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American author W Bruce Cameron is

a specialist in heart-warming, cinema-

friendly, quasi-spiritual tales of doggy

loyalty and pluck. This family adventure

follows in the paw prints of A Dog’s Purpose

and gets some more mileage from the

conceit of having a canine narrator as

Pit Bull mix heroine Bella embarks on a

400-mile journey home. 2019, PG, 96MIN

California’s Somona wine

country forms an attractive

backdrop for this low-

budget romantic comedy

but, sadly, very little else

about the movie works.

Hus Miller and

Marguerite Moreau star

as a divorcing couple, who

decide to play a truth or

dare type of game in a last

bid to save their marriage.

The film ambles towards

its predictable conclusion,

with Peter Fonda popping

up en route as Hank’s bong-

smoking, winemaking

father. 2018, 15, 88MIN

Irish actor Andrew Scott takes a role

that couldn’t be further removed

from Sherlock’s evil nemesis

Moriarty in this unusual mystery

thriller set in a depressed former

steel town in Pennsylvania.

His Donald Devlin is a shambling,

slow-talking, socially awkward

garbage man (it’s clear he has

something like Asperger’s

syndrome) who takes it upon

himself to investigate the death

by drowning of a six-year-old boy

on his collection route.

To the authorities, it’s an accident

pure and simple, but Donald is far

from persuaded and, like a terrier

worrying a bone, determines to

somehow get to the truth.

What follows doesn’t always

convince, but Scott makes his

character work even if the story is a

tad shaky. Fellow Irish actors Denise

Gough (the one-night stand by whom

Donald had a 11-year-old daughter)

and Bronagh Waugh (his loyal

workmate) deliver similarly effective

supporting roles. 2018, 15, 90MIN

On the west coast of Ireland, Stephen

Dorff and Melissa George’s grief-

stricken couple are trying to rebuild

their lives following the death of their

young daughter (Grace Farrell).

The movie’s sense of mystery is

compelling as, haunted by a recurring

dream of a happy family day at the

beach, Dorff ’s schoolteacher becomes

convinced he can turn back time to

before the tragedy... 2018, 15, 91MIN

FAMILY ADVENTURE

A Dog’s Way Home

Saturday, Sky Premiere HD,

9.30am & 6.15pm 3

ROMANTIC COMEDY

Make or Break

Monday, Sky Premiere HD,

10am & 10.10pm 1

MYSTERY THRILLER

Steel Country

Tuesday, Sky Premiere HD,

11.15am & 10.10pm 3

SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY

Don’t Go

Thursday, Sky Premiere HD,

3pm & 10.10pm 3

DRAMA

Sorry Angel

Wednesday, Sky Premiere HD,

10.10pm 2

DRAMA

Hot Summer Nights

Sunday, Sky Premiere HD,

10.10 pm 2

This dog’s

boots were

made for walking

Andrew wanted the

truth and nothing

but the truth

In early-1990s France,

Pierre Deladonchamps’

HIV-positive writer Jacques

begins a relationship with

a much younger aspiring

film-maker (Vincent

Lacoste). Full of windy

philosophising, literary

name-dropping and serial

bed hopping, both the film

and its self-involved

characters may well

try your patience.

Subtitled.

2018, 15, 132MIN

It is the summer of 1991

on Cape Cod and, with

Hurricane Bob fast

approaching, Timothée

Chalamet’s teenage visitor

Daniel is drawn into the

orbit of charismatic local

bad boy Hunter (Alex Roe)

and his younger sister

McKayla (Maika Monroe).

Writer-director Elijah

Bynum whips up a febrile

atmosphere, but his script

isn’t sturdy enough to pull

off the awkward mix of

coming-of-age drama and

crime thriller. 2016, 18, 108MIN

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Could Melissa and

Stephen put the

past behind them?