Blockbuster Of The Week
The Substance (18)
Hollywood star Elisabeth Sparkle has found a new calling as a Jane Fonda-esque home fitness guru in a skin-tight leotard and leg warmers. After taping one show, odious TV executive Harvey cancels her contract, claiming consumers “always demand something new” and that isn’t 50-year-old Elisabeth. The crestfallen star is encouraged to try a self-administered medical procedure called The Substance. One injection promises to unlock Elisabeth’s DNA and release another version of herself.
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Animation Of The Week
200% Wolf (U)
Werepoodle Freddy Lupin is training to become pack leader but he wishes he could be more aggressive like his father Flasheart and ancestors. A foolhardy wish transforms him into a werewolf and Freddy assumes guardianship of a luminous fallen spirit named Moopoo. Accompanied by Batty and his dog pals, Freddy seeks out scheming outcast Max to remedy his dire situation.
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Critic's Choice Of The Week
Sugarcane (15)
In 2021, the whole of Canada was shocked by evidence of unmarked graves near St Joseph’s Mission residential school, which indigenous children had been forced to attend from 1886 to 1981. Journalist Emily Kassie and old friend Julian Brave NoiseCat make a documentary about the Williams Lake First Nation investigation into the outrage. They interview survivors of the genocide and capture footage of brave, resilient families breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma.
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Also Released This Week...
Cyborg: A Documentary (12A)
Colour-blind artist Neil Harbisson, who has been formally-recognised as the world's first cyborg, because he is able to hear colour using signals received through an antenna permanently implanted in his head.
Find Cyborg: A Documentary in the cinemasEdward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne's Dance Version Of Tim Burton's Classic (PG)
Choreographer Matthew Bourne's dance production of Edward Scissorhands, filmed live in March 2024 at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff., expertly translates Tim Burton's film to the stage with a score written by Danny Elfman and Terry Davies.
Find Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne's Dance Version Of Tim Burton's Classic in the cinemasGirls Will Be Girls (15)
Sixteen-year-old Mira attends a boarding school nestled in the Himalayas. As the first female head prefect, Mira proudly upholds school traditions on behalf of principal Ms Bansal. When international student Sri arrives and sets Mira's heart aflutter, the teenager's focus wavers.
Find Girls Will Be Girls in the cinemasThe Goldman Case (12A)
In November 1975, Jewish far-left activist Pierre Goldman pleads not guilty to murder charges at his Paris appeal hearing in the full glare of the media. His relationship with young attorney Georges Kiejman visibly frays as reporting of the case transforms Goldman into a martyr.
Find The Goldman Case in the cinemasMiss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance (15)
A celebratory performance of Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr's reworking of the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly, shot in front of a live audience at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End in September 2014.
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Music documentary recorded live over four days in August 1974 at Abbey Road Studios in London featuring voiceovers from members of the band plus performances of the tracks Jet, Live And Let Die and Maybe I'm Amazed.
Find Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping in the cinemasStrange Darling (18)
A lady has an ill-fated motel room encounter with a man with a gun in a motel room. They play a deadly game of cat and mouse across six chapters, gradually revealing how far they will go to survive or slaughter.
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