Movie picks
saturday
Book Club: The Next Chapter,
Sky Cinema & NOW
The highly-anticipated sequel follows our four best friends — played by Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen — as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had.
When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-alifetime cross-country adventure.
saturday
Jackass Forever, Ch4, 10.05pm
A group of blokes in their 50s — who should probably know better by now — reunite for a fourth feature to inflict playful but real pain on each other and themselves so viewers can laugh their asses off at them. The film stars Jackass alumni Johnny Knoxville, Steve-o, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Jason ‘Wee Man’ Acuña and more.
Expect accidents in Portaloos — not quite what you’re thinking; an unusual and creative way to animate Godzilla; a vicious turtle who takes against the creatively-animated Godzilla; a human ramp; and an interesting approach to bee-keeping that involves a bee-bush, rather than a bee-beard.
The pain is all real and so is the camaraderie. But when they say ‘forever’, do they mean that they’re still going to be doing it in their 60s?
sunday
A Tiger’s Journey,
Sky Cinema & NOW
When a tiger cub falls prey to ruthless poachers, he soon finds himself on the way to market until a young boy steps in and rescues him.
And so, the adventure begins to get this orphaned cub safely to the Tiger’s Nest sanctuary, in hope of finding him a new family.
Forming a remarkable bond, this boy and his tiger must face impossible odds and a race against time, as the poachers chase them through the extreme climates across the Himalayan mountains.
A heart-warming tale of love, friendship and the journey home.
monday
French Exit, Film4, 9pm Patrick dewitt adapts his own novel of the same name into this comedy drama about a Manhattan socialite who has to move into a borrowed apartment in Paris because her inheritance is running out.
Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer) gets a bit of a shock when she’s told her money’s run out.
She doesn’t have many friends, but fortunately for her the one that she does have, Joan (Susan Coyne), is prepared to loan her a Paris flat where she can hole up.
So off she goes with her son, Malcolm, but during the voyage he sleeps with clairvoyant Madeleine, who seems to have a psychic link with Frances’ smuggled cat, Small Frank.
In Paris, Frances and Malcolm are forcibly befriended by Madame Reynard (Valerie Mahaffey), who serves as a bubbly foil to Frances’s acerbic wit.
But then Small Frank goes missing and Frances hires private detective Julius (Isaach De Bankolé) to find Madeleine so she can find him.
What is it with this cat?
Friday
No Hard Feelings, Sky Cinema & NOW On the brink of losing her childhood home, a desperate Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date”their awkeard and introverted 19-yearold son, Percy, before he leaves for college.
To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) is no sure thing and he proves to be more of a challenge than she expected. And time is running out before she loses it all.
Also starring Laura Benanti,
Natalie Morales and Matthew
Broderick.