This week’s two primary cinema releases can be summed up respectively as attempting to win back fans, and pleasing an audience demographic that is often neglected this time of year. Find out about them both below.
Other than that, this Friday sees the local debut of four Bollywood movies, in the form of Mr Bachchan, Vedaa, Khel Khel Mein and Stree 2. Meanwhile, on the special screening front, you can secure your ticket for next Wednesday’s K-Pop concert film SEVENTEEN TOUR ‘FOLLOW’ AGAIN TO SEOUL, and revisit the inspiring Dead Poets Society, with Robin Williams, as the latest Throwback Cinema re-release.
Alien: Romulus sees director Ridley Scott passing the baton to Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe’s Fede Álvarez for a back-to-fundamentals franchise entry. Set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), Romulus sees a group of young space colonists (played by the likes of Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux and Isabela Merced) come face to face with the deadly life form while scavenging a derelict space station. Also screening at IMAX.
Find our full Alien: Romulus review here.
Romantic drama It Ends With Us, has been doing incredibly well at the US box office, and packing Girls’ Night screening events locally. Blake Lively stars as Lily Bloom, a woman with a traumatic past, who falls in love with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni) – only to see their relationship mirror her parents’ abusive one. Then Lily’s first love, Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar), reenters her life, complicating matters. It Ends With Us is the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen.