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LUCY IN THE SKY (15) ★★★★★

DIRECTOR Noah Hawley’s drama – loosely based on the true story of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak – opens with Lucy Cola (Oscar winner Natalie Portman, pictured), staring into the stars from space.

“You go up there, see the universe, then come back home and it all looks so small,” she rues, experiencing a crushing sense of disappointment back on terra firma with her mild-mannered husband Drew (Dan Stevens) and teenage daughter Blue Iris (Pearl Amanda Dickson).

Determined to earn her spot on the next space mission, Lucy struggles to outperform younger rival Erin Eccles (Zazie Beetz). Alas, Lucy’s mental state fractures and, impulsively, she seeks comfort in the arms of fellow astronaut Mark Goodwin (Jon Hamm).

When Lucy learns that Mark has also taken a fancy to Erin, jealousy takes hold, propelling her down a dangerous and violent path.

Available from March 30 on Amazon Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services.

BLOODSHOT (15)

★★★★★

RUSH-RELEASED into homes in response to Covid-19,

Bloodshot is a dull, plodding, action-packed thriller based on the Valiant Comics character of the same name.

Gung-ho Marine Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel, pictured) celebrates the successful extraction of a hostage in Mombasa by spending quality time on the Amalfi coast with his wife Gina (Talulah Riley).

Marital bliss is shattered when terrorist Martin Axe (Toby Kebbell) holds the couple hostage to extract vital intelligence from Ray on the Kenya mission, then executes both prisoners.

The military donates Ray’s body to Dr Emil Harting (Guy Pearce), a pioneering scientist at Rising Spirit Technologies.

He uses cutting-edge nanotechnology to augment the Marine’s strength, agility, speed and healing capabilities with millions of microscopic machines coursing through the bloodstream.

Ray is reborn as Bloodshot, a relentless assassin programmed to undertake secret missions alongside technologically enhanced Navy swimmer KT (Eiza Gonzalez), Army marksman Tibbs (Alex Hernandez) and Navy Seal Jimmy Dalton (Sam Heughan).

Available from March 27 on Amazon Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store and other download and streaming services.

PREVIEW: VIVARIUM (15)

DIRECTOR Lorcan Finnegan’s blackly humorous thriller, penned by Garret Shanley, debuts on download and streaming services this week, twisting the American Dream into a modern-day nightmare.

Door-to-door gardener Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) and his partner Gemma (Imogen Poots, pictured), a nursery school teacher, are cosily settled in white picket fence suburbia.

They meet a real estate agent called Martin (Jonathan Aris), who shepherds them into a mysterious neighbourhood named Yonder.

Tom and Gemma attempt to escape from the labyrinth of identikit residences but they appear to be trapped.

On the pavement outside house number 9, the couple discovers a baby and stark instructions: “Raise the child and be released”.

The future, it appears, has been decided for them.

Available from March 27 on Amazon Video/ BFI Player/BT TV Store/Curzon Home Cinema/ iTunes/Sky Store and other download and streaming services.