Pick of the week
They Will Kill You<\/p>\n
Coming from a director whose first feature was Why Don\u2019t You Just Die!, the title of this rampantly bloody, defiantly silly horror caper suggests Kirill Sokolov has a bit of a one-track mind. An unholy stew of Rosemary\u2019s Baby and the zaniest bits of The Evil Dead, the film follows Asia (a kickass Zazie Beetz) as she visits exclusive New York apartment block the Virgil in search of her younger sister, Maria (Myha\u2019la), who is a maid there. But she realises there is something very wrong with the place, particularly after the residents try to kill her. The undead comic action comes thick and fast (the roaming eyeball is a standout), while Patricia Arquette\u2019s accent is a thing of mystery and wonder all by itself.
Saturday 13 June, 9.30am, 6.15pm, Sky Cinema Premiere\/HBO Max<\/p>\n
The Big ChillTurning back time \u2026 Glenn Close and Kevin Kline in The Big Chill. Photograph: PictureLux\/The Hollywood Archive\/Alamy<\/p>\n
A group of longstanding friends who met at college back in the 1960s reunite for a pal\u2019s funeral in Lawrence Kasdan\u2019s penetrating 1983 drama. It\u2019s a wake for Alex, who inexplicably killed himself, but it\u2019s also an elegy for their once radical and idealistic baby boomer generation, as the actor, housewife, journalist, doctor, lawyer et al are forced to reassess where they find themselves now. A bravura cast including Glenn Close, William Hurt, Kevin Kline and Mary Kay Place run the gamut of confusion, despair, regret and hope.
Sunday 14 June, 10.10pm, Sky Cinema Greats<\/p>\n
Boiling PointPressure cooker \u2026 Stephen Graham in Boiling Point. Photograph: Vertigo<\/p>\n
Shooting your film in just one take is an efficient way to ramp up the tension. But it still takes a good script and actors to make it believable. Before they made it a vital part of Adolescence, director Philip Barantini and actor Stephen Graham successfully tried out the single-shot technique in this nerve-shredding restaurant drama. Graham\u2019s head chef Andy is under pressure from minute one after a health inspection, and it doesn\u2019t let up \u2013 from difficult customers and sloppy staff to the unwelcome appearance of his old boss, he\u2019s a man teetering on the brink.
Sunday 14 June, midnight, Channel 4<\/p>\n
The Power of the DogRuthless rancher \u2026 Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog. Photograph: Kirsty Griffin\/AP<\/p>\n
Jane Campion\u2019s sensuous, psychosexual western explores the unspoken emotions that can sway people\u2019s actions. Benedict Cumberbatch (cast fruitfully against type) and Jesse Plemons play ranching brothers in 1920s Montana \u2013 charismatic alpha male Phil and taciturn, decent George. After George brings home new bride Rose (Kirsten Dunst) and her teenage son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Phil\u2019s jealousy ebbs as he mentors the kid in the ways of the cowboy. An undercurrent of homoerotic tension runs through a deep, dark tale.
Monday 15 June, 12.05am, BBC Two<\/p>\n
WonkaLofty dreams \u2026 Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Hugh Grant in Wonka. Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Paddington maestro Paul King\u2019s sweet origin story for Roald Dahl\u2019s confectionery genius has a tart choice as lead. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet isn\u2019t a Broadway kind of guy, but he does have a surprisingly effective singing voice, and his gangly exuberance wins you over. Young Willy arrives in town to sell his magical chocolates but a trio of established rivals (Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas and Mathew Baynton) set out to crush him. Hugh Grant steals all his scenes as an irate Oompa-Loompa.
Tuesday 16 June, Netflix<\/p>\n
AftersunUtterly lovely \u2026 Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio in Aftersun. Photograph: TCD\/Prod.DB\/Alamy<\/p>\n
What an utterly lovely, delicately heartbreaking film Charlotte Wells has made. The mysteries of adulthood and the loss of innocence are all wrapped up in a summer holiday in Turkey taken by 11-year-old Sophie (a cheeky, adorable Frankie Corio) and her dad Calum \u2013 a superbly layered performance by Paul Mescal. Amid lazy days by the hotel pool, buffets, boat trips and excursions to ancient ruins, Calum\u2019s hidden melancholy surfaces. It\u2019s mitigated by the tenderness and comfort of his relationship with his daughter, but there\u2019s something gnawing at him we struggle to fathom.
Wednesday 17 June, Netflix<\/p>\n
New LifeHunted \u2026 Hayley Erin in New Life. Photograph: Collection Christophel\/Alamy<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a chase thriller that largely shuns thrills, but John Rosman\u2019s genre-fluid film is after a different kind of visceral connection. A bloodied young woman, Jessica (Hayley Erin), is on the run \u2013 for horrific reasons that only gradually become apparent. She is pursued by Sonya Walger\u2019s weary tracker-for-hire Elsa, who is struggling to accept her diagnosis of ALS. It\u2019s not clear where our sympathies should lie, while the lives of the people Jessica briefly encounters are worthy of dramas themselves. A film about human contact, in both the emotional and medical senses.
Friday 19 June, 11.30pm, Film4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekThey Will Kill You Coming from a director whose first feature was Why Don\u2019t You…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}