Cinemas this week are all about the CGI, with the only notable widely available release being Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Chris Pratt will return to Isla Nublar to rescue some of the dinosaurs, with peril, humour and the death of some shady characters likely to follow. It’ll be there from Wednesday, with midnight showings for the particularly keen amongst you.
Further afield you might manage to find a screening of McQueen, a documentary about Alexander McQueen’s life, upending of the snobbish fashion industry and ultimately his untimely death.
Netflix has a treat for CGI fans too, with the excellent Thor: Ragnarok streaming into our devices from Wednesday. From Friday you can also catch Netflix Original Alex Strangelove – a teenage coming-of-age-and-questioning-sexuality tale – and Ali’s Wedding, an Australian film about arranged marriage in which a young man ends up being railroaded into an arranged marriage despite being in love with someone else.
Amazon are still making it hard to find out what’s coming, film-wise, but as of today we can now watch the classic schlock-horror titles Giant from the Unknown, The Killer Shrews and She Demons as well as Paranormal Asylum, a ‘based on true events’ horror film about Typhoid Mary and romantic-comedy When She Showed Up.
Finally, for your purchasing delight in shiny-disc format we have the rather excellent Darkest Hour, in which Gary Oldman proves once again that whenever Brian Cox takes on a role, someone else will soon win an Oscar for the same role. Next up is The 15:17 to Paris, a rather unremarkable attempt by Clint Eastwood to spin 5 minutes of drama into a full-length film starring the people who were actually in a terrorist attack. Another one on the ‘if you really must’ list is Den of Thieves, with Gerard Butler playing a maverick cop on the tail of a gang who are trying to steal money. There’s also Journey’s End and Black Butterfly, neither of which have I seen but both of which I would watch if I had the opportunity.
So there you have it. Another week in cinema – what are you most looking forward to?
Cinematophile 