DAVID READY

TOLKIEN (2019)
Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Genevieve O'Reilly, Colm Meaney, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Laura Donnelly and Derek Jacobi. Directed by Dome Karukoski.

Explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.

REVIEWS Tolkien - 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Hobbit' fans, this one's for you

RED SPARROW (2018)
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons, Joely Richardson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Thekla Reuten and Douglas Hodge. Directed by Francis Lawrence.

Dominika Egorova is drafted against her will to become a "sparrow," a trained seductress in the Russian security service. Dominika learns to use her body as a weapon, but struggles to maintain her sense of self during the dehumanising training process. Finding her power in an unfair system, she emerges as one of the program's strongest assets. Her first target is Nate Nash, a CIA officer who handles the agency's most sensitive infiltration of Russian intelligence. The two young operatives fall into a spiral of attraction and deception, which threatens their careers, allegiances and the security of both countries.

REVIEWS Red Sparrow - A thriller as problematic as it is visually gorgeous
Red Sparrow - Elegantly brutal

THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US (2017)
Starring Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Dermot Mulroney, Beau Bridges, Tintswalo Khumbuza, Adam Lolacher, Lucia Walters, Waleed Zuaiter, Lee Majdoub and Marci T. House. Directed by Hany Abu-Assad.

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and discovering strength they never knew possible.

REVIEWS The Mountain Between Us - A disastrous misfire

FEAR STREET PART 1: 1994
Starring Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr, Fred Hechinger, Ashley Zukerman, Maya Hawke, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Welch, Julia Rehwald and David W. Thompson. Directed by Leigh Janiak.

A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years.

REVIEWS Fear Street Part One: 1994 - Noisily nostalgic teen schlock horror

FEAR STREET PART TWO: 1978
Starring Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye, Gillian Jacobs, Brandon Spink, Benjamin Flores Jr, Chiara Aurelia, Ted Sutherland and Drew Scheid. Directed by Leigh Janiak.

Shadyside, 1978. School's out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.

REVIEWS Fear Street Part Two: 1978 - A splat-tastically satisfactory second entry in the trilogy

FEAR STREET PART THREE: 1666
Starring Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Gillian Jacobs, Benjamin Flores Jr, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Olivia Scott Welch, McCabe Slye, Emily Rudd, Sadie Sink and Fred Hechinger. Directed by Leigh Janiak.

The origins of Sarah Fier's curse are finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever.

REVIEWS Fear Street Part Three: 1666 - A choppy trilogy reaches its conclusion