Pick of the week
Frankenstein<\/p>\n
Given Guillermo del Toro<\/a>\u2019s horror leanings, it was inevitable he would one day try his hand at Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cmodern Prometheus\u201d. And this is a wholehearted take<\/a> \u2013 rampantly gothic in its green and red-themed sets and costumes, and faithfully Romantic in its exploration of life and death. Oscar Isaac\u2019s Victor Frankenstein is a serious man (with serious sideburns), hubristically obsessed with scientific discovery, while Jacob Elordi<\/a> brings pathos to the Creature, a marble-skinned innocent learning harsh lessons about humanity. Christoph Waltz<\/a> as Victor\u2019s backer and Mia Goth as his brother\u2019s inquisitive fiancee add flourishes to a tale often told\u00a0but rarely with such devotion. One Fine MorningCompelling \u2026 L\u00e9a Seydoux and Melvil Poupaud in One Fine Morning.<\/p>\n An actor who always inspires empathy, L\u00e9a Seydoux<\/a> is again compelling in this 2022 film. Sandra, a widowed translator with a young daughter, starts an affair with the married Cl\u00e9ment (Melvil Poupaud). She is also dealing with her father Georg (a superb Pascal Greggory), who has a neurodegenerative disease that causes blindness and hallucinations and needs to be in a care home. Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve\u2019s deft drama<\/a> traces Sandra\u2019s shifting emotions as she grasps at life through lust and love, while her father\u2019s decline brutally shows how fragile it can be. Kenny DalglishNostalgic \u2026 Kenny Dalglish (centre) with Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans after winning the League championship in 1990. <\/p>\n Asif Kapadia\u2019s latest documentary<\/a> profile ties in with his own love of Liverpool FC, personified in its greatest ever footballer. Through a self-deprecating, witty voiceover, Kenny Dalglish relates his own rise to success as a striker with Celtic then Liverpool in the 1970s. For the uninitiated and nostalgic, there\u2019s plenty of footage of Kenny in his pomp, but it\u2019s the double blow of the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters that gives the film real weight. The trauma of those events still casts a shadow over him, giving his story a universality that transcends the beautiful game. The Fantastic Four: First StepsFab foursome \u2026 Pedro Pascal The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Photograph: Marvel Studios\/AP<\/p>\n The third feature-length iteration of the super-fab foursome is the latest attempt<\/a> to rescue Marvel\u2019s Cinematic Universe from irrelevance \u2013 and it may just succeed. So welcome Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn, a most unusual family unit in an alternative 1960s Earth of a retro design seemingly inspired by the Jetsons. Their foe is the planet-eating Galactus (Ralph Ineson) who develops an interest in the unborn child of Reed Richards and Sue Storm. Fun and funny, it bodes well for future efforts. skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Get the best TV reviews, news and features in your inbox every Monday<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Bob Trevino Likes ItMoving \u2026 Barbie Ferreira in Bob Trevino Likes It. Photograph: Publicity image<\/p>\n The life story of Lily Trevino (Barbie Ferreira) is so sad it makes her therapist cry. She has no friends apart from Daphne (Lauren \u201cLolo\u201d Spencer), for whom she is a live-in carer. Her drug addict mother left years ago and she has a stupendously selfish dad, Bob (French Stewart). Then she meets another Bob Trevino (John Leguizamo) online and an unlikely friendship blossoms. A sweet, touching comedy-drama<\/a> from Tracie Laymon about the value of simple human connection. PreyOnce upon a time \u2026 Amber Midthunder in Prey. Photograph: Landmark Media\/Alamy<\/p>\n Sometimes one good idea can revitalise a tired franchise. That\u2019s certainly the case here with Dan Trachtenberg\u2019s 2022 reworking<\/a> of the Predator films. This time we are taken back in time \u2013 to 1719 and the Northern Great Plains. There, the mostly invisible extraterrestrial warrior faces a Native American tribe equally at home in the wilderness. Young would-be hunter Naru (Amber Midthunder) is the first one to recognise the unusual threat in their midst, aside from the more earthbound dangers of French colonialists. It\u2019s tense, tightly plotted and doesn\u2019t rely on knowledge of its forebears. BenedictionCandid \u2026 Kate Phillips and Jack Lowden in Benediction. Photograph: Laurence Cendrowicz\/Vertigo Releasing<\/p>\n
Friday 7 November, Netflix<\/p>\n
Saturday 1 November, 12.50am, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Tuesday 4 November, Prime Video<\/p>\n
Wednesday 5 November, Disney+<\/p>\n
Wednesday 5 November, 10.50pm, Film4<\/p>\n
Friday 7 November, 9pm, Film4<\/p>\n