MIKE WARD’S SMALL SCREEN
FREE FIRE (15) (Download, DVD and Blu-ray) AS a rule, on-screen violence tends not to be laugh-yourt**s-off funny. This 70s-set action comedy is a rare and hilarious exception.
It centres on a crazy, almost cartoon-like, shootout in a derelict warehouse following the breakdown of a dodgy arms deal.
Peppered with some cracking comic lines, it stars Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley and Michael Smiley. GOING IN STYLE (12) (Download now, DVD and Blu-ray
from Monday) WE all enjoy a movie where the crims are the good guys.
And here their so-called victims are extra despicable.
Michael Caine, Morgan
Freeman and Alan Arkin play old-timers furious to learn they’ve been cheated out of their pensions – and plotting a heist to fix this gross injustice.
It’s not a comedy classic, but a decent enough chuckle in a low-key, slightly obvious kind of way. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (15) (Download now, DVD and Blu-ray
from Monday) JIM Broadbent stars here as Tony, an old bloke forced to revisit the regretful actions of his 60s youth after a former girlfriend’s mum leaves him something unexpected in her will.
It’s the diary of his troubled best friend from way back, who went on to take his own life when they were at university together. RULES DON’T APPLY (12)
(Download from Monday) LATE 50s Hollywood is the setting for this odd, uneven story, created by and starring Warren Beatty.
As eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, he has a golden rule that his employees must never fall in love. Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich play the actress and chauffeur who break it. POLDARK: SERIES THREE (12) (Download and DVD from
Monday) WILL Ross and Demelza’s marriage be dashed on the Cornish rocks? It certainly looks that way.
Lovestruck local Hugh Armitage makes no secret of his feelings for the neglected Mrs P – and she’s clearly enjoying the attention…