Movie of the Week – 04-12-19

This week, we have the hard-hitting Ordinary Love, which stars Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville. There’s also the story of the trapped Thai boy’s soccer team in The Cave and Edward Norton’s directorial debut in Motherless Brooklyn, but we found it hard to resist So Long, My Son.

Movie of the Week – So Long, My Son – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director(s): Xiaoshuai Wang
Writers(s): Mei Ah, Xiaoshuai Wang
Actors: Liya Ai, Jiang Du, Zhao-Yan Guo-Zhang, Jingjing Li

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

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Our Top Five Films This Week –

5. Marriage Story
4. Two Popes
3. Ordinary Love
2. La Belle Epoque
1. So Long, My Son 

06 December 2019

The Cave – 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Tom Waller
Writers(s): Katrina Grose (story by), Don Linder (story by), Tom Waller
Actors: Ron Smoorenburg, Eoin O’Brien, Maythavee Weiss, Kelly B. Jones

A Thai boys soccer team is trapped in a cave while rescue workers scramble to save them.

Ordinary Love – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Writers(s): Owen McCafferty
Actors: Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, David Wilmot

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.

So Long, My Son – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Xiaoshuai Wang
Writers(s): Mei Ah, Xiaoshuai Wang
Actors: Liya Ai, Jiang Du, Zhao-Yan Guo-Zhang, Jingjing Li

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Motherless Brooklyn – 63% on Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Edward Norton
Writers: Jonathan Lethem (based on the novel by), Edward Norton (screenplay)
Stars: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin

In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.

In Cinemas Now –

21 Bridges – ?% On Rotten Tomatoes
A Dog Called Money – 20% on Rotten Tomatoes
Abominable – 80% On Rotten Tomatoes
Ad Astra– 80% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Addams Family – 39% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Aeronauts – 81% on Rotten Tomatoes
After the Wedding – 43% on Rotten Tomatoes
Amazing Johnathan Documentary, The – 81% On Rotten Tomatoes
Bait – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Black And Blue – 50% on Rotten Tomatoes
La Belle Epoque – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Blue Story – ?% On Rotten Tomatoes
By The Grace Of God – 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Cave – 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
Charlie’s Angels – 58% on Rotten Tomatoes
Dark Lies the Island – 67?% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Day Shall Come – 75% On Rotten Tomatoes
Doctor Sleep – 78% On Rotten Tomatoes
Downton Abbey – 85% on Rotten Tomatoes
Driven – 67% on Rotten Tomatoes
Extra Ordinary – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Farewell – 99% On Rotten Tomatoes
Ford v Ferrari/ Le Mans ’66 – 88% On Rotten Tomatoes
Frozen 2 – 84% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Good Liar – 67% on Rotten Tomatoes
Harriet – 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Housefull 4 – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Hustlers – 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Irishman – 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
Joker – 76% On Rotten Tomatoes
Judy – 87% on Rotten Tomatoes
Knives Out – 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Last Black Man In San Francisco – 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
Last Christmas – 52% On Rotten Tomatoes
Le Mans ’66 – 88% On Rotten Tomatoes
Little Monsters – 83% On Rotten Tomatoes
Luce – 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil – 51% on Rotten Tomatoes
Marriage Story – 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
Meeting Gorbachev – 89% on Rotten Tomatoes
Midway – 42% on Rotten Tomatoes
Motherless Brooklyn – 63% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Nightingale – 86% on Rotten Tomatoes
Non-Fiction – 89% on Rotten Tomatoes
Ordinary Love – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Ready or Not – 88% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Report – 86% On Rotten Tomatoes
A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – 88% on Rotten Tomatoes
Sorry We Missed You – 74% On Rotten Tomatoes
So Long, My Son – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Terminator: Dark Fate – 56% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Two Popes – 91% on Rotten Tomatoes
Zombieland: Double Tap – 75% on Rotten Tomatoes

Black Christmas – ?% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Sophia Takal
Writers(s): Sophia Takal, April Wolfe
Actors: Cary Elwes, Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O’Grady

A group of students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. A remake of the 1974 horror film ‘Black Christmas’.

Jumanji: The Next Level – ?% On Rotten Tomatoes

Director: Jake Kasdan
Writers:: Jake Kasdan, Jeff Pinkner
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart

In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world’s most dangerous game.

The Kingmaker – 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
Director(s): Lauren Greenfield
Writers(s): N/A
Actors: N/A

Centered on the indomitable character of Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker examines, with intimate access, the Marcos family’s improbable return to power in the Philippines. The film explores the disturbing legacy of the Marcos regime and chronicles Imelda’s present-day push to help her son, Bongbong, win the vice-presidency. To this end, Imelda confidently rewrites her family’s history of corruption, replacing it with a narrative of a matriarch’s extravagant love for her country. In an age when fake news manipulates elections, Imelda’s comeback story serves as a dark fairy tale.