Confession: I have never seen a Fast & Furious film. However, I do know two things about them.
One: They have to do with cars in some way.
Two: Vin Diesel mentions “family” in them so much that even Peggy Mitchell would tell him to give it a rest.
Expect plenty of both – plus magnet planes! – as Vin and the gang motor into cinemas for the ninth instalment this week, while Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci putter gently behind them in a camper van…
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Fast & Furious 9
The sky’s the limit for this latest instalment in the Fast & Furious saga, which promises not just magnet planes but rocket cars too.
The story sees Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and wife Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) getting the gang back together when Dom’s vengeful younger brother Jakob (John Cena) teams up with their old adversary Cipher (Charlize Theron).
Series veteran Justin Lin is back behind the camera for the first time since Fast & Furious 6 – and recently revealed to Empire that one of the new film’s show-stopping set-pieces was suggested by his eight-year-old son playing with toy cars. His fee? A very reasonable $30…
Cert 12A, 143 mins | |
Cineworld, Everyman, Vue York | |
From Thurs 24 June | |
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Supernova
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci team up here as partners of twenty years who embark on a camper van holiday through the English countryside – but it’s a journey undertaken in the looming shadow of a devastating change to their lives.
As Sam (Firth) and Tusker (Tucci) call in on family, friends and familiar old haunts, the two must deal with Tusker’s diagnosis of young-onset dementia and what it means for their future.
Firth and Tucci are old friends in real life, and reviews have been full of praise for their on-screen chemistry – with several critics hailing their performances as career-best.
Cert 15, 93 mins | |
Cineworld, City Screen, Everyman, Vue York | |
From Fri 25 Jun |
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
First, a word of warning if you’re about to click on the trailer – it does, inevitably, contain the theme tune. And once it’s in your head, it’s not going anywhere in a hurry…
The much-loved cartoon version of The Three Musketeers – a teatime viewing staple for many a 1980s child – gets a CGI makeover in this new film, which sees brave young Dogtanian set off to Paris to fulfil his dream of joining the Muskehounds.
Together with his new friends Porthos, Aramis and Athos, he fights to foil the evil Cardinal Richelieu’s plot to start a war between France and England, whilst hoping to win the heart of his beloved Juliet.
Cert U, 84 mins | |
Cineworld, Vue York | |
From Fri 25 Jun | |
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Other screenings
City Screen’s one-off screenings this week include an early ‘00s cult classic and a revealing new documentary about a key figure in ‘90s hip-hop.
Got worries about the coming apocalypse? Talk to Frank…or perhaps best not, as 2001’s ever-inscrutable Donnie Darko comes back to the big screen for one night only on Mon 28th, giant talking bunny and all.
Showing on Tues 29th, acclaimed documentary A Space in Time follows a family whose two young sons have been diagnosed with a progressive and fatal muscle wasting disease, and their efforts to transcend the disability.
Then on Weds 30th, documentary maker Nick Broomfield returns to the subject area of 2002’s Biggie and Tupac with his new film Last Man Standing, which tells the story of Suge Knight – the co-founder and CEO of legendary rap label Death Row Records, who is currently serving a 28-year sentence for manslaughter.
This world premiere screening is followed by a recorded Q&A with Broomfield hosted by Trevor Nelson.
City Screen’s Studio Ghibli season also continues with Kiki’s Delivery Service (Sat 26th/Sun 27th), the charming tale of a helpful young witch-in-training – while over at Everyman, last year’s Anne Hathaway-starring take on Roald Dahl’s The Witches (Sat 26th/Sun 27th) offers magical hijinks of a more traditionally malevolent sort.
Everyman also have a one-night-only screening of anime Violet Evergarden: The Movie on Thurs 1st July, from the studio behind 2016’s acclaimed A Silent Voice.
Finally, over to Vue, where I’m pleased to see they’re screening the latest offering from the twisted mind of British director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) – In the Earth is a hallucinogenic horror which Wheatley conceived and filmed last year in the early months of the pandemic.
It screens at Vue throughout the week, as does this week’s classic re-release Some Like It Hot, which sees Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis don drag to hide out from the mafia in an all-female band, only for sparks to fly with singer Marilyn Monroe.
That’s all for this week – I’m off to try and deal with my Dogtanian earworm, which has currently mutated into a Vic Reeves club singer-style variant. A change is as good as a rest, I suppose…