The pick of the week’s films on Sky, Virgin & other platforms
CULT OF CHUCKY
Killer doll Chucky returns to terrorise the luckless Nica (Fiona Dourif), now incarcerated in an isolated psychiatric institution in this seventh outing of the longrunning horror franchise. Writerdirector and original creator Don Mancini ramps up the scarefactor with some elaborate death scenes and stylish camera-work that makes atmospheric use of the hospital location. (18, 87min)
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS
The petrolhead action-movie franchise rolls relentlessly on, as ludicrously silly and OTT as ever, with an instalment that sees Vin Diesel’s carjacker hero Dominic Toretto and his outlaw band picking up new allies and new enemies. Chief among the latter is Charlize Theron’s ice-blonde cyber-terrorist, who blackmails Dom into betraying his gang and helping her nefarious missilestealing plans. (12,133min)
IT COMES AT NIGHT
PREMIERE (Available from Mon) Set in a post-apocalyptic America, this gripping, intelligently spare US indie thriller focuses on two families trying to escape a mysterious epidemic in a remote forest house. But there is plenty of slow-burning tension and menace as Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo’s husband and wife, and their teenage son (Kelvin Harrison Jr) uneasily share their refuge with two strangers (Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough) and their young son. (15, 92min)
A KIND OF MURDER
An unhappily married architect (Patrick Wilson) begins stalking a suspected wife murderer little realising the consequences that lie in store in this twisty and twisted psychological thriller. Stylishly shot and perversely gripping, the film is based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The
Blunderer, and it is not hard to detect echoes of the author’s
Strangers on a Train. (15, 92min)
KING ARTHUR:
LEGEND OF THE SWORD
Director Guy Ritchie’s take on Arthurian myth is a mash-up of sword-and-sorcery action fantasy and geezers-on-amission caper. Charlie Hunnam’s Arthur is a Mockney badass, ducking and diving in 5th-century Londinium until he finally gets around to embracing his destiny as the son of Eric Bana’s King Uther Pendragon. (12,126min)
THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED)
Sometimes painfully touching and sometimes hilarious, this bittersweet New York comedy revolves around a hopelessly dysfunctional family. Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Elizabeth Marvel play the bickering adult offspring of Dustin Hoffman’s patriarch. Sandler gives his best performance in years, and his seething rivalry with his half-brother (Stiller) provides the film’s comic spine. (15,110min)
OUR SOULS AT NIGHT
Almost 40 years since their last screen pairing in 1979’s The
Electric Horseman, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda reunite for a cosy but charming romantic drama. They play widowed neighbours in small-town Colorado whose unruffled lives get shaken up after Fonda’s Addie turns up at the door of Redford’s Louis with a startling proposal… (Pg,103min)
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: SALAZAR’S REVENGE
Johnny Depp’s pirate captain Jack Sparrow is back, but his fifth screen adventure sees him playing a largely passive role in the plot. This time, a younger generation is at the helm of the story as Brenton Thwaites’ Henry Turner, son of Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner and Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann, sets out to free his father from a watery curse. (12,129min)
THE RED TURTLE
This enchantingly simple, quietly moving animated fable explores our relationship with nature through the wordless tale of a shipwrecked castaway whose efforts to escape his desert island are frustrated by a giant red turtle. (PG, 81min)
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT
WONDER WOMAN
Gal Gadot’s lithe Wonder Woman was all conquering at the global box office this year, emphatically showing that female superheroes could be more than a match for their male counterparts. The film is an origins tale, so we see Gadot’s Amazon heroine Diana growing up on her idyllic all-women island home before leaving it for the first time with Chris Pine’s World War One American spy. (12,141min)