MOVIES TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND
‘UNWELCOME’
Young couple Jamie and Maya live together in London. After learning that Maya is pregnant, Jamie celebrates with her only for them to be attacked by a gang of hoodlums. Maya is left unharmed. In the aftermath of the assault, Jamie and Maya take the opportunity to move to an idyllic new home in rural Ireland, inherited from Jamie’s great-aunt Maeve after her death. The house requires some work, prompting them to hire the local Whelan family as builders. They are troubled by a warning from Niamh, an old friend of Jamie’s aunt, that they should leave an offering of liver at a door of the house’s back garden every night for the Red Caps that live in the forest, but accept it as a harmless superstition.
‘A MAN CALLED OTTO
Otto Anderson, a 63-year-old widower, lives in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After retiring from a steel company, he plans suicide, having lost his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, six months previously. During a suicide attempt by hanging, he is interrupted by his new neighbors: Marisol, Tommy, and their two daughters, Abby and Luna. Otto has flashbacks to his past; years previously he tried to enlist in the army but was rejected due to his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He meets Sonya on a train after returning a book she dropped.
Wealthy city trader and serial killer David Robey blackmails and kidnaps young cleaner Callum Aldrich. DCI John Luther is assigned to the case and promises Callum’s mother, Corrine, he will find her son. Concerned about his involvement, Robey digs up dirt on the various illegal acts Luther has committed as a police officer, resulting in him being fired, prosecuted and imprisoned. Years later, Robey coaxes Corrine and the parents of other victims to a house where he burns their children’s corpses. She visits Luther in prison, admonishing him for not finding her son’s killer.
In an archive video, a young June Allen is with her deceased father James, who died from a brain tumour shortly after the video was made. Years later, June’s mother Grace leaves for a week-long trip to Cartagena, Colombia, with her boyfriend Kevin, leaving June in the care of Grace’s friend Heather, a divorce lawyer who expresses some jealousy at Grace’s relationship with Kevin. A week later, June is tasked with retrieving her mother and Kevin from Los Angeles International Airport, but they never arrive. June contacts the FBI, but later decides to investigate herself using an array of digital tools at her disposal.