COMING SOON
Out this week
Movies
Send Help (starring Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien) – horror thriller; an employee (McAdams) and her boss (O’Brien) become stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.
Shelter (starring Jason Statham, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Bill Nighy, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays) – action thriller; a former assassin (Statham) must face his turbulent past to protect a girl he has rescued.
Iron Lung (starring Mark Fischbach, Caroline Rose Kaplan, Seán McLoughlin, David Szymanski) – sci-fi horror, adaptation of the 2022 video game; in a post-apocalyptic future, a convict (Fischbach) is sent to explore an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon using a poorly constructed submarine.
The Moment (starring Charli XCX, Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, Alexander Skarsgård) – mockumentary; Charli XCX (portraying a fictional version of herself) gears up for her first headlining tour.
STAR
38th European Film Awards
Winners:
- Best European Film: Sentimental Value
- Director: Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
- Actor: Stellan Skarsgard – Sentimental Value
- Actress: Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
- Animated Feature Film: Arco (France)
- Documentary: Fiume o Morte! (Croatia, Slovenia, Italy)
- Cinematographer: Mauro Herce – Sirat
- Screenwriter: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
- Editor: Cristóbal Fernández – Sirat
- Composer: Hania Rani – Sentimental Value
- Casting Director: Nadia Acimi, Luís Bértolo, María Rodrigo – Sirat
- Make-up and Hair Artist: Torsten Witte – Bugonia
- Sound Designer: Laia Casanovas – Sirat
- Production Designer: Laia Ateca – Sirat
- Costume Designer: Sabrina Krämer – Sound of Falling
- European Discovery: On Falling (United Kingdom, Portugal)
- Young Audience Award: Siblings (Italy)
- Short Film: City of Poets
SPOTLIGHT
Anaconda
Cast: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior, and Selton Mello
Director: Tom Gormican
Tagline: It’s the movie they’re dying to remake.
- Comedy horror; going through a midlife crisis, a group of childhood friends try to remake one of their favourite films, 1997’s Anaconda, only to be attacked by an actual anaconda.
- Is a meta-reboot of Anaconda (1997) and the sixth instalment in the Anaconda film series.
- Has grossed US$128 million on a $45 million budget.
- Has received mixed reviews, with critics appreciating the leads’ performances but criticising the execution.
- Pedro Pascal and Nicolas Cage were approached for the lead roles; the former had to decline because of scheduling conflict while the latter wanted rewrites which Sony rejected.
- Score composed by David Fleming.
