What’s on at the cinemas?
All you need to know about what’s on at the cinemas all in one place, from horror lovers to action fanactics, we have the perfect film for you!
1. Our Family Favourites
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Superstar LeBron James and his young son, Dom, get trapped in digital space by a rogue AI. To get home safely, LeBron teams up with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang for a high-stakes basketball game against the AI’s digitized champions of the court — a powered-up roster called the Goon Squad.
Rating: U
Running Time: 2hrs
Peter Rabbit
Bea, Thomas and the rabbits have created a makeshift family, but despite his best efforts, Peter can’t seem to shake his mischievous reputation. Venturing out of the garden, Peter finds himself in a world where his mischief is appreciated. However, when his family risks everything to come looking for him, Peter must figure out what kind of bunny he wants to be.
Rating: U
Running Time: 1hr 34mins
The Croods: A New Age
Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all of its needs. Unfortunately, they must also learn to live with the Bettermans — a family that’s a couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. As tensions between the new neighbours start to rise, a new threat soon propels both clans on an epic adventure that forces them to embrace their differences, draw strength from one another, and survive together.
Rating: U
Running Time: 1hr 34mins
2. For The Teens
Black Widow
Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, faces the darker elements of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy arises, tied to her past. Pursued by an enemy that will stop at nothing to bring her to her downfall, Natasha must confront her history as a spy, and the damaged relationships left in her hands much before she became the Avenger she is today.
Rating: 12A
Running Time: 2hrs 14mins
F9
Dom Toretto is living the quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, but they know that danger always lurks just over the peaceful horizon. This time, that threat forces Dom to confront the sins of his past to save those he loves most. His crew soon comes together to stop a world-shattering plot by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they’ve ever encountered — Dom’s forsaken brother.
Rating: 12A
Running Time: 2hrs 25mins
Escape Room : Tournament Of Champions
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is the sequel to the box office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this instalment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive…and discovering they’ve all played the game before.
Rating: 15
Running Time: 88 Minutes
2. Horror / Thriller Freaks
A Quiet Place: Part II
A Quiet Place, which told the storey of a family plagued by sound-sensitive creatures, was a box office hit in 2018. Behind the camera, John Krasinski showed off his knack for creative set-pieces, turning every creak and moan into the equivalent of a doom-laden thunderclap.
Following the tragic events at home, the Abbott family must now confront the dangers of the outer world while fighting for survival in silence. When they are forced to go into the unknown, they rapidly learn that the animals that hunt by sound are not the only dangers that await them beyond the sand road.
Rating: 15
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Candyman
Do you dare to repeat his name five times? Candyman, a superior slasher film from 1992, used urban legends and racial tension to tell the storey of a black hook-handed serial killer (played to unforgettable effect by Tony Todd). Is Candyman a legend or a true storey? Helen, played by Virginia Madsen, paid the price for her inquisitiveness in the first film.
Decades later, it’s Chicago artist Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II from Watchmen) who ignores the warnings. Anthony returns to the now-gentrified Cabrini Green in Chicago, Candyman’s old haunt, in this spiritual sequel,’ to interpret the ghoul’s backstory, which proves to be a huge mistake. Nia DaCosta of Top Boy directs, Jordan Peele of Get Out writes and produces, and Todd reprises the part that made him a horror star.
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Old
OLD is a rough adaptation of Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters’ French graphic novel Sandcastle, in which a group of individuals on a beach find a body before learning they’re all ageing fast in a matter of hours. The tale served as a springboard for Shyamalan’s film, Old. Thus was born a thriller about a family on a tropical vacation that discovers that the isolated beach where they are resting for a few hours is causing them to age fast, resulting in their whole lives being compressed into a single day.
Rating: 15
Running Time: 108 Minutes
The Forever Purge
This summer, all the laws are violated when a group of lawless marauders determines that the yearly Purge should not finish at dawn, but should instead continue indefinitely as The Forever Purge. Blumhouse’s infamous terror franchise hurtles into innovative new territory, launching from the record-breaking success of 2018’s The First Purge, as members of an underground movement, no longer satisfied with one annual night of anarchy and murder, decide to overtake America through an unending campaign of mayhem and massacre. There is no one who is safe. Adela and her husband Juan live in Texas, where Juan works for the rich Tucker family as a ranch hand. Caleb, the Tucker patriarch, is impressed by Juan, but Dylan, Caleb’s son, is enraged. The Tucker family, including Dylan’s wife and sister, is attacked by a masked gang of killers the morning following The Purge, compelling both families to join together and fight back as the country descends into anarchy and the United States begins to crumble around them.