Langley Park School for Boys

All The Money In The World

• 
• 2018
• US
• 2h 13min
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Plummer
• UK release: 5 January 2018

The story of the kidnapping of the grandson of miserly industrialist J Paul Getty (Plummer). Plummer, who was a last-minute replacement for the now-disgraced Kevin Spacey, brings understated gravitas and Williams is noble and credible as the kidnap victim’s mother Gail. A sometimes blood-boiling morality tale, pulled off…

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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• 2018
• UK
• 2h 4min
• 12A

• Directed by: Mike Newell
• Cast: Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Jessica Brown Findlay
• UK release: 20 April 2018

Juliet (James) is a successful writer in post-WWII London who discovers the eponymous book club, and learns about their lives under the German occupation of the island. Don’t let the twee title put you off, as it’s a beguiling and affecting celebration of friendship, courage and the joys of reading, full of warmth and…

Lady Bird

• 
• 2017
• US
• 1h 33min
• 15

• Directed by: Greta Gerwig
• Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Kathryn Newton
• UK release: 23 February 2018

Christine (Ronan) is a 17-year-old from Sacramento, dreaming of the life that awaits her while having to deal with her hyper-critical mother. Gerwig’s solo directorial debut is a sure-footed charmer, wise, witty and breezing along with sunny optimism and an acute understanding of human nature.

Phantom Thread

• 
• 2017
• US
• 2h 10min
• 15

• Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
• Cast: Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville
• UK release: 2 February 2018

Reynolds Woodcock (Day Lewis) is a haute couture dressmaker in 50s London; when he meets Alma (Krieps), and she becomes his muse and then his lover, the carefully crafted life he has made with his sister (Manville) is turned upside down. A multi-layered, expertly observed study of desire and control, with masterful work…

A Quiet Place

• 
• 2018
• US
• 1h 30min
• 15

• Directed by: John Krasinski
• Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

Lee Abbott (Krasinski), his wife Evelyn (Blunt), son (Jupe) and deaf daughter (Simmonds) live and work in an empty dystopian world in complete silence, hiding from creatures who hunt by sound. Krasinski's third film as director is a smart, weird sci-fi frightener that is beautifully simple but thoughtfully composed.

The Shape of Water

• 
• 2017
• US
• 1h 59min
• 15

• Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
• Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Lauren Lee Smith, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer
• UK release: 16 February 2018

In 1962 Baltimore, Eliza (Hawkins) is a mute who works as a cleaner in a secret government facility alongside the chatty Zelda (Spencer); there she makes a connection with a mysterious monster (Jones). A wondrous tale of underwater love, with an apt and refreshing approach to female sexuality; from screenplay through…

You Were Never Really Here

• 
• 2017
• US / France
• 1h 25min

• Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
• Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Judith Roberts

Joe (Phoenix) is a gun for hire, Marine veteran and ex-FBI agent who rescues a young girl from a sex trafficking ring, but is haunted by his own traumatic past. A muscular and tightly-wound masterpiece with an intense and riveting performance from Phoenix. Crushingly sad, daringly outré and hugely accomplished.