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Browse Vera and you’ll discover the latest must-see Hollywood films along with recent chart toppers, a selection of underrated gems, quirky short films, and festival favourites. Want to know more about the actors, directors, and comedians behind them? Watch What’s on Vera, where film critic and broadcaster Jason Solomons presents the latest highlights onboard. We never edit the movies we show either, so you see them just as the director intended.
If you still can’t choose, look out for the ’Vera Loves’ label – that means we think it’s the best of the best. Travelling with kids? Don’t worry – parental locking is available on all aircraft.
Americanish invites viewers into the lives of three women as they navigate the often turbulent
waters of romance, culture, career, and family. We follow the joys and tribulations of career-driven sisters Maryam, Sam Khan, and their cousin Ameera.
Comedy about Merlin, who with a name like that could only be a magician, right? Moving to Las Vegas,
he finds himself mixed up with one-legged Luther (Wesley Snipes) and the black male stripper group The Chocolate Chips. Can Merlin work his magic and save The Chocolate Chips?
Even those bored of the hype had to admit – Barbie is a delight. With a plot that involves Barbie (Robbie) questioning her
place in the world, and Ken (Gosling) following suit, the result is colourful and funny, and frankly you’d need a heart of stone not to love it.
Family friendly superhero movie about Jaime who unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic
of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. What effect will that scarab have on Jaime? The clue is in the words ‘superhero movie’.
This award-winning Canadian drama centres on brothers Francis and Michael,
who are involved in the early hip-hop scene in Toronto. As the heat of the summer intensifies, the brothers find their lives are changing, and what emerges is riveting, vital drama.
Christmas comedy following on from 1983’s classic A Christmas Story which picks up with that film’s
protagonist Ralphie Parker. Ralphie now has a family of his own and seeks to pull off a magical Christmas as they return to his childhood home in Indiana.
You can tell that Dead Shot’s a gritty, British thriller set in the 1970s. How? Everything’s beige. Don’t go
mistaking it for boring, though. As an ex-IRA man goes on the run determined to avenge his wife, the double-crossings ratchet up along with the tension.
If you’re a fan of nail-biting movies whose plot revolves round characters stuck in seemingly inescapable
situations (Open Water, Frozen, The Shallows, Fall) you’re going to love this. Two diving-mad sisters, one of whom gets stuck 23 metre below. Can her sibling save her?
Ex-government agent Robert McCall (Washington) is supremely organised and fastidious. It’s all in
the way he organises his cutlery. Fortunately, the thing he’s most finnicky about is dealing death to bad guys – something he does lots in this final part of the trilogy.
Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner, better known as Ginger Spice, is just one of the many reasons to
see this adrenalin-fuelled, turbo-charged race drama telling the true story of Jann Mardenborough, a teen Gran Turismo player who became a professional racer.
Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, “Haunted Mansion” features an all-star cast, and tells the story
of a woman (Rosario Dawson) and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
Kenneth Branagh stars as celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot in this terrifying mystery set after World War II.
Retired and living in Venice, Italy, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance where a murdered guest thrusts the detective into a sinister, shadowy world.
The brilliant Ben Kingsley takes centre stage in this sci-fi comedy playing Milton, whose quiet
life is disturbed when an alien crash-lands in his backyard. Milton and ‘Jules’ become friends – but their bond is threatened when word gets out about the spacey visitor.
This thriller starring Butler as a CIA man pursued by elite teams of mercenaries, is a proper, thrill-ride
from start to finish. No surprise as it’s directed by ex-stuntman Ric Roman Waugh who, as the action moves to the titular Kandahar, turns the adrenaline levels up to 11.
Cult director Ben Wheatley was the surprise choice for this sequel in which Statham once again goes toe-to-toe
(or should that be toe-to-fin?) with a big prehistoric shark, a megalodon. Correction: this time it’s not just one megalodon. There’s a whole bunch of them.
Although a new Mission: Impossible movie means a new plot (something to do with AI) it’s basically just an
excuse to watch Tom Cruise run around and perform some of the most death-defying stunts ever committed to film. See that bar? It just got raised.
Acclaimed romance following Nora and Hae Sung, whose childhood friendship is torn asunder when Nora’s family
emigrates from South Korea to Toronto. Twenty years later, the two meet in New York – and have a week in which to mend their broken hearts.
Margaret ‘daughter of Andie MacDowell’ Qualley has consistently delivered excellent performances, but this
may be her best. She plays a dominatrix whose wealthy client, Hal, wants to end the arrangement, only for things go awry. How? You’ll just have to watch and see.
Twelve-year-old Georgie lives alone in her London flat. Eminently capable, her life is steady
– until her estranged dad, who she’s never met, turns up to stay. Their rocky bonding process is at the heart of a superb, heart-warming drama that’s had the critics in raptures.
Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a
local Asian American film festival. When he's not managing an arthouse movie theatre as his day job, Ben obsesses over unavailable blonde women.
Based on a true story, the brilliant Sound of Freedom finds stars Caviezel in what was a labour of
love playing Tim Ballard, a federal agent who finds his heartstrings tugged by the plight of trafficked kids and decides to do something about it. Stirring stuff.
Truly, you will believe a dog can talk when you see this frankly hilarious comedy. Featuring sterling voicework
from the likes of Jamie Foxx and Will Ferrell, it revolves around abandoned pooch Reggie, who teams up with fellow strays to get revenge on negligent owners.
In this original comedy, two best friends are drama instructors at a crumbling theater camp.
When a clueless tech-bro arrives to run the property — into the ground — the staff and young students unite for the ultimate show to save their beloved camp.
It doesn’t matter if you didn’t see Becky, this sequel stands on it own, as the eponymous hero (Wilson)
once again goes up against a group of blokes who want her dead. They have the brawn, but Becky has the brains, and the stage is set for a very funny, very gory showdown.
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These are our recently added titles this month, you'll find plenty more movies to choose from once you're settled in onboard.
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