PROGR QUEEN OF KATWE NOVEMBER 2016 “possibly Britain’s most beautiful cinema..” (BBC) Britain’s Best Cinema – Guardian Film Awards 2014 NOVEMBER 2016 • ISSUE 140 www.therexberkhamsted.com 01442 877759 Mon-Sat 10.30-6.30pm Sun 4.30-5.30pm RtoG_fullpagerexad_November16CMYK_HR.pdf 1 27/09/2016 08:24 RETURNED BEST IN NOVEMBER TO Pre-loved and Upcycled Furniture and GLORY Home Accessories PRE-LOVED FURNITURE CONTENTS Award-winning Berkhamsted Films At A Glance 16-17 Rants & Pants 26-27 pre-loved furniture showroom BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 • Bespoke and upcycled furniture The Fencer Mon to Sat 10.30-6.30 • Sofas & armchairs An original true story of courage and honour, ‘en guard’ Sun 4.30-5.30 See page 11 • Designer soft furnishings C • Beds & bedroom furniture SEAT PRICES FILMS OF THE MONTH Circle £9.00 M • Tables & chairs Concessions £7.50 Y • Mirrors & pictures Table £11.00 CM • Lighting Concessions £9.50 MY Royal Box Seat (Seats 6) £13.00 Whole Royal Box £73.00 CY FREE collections All matinees £5, £6.50, £10 (box) CMY for donated furniture Disabled and flat access: through K the gate on High Street (right of 01442 874356 apartments) [email protected] Under The Shadow Oasis: Supersonic Don’t read about it, and avoid the The brothers Gallagher give Director: James Hannaway trailer and talk. 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See page 24 Sunday 10:30am - 4:30pm All profits to The Hospice of St Francis NOVEMBEROCTOBER FILMS FILMS 8 THE REX - NOVEMBER BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Bridget Jones’s Baby Hunt For The Another in a long line of turn of the century Wilderpeople comebacks, Bridget Jones’s third and probably final Ricky (Julian Dennison) is a chubby hip-hop loving outing is, shock horror, okay. pre-teen who’s been moved from home to home for We encounter Bridget this time alone, single, and most of his 13 years. Described by his child-services being woken up on her 43rd birthday. Twelve years worker, Paula (Rachel House) as a ‘very bad egg’, his hasn’t dulled Rene Zelwegger’s beaming face. new foster placement is his last chance before being Inexplicably, she appears to have got younger? sent to juvenile lockup. Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and Hec Bridget is working on a television news show now (Sam Neill) a self-sustaining old-ish couple living in being overtaken by click-bait culture. She’s back to a remote clearing at the edge of the bush, become square one still scribbling in her diary a decade on. Ricky’s guardians and, despite a slightly rocky start, And once more she’s stuck. Déjà vu? Yep, and that’s their domestic situation seems promising. When the point. Bridget and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) have tragedy strikes, Ricky escapes into the bush to avoid been apart for five years, (Hugh Grant is absent) but the inevitable return to the public system. Fortunate- just as the title suggests, this is about Bridget and ly, his cantankerous “Uncle Hec” finds him hungry her rather unexpected baby, conceived after either and cold in the wilderness. Then the real adventure a one-nighter with the American entrepreneur she begins. There’s Haiku poetry from Ricky who turns meets at a festival or a ‘last’ one-off with Mr Darcy at out to be the right foil for Hac’s laconic outdoorsman a christening. Emma Thompson as Bridget’s doctor (and Neill’s best role). Director Taika Waltiti’s last film shamelessly steals every scene, but then she does was the truly fabulously skittish vampire comedy; have the best one-liners, most memorably expelling What We Do In The Shadows with the Flight of the the expectant fathers from the delivery room after Conchords boys one of them describes it as “watching his favourite “It’s formulaic at heart but has a sweet predictable pub burn down” (research Jack Whiting) Come sense of humour and a nice way with words…” (ST expecting… it to be fun. It is. Culture) (review Heather Graves) It’s gorgeous too. Don’t miss. Directors: Sharon Maguire Director: Taika Waititi Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Dempsey Wiata Duration: 123 mins Duration: 101 mins Origin: UK/Ireland/France/USA 2016 Origin: New Zealand 2016 Certificate: 15 Certificate: 12A Company: Universal Company: Vertigo Films When... When... Tue 1 2.00, 7.30 Thu 3 2.00 Fri 4 7.30 Wed 2 2.00, 7.30 Thu 3 7.30 Sun 13 1.00 www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - NOVEMBER 9 Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children Asa Butterfield is Jacob, his beloved grandfather is