BEL POWLEY

MARY SHELLEY (2018)
Starring Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Dillane, Tom Sturridge, Ben Hardy, Hugh O'Conor and Jack Hickey. Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour.

Mary is a rebellious and outspoken teenager. When she meets the poet Percy Shelley, there’s a spark of attraction between the two outsiders who feel trapped within polite society. When Mary’s family discover that Percy is married with a child, they forbid any further contact. Mary and Percy elope, taking Mary’s half-sister Claire along for the ride. It’s a scandal, and with Percy’s philandering ways, rumours of a ménage à trois are whispered everywhere they go. Claire willfully flirts her way into the affections of poet Lord Byron, and Mary is relieved when they are asked to join the decadent poet at his house in Lake Geneva.

During one stormy summer night, to distract Mary from Percy’s infidelities, Lord Byron suggests they all write a ghost story. All the pain and guilt that Mary feels about Percy, Claire and the child she lost, is poured into giving birth to Frankenstein’s Monster. The story is incredible, a classic that even Percy must acknowledge. But women don’t write books, and publishers certainly won’t print them. The rebel rises, and Mary fights for her creature and her identity, all at the age of eighteen.

REVIEWS Mary Shelley - A paint-by-numbers biopic

DETOUR (2017)
Starring Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen, Stephen Moyer, Bel Powley, John Lynch and Gbenga Akinnagbe. Directed by Christopher Smith.

Over-privileged law student Harper who, after a drunken night, finds out he may have mistakenly hired hitman Johnny Ray to murder his stepfather Vincent. Harper tries to renege but with no way out he embarks on a dark journey with Johnny and his partner in crime Cherry.

REVIEWS Detour - Make your choice

A ROYAL NIGHT OUT (2015)
Starring Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Rupert Everett, Emily Watson and Jack Reynor. Directed by Julian Jarrold.

VE Day, 1945. Across the world, people are celebrating the end of the war. London overflows with celebration and excess. Two teenage sisters are allowed out at night for the first time to join the party. They are Princess Margaret and the future queen of England, Elizabeth II.

REVIEWS A Royal Night Out - When the princesses went out to play

WHITE BOY RICK
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bel Powley, Rj Cyler, Rory Cochrane, Bruce Dern, Piper Laurie, Brian Tyree Henry, Taylour Paige and Jonathan Majors. Directed by Yann Demange.

The true story of Richard Wershe Jr who became the youngest ever undercover FBI informant at the age of 14, before being arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.