Monthly pick of films to watch - August 2024
Here is our monthly pick of films to watch for August 2024.
Here are our pick of the films being released in Britain during August 2024.
Friday 2nd August 2024
A Story of Bones (12A)
It tells the story of Annina van Neel's as she works to reclaim and honor the neglected history of St. Helena after the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans are uncovered on the remote island.
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It tells the story of Annina van Neel's as she works to reclaim and honor the neglected history of St. Helena after the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans are uncovered on the remote island.
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Didi (15)
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Harold and the Purple Crayon (PG)
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.
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Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.
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Kensuke's Kingdom (PG)
Young Michael, shipwrecked on a remote island, must adapt to life alone. Over time, he feels another presence, learning that this world is home to both unimaginable danger and beauty. A gripping animated adaptation of a beloved novel.
Young Michael, shipwrecked on a remote island, must adapt to life alone. Over time, he feels another presence, learning that this world is home to both unimaginable danger and beauty. A gripping animated adaptation of a beloved novel.
Friday 9th August 2024
Babes (15)
BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in different phases of adulthood. When carefree and single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge. BABES delves into the complexities of female friendship with a blend of laughter, tears, and labour pains.
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BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in different phases of adulthood. When carefree and single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge. BABES delves into the complexities of female friendship with a blend of laughter, tears, and labour pains.
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Borderlands (12A)
Based on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.
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Based on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.
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Duchess (15)
Follows a tough, working-class, petty criminal who morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in a murky underworld, in the treacherous world of diamond smuggling.
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Follows a tough, working-class, petty criminal who morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in a murky underworld, in the treacherous world of diamond smuggling.
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Gracie and Pedro: Mission Impossible (PG)
Pets Gracie and Pedro get separated from owners during move. They journey facing challenges, aided by owners' viral song, encountering characters until reunited with Sophie and Gavin, finding way home.
Pets Gracie and Pedro get separated from owners during move. They journey facing challenges, aided by owners' viral song, encountering characters until reunited with Sophie and Gavin, finding way home.
It Ends with Us (15)
Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.
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Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.
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Sky Peals (12A)
Adam Muhammed works nightshifts at a fast food restaurant in a motorway service station. A directionless and unassuming man, he lives a lonely life. Upon hearing that his father has died Adam finds himself in search of answers.
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Adam Muhammed works nightshifts at a fast food restaurant in a motorway service station. A directionless and unassuming man, he lives a lonely life. Upon hearing that his father has died Adam finds himself in search of answers.
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The Instigators (15)
Follows two robbers who must go on the run with the help of one of their therapists after a theft doesn't go as planned.
Follows two robbers who must go on the run with the help of one of their therapists after a theft doesn't go as planned.
Trap (15)
A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event.
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A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event.
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Tuesday (15)
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
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A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
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Saturday 10th August 2024
Ozi: Voice of the Forest (PG)
This is the story of Ozi, an orphan orangutan who uses her influencer skills to save her forest and home from deforestation.
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This is the story of Ozi, an orphan orangutan who uses her influencer skills to save her forest and home from deforestation.
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Friday 16th August 2024
Alien: Romulus (15)
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure (PG)
Ryan's twin sisters Emma and Kate get trapped in a comic book world. Ryan enters this realm to rescue them, facing adventures, battles, and mishaps while attempting to bring them back before his parents discover their disappearance.
Ryan's twin sisters Emma and Kate get trapped in a comic book world. Ryan enters this realm to rescue them, facing adventures, battles, and mishaps while attempting to bring them back before his parents discover their disappearance.
Friday 23rd August 2024
Between the Temples (15)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
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A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
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Blink Twice
When tech billionaire, Slater King, meets cocktail waitress, Frida, at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
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When tech billionaire, Slater King, meets cocktail waitress, Frida, at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
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Cuckoo (15)
A 17-year-old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.
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A 17-year-old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.
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Kneecap (18)
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
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When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
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Noah's Ark (U)
A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark.
A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark.
The Crow
In this modern re-imagining of the 1994 cult classic, "The Crow," soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save her, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge.
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In this modern re-imagining of the 1994 cult classic, "The Crow," soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save her, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge.
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The Mountain Within Me (12A)
When faced with life changing injuