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20TH CENTURY WOMEN General release from Fri 10 Feb The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s. See review, page 60. FENCES General release from Fri 10 Feb Denzel Washington plays the patriarch of a family struggling in 50s Pittsburgh. See review, page 58.
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE General release from Fri 10 Feb Bruce Wayne must not only deal with the criminals of Gotham City, but also the responsibility of raising a boy he adopted. Hard work for a Lego figure.
PREVENGE General release from Fri 10 Feb Ruth (Alice Lowe) is an expectant mother who starts to hear her unborn baby urging her to kill people. Lowe’s blackly comic, squirmingly uncomfortable directorial debut is remarkably well-realised, with an impressive cast and her own eerily passive, brilliantly timed performance at the core. Enjoyably provocative. See review, page 60.
TAXI DRIVER General release from Fri 10 Feb The now-classic story of an alienated taxi driver in New York who is so repelled by the squalor and the moral decay around him that he is driven to terrible violence. One of the key American films of the 1970s with the Scorsese-De Niro partnership at its peak.
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S Glasgow Film Theatre, Tue 14 Feb; Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 12 Feb The iconic Hepburn has never made neurosis look so good, and while the film may have numerous redeeming features (not least the exquisite cinematography by Franz F Plane and the swinging soundtrack by Henry Mancini), it is she who remains responsible for making it such a well- loved classic.
THE FOUNDER General release from Fri 17 Feb The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers’ fast food eatery, McDonald’s, into one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world. See review, page 60.
NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions. See review, page 58.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 General release from Fri 17 Feb Former hitman Wick (Keanu Reeves) returns for more ass-kicking vengeance.
PATRIOTS DAY General release from Thu 23 Feb The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible. See review, page 59.
LOGAN General release from Wed 1 Mar A third film in the solo series for the adamantium-clawed hero, Wolverine.
CERTAIN WOMEN General release from Fri 3 Mar The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail. See review, page 61.
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HIDDEN FIGURES General release from Fri 17 Feb Based on a true story. A team of African-American women provide
Selected release from Tue 7 Mar Filmed at the Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973, Bowie’s last performance as Ziggy Stardust features songs from General release from Fri 10 Feb The first human born on Mars travels to Earth for the first time, experiencing the wonders of the planet through
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Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane and a cover of the Velvet Underground’s White Light / White Heat. fresh eyes. He embarks on an adventure with a street smart girl to discover how he came to be.
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Selected release from Fri 10 Mar Thriller set in the 1920s during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Lee Jung-chool, a Korean working for the Japanese police, is tasked with exposing the Korean resistance’s second-in-command, Kim Woo-jin. However, the more time he spends with the rebel forces the more he doubts his role as an informant for the occupying forces. ELLE Selected release from Fri 10 Mar Michele (Isabelle Huppert) is a successful, middle-aged video games producer who, when raped by a violent intruder, doesn’t report the assault but behaves as though nothing has happened. Paul Verhoven’s dark character drama features an astonishing, multi-layered central performance from Huppert and its treatment of sexual violence is challenging and audacious. See review, page 62.
General release from Fri 17 Mar Live action adaptation of the Disney fairy tale starring Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens doing his best to be gruff as the Beast. THE LOST CITY OF Z General release from Fri 24 Mar The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett who disappeared while searching for a city he believed existed in the Amazon jungle. See review, page 62.
FREE FIRE General release from Fri 31 Mar Boston, 1978: Chris (Cillian Murphy) is an IRA member looking to buy guns from Vern (Sharlto Copley), with the help of go-betweens Justine (Brie Larson) and Ord (Armie Hammer): it soon descends into violence. Copley is very funny and there’s some terrific dialogue. See review, page 62.
GHOST IN THE SHELL General release from Fri 31 Mar Live-action remake of the animated film based on the Manga comic title, starring Scarlett Johansson and directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman).