This is the story of Robert Kenner, a mild mannered postman from Peckham, who, six years ago was struck by a meteor that gave him superpowers. Now he works for the Ministry of Defence as a civil servant, saving the world, filling out one bureaucratic form at a time. He is allowed every Tuesday off, as sanctioned by the UN, and today, the day on which the film is set, is the day he is finally going on a date with June; the woman he has been in love with for some time now. It should all be fine - if a visiting American Senator doesn't start World War Three
Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.
Eva and Kat's carefree lifestyle is turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, but when her best friend, Roger, drops in from Barcelona to party, the three of them toy with the idea of creating a baby together. But as Eva enjoys her pregnancy and Roger fantasises about his role in this new family, Kat begins to distance herself. Can their heartfelt friendship survive what is to come? Informed and influenced by the lives of multi-award-winning writer/director Carlos Marques-Marcet's extended family of filmmakers, screenwriters and actors, this fusion of the personal and the professional, the real and the imaginary, results in a touchingly intimate portrait of what it means to be a family in the present day. A romantic comedy set on and around the rarely-filmed London canal system, Anchor and Hope has won multiple awards - including Best Male Lead for David Verdaguer at the 2018 Gaudà Awards and Best Film for Marques-Marcet at the 2017 Seville European Film Festival.
From the makers of Shameless and No Offence comes a new drama which follows the life of Forensic Pathologist, Professor Wolfe Kinteh (played by Babou Ceesay). This dark comedy sees half genius, half liability Wolfe in his day-to-day life where he attempts to solve crimes by occasionally bending some rules. Wolfe is a forensic powerhouse and North England's finest crime scene expert , but his talent is also matched with unconventional tactics.
The film version of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. The "coming together" of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence. How they arrive at this complementary awareness is the intriguing subject matter of the film, involving well-meaning single mothers, difficult adolescents and helpless older adults. Yet there's a wider significance to all this in the guise of human stereotypes--how we fall into them and how we can try to get out of them. The film's wit and amusement comes down to deft and understated directing from Chris and Paul Weitz, and a snappily crafted screenplay from Peter Hedges and the Weitz brothers. Grant clips his hair as well as his vowels for a believable and ultimately sympathetic Will--by far his best performance since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Marcus, Hoult is convincingly self-dependent, but could have been even more self-absorbed. Toni Colette is a dead-ringer for the well-meaning but ineffectual hippie mother Fiona, while Rachel Weisz gives her best screen performance to date as the attractive and vulnerable Rachel, with whom Will comes of age emotionally. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack will delight those who enjoy his brand of reconstituted 1970s Dylan; the title track has a wistful charm and there's a gem of an instrumental in the "Countdown" sequence. About a Boy is in the best traditions of British comedy: enlightening as it amuses, it's a film to enjoy and come back to. --Richard Whitehouse
Alex and Sergi put their plans for a baby on hold when Alex receives an offer for an artistic residency in Los Angeles. Realising this may well be Alex's last chance to re-launch her photography career, Sergi stays in Barcelona while Alex relocates. With a continent between them they must rely on virtual communication to keep their relationship alive but with their realities no longer shared and the touch of one another gone, the technology that has supposedly brought the world closer together may just tear them apart. A romantic drama from multi-award-winning writer/director Carlos Marques-Marcet, 10,000km features touchingly poignant performances from Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer as the couple discovering that a long distance relationship is more challenging than they could ever have believed. Tena won Best Actress at the Malaga Film Festival - one of five wins for 10,000km, including Best Director, Best First Screenplay and Golden Biznaga for Best Film.
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