Knives Out
TBC
Daniel Craig’s top ’tec
must discover whodunnit!
DIRECTOR RIAN JOHNSON
STARRING JAMIE LEE CURTIS, DANIEL
CRAIG, CHRIS EVANS, ANA DE ARMAS
Rian Johnson follows
up his divisive Last
29
NOV
Jedi with a star-packed
murder mystery that will
once again have audiences
hotly debating. Only this time
in an entirely positive way!
Knives Out, you see, is
indisputably brilliant – a
modern-day whodunnit that
keeps you guessing without
ever feeling contrived, and
with an A-list cast doing
some of their very best work.
Daniel ‘James Bond’ Craig
is Benoit Blanc, a detective
called in to investigate the
death of crime novelist Harlan
Thrombey (Christopher
Plummer). With the wealthy
Thrombey having bitten the
dust during a family gathering,
Blanc smells the proverbial rat
and deduces “foul play”. Suspects
include Harlan’s daughters’ Joni
(Toni Collette) and Linda (Jamie
Lee Curtis) and his grandson
Ransom (Chris Evans). Can
Blanc get his man – or woman
– before the killer strikes again?
Meticulously plotted, blackly
funny and surprisingly political,
Johnson hasn’t reinvented
the genre with Knives Out, but
he’s certainly lit a fuse under
it. Your move, Hercule!
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Last Christmas
12A
In this Wham!-tastic tale, jaded Emilia Clarke has given
up on love. Can Henry Golding’s Tom change her mind?
DIRECTOR PAUL FEIG
STARRING EMILIA CLARKE,
EMMA THOMPSON, HENRY GOLDING
“I’m busy, you’re
weird. Goodbye!”
Directed by Paul Feig
(Bridesmaids) from a story
by Emma Thompson and
her husband Greg Wise, Last
Christmas is a festive frolic
inspired by the songs of
Wham! and George Michael.
It shouldn’t work but it does
15
NOV
– brilliantly so, aided by
charming turns from Emilia
Clarke (Game of Thrones’
Daenerys) as the ballsy but
fragile Kate and Henry
Golding (Crazy Rich Asians)
as Tom, a handsome boy-next-
door who tries to help Kate
rediscover her yuletide cheer.
An amiably dry (rather than
saccharine sweet) fairy tale
for our times. Give it your
heart this Christmas!
MISTLETOE AND (LOTS OF) WINE
Plus four other things to expect from Last Christmas...
TINSEL
Our heroine
Kate works in
a year-round
Christmas
shop but
actually longs
to be a singer.
BIRD POOP
Kate’s first
encounter
with kindly
Tom ends with
an unwanted
gift from
the skies.
A&E
Christmas
brings back
bad memories
for Kate. She
spent her
last one in
hospital.
GEORGE
As Kate and
Tom grow
closer, she
realises that
sometimes
you just ‘gotta
have faith’.
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