Film / Horror
IT: Chapter Two
Pennywise the dancing clown returns to menace the adult Losers in second part of the hit horror
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National Theatre Live: Fleabag – Encore Screenings
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman play that inspired the hit TV series returns to the stage
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Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas – Encore Screening
Live broadcast to plug her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
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Curzon & Portishead Open Air Pool: Bohemian Rhapsody – Singalong Screening
Give it your best scaramouche along with Rami Malek's Freddie Mercury at this open-air screening
IT: Chapter Two is swallowing up just about every available multiplex screen this week as it aims to set yet another horror movie record. Nose around the margins, however, and you’ll find some quality stuff for minority interests, from French gay comedy The Shiny Shrimps to Jamaican reggae doc Inna de Yard.
Two of the year’s biggest event cinema broadcasts take place this week too. On Tuesday, Margaret Atwood unveils her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. On Thursday, Phoebe Waller-Bridge returns to the stage with her original Fleabag one-woman play.
Follow the links below for more info on all this and more. Go here for our comprehensive film listings.
Film / Horror
Pennywise the dancing clown returns to menace the adult Losers in second part of the hit horror
Film / Comedy
French comedy about a homophobic swimmer who has to train a gay water polo team
Film / Animation
Delightful sequel offers further wordless animated insecty fun for nippers
Film / Documentary
Elderly Jamaican musicians reunite in this 'Buena Vista Social Club for reggae'
Film / Drama
Formulaic inspirational sports drama with a Jamaican twist
Film / Event Cinema
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman play that inspired the hit TV series returns to the stage
Film / Event Cinema
Live broadcast to plug her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
Film / Event Cinema
Watch other people playing computer games for hours and hours and hours
Film / Drama
Give it your best scaramouche along with Rami Malek's Freddie Mercury at this open-air screening
Film / Comedy
Mysteriously popular lame vampire flick from 1987
Film / Comedy
Outdoor screening of the romcom in which Richard Curtis imagines a world without the Beatles
Film / Drama
F.W. Murnau's silent classic launches major new season celebrating the films of the Weimar Republic
Film / Animation
Disney's first animated feature, with the purest of the Mouse House's princesses
Film / Drama
A Mars-bound spacecraft is adrift in the void in this existential Swedish sci-fi disaster flick
Film / Animation
Studio Ghibli's magical, Oscar-winning fantasy classic returns in Encounters Retrospective season
Film / Horror
Beady-eyed beaksters menace Tippi Hedren
Film / Musical
Sugary musical with Judy Garland
Film / Documentary
The fascinating story of British composer and folk song collector George Butterworth
Film / Horror
60th anniversary return of the original slasher movie with Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
Film / Comedy
DiCaprio and Pitt tangle with the Manson cult in Tarantino's bloody, multi-stranded comedy-drama
Film / Drama
Much-acclaimed Cornish fishing village drama from Bristol-based Early Day Films
Film / Drama
Jon Favreau helms Disney's live action version of its 1994 animated hit
Film / Documentary
Hilarious documentary about the prankstering US Satanic Temple's war on fundamentalist bigots
Film / Action
Further cheesy terrorsploitation from the people behind Olympus Has Fallen & London Has Fallen
Film / Drama
Nickelodeon's popular animated TV series Dora the Explorer gets the live-action movie treatment
Film / Art House
Pedro Almodovar reunites with Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz for semi-autobiographical drama
Film / Action
Petrolhead action spin-off with Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson and Idris Elba
Film / Animation
All the gang are back for Pixar's follow-up to the magnificent Toy Story 3
Film / Horror
Guillermo del Toro teams up with the director of Trollhunter for a folklore-derived horror
Film / Action
A hurricane alligator horror? We're in!
Film / Comedy
A trio of pre-teens get invited to a 'kissing party' in raunchy, Superbad-esque comedy
Film / Drama
Thriller with Joel Kinnaman as a rufty-tufty ex-con who goes undercover in a US jail for the FBI
Film / Drama
Posho film student falls in with parasitic junkie in Brit director Joanna Hogg's drama
Film / Drama
Timothy Spall daubs again in this drama about the artist's relationship with his monstrous mother
Film / Animation
Furious feathery sequel to the animated video game adaptation
Film / Drama
Atmospheric pagan festival folk horror from the director of Hereditary
Film / Action
Spidey and Mysterio take on the dastardly extradimensional Elementals
Film / Music
A mix of film clips and live music at Totterdown's Old Picture House
Film / Drama
A Moonlight-esque coming-of-age story exploring pivotal points in the life of a British-Nigerian boy
Film / Event Cinema
Silent vampire classic screened in the Cathedral with improvised organ accompaniment
Film / Documentary
Heartbreaking parable about greed and sustainability in the world of wild beekeeping
Film / Art House
Period drama about a morally compromised lawyer in 1970s Argentina
Film / Drama
Julian Fellowes' toffs and forelock-tuggers invade the big screen
Film / Documentary
A candid documentary offering an extraordinary insight into one woman's experience of war
Film / Comedy
Awkwafina stars in this highly acclaimed true-life Chinese-American comedy drama
Film / Animation
Animated foody precipitation alert at the Planetarium
Film / Festival Screening
Christopher Nolan's audience-dividing sci fi flick screened at the Planetarium