Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 19th January 2024

The Holdovers (15)
Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) returns with a film that some are calling one of his greatest pieces of work. The Holdovers is set in 1970, and follows Paul (Paul Giamatti), an ill-tempered history teacher at a New England prep school, who remains on campus over the Christmas break to babysit the few remaining students with nowhere to go, where he forms an unlikely bond with a smart but troubled teen and the school cook who has just lost her son in the Vietnam war. Already being hailed as an early year highlight and a major presence in awards season, this comedy drama is rewarding, funny and heartfelt in equal measure.

Other releases:
In Broad Daylight (15) (Cantonese drama about an investigative journalist undercover at a care home exposing the abuses taking place.) - Friday 19th January
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (15) (Documentary exploring the life and work of the eccentric, acclaimed and beloved German director, screenwriter and actor.) - Friday 19th January
The End We Start From (15) (British survival drama about floods that force a woman and her newborn baby to flee the city and seek refuge.) - Friday 19th January
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (PG) (Re-release of Werner Herzog’s 1974 German drama.) - Friday 19th January
The Civil Dead (15) (Dark US Comedy about a struggling LA photographer encountering an old friend while his wife is out of town.) - Friday 19th January
Giselle (PG) (Isabelle Julien’s production of the famed ballet, from the Dutch National Ballet.) - Sunday 21st January
Rusalka (12a) (Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee’s contemporary new take on Dvořák’s fairy tale from the Royal Opera House, filmed in London.) - Wednesday 24th January
Dear England (15) (National Theatre Live’s football theatre as Joseph Fiennes portrays Gareth Southgate in James Graham's true life inspired but fictionalised play.) - Thursday 25th January