David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tom Noonan are among those providing the voices. Charlie Kaufman is looking at human emotions through another unusual lens, this time a haunting, beautiful piece of stop-motion animation in Anomalisa. It sees Tina Fey in another real-world story, this time charting the experiences of a war correspondent during Operation Enduring Freedom and her relationship with a fellow journo (Martin Freeman). Whiskey Tango Foxtrot features war, but should leaven that with laughs (note that the title is shorthanded as 'WTF' in radio code). Secret In Their Eyes, in which Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor get obsessive over a criminal case, remakes a twisty-turny Argentine Oscar-winner from 2009, while Truth features more star power with Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford in the story of a real-life news scandal. And there’s horror of a less intentional variety courtesy of Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip.įighty Secret Service agent Mike Banning returns in London Has Fallen.
There are also family-friendly scares as Goosebumps finally reaches the UK, starring Jack Black as the prodigious author R.L. Horror is well-served this month: the regency revenants of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies attempt to take a bite out of Lily James’ Jane Austen heroine Elizabeth Bennet brutal Western Bone Tomahawk sees Kurt Russell fighting cannibal predators Natalie Dormer has a very bad time in Japan in The Forest and there’s a classic-looking evil doll yarn in William Brent Bell’s The Boy. Elsewhere the drama is more domestic: Dakota Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts enjoy an awkward vacation in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash and there’s some light relief from Dakota Johnson, Alison Brie and Rebel Wilson in NYC-set rom-com How To Be Single. Tim Roth stars in Michel Franco’s serious drama Chronic, about a care home nurse working with the terminally ill Chris Pine and Eric Bana join the Coast Guard for historical drama The Finest Hours and Julianne Moore fights for her rights against the New Jersey Police Department in Freeheld. John Hillcoat is also serving up some tense thrills with ensemble heist drama Triple Nine, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson and Casey Affleck.
James Watkins’ French terrorism actioner Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba, is now rather more topical than anyone would have liked.
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