Movies This Week – 9-10-19

I guess the biggest surprise this week is that the new Ang Lee movie is a bit suspect! No critic seems to like Gemini Man, starring Will Smith and that makes me sad.

Otherwise, it’s a slow enough week with The Day Shall Come, Abominable, Bait and a few more besides. We did really like A Bump Along The Way, which is possibly the best of the new releases.

Dates for all upcoming movies can be found here.

Our Top Five Films This Week –

5. Bait
4. Werewolves
3. A Bump Along the Way
2. Joker
1. Pain & Glory

In Cinemas Now –

A Bump Along The Way – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Ad Astra– 80% on Rotten Tomatoes
Abominable – 80% On Rotten Tomatoes
Bait – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Day Shall Come – 75% On Rotten Tomatoes
Downton Abbey – 85% on Rotten Tomatoes
Extra Ordinary – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Farewell – 99% On Rotten Tomatoes
Gemini Man – 22% On Rotten Tomatoes
The Goldfinch – 25% on Rotten Tomatoes
Hustlers – 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
Joker – 76% On Rotten Tomatoes
Judy – 87% 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
Transit – 95% On Rotten Tomatoes
Unplanned – 40% On Rotten Tomatoes
Werewolves – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Oct 11th

Bait – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Mark Jenkin
Writer: Mark Jenkin
Stars: Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd

Martin is a fisherman without a boat, his brother Steven having re-purposed it as a tourist tripper. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the harbour.

A Bump Along The Way – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Shelly Love
Writer: Tess McGowan (Written by)
Stars: Bronagh Gallagher, Lola Petticrew, Mary Moulds

A boozy 44-year-old single mother becomes pregnant from a one-night-stand, much to the shame of her buttoned-up teen daughter.

Abominable – 80% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Tim Johnson, Todd Wilderman
Writers(s): William Davies
Actors: N/A

A magical Yeti must return to his family.

The Day Shall Come – 75% On Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Christopher Morris
Writers(s): Jesse Armstrong, Christopher Morris
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Miles Robbins, Denis O’Hare, Jim Gaffigan

An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.

Farming – 44% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Writers(s): Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jaime Winstone

Based on the writer/director’s childhood, FARMING tells story of a young Nigerian boy, ‘farmed out’ by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.

Gemini Man – 22% On Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Ang Lee
Writers(s): David Benioff, Jonathan Hensleigh, Darren Lemke, Andrew Niccol, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
Actors: Will Smith

An over-the-hill hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself.

Lootcase – ?% On Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Rajesh Krishnan
Writers(s): N/A
Actors: Aakash Dabhade, Kunal Khemu

Lootcase is a Hindi movie starring Kunal Kemmu, Rasika Duggal, Gajraj Rao, Ranvir Shorey and Vijay Raaz. in prominent roles. It is a drama directed by Rajesh Krishnan.

Oct 18th

Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Joachim Rønning
Writers(s): Micah Fitzerman-Blue (screenplay by), Noah Harpster (screenplay by), Linda Woolverton (screenplay by), Linda Woolverton (story by)
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Teresa Mahoney

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

Mystify: Michael Hutchence – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Richard Lowenstein
Writers(s): Richard Lowenstein
Actors: Michael Hutchence

Ghost Pictures and Passion Pictures and a documentary feature about the troubled heart and soul of Michael Hutchence, lead singer and songwriter of INXS.

Non-Fiction – 89% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Olivier Assayas
Writers(s): Olivier Assayas
Actors: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Théret

Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.

Official Secrets – 82% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Gavin Hood
Writers(s): Gregory Bernstein (screenplay), Sara Bernstein (screenplay), Gavin Hood (screenplay), Marcia Mitchell (based on the book “The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion”), Thomas Mitchell (based on the book “The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion”)
Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma

The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Peanut Butter Falcon – 95% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Writers(s): Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, John Hawkes

Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.

A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Richard Starzak
Writers(s): Nick Park (characters), Richard Starzak

Zombieland: Double Tap – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Ruben Fleischer
Writers(s): Dave Callaham (screenplay), Rhett Reese (screenplay), Paul Wernick (screenplay)
Actors: Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin, Jesse Eisenberg