Top 3 Films of the Week


Blockbuster Of The Week

Joker: Folie A Deux (15)


Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel in Joker Folie A Deux, directed by Todd Phillips. Photo: Niko Tavernise. Copyright: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.

Arthur Fleck has been institutionalised at Arkham State Hospital, where he awaits trial for his crimes as Joker by newly elected district attorney Harvey Dent. Arthur wrestles with his dual identity and encounters fellow patient Harleen “Lee” Quinzel in a music therapy class. She nurtures a dangerous obsession with Arthur and they exorcise demons through the power of song under the watchful eye of hospital guard Jackie Sullivan.



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Comedy Of The Week

A Different Man (15)


Sebastian Stan as Edward, Renate Reinsve as Ingrid and Adam Pearson as Oswald in A Different Man, directed by Aaron Schimberg. Photo: Matt Infante. Copyright: A24. All Rights Reserved.

Struggling actor Edward subjects himself to experimental facial reconstructive surgery in the hope the procedure will lessen the effects of his neurofibromatosis. Miraculously, the treatment sluices tumours off his face and reveals a new visage. Edward kills off his former self and reinvents himself as a successful real estate agent named Guy. When former neighbour Ingrid writes a play entitled Edward about his pre-surgery self, Guy becomes dangerously fixated on the actor playing him.



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Critic's Choice Of The Week

The Battle For Laikipia (12A)


A Samburu herder and their livestock in Laikipia in The Battle For Laikipia, directed by Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki. Copyright: MetFilm Distribution. All Rights Reserved.

Since 2017, filmmakers have been documenting the effects of climate change on the wildlife conservation haven at the beating heart of Kenya. When three consecutive years of severe drought devastate millions across the Horn of Africa including communities in Laikipia, tensions are inflamed, reigniting a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners.



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Also Released This Week...

Bocchi The Rock! Recap Parts 1 & 2 (12A)

Members of the Kessoku Band prepare to rock out in a double bill of animated fantasies previously released in Japan as Bocchi The Rock! Re: and Bocchi The Rock! Re: Re:.

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Die Before You Die (15)

Adi has built an online presence by performing larger-than-life pranks but he has run out of ideas. During a visit to a shisha bar, Adi meets mysterious stranger Lee, who plants the seed of an audacious idea: get buried alive for three days with a mobile phone to document the interment.

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The Metropolitan Opera Live: Les Contes D'Hoffmann (TBC)

Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher's staging of Offenbach's fantastical operatic drama, broadcast live from the stage of the Lincoln Centre For The Performing Arts in New York. Bass-baritone Christian Van Horn plays the four villains, beginning with Councillor Lindorf.

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Things Will Be Different (15)

Joseph and his sister Sidney commit a robbery and go on the run from the police. As they make their escape, the siblings spot an abandoned farmhouse and cunningly decide to lay low on the property until the heat has died down. However a mysterious force lingers inside the farmhouse.

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Young Frankenstein (12A)

A 50th anniversary rerelease of Mel Brooks' celebrated 1974 comedy horror. Dr Frederick Frankenstein learns he has inherited a vast estate in Transylvania from his great-grandfather, Baron Beaufort von Frankenstein. Travelling to the property, Frederick becomes obsessed with his relative's experiments to reanimate the dead.

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