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PITCH PERFECT 3 (12) IT’S all very well being world champions at the “singing with no instruments” business, but it’s not really the launchpad for any kind of proper post-college career, as our friends Beca, Fat Amy and the rest of the Bellas, left, are finding out here in their final outing.
But hey, that’s not to say they can’t still get their old a cappella outfit back together for one last whizz around Europe, this time playing military bases.
The latest unlikely competitive scenario in which they find themselves (up against rivals with actual instruments, like all-girl rockers Evermoist) is enough to provide us with a few laughs, but fewer than in films one and two.
It’s as well that the PP franchise ends here before the rot sets in. THE ALIENIST
LATE 19th Century New York City provides the setting for this grisly new psychological thriller, all 10 parts of which are now ready for Netflix subscribers to binge on.
Daniel Brühl stars as Laszlo Kreizler, an expert at getting into the minds of people with pathological conditions – and so NEXT WEEK: Infinity War, THE WEEK AFTER: Pretty. potentially the key to tracking down a ritualistic killer who’s been preying on young boys. With Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning among the other stars, it’s a gripping story of an emerging city that’s hell-bent on concealing its darkest secrets. LOOKING GLASS (18)
NICOLAS Cage and Robin Tunney are Ray and Maggie, desperately trying to piece their life back together after their daughter’s death.
They’re hoping that the remote motel they’ve bought will be a fresh start, but then Ray starts to experience a series of unsettling Avengers: I Feel events, drawing his attention to a bizarre murder that happened there many years ago.
Further investigations lead him to a room in the basement with a two-way mirror – beyond which, it seems, madness lies… PYEWACKET (15)
LAURIE Holden – who played Andrea in The Walking Dead until Andrea got a bit, well, dead – is a widow here who falls out with her teenage daughter.
The kid gets so angry that she turns to black magic, summoning up an evil spirit to bump her mother off. She soon wishes she hadn’t.