? on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Joe Wright
Writers(s): A.J. Finn (novel), Tracy Letts
Actors: Amy Adams

An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.