This week’s cinema releases include a new A24 horror about a doorway leading to a strange dimension, a story about memory and nature and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love and Paul Rudd risks everything to reclaim his stolen song.
Refer to your local cinema for session times and dates.
New releases include the below.
Backrooms
Rated M
Distributor: A24
Synopsis: A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom and after a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.
H is for Hawk
Rated M
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: When Helen’s beloved father passes away, she is knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to her life as a graduate fellow at Cambridge.
Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own.
Power Ballad
Rated M
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves – even if it means risking everything he cares about.
