Three to see
Missed it at the cinema or on TV? We round up the best streaming and DVD releases of the week
BLACKBIRD (15) HHHHH
IN THIS moving drama, Lily (Susan Sarandon) is terminally ill and has decided to take her own life aided by her doctor husband Paul (Sam Neill). She gathers together family and best friend Elizabeth (Lindsay Duncan) for a weekend of celebration and reflection before she bids adieu to the world. Spirited daughters Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Anna (Mia Wasikowska) are at loggerheads about their mother’s plan. They loudly voice their feelings while other family members play nervous peacemakers. Lily watches on and reluctantly accepts that she cannot dictate every facet of her tear-jerking final hurrah.
Download/stream from September 21 and from September 28 on DVD/Blu-ray.
THE TUNNEL (15) HHHHH
EMERGENCY first responder Stein (Thorbjorn Harr) looks forward to spending Christmas with his teenage daughter Elise (Ylva Lyng Fuglerud). The widower anxiously prepares to welcome new girlfriend Ingrid (Lisa Carlehed) to festivities but when Elise finds out, she boards an express bus to Oslo to spend Yuletide with her grandmother. The bus zooms into the west entrance of Storfjell tunnel shortly after a petrol tanker truck thunders into the east entrance and crashes. An explosion fills the tunnel with poisonous, choking smoke. Stein and his colleagues race to the scene, unaware that Elise’s life hangs in the balance. The Tunnel is a slow-burning thriller. Download/stream from September 21.
ENOLA HOLMES (12) – Preview
SOLVING crimes is a family matter in a fast-paced caper based on the book series by Nancy Springer, which puts a fresh spin on the mythology of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s venerated detective, Sherlock Holmes.
In 19th-century England, polite society teeters on the brink of monumental change. Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown), younger sister of Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), wakes on her 16th birthday to discover that their mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) has vanished. In her place are a dizzying array of gifts.
Defying the wishes of her older siblings, Enola refuses to attend finishing school and heads to London to put her sleuthing skills to the test. On Netflix from September 23.