Blockbuster Of The Week
The Social Reckoning (15)
Civic integrity team data engineer Frances Haugen grows increasingly concerned about how Facebook’s algorithmic recommendations are responsible for 64% of users who join extremist groups on the social networking platform. She voices her fears internally to no avail. Following her first face-to-face encounter with chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, Frances reaches out secretly to the Wall Street Journal’s new investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz.
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Action Of The Week
The Uprising (15)
Fourteen-year-old King Richard II is ill-equipped to rule a nation that has been decimated by the plague. A regency council including Lord High Treasurer Sir Robert Hales, Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Sudbury and judge Robert Bealknap makes decisions when the monarch is “indisposed”. In the king’s name, the council increases taxes on the poor, including a ploughman, who lost his wife and two children to the Black Death.
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Critic's Choice Of The Week
Tenzing (PG)
Raised in Tengboche, Tenzing Norgay dreams from an early age about climbing Everest but he is considered an outsider by the Sherpa community. Bolstered by the unwavering support of his wife Dawa, he persuades Jill Henderson, Honorary Secretary of the Himalayan Club, to give him a chance. He proves his worth and joins the 1953 British attempt, agreeing to lead the Sherpas on the condition that he is allowed to climb alongside the likes of Edmund Hillary, Charles Evans and George Lowe.
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Also Released This Week...
24 Hour Party People (18)
A 4K release of Michael Winterbottom's acclaimed celebration of the Madchester music scene to coincide with the film's 24-year anniversary. During the '80s and early '90s, Manchester was the heart of the UK's music scene, nurturing bands like New Order (nee Joy Division) and Happy Mondays.
Find 24 Hour Party People in the cinemasThe Craft (15)
Hubble, bubble, toil and a lot of trouble as four teenage witches - Bonnie Harper, Nancy Downs, Rochelle Zimmerman and Sarah Bailey - dabble with the powers of the occult and unwittingly unleash a terrifying otherworldly force.
Find The Craft in the cinemasEnglish National Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty (U)
Sir Kenneth MacMillan's beloved staging set to Tchaikovsky's spellbinding score unfolds in an enchanted world of princesses, fairy godmothers and magic, captured on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall in London. Anna Nevzorova dances the role of Princess Aurora.
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Married couple Russell and Ursula live with their eight-year-old daughter, Bea. The youngster is visited in her room by an otherworldly entity that looks like Ursula, which Bela has christened Other Mommy. This malevolent force wants to possess Bela's body but the youngster repeatedly refuses.
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Demanding patriarch Demostene Celibidache gives to his son, Sergiu, a yellow tie. The father expects Sergiu to follow in his footsteps so when his boy chooses music as a vocation instead, Demostene demands the tie back. Sergiu is devastated to be out of favour with his old man.
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