THREE TO SEE
Missed it at the cinema or on TV? We round up the best streaming and DVD releases of the week
DARKEST HOUR (PG)
ON May 9, 1940, Clement Attlee (David Schofield), leader of the opposition Labour Party, demands Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) stands down as prime minister for “leaving our nation ruinously unprepared to face the present Nazi peril”. King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) invites Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) to form a government and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax (Stephen Dillane) spearheads senior figures within the Conservative ranks, who expect Churchill to agree to talks with the Germans. They are gravely mistaken and the new PM holds firm to his potentially tragic course.
Download/stream from May 21 and available from June 4 on DVD/Blu-ray.
MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE (12)
ROUSING conclusion to the fantastical Maze Runner saga. Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and fellow “Gladers” now know their blood holds the key to engineering a cure to the deadly Flare contagion. Good friend Minho (Ki Hong Lee) remains a prisoner of the World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD) and its Machiavellian lead physician, Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson). Consequently, Thomas orchestrates a daredevil rescue mission aided by Newt (Thomas BrodieSangster), Frypan (Dexter Darden), Brenda (Rosa Salazar) and her surrogate father Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito).
Download/stream from May 21 and available from May 28 on DVD/Blu-ray.
EARLY MAN (PG)
STOP-MOTION animated comedy. After a meteor heralds the extinction of dinosaurs and primitive humans, new life sprouts from the scorched earth. In a lush, isolated valley, Chief Bobnar (voiced by Timothy Spall) and his tribe including Dug (Eddie Redmayne) hunt rabbits. Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) gatecrashes the idyll and Dug is carted back to Nooth’s stronghold where he witnesses footballers Real Bronzio in gravity-defying motion. Cave paintings suggest Dug’s ancestors were star players of the past, so he challenges Nooth’s team to a match for control of the valley.
Download/stream from May 21 and available from May 28 on DVD/Blu-ray.