What’s Opening In Cinemas This Week: Digger Digs Up Verity As Girls Like Girls!

Tom Cruise is Digger, Anne Hathaway is Verity, and Girls Like Girls are the new releases landing in cinemas this week.

Still can’t get in to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day or The Odyssey? Can’t face 3 hours and 10 minutes of Avengers: Endgame Encore? Then you’re in luck. Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway are going head-to-head this week as their new movies open in cinemas. Cruise returns in the satirical comedy Digger, while Anne Hathaway releases her new film, Verity. With Girls Like Girls and others opening at the local multiplexes, there’s plenty to keep you entertained.

DIGGER

Warner Bros.-Released Friday 2nd October

Synopsis: The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove that he’s humanity’s savior.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Cert: 15

We saw the film earlier this week, and are sad to say we didn’t enjoy it that much. I said in my review:

“Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, despite great performances from Tom Cruise and Riz Ahmed, comes across as a poor man’s Dr. Strangelove, and not a good one at that. To be honest, Iñárritu takes his previous work, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), and almost remakes it. That film deservedly won four Academy Awards. If he’s trying to, or even thinking he will, manage it again with this film, he’s sadly mistaken. His directing is never in question when it comes to style or excellence. It’s his script, alongside Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone, that lets him and the film down. And badly at that. Yes, the unexpected narrative turn is a surprise, but it also alienated almost 90% of the audience I saw it with. That’s never a good sign.”

You can read my full review here.

GIRLS LIKE GIRLS

Universal Pictures-Released Friday 2nd October

Synopsis: After moving to a small Oregon town to live with her estranged father, young Coley meets the charismatic Sonya, her boyfriend, Trenton, and the rest of their friends. Content to observe from a distance, Coley gets pulled into their world as sparks start to fly between the new girl and the popular girl.

Cast: Maya da Costa, Myra Molloy, Levon Hawke, and Zach Braff

Director: Hayley Kiyoko

Cert: 15

VERITY

Sony Pictures-Released Friday 2nd October

Synopsis: Hired to be a ghostwriter for renowned author Verity Crawford, Lowen Ashleigh’s assignment takes a dark turn when she discovers chilling autobiographical notes. As she wrestles with disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband, she soon finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession.

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett

Director: Michael Showalter

Cert: 15

THE WEIGHT

MetFilm Distribution-Released Friday 2nd October

Synopsis: Imprisoned in a labor camp run by an unscrupulous overseer, a man becomes entangled in a perilous gold smuggling scheme in his pursuit to regain custody of his daughter.

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe

Director: Padraic McKinley

Cert: 15

ALSO RELEASED THIS WEEK

KNIFE

Altitude Film Entertainment-Release date: Wednesday 30th September 

Cert: 15

I’ve seen the film. I can say that it is chilling, informative, and moving. However, if you’re squeamish, the actual footage of the attack on Salman Rushdie is shown, and it is shocking and disturbing. With that said, it is a five-star film that deserves to be seen.

LINKIN PARK: UNSHATTER

Trafalgar Releasing-Release date: Wednesday 30th September 

Cert: 15

APRIL X

Vertigo Releasing-Release date: Friday 2nd October 

Cert: 15

CHILD

Munro Films-Release date: Friday 2nd October 

Cert: 15

We’ve seen the film and were creeped out by how it played out. Our editor, Phil Roberts, had this to say in his review:

“Overall, Child is a delightful assault on the conscience. Through Brigitte Urhausen’s brilliantly weighted performance as the desperate mother, we are invited to confront the moral implications of every parent’s worst nightmare. Urhausen brings a raw vulnerability to Anne, making her desperation painfully palpable, while Cyrus Neshvad handles the material with an assured hand. He takes to the horror sandbox like a duck to water, demonstrating an impressive instinct for atmosphere, tension, and dread. On the strength of this film alone, I cannot wait to see where his passion takes him next.”

You can read his full review here.

DEREK vs DEREK

Dartmouth Films-Release date: Friday 2nd October 

Cert: 15

EXTRA GEOGRAPHY

Vertigo Releasing-Release date: Friday 2nd October

Cert: 15

Plan your next trip to the cinema with any of this week’s new releases.

 

 

 

 

 

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