On Screen
Alice Burns finds out about recent film launches and the latest DVD releases
Downton Abbey
Release Date: 13th September
Director: Michael Engler
Starring: Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt and Allen Leech
Certificate: PG
The beloved cast of Downton Abbey are back, and this time we meet them in the height of the roaring twenties. Only this time, the pressure is on as a Royal visit is on the cards from King George V and Queen Mary. Set in 1927, just a year from the looming Great Depression, the Crawleys must tighten their belts as times are swiftly changing around them. Faithfully aided by Carson, who steps out of retirement to restore the calm, he completes a whole host of familiar faces due to return to the great hallways of Downton once again.
The Kitchen
Release Date: 20th September
Directors: Andrea Berloff
Starring: Elizabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Domhnall Gleeson
Certificate: 12A
Three women with an axe to grind – or several. Three 1970s housewives come to the head of the table in one of New York’s most notorious organised crime operations – the Irish mafia of hell’s kitchen, Manhattan. After their husbands are imprisoned by the FBI, Moss, Haddish and McCarthy star as Kathy, Ruby and Claire, who decide to take matters into their own hands after being left adrift by their husbands’ antics. Proving their worth within this cut-throat industry, these women take the neighbourhood by storm, changing the face of New York’s criminal underworld and their own lives forever.
Tolkien
Release Date: 9th September
Director: Dome Karukoski
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Lilly Collins, Craig Roberts, Adrian Schiller and Derek Jacobi
Certificate: 12A
This biopic tells the moving life events which inspired Tolkien to create the legendary world of Lord of The Rings, through the power of love, friendship and the power of language. The film follows a young Tolkien as he navigates the uneasy waters of school, finding friendship among a group of fellow outcasts, building a lifelong bond threatened only by the horrors of impending war. We also gain an insight into his courtship of Edith Bratt, all of which inspired his creation of Middle Earth as a world of escapism outside the constraints of an ordinary world.
