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The Goonies

• 
• 1985
• US
• 1h 52min
• PG

• Directed by: Richard Donner
• Cast: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Jonathan Ke Quan, Anne Ramsey

Seven kids go in search of buried treasure and are hotly pursued by vicious villains vying for the loot.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

• 
• 2017
• US
• 1h 59min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jake Kasdan
• Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Bobby Cannavale
• UK release: 7 December 2017

Four high school teens in detention discover the magical board game Jumanji, now a video game, and after being sucked into it they become the avatars they’ve chosen. Crude but amusing sequel to the 1995 original, with Black having a ball as he gets in touch with his inner prom queen.

Love, Simon

• 
• 2018
• US
• 1h 49min

• Directed by: Greg Berlanti
• Cast: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Katherine Langford
• UK release: 6 April 2018

Simon (Robinson) is a young high school student who hasn’t yet come out as gay, who starts swapping email with an anonymous fellow student calling himself ‘Blue’. The script gets bogged down in irrelevant subplots and the first kiss is delayed until the end credits, making it a disappointing cop-out as gay teen movies go;…

Picnic at Hanging Rock

• 1975
• Australia
• 1h 55min
• PG

• Directed by: Peter Weir
• Cast: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray

During a picnic in the countryside, several students and a teacher vanish without a trace, and their disappearance haunts those who are left behind.

Rope

• 1948
• US
• 1h 21min
• 15

• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• Written by: Patrick Hamilton (play Rope (1929), Adaptation:, Hume Cronyn, Screenplay:, Arthur Laurents, Ben Hecht (uncredited)
• Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Douglas Dick

Just as the two young gay protagonists play an intellectual game of murder to prove their superiority, Hitchcock shows off his skills by constructing the movie in uncut 10-minute takes. Some of the dialogue is a little philosophically heavy, which weighs down the parlour fun of the concept, but it does provide another…