Here's our guide to the new movies hitting UK home entertainment platforms next week (w/c April 20th).
With the COVID-19 lockdown extended, our reliance on that screen in the corner of our living rooms continues. Here, once again, is our guide to the new movies hitting UK Home Entertainment platforms next week (w/c April 20th). Thanks to Strike Media for their help in compiling the schedule.
Spies in Disguise
Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can’t learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril. Spies in Disguise is an animated comedy set in the high-octane globe-trotting world of international espionage.
Format: Digital
Black Christmas
From the producer of Get Out and Halloween, comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, the sisters start to question whether they can trust any man. Whoever the killer is, he's about to discover that this generation's young women aren't about to be anybody's victims.
Format: DVD/VOD
Villain
After being released from prison after 10 years, Eddie Franks attempts to help his family by reconnecting with his daughter and clearing his brother’s debt. Despite his best efforts, he finds himself drawn back into a life of crime, with devastating consequences.
Format: DVD/VOD
Why Don't You Just Die
Matvey has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend’s parents’ apartment and kill her father Andrey with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey’s attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don’t quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable – not to mention ruthless – opponent than he anticipated… and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
Format: Blu-ray/VOD
Moffie
To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the so-called black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army – something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.
Format: Digital
Sea Fever
For marine biology student Siobhan (Hermione Corfield), it was supposed to be a research excursion with a trawler crew fishing the West Irish seas. But when they hit an unseen object and become marooned, a mysterious parasite infects their water supply. Soon the oozing force infiltrates the entire vessel and turns Siobhan’s journey into a claustrophobic fight for survival. Can they stop the mysterious water borne parasite from spreading before it’s too late?
Format: Blu-ray/Digital
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
When it's discovered that the evil Emperor Palpatine did not die at the hands of Darth Vader, the rebels must race against the clock to find out his whereabouts. Finn and Poe lead the Resistance to put a stop to the First Order's plans to form a new Empire, while Rey anticipates her inevitable confrontation with Kylo Ren.
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
A Soldier's Courage
When war veteran Stevan sets out to discover what happened to his fellow soldiers during the carnage of World War 1, he discovers a tale of courage, sacrifice and comradery that will show him the lengths his fellow soldiers went to during one of the darkest times in human history. A Soldier's Courage is an epic true story about overcoming insurmountable odds and surviving the horrors of war.
Format: DVD/VOD
Crossbreed
Set in the near future, a group of military veterans are hired to track down and retrieve a living alien weapon from a top secret reseach facility orbiting way above earth. With time running out they must risk their lives in the darkness of space until they come face to face with the ultimate opponent - the alien itself. Crossbreed is an action packed sci-fi adventure that delivers alien monsters and space battles in a white knuckle space adventure.
Format: DVD
Blue Story
Best friends Timmy (Stephen Odubola) and Marco (Micheal Ward) go to the same high school in Peckham but live in neighbouring London boroughs. When Marco’s beaten up by one of Timmy’s primary school friends the two boys wind up on rival sides of a never-ending cycle of postcode gang war in which there are no winners … only victims.
Format: DVD
She Never Died
Lacey, a socially-detached loner, is cursed with immortality and her never-ending tedium of existence. In her attempts to keep her compulsions in check, she seeks out the darkest souls humanity has to offer. Lacey must now face her own inner demons while simultaneously finding her next meal.
Format: VOD
We Summon the Darkness
When Val, Beverly and Alexis meet a group of fun-loving men in the parking lot of a heavy metal concert, they all decide to have an after-party, but it isn’t long before the group finds themselves fighting for their lives.
Format: Digital/VOD
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Based on the runaway bestseller, Where'd You Go, Bernadette is an inspiring comedy about Bernadette Fox (Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett), a loving mom who becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
Format: VOD
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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN is on UK VOD now.
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