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DATE

Cert 15 ★★★

Digital & disc Monday

Much more than the town

ends up painted red in this

energetic and bloody British

comedy horror, which offers shots of gore, sex and humour

in roughly equal measure.

Michael Socha plays an idiot Jack–the–lad trying to

engineer the loss of his guileless mate’s virginity, in a quest

for casual sex that leads to them meeting two sisters in a

bar. Kelly Wenham is impressively ripped as a kickboxing

vamp while Georgia Groome is the sweet and sensitive

young sibling. But the women have a butterfly fixation,

daddy issues and their own agenda.

JOHN WICK:

CHAPTER 3

PARABELLUM

Cert 15 ★★★★

Digital tomorrow, disc

September 10

Keanu Reeves returns as the dog-loving assassin in this

blistering all-action thriller sequel, a non-stop barrage of

inventive ultra-violent fights, including one in a stable full of

horses and another on motorbikes.

The series has taken over £450million at the global box

office with this one the biggest yet, contributing more than

half the total. Fast, ferocious and surprisingly funny, we join

John Wick exactly where the previous film left him, alone in

New York with a $14million bounty on his head and every

hitman in the Big Apple gunning for him.

BEATS

Cert 18 ★★★

Digital Monday, disc

September 13

Experience the thrill of an

illegal warehouse rave in

this sincere if slight

Scottish coming-of-age drug-taking drama where the

energy is driven by the soundtrack of 1990s dance music.

To mark the forced end of their close friendship, two teens

run off with a fistful of stolen cash to a rave where various

family conflicts are brought to a head. It’s mostly in black

and white except when colour is used to communicate the

intensity of ecstasy, and the sweaty drug-fuelled ambience of

the 1990s club culture is convincingly recreated.

IT: CHAPTER TWO

Cert 15 Running time 169mins ★★★★

P

ennywise – the demon killer clown

• returns to scare you out of your
  cinema seat with this shockingly
  great supernatural sequel which
  improves on the first chapter from
  two years ago that was a monster half-a-
  billion pound box office success.
  Director Andy Muschietti and writer Gary
  Dauberman are back with an abundance of
  confidence to bring the second part of
  Stephen King’s 1986 novel to terrifying life,
  with even stronger character work, greater
  grisly and gory thrills and a surprising
  amount of humour.
  It’s set in 2016, 27 years after the events of
  Chapter 1, and the child heroes of the self-

styled Losers’ Club are now adults and

tormented once again not just by the

nightmarish Pennywise, but also a local

psychopath. Swedish actor Bill Skarsgard

veers between self-pitying pathetic

and magnificent malevolence as

the rabbit-toothed Pennywise, and

gleefully torments a great cast

which includes James McAvoy,

Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader.

As Chastain typically plays

strong, confident characters, it’s all

the more disturbing to see her

fragile and desperate. Few actors

can switch between emotional states as

quickly and convincingly as McAvoy can, and

Hader is a caustic and cowardly delight as an

off-duty stand-up comic.

They’re so great together and generate so

much convincing chemistry that it’s a pity

they’re split up for the movie’s lengthy middle

section, which demands each collect an

artefact of personal importance in order to

perform a supernatural rite to

kill Pennywise.

After a stomach-churning

opening featuring a thoroughly

nasty assault at a fairground, we’re

plunged into a world of Native

American shamanic rituals,

domestic abuse and mind-twisting

scary horror.

This compares favourably with

the very best of King big-screen adaptations,

and next month Ewan McGregor stars in a

sequel to The Shining, called Doctor Sleep.

Until then, let Pennywise give you your

nightly dose of nightmares.

All the fun of the fair

NO CHANGE

Pennywise

is back

‘‘We’re plunged

into shamanic

rituals, abuse

and mind

twisting horror

In Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Brad Pitt

plays second fiddle to Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is now Tarantino’s

second-biggest grossing film worldwide, sitting above Inglourious

Basterds, which starred Brad Pitt, and behind only Django Unchained, which

featured, er, Leonardo DiCaprio.

@ChrisHunneysett

A MINUSCULE ADVENTURE

Cert U Running time 92mins ★★★★

Buzzing with charm and humour, this wonderfully inventive

and engaging animation is a fun-packed family treat combining

action, romance and a strong eco theme.

A standalone companion to 2013’s award-winning adventure

Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants, this uses the same

technique of seamlessly mixing real-life locations and people

with animated insects.

When a pair of ladybirds inadvertently undergo a perilous

trip from their French Alpine home to the Caribbean, a spider

and an ant team up to rescue them.

Storms, sharks and Venus flytraps are among the dangers,

but rather than being scary, the musical accompaniment gives

the action the feel of a 1930s’ cliffhanger serial.

The creatures communicate with appealing whistles and

raspberries, and the absence of dialogue adds to the feeling of

old-fashioned fun. The emphasis on the need for cooperation

across cultural borders offers a timely message too.

BUZZ OFF

Ladybirds are

far from home

RAPID

RESPONSE

Cert 12A Running time 99mins

★★★

Drivers and doctors discuss

death on the track as we’re

taken on a forensic journey

in this middle-of-the-road

documentary which looks at

the introduction of safety and

medical support in US motor racing.

It’s a straightforward combination of talking heads

intercut with race footage of fatal crashes, which make for

an occasionally terrifying watch.

With frank contributions from drivers including more

than one winner of US premier racing event the

Indianapolis 500, it centres on the work of lifelong racing

fan Dr Stephen Olvey.

He went from being a medical student trackside

volunteer to kick-starting the drive to collecting data

which became instrumental in improving car safety.

But he faced an uphill struggle because each new

safety feature involved a financial cost and a

“performance penalty” – they led to heavier and therefore

slower cars.

Interviews with engineers and promoters are noticeably

absent, highlighting in a roundabout way the tension in

racing between safety, spectacle and profit.

SOBERING The firm shows

real-life fatal crash footage

MOVIES with CHRIS HUNNEYSETT