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Silver Screen Weekly- What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 14 March

Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week.

Last Breath (12a)

Hold...your...breath! The stunning and intense true story Last Breath (12a) stars Woody Harrelson and is a survival thriller that makes you appreciate every last breath. Depicting the incredible true story of a group of deep-sea divers working on the ocean floor who race to rescue a stranded teammate after an accident leaves them in the dark depths with dwindling oxygen. From director Alex Parkinson, and inspired by his own 2019 Netflix documentary of the same name, this critically acclaimed thriller does this seat edge true story absolute justice and is compelling and heart-stopping in equal measure.

In The Lost Lands (15)

Director Paul W. S. Anderson directs this adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s short story. Starring Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista, this fantasy sees a witch and a hunter on a perilous journey into a dangerous land, to find an artefact for a queen. Apocalyptic landscapes meet fiery action that sees the director of the Resident Evil series very much in his element.

Opus (15)

From the studio that brought you Hereditary comes this horror/thriller from director Mark Anthony Green and starring Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, and Amber Midthunder. The film sees a young writer travel to a remote compound of a legendary pop star, who mysteriously disappeared three decades ago. Surrounded by a cult of dedicated followers, she soon finds herself in the middle of his disturbing plan.

Black Bag (15)

Acclaimed spy thriller from Steven Soderbergh, sees intelligence agent George (Michael Fassbender) have his whole world altered and his loyalties tested when his wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett) is accused of committing treason and he is assigned the task of investigating her. Featuring a roster of incredible performances, a superb script and a director allowing his slick story to drip with style, cool and twisting intrigue, this spy thriller is one of the finest entries in the genre in years, and another standout offering in Soderbergh’s recent varied filmography.

From Wednesday 19th March

Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond In The Desert (15)

Finally the legendary composer Hans Zimmer, a legend in film, brings one of his incredible concerts to the big screen. This concert cinema experience not only depicts his engrossing Dubai concert, featuring performances from a wide array of musicians joining Hans on stage as they bring to life some of his greatest film scores and compositions from The Dark Knight and Interstellar to The Lion King and Gladiator, but is inter-cut with delightful conversations between Zimmer and some of his greatest admirers, peers and collaborators, including Christopher Nolan, Billie Eilish, Denis Villeneuve and Timothée Chalamet, among many many others. This is a piece of event cinema you do not want to miss!

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Mickey 17 (15)

From the genius mind of the Oscar winning director Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer), Mickey 17 is a sci-fi with comedic and thematic punch. Starring Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, a disposable employee sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. But there's a catch, he has signed up to be an expendable, so after one iteration of him dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. Mickey 17 is being hailed as a wild sci-fi with some keen social critiques and an excellent lead performance by Pattinson as Mickey and his many iterations!! Co-starring a brilliant cast that includes Naomi Ackie, Steven Yuen, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.

Marching Powder (18)

You want to go down to your local cinema? Check out a nice lovely fluffy little rom-com? Yeah?...Well Danny Dyer has something a little bit different for ya! From the gaffer that directed The Football Factory and The Firm, Nick Love, Danny Dyer stars in this rom-com with a kick and a real high (in more ways than one) as Dyer plays Jack, a Middle-aged geezer, arrested for drugs, who strives in 6 weeks to repair his marriage and stabilize his life, but his efforts may well fail as life spirals out of control. Already a surprise hit at the box office, Marching Powder is a film that offers up plenty of laughs, language and rather naughty substances!

Other releases:

The Rule Of Jenny Pen (15) (John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush star in this horror about a judge who suffers a stroke and is admitted to a care home where he engages in battle with a resident who disturbingly wields control over the others.) - Friday 14th March
Oh My Goodness! (JusteCiel!) (12a) (French comedy about five nuns aiming to win a cash prize in a cycling competition to raise money for a hospice.) - Friday 14th March
Away (U) (Acclaimed Latvian animated fantasy from the director of the Oscar winning Flow, about a boy landing by parachute on a strange island and facing a difficult journey to find his way home.) - Friday 14th March
All Happy Families (15) (US comedy/drama seeing a family forced to confront their lives and relationships as they gather to renovate their old family home.) - Friday 14th March
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (12a) (25th anniversary re-release of Joel Coen’s 2000 comedy starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and John Goodman.) - Friday 14th March
Sanam Teri Kasam (12a) (Hindi romantic drama about a relationship between a successful lawyer and ex-convict.) - Friday 14th March
Sister Midnight (15) (Hindi fantasy drama comedy about an unhappy newlywed who breaks free after discovering her true self.) - Friday 14th March
Six Each (12a) (Punjabi drama about a woman facing a campaign of hate after she accused of betraying her husband to obtain a travel visa, driving him to take his own life.) - Friday 14th March
Fidelio (12a) (Met Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s story of valor in the face of tyranny filmed live onstage.) – Saturday 15th March
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX – The Beginning (12a) (A stolen robot prototype is discovered by a girl with mysterious abilities in this Japanese anime sci-fi.) – Saturday 15th March
Exhibition On Screen: Dawn Of Impressionism, Paris 1874 (PG) (Art exhibition cinema event looking at the Musée d’Orsay exhibition and the dawn of expressionism in art.) – Tuesday 18th March
Witch Watch: Watch Party (TBC) (Special theatrical event featuring the first three episodes of the new anime series Witch Watch along with exclusive interviews.) – Wednesday 19th March
The Sinking Of The Libson Maru (12a) (Documentary looking at the tragedy of the sinking of the Japanese transport ship in WW2.) – Thursday 20th March
Romeo & Juliet (12a) (Royal Opera House’s new production of Shakespeare’s revered romantic tragedy filmed live on stage at London.) – Thursday 20th March

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