MOVIES TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND
‘DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES’
Prior to imprisonment, bard Edgin Darvis served in the Harpers, an order of peacekeepers, until disciples of a Red Wizard he had arrested killed his wife. Accompanied by barbarian Holga Kilgore, Edgin attempted to make a new life for himself and his daughter Kira by turning to theft, teaming with amateur sorcerer Simon Aumar, rogue con artist Forge Fitzwilliam, and Forge’s mysterious acquaintance Sofina. While raiding a Harper stronghold, Edgin attempted to steal a ‘‘Tablet of Reawakening’’ to resurrect his wife, but he and Holga were captured while their accomplices escaped. After two years’ imprisonment in arctic Revel’s End, the pair, unaware they have been pardoned, escape to Neverwinter and learn Forge has become Lord there after its prior lord fell mysteriously incapacitated.
‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART 1’
The next-generation Russian submarine Sevastopol employs an advanced AI, activated by a two-pieced cruciform key. The AI deceives the crew into attacking a false hostile target, only to fire its own torpedo back on itself, sinking the ship and killing all aboard. IMF agent Ethan Hunt travels to the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert to retrieve one half of the key from disavowed MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, who carries a bounty from an unknown source. Ethan retrieves the half-key, at the expense of Ilsa’s life.
‘THE FABELMANS’
On a January night in 1952, in Haddon Township, New Jersey, Jewish couple Mitzi and Burt Fabelman take their young son Sammy to see his first film: Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth. Dazzled by a train scene, Sammy asks for a model set for Hanukkah, which he crashes late one night. Mitzi, understanding Sammy’s intentions, allows him to shoot another crash scene using Burt’s 8mm camera. Sammy soon begins filming regularly, sometimes involving his younger sisters Reggie, Natalie, and Lisa. Burt is offered a new job in Phoenix, Arizona, and he and the family move there in early 1957; at Mitzi’s insistence, Burt’s best friend and business partner Bennie Loewy goes, too.
‘THE BARBARIAN’
Tess Marshall arrives at a rental house in the rundown Detroit neighbourhood of Brightmoor on the evening before a job interview. However, she finds it has been double-booked and is already occupied by a man named Keith Toshko. Initially unnerved by Keith, Tess warms up to him and decides to stay the night while Keith sleeps on the sofa. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, she is shaken to find her bedroom door has been opened, but Keith is asleep and assures her he did not touch the door. The next morning, Tess goes for her interview and is warned not to stay in the area near the house. Returning to the house she is chased inside by a homeless man who yells at her to leave.