CHRIS HUNNEYSETT

MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL

Digital Monday, disc February 17

A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON

UCongratulations to Sam Mendes’ First World War film 1917 on winning seven BAFTAs, only the fifth film to do so this century, after last year’s The Favourite, winner of one Oscar, The King’s Speech in 2010 (four Oscars), The Artist in 2011 (five Oscars) and 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire which won eight Oscars. 1917 is nominated for 10 awards at Sunday night’s Oscars, so fingers crossed..

Digital & disc Monday

MOVING A surprising moral tale full of arresting images

PARASITE

Winner of two BAFTAs and nominated for six Oscars, this extraordinary South Korean dark comedy thriller by director Bong Joon Ho is a bleak, bloodily violent and thoughtprovoking satirical modern day fable.

It sees a shameless and charismatic family of con artists swindle their way into the employ of an upper-class home where they plot the overthrow of the lawful inhabitants.

As the collision of unthinking privilege and the desperately needy erupts into violent farce, it comments on the pervasion of poverty, the corrupting Western influence on the Far East, and genocide.

Very much in keeping with Joon Ho’s previous films, the eco-fable Okja and sci-fi train thriller, Snowpiercer, it’s also a distant cousin to last year’s period black comedy and Oscar winner, The Favourite.

Parasite is hugely moral, strangely moving, constantly surprising and full of arresting images, not least of someone smoking a cigarette in the middle of a flood while trying to hold down the seat of a toilet as it vomits effluent. As one character is fond of crying, “It’s all metaphorical!”

UNDERWATER LITTLE MONSTERS

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