We’re back with the next installment of Stellar goes to the movies. Each week we’ll give you a quick run down of what’s hitting the big screen across the UK, and recommend our pick of the week. Where possible we’ll also track down interviews and clips and the best of the critical debate on the film to help educate your cinema going. Enjoy!
PICK OF THE WEEK:
The Multiplex –
I want to Believe…. honest I do. Can Mulder and Scully win audiences over again? Or has it just been too long….
The Independent -
Well, 5 star reviews, an award at Edinburgh, Sundance, and most recently at BRITDOC, MAN ON WIRE speaks for itself:
Friday 1 August 2008Cass (18) Optimum London & Key Cities
Director: Jon S. Baird
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent up anger came out in a violent burst. CASS found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life, saw him shot three times at point blank range. His inner strength somehow managed to keep him alive but he was left with a dilemma; whether to seek vengeance as the street had taught him, or renounce his violent past. This is the extraordinary story of his life.El Bano Del Papa (15) Soda Pictures Curzon Soho, Odeon Covent Gdn, Ritzy & Key Cities
Director: César Charlone & Enrique Fernández
A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope’s 1988 visit
La Antena (R/I) Dogwoof Pictures ICA Cinema
Director: Esteban Sapir
An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city’s only television channel, is carrying out a sinister, secret plan to subject all of the city’s inhabitants to his will forever more.
Love Guru, The (12A) Paramount Vue West End & Nationwide
Director: Marco Schnabel
Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
Man On Wire (12A) Icon Curzon Soho & Key Cities
Director: James Marsh
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.”
Married Life (PG) Verve Pictures Cineworld Shaftesbury Ave & Key Cities (from 8th August)
Director: Ira Sachs
A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife’s death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (15) Warner Music Ent. Apollo West End & Scotland
Director: Liam Lunch
Narrative digressions on sex, race, politics, and more from comedienne Sarah Silverman
Space Chimps (U) Entertainment Nationwide
Director:Kirk De Micco
Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator. Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand: Rid a far-away planet of their nefarious leader. Fortunately for Ham III, two of his simian peers are along for the ride.
X-Files: I want to Believe (15) 20th Century Fox Empire West End & Nationwide
Director: Chris Carter
When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of West Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest’s questionable visions send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women’s disappearance. It’s a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere…and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!
Don’t forget folks, the opening weekend makes or breaks a film, so get your wallets to a cinema!
