ON SCREEN
Alice Burns takes a look at the latest blockbusters, ready-to-stream films, Netflix exclusives and DVD releases
Project Power
Release Date: 14th August
Director: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Foxx and Rodrigo Santoro
Certificate: 15
One pill. Endless possibilities. On the streets of New Orleans, a new drug has gripped the city. A single tablet that gives the user instant superhuman abilities. The catch? You don’t know what they might be until it’s too late. Some develop super-strength, others incredible speed or invisibility. But not all powers are good. To prevent total anarchy as crime rates surge, a local cop, teenage dealer and ex-soldier team up to take down the drug that threatens the collapse of the city as they know it. The only way to do it? Take the pill themselves. Would you do it?
End of Sentence
Release Date: 28th July
Directors: Elfar Adalsteins
Starring: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger and Andrea Irvine
Certificate: 15
After becoming a widower, Frank Fogle embarks on a journey across continents to scatter his late wife’s ashes, travelling from the US to a remote lake in Northern Ireland. However, her last request was that their estranged son, Sean must join him. Recently released from prison, Sean reluctantly accompanies his father on a bizarre road-trip on the condition that his father buys him a ticket back to the West Coast and never sees him again. But between rediscovering old flames and collecting an intriguing hitchhiker, the journey opens up more possibilities than they had ever imagined.
Marriage Story
Release Date: 21st July
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Ray Liotta and Alan Alda
Certificate: 15
From Academy-nominated Noah Baumbach is this compelling look at a marriage at breaking point. Somewhere halfway between ‘normal’, whatever that means, and ‘crazy’, however we define that, is a family that can either come together or break apart with it. Indecisive, complex and brutally honest, Johansson and Driver star as a couple facing the challenging everyday-ness of life together, only to realise what it means to be apart. From each other, and perhaps most importantly, from family. How do we deal with emotions when we fall apart and try to put ourselves together again? Marriage Story offers an insight into how we rebuild and heal.
