TV & Satellite Week – 13 July 2019

Summer

Film

Preview

Johnny English

Strikes Again

JU LY SKY CINEMA

Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling secret

agent still raises a smile in his third

big-screen adventure. And, to be

honest, his blithely overconfident

ineptitude does seem far more in

tune with the times than James

Bond’s effortless panache. Ex-Bond

girl Olga Kurylenko offers support,

as does Ben Miller’s returning MI7 agent.

Ralph Breaks

the Internet

AUGUST SKY CINEMA

Wreck-It Ralph, the building-

smashing video-game bad guy

from Disney’s jaunty animated

fantasy, is back. This time, big

softie Ralph (voiced by John C

Reilly) and pal Vanellope von

Schweetz (a squeaky Sarah

Silverman) hunt for a spare

steering wheel to fix

Vanellope’s cart-racing

game. As you’d expect,

their mission delivers

another round of whizz-

bang visuals and lots of

pop-culture in-jokes.

Creed II

LATE SUMMER

SKY CINEMA

Three years after 2015’s

hit spin-off movie

Creed lifted the Rocky

franchise off the canvas,

the sequel comes out

swinging to set up the

grudge match to end

them all – Michael B

Jordan’s scrappy-

contender-turned-heavyweight-

champ Adonis Creed v the son

of the man who killed his dad

in Rocky IV, Russian hulk Viktor

Drago (Florian Munteanu).

The fight scenes still pack quite

a punch while the episodes

outside the ring feature the

welcome return of Sylvester

Stallone as Rocky.

Mortal

Engines

LATE SUMMERSKY CINEMA

Having auspiciously mined

Tolkien’s Middle-Earth for

box-office gold, Peter Jackson

has turned to another British

fantasy writer, Philip Reeve, for

another blockbuster adventure.

The setting is a post-apocalyptic

future in which London is a giant

city on wheels that gobbles up

any smaller settlements in its

path. Hera Hilmar’s plucky young

heroine, however, wants to throw

a spanner in the works. Look

forward to dazzling steampunk

visuals and cliffhanger thrills.

Ralph and Vanellope

set off on their quest

Mera (Amber

Heard) and Aquaman

(Jason Momoa)

Rowan Atkinson

as Johnny English

Hester Shaw

(Hera Hilmar)

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Sylvester Stallone as

Rocky and Michael B

Jordan as Adonis

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