Here's our guide to the new movies hitting UK Home Entertainment platforms next week (w/c May 11th).
Coming to your living room next week are Greta Gerwig's acclaimed Louisa May Alcott adaptation, a controversial teen drama from the Netherlands and the return of Will Smith to the Bad Boys series.
Here is our guide to the new movies hitting UK Home Entertainment platforms next week (w/c May 11th). Thanks to Strike Media for their help in compiling the schedule.
Little Women
Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women each determined to live life on her own terms - is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.
Format: Digital
Bad Boys for Life
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their roles as Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) in the third instalment of the action comedy trilogy. As Mike and Marcus prepare to start taking things easy as age catches up with them, an old enemy threatens to destroy their peaceful descent into retirement. With Mike assigned to the A.M.M.O department and Marcus now an inspector, they must reunite if they are to defend themselves and their right to retire. The cast also includes Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig and Joe Pantoliano.
Format: Digital
The Divorce Party
A hilarious twist on the classic romantic comedy, as a newly divorced twenty something finds love in the strangest of places…
Format: Digital
The Dawn
The sole survivor of a murderous rampage by her war veteran father, young Rose is sent to live in a secluded convent in the North Eastern United States. Many years later she’s preparing to take her final vows. But darkness has been growing within her…
Format: Digital
Empathy Inc
After a multimillion-dollar deal goes bust, disgraced venture capitalist Joel (Zack Robdis) and his actress wife Jessica (Kathy Searle) are forced to move in with her overbearing parents and try and start their lives again. Desperate to get back on top, Joel runs into old friend Nicolaus (Eric Berryman) and his business partner Lester (Jay Klaitz), tech entrepreneurs seeking new investors for their company Empathy, Inc. Offering users the chance to experience X-VR Xtreme Virtual Reality, they place them in the shoes of the much less fortunate to make them appreciate just how good they have it. As the investments start to roll in, Joel soon discovers that this start-up may have far more sinister plans for their ground-breaking tech, which comes with a terrible cost...
Format: Blu-ray
Bombshell
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie star in this drama directed by Jay Roach. Based on true events, the film focusses on the female journalists at Fox News who came forward with sexual harassment allegations against the company's CEO Roger Ailes (John Lithgow). During the 2016 presidential election, news anchor Megyn Kelly (Theron) generates national headlines when she questions candidate Donald Trump's treatment of women during a live debate. Meanwhile, Gretchen Carlson (Kidman) prepares to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes but must find other victims willing to come forward if the case is to succeed.
Format: Digital
A Ghost Story: The Small Hand
Returning to Scotland for the first time in years stirs up uneasy memories for Adam Snow (Douglas Henshall). He longs for the beautiful Alice (Louise Lombard), wife of his client, and faces the realisation that he has barely been present for his fragile brother Hugo (Cal MacAnich), who is suffering a mental breakdown. While visiting Alice, Adam develops a fascination for a formerly majestic mansion nearby, Raven’s End. Seeing this as a chance to be closer to Alice, as well as to his brother, he decides to buy Raven’s End and to finally put down roots. While working on the renovation and secretly planning a new life with Alice, Adam is plagued by haunting dreams, visions and visits from a ghostly child. Fearing he may be suffering from the same fate as his brother, Adam is determined to untangle the truth and excise the spirit from his life. But his coming to Raven’s End has set in motion a chain of sinister events linked to his past and a painful secret to which Adam’s family holds the key.
Format: DVD
Dragon Soldiers
Desperate to stop a series of vicious and barbaric attacks by a fire-breathing dragon, a suburban town calls in a group of elite soldiers to take down and kill the terrifying beast. But will they succeed?
Format: DVD
The Temptation of Christ
Jesus Christ, The Son of God, at age 30 sets out to prepare Himself for His earthly mission to save humanity by dying on the cross to atone for the sins of the world. Following His baptism in the Jordan River, Jesus is led into the Judean desert by the Holy Spirit to fast, pray and have time with His heavenly Father. For 40 days, weak from hunger, Christ is tormented by Satan, who tempts Jesus with sin and to abandon His painful mission to bring salvation to the world. This journey explores the struggles of Jesus in His 40 days in the desert, but also reveals the nature of Satan as the Father of Lies, the Word of God as truth, and the love of Jesus as the Savior and Good Shepherd.
Format: DVD
Kingdom of Swords
Deep in the middle ages, in the time of the crusades, where heroes and villains battled for control, a young Prince would unite a nation, avenge the murder of his father, and become King.
Format: DVD
The Hammer
The Hammer is the true story of George and Doc, best friends from reform school to life in prison where George becomes an unbeatable prison boxer, with songwriter Doc as his cornerman and Crystal, his devoted Christian Transgender cellmate. When George is offered freedom to fight in the 1984 Olympics, he shocks everyone by turning it down, sending Doc on a journey to discover the true meaning of loyalty.
Format: DVD
A Paris Education
French drama written and directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac. After moving to Paris to study film, Etienne (Andranic Manet) spends his days discussing cinema, art, life and his hopes for the future with like-minded peers, including fellow aspiring film-makers Jean-Noël (Gonzague Van Bervesseles) and Mathias (Corentin Fila). Despite having a girlfriend, Lucie (Diane Rouxel), back in Lyon, Etienne becomes romantically involved with classmate Valentina (Jenna Thiam) and roommate Annabelle (Sophie Verbeeck).
Format: DVD
Hagazussa
In an isolated Alpine hut at the turn of the 15th Century, Albrun is a young girl growing up alone. As an adult, she is a single mother and a marked woman, outcast by a society twisted in deep-rooted superstitions and misogyny. Still haunted by the death of her own mother and increasingly abused by the community around her, Albrun starts to defy the role she has been dealt in life and embarks on a path of self-empowerment the price of which may be an even greater darkness than she has ever known before.
Format: Blu-ray
The Blonde One
Gabriel is attracted to his roommate and co-worker, Juan. But what chance does Gabriel have, given the number of women streaming in and out of Juan's bedroom? Overcoming his shyness, Gabriel takes a risk and makes the first move. To his surprise, he finds Juan eagerly responsive. But as their relationship intensifies, Juan wonders if he can give Gabriel what he wants to bring their relationship out into the open. Dubbed Marco Berger's (Plan B, Absent, Taekwondo) hottest film to date, The Blonde One goes further than any Berger film has gone before. A steamy, heartfelt story tracking a deepening love affair between two men.
Format: Blu-ray
We
During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.
Format: DVD
The Orphanage
In the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul selling cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big Bollywood fan and daydreams himself into some of his favorite movie scenes. One day the Police brings him to the Soviet orphanage. In Kabul the political situation is changing.
Format: MUBI
JoJo Rabbit
Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend - Adolf Hitler - Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on.
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
The Shed
When you’re the outcast, the underdog; they all think they can mess with you. But what happens when you have a vampire in your shed? The game changes and everyone becomes a target. Make a choice, who lives, who dies? Who enters The Shed?
Format: Digital
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