Abe (Terrence Stamp). When Abe passes away in mysterious and sinister circumstances, 15 year old Jacob, finds cryptic clues he left behind, about an orphanage of peculiar children with magical powers. It reminds him of the bedtime stories Abe told him. Compelled to find the truth behind his grandfather’s death, Jacob and his father travel to an orphanage off the coast of Wales where Abe stayed during WWII. What they discover is a time loop, a host of Director: Tim Burton paranormally gifted children and their headmistress Cast: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. and protector Miss Peregrine (Eva Green). Jackson Perched perilously in the past, the children and the Duration: 127 mins orphanage are under constant threat from the evil Origin: USA 2016 peculiars known as Hollows, who are led by the Certificate: 12A eyeball-scoffing Barron (Samuel L. Jackson). “Tim Burton’s distinctive voice and vision has Company: Twentieth Century Fox seemed somewhat diluted of late, but Miss Peregrine is a welcome return to the Burton brand of spiky melancholy, wistfully laced in menace.” (Guardian) “Adapted from a Ransom Riggs novel, Miss Peregrine is a testament to finding the perfect material to match the director’s tastes, rather than trying for When... some hideous compromise.” (Vanity Fair) Hmmm… (research Heather Graves) Hmmm indeed. Sounds fun Sat 5 2.00 though. Come. Sat 19 2.00 10 THE REX - NOVEMBER BOX OFFICE: 01442 877759 Deepwater Horizon Swallows and Amazons Peter Berg’s biographical disaster thriller acts as Arthur Ransome’s beloved tales recounting a stern reminder of both BP’s and the oil drilling childhood adventures are told anew on the big industry’s darkest hour. screen. The twelve books were named after the Debuting at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, title of the first one in the series and set between Deepwater Horizon tells the terrible true story of the the two World Wars. Despite some deviations from fateful 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster which cost the original plot, including the renaming of central the lives of 11 men, injured many others and stands character Tatty. This schoolboy’s tittering embargo is not well received by the family of Mavis (Titty) as the worst environmental incident in U.S. history. Altounyan who inspired the original character in Mark Wahlberg stars as Mike Williams, an engineer Ransome’s tale. However, one other tweak is the and family man whose life is thrown into chaos addition of heavily overcoated spies, but handy in when an unexpected crude oil blowout causes an the adrenalin dept. The Lake District is perfect in all enormous explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon its casual beauty, serving to remind us of ‘hills and oil rig, some 40 miles off the south coast of Louisiana. rivers and trees’. As for simple penknife and string As the twisted metal of girders and platforms crash in adventures, this is a delicious idyll set in what we flames around them, Mike leads a group of survivors imagine as a time of genuine innocence. whose frantic search for a seemingly impossible “A good-natured, if self-conscious period adaptation means of escape could heroically save the lives of that grafts on a new grownup plotline with dastardly the many on board. spies” (Guardian) “Deepwater Horizon is a gruelling disaster movie and “There’s a period-appropriate honesty to it, easily a reminder of one company’s catastrophic oversights. mistaken at first for earnestness or nostalgia. It sets it It stands as a worthy tribute to the brave men apart from any other family film you’ll see this year” involved.” (Guardian) (Telegraph) “An efficient and no-nonsense depiction of the worst Come for the staggeringly beautiful Derwent Water disaster in US oil drilling history, buoyed by excellent and the very special ‘Cat Bells’ ridge, background performances.” (Empire) (research Chris Coetsee) throughout-ish (and on Sept’s Rex cover). Strong characters, explosions, Bro-heroics. Come again and again. Director: Peter Berg Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Cast: Rafe Spall, Kelly Macdonald, Andrew Russell Scott Duration: 108 mins Duration: 97 mins Origin: USA 2016 Origin: UK 2016 Certificate: 12A Certificate: PG Company: Lionsgate Films UK Company: Studiocanal When... When... Sat 5 7.00 Sun 6 1.00 Tue 22 2.00 www.therexberkhamsted.com THE REX - NOVEMBER 11 The Beatles: Eight Days The Fencer A Week This biopic directed by Finland’s beloved Klaus Haro tells the story of legendary Estonian fencing “We were kids.