Movies
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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.
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Americanish
Starring: Aizzah Fatima, Salena Qureshi, Shenaz Treasury
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.
Back on The Strip
Starring: Kevin Hart, Colleen Camp, Wesley Snipe
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?
Barbie
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera
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.
Blue Beetle
Starring: Xolo Maridueña, Adriana Barraza, Susan Sarandon
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’.
Brother
Starring: Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake
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.
A Christmas Story Christmas
Starring:Peter Billingsley, Erinn Hayes, Julianna Layne
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.
Dead Shot
Starring: Felicity Jones, Aml Ameen, Colin Morgan
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.
The Dive
Starring: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause
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?
The Equalizer 3
Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Sonia Ammar
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.
Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story
Starring: Archie Madekwe, Orlando Bloom, David Harbour
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.
Haunted Mansion
Starring: Lakeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson
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.
A Hanting in Venice
Starring: Kyle Allen, Kenneth Branagh, Camile Cottin
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.
Jules
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Zoe Winters, Harriet Sansom Harris
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.
Kandahar
Starring: Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal
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.
Meg 2: The Trench
Starring: Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sophia Kai, Page Kennedy
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.
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
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.
Past Lives
Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
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.
Sanctuary
Starring:Margaret Qualley, Christopher Abbott
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.
Scrapper
Starring: Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun
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.
Shortcomings
Starring: Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki
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.
Sound of Freedom
Starring:Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp
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.
Strays
Starring: Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher, Randall Park
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.
Theater Camp
Starring: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin
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.
The Wrath of Becky
Starring: Lulu Wilson, Seann William Scott, Denise Burse
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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