This week’s cinema releases include one of the most important films of this year as international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson takes audiences inside the courtroom and behind the global headlines, FBI agent (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is sent into 1960s Mississippi to investigate a wave of brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders with the help of Mark Wahlberg, the start of Charles de Gaulle’s journey during World War II, a grieving sister tackles a dangerous mountain, four friends take an endless wrong turn, and Inspector Maigret investigates the death of a former ambassador.
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New releases include the below.
Silenced
Rated M
Distributor: Sharmill Films
Synopsis: In one of the most important films of this year, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson takes audiences inside the courtroom and behind the global headlines in Silenced.
Featuring the women and journalists at the centre of high-profile legal battles across the globe, including Brittany Higgins, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro and Amber Heard.
By Any Means
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, a young Black FBI agent (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is sent into 1960s Mississippi to investigate a wave of brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders. Forced to work alongside notorious mafia hitman Greg Scarpa (Mark Wahlberg), he finds himself pulled into a deadly hunt where justice and vengeance begin to blur.
When the system is broken, two men divided by everything agree on one thing: the law has limits. They don’t.
De Gaulle Part One: Résistance (Tilting Iron)
Rated MA15+
Distributor: RialtoDistribution
Synopsis : A powerful account of Charles de Gaulle’s journey during World War II, from his rise as a military leader to his emergence in French politics between 1940-1945.
Fall 2
Rated M
Distributor: Lionsgate Movies
Synopsis: Grieving her sister Shiloh’s death, Jax Hunter bonds with Shiloh’s bold friend Luce. Together they tackle dangerous Mount Kwan in Thailand. When a rockslide traps them on a narrow plank 4,000 feet up, Jax must face her fears to survive.
It Ends
Rated MA15+
Distributor: NEON
Synopsis: Four friends’ post-college plans are derailed when a wrong turn traps them on a never-ending backroad.
Maigret and the Dead Lover
Rated PG
Distributor: PalaceFilms
Synopsis: Inspector Maigret (four-time César nominee Denis Podalydès) is urgently summoned to the Quai d’Orsay: a former ambassador has been found shot dead by his long-serving housekeeper (Anne Alvaro). But rather than contact the police, she has followed diplomatic protocols by first informing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Forewarned that he will find a series of salacious letters – and cautioned to be discrete – Maigret heads to the victim’s opulent apartment. He finds no forensic evidence at the crime scene, but certainly, the letters prove startling – secret, decades-spanning correspondence between the ambassador and the Princess of Vuynes, whose own husband, by strange coincidence, has also just died…
