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Eternal Beauty 15
The Shape Of Water’s Sally Hawkins (pictured) stars in this second film from precocious actor turned auteur Craig Roberts (Hawkins’s son in Submarine). Drawing on his own family experience, Roberts centres his achingly aestheticised look at clinical depression around a paranoid schizophrenic called Jane (Hawkins). David Thewlis,
Billie Piper, Alice Lowe and Penelope Wilton provide sturdy support. In cinemas from Fri
Miss Virginia 12
Uzo Aduba, aka ‘Crazy Eyes’ from Orange Is The New Black, gets her breakout film moment as empowering real-life campaigner Virginia Walden Ford. Realising she’s losing her teen son to drugs, a poor single mother fights the system to create change. Available from Fri on digital platforms, including Amazon Video, iTunes and Sky Store
The Quiet One
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This authorised portrait of Bill Wyman, the former Rolling Stone, has drawn flak for not probing his scandalous (and illegal) relationship with former wife Mandy Smith, who he first met when she was 13 and he was 47. That aside, it’s a rich documentary archive of never-before-seen home movies and photographs, even if new interviews with the other Stones are lacking. In cinemas from Fri
The Boys In The Band 15
More than 50 years after it first ‘trod the boards’, this new screen adaptation of Mart Crowley’s play returns us to 1968 New York City, where a group of mainly secretly gay best friends gather for a raucous birthday party. The reunited cast of the Tony-winning 2018 Broadway production includes Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer.