Movies This Week – 25-09-19

How long have I been looking forward to the Goldfinch movie? Pretty much from the moment I first heard it announced. Sadly, no one seems to like it very much, but the book is well worth a read! The Laundromat which was directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars the amazing cast of Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Sharon Stone and Antonio Banderas is getting similarly dodgy reviews!

The best of this weeks releases seems to be horror movie by the name of Ready or Not!

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
Animals – 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
Don’t Let Go – 38% 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
The Goldfinch – 25% on Rotten Tomatoes
Honeyland – 98% on Rotten Tomatoes
Hustlers – 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
It: Chapter Two – 76% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Kitchen – 21% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Laundromat – 44% 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
Poms – 34% on Rotten Tomatoes
Ready or Not – 88% on Rotten Tomatoes
Rambo: Last Blood – 35% 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

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.

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 – 88% 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.

The Laundromat – 44% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Sharon Stone, Antonio Banderas

A widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world’s financial system.

Don’t Let Go – 38% On Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Jacob Estes
Writers: Jacob Estes (screenplay by), Jacob Estes (story by)
Stars: Storm Reid, Byron Mann, Alfred Molina

After a man’s family dies in what appears to be a murder, he gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. He’s not sure if she’s a ghost or if he’s going mad, but as it turns out, he’s not.

Pilsudski – ? on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Michal Rosa
Writer: Michal Rosa (screenplay)
Stars: Borys Szyc, Magdalena Boczarska, Jan Marczewsk

The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner – Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Pilsudski is freed, but he will not get back his idyll family life that he once knew.

Oct 4th

Judy – 87% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Rupert Goold
Writers: Tom Edge (screenplay by), Peter Quilter (based on the stageplay “End of the Rainbow” by)
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock

Joker – 76% On Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Todd Phillips
Writers: Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz

An original standalone origin story of the iconic villain not seen before on the big screen, it’s a gritty character study of Arthur Fleck, a man disregarded by society, and a broader cautionary tale.

Unplanned – 40% On Rotten Tomatoes

All Abby Johnson ever wanted to do was help women. As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, she believed in a woman’s right to choose. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.

Directors: Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon
Writers: Cary Solomon (screenplay by), Chuck Konzelman (screenplay by)
Stars: Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan, Robia Scott

Good Posture – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Set in current day Brooklyn, Good Posture is the gentle comedy story of a lazy but charming and beautiful young woman who has got used to using men to make her life easier, but after finally pushing one man too far, is forced to discover that she can live a happier life by taking responsibility for herself and not rely on those around her as easy props.

Director: Dolly Wells
Writer: Dolly Wells
Stars: Emily Mortimer, Nat Wolff, Grace Van Patten

Losing Alaska – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes

Sitting atop a melting permafrost, battered by coastal erosion and aggressive summer melt waters, Newtok, Alaska is set to be the first American town lost to climate change.

Director: Tom Burke