Orange Wednesdays? Date Night? Whatever your reason for hitting the flicks this week, make sure you're making the most of it. Here's our guide for the week.
1. Before I Go to Sleep
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Based on SJ Watson's bestselling book, 'Before I Go to Sleep' is a Brit-made thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong. After a car accident Christine Lucas loses the ability to store memories and starts every day unsure of what happened the day before (could also be based on Lindsey Lohan's life). The film's directed by Rowan Joffé, who wrote the George Clooney-led thriller 'The American' in 2010 and adapted the Graham Greene novel 'Brighton Rock' in 2011.
2. Finding Fela
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Finding Fela is a documentary taking on the life of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti. Directed by Alex Gibney, known for his documentaries 'We Steal Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks', 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room' and the Oscar winning 'Taxi to the Dark Side', the film premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Kuti pioneered the Afrobeat genre and continually spoke out against dictatorships and corruption in the continent, notably against the Nigerian military juntas. Kuti was beaten countless times, arrested on over 200 occasions and produced 50 albums before his death in 1997.
3. The Guest
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Dan Stevens (obviously best known from 'Downtown Abbey') plays David Collins, who turns up at a family's house saying he's a friend of their son who died in Afghanistan. In a wonderful case of the trailer pretty much spoiling the whole movie, it seems like he's not. Also not sure, but is that some school girl sexualisation we've got there? Let's guess director Adam Wingard, known for horror films like 'V/H/S' and 'You're Next', enjoyed the latest American Apparel campaign.
4. The Hundred Foot Journey
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Remember when all film trailers had a growling voiceover? Yeah, let's not bring that back. The second of this week's novel adaptations, The Hundred Foot Journey once again shows that Helen Mirren can play whoever the hell she wants. In this, Mirren plays a French restaurant owner unhappy that an Indian family, forced to leave India after their own restaurant is burned in a riot, opens a new one across the street from her own Michelin-starred eatery. Funny stuff ensues, probably, we imagine there's some hilarious culture clash and everyone learns something about everyone - also cos the trailer shows that happening.
5. They Came Together
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Romantic comedies get the Leslie Knope treatment in a movie that probably stars at least one US comedy actor (Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler etc) you like. Would a guy that works for a Corporate Candy Company ever fall in love with a girl working in her own indie candy shop? Only in a romantic comedy. The film is directed by David Wain who previously directed Rudd in both 'Wanderlust' and 'Role Models' but fingers crossed this'll be a better than those
6. White Settlers
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If you were going to bring out a horror film about an English couple buying a house haunted by Scottish warriors seeking revenge for a 15th century massacre then why not just before the referendum? At least if Scotland decides to go the English can be safe in the knowledge they've gotten rid of a bunch of scary-ass warrior folk and (as far as the only other Scottish character in the trailer shows) estate agents.
