THE BIG SCREEN
Stephen King’s disturbing 1986 novel materialises on the big screen as a two-part film directed by Andy Muschietti. This opening salvo focuses exclusively on the stories of children whose lives are scarred by a malevolent presence called Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard). In the summer of 1989, seven pre-teens growing up in Derry, Maine, come together as the Losers’ Club in order to survive their shared suffering at the hands of local bullies, the Bowers Gang, led by the sadistic Henry Bowers (Nicholas Hamilton). Justice is blind and frost-bitten in Wind River, an impeccably crafted thriller set in snow-laden Wyoming, where the murder of a teenager sends a chill through a community riven by bigotry and fear. Taylor Sheridan, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Hell Or High Water and Sicario, returns to the director’s chair for a high stakes game of cat and mouse in unforgiving terrain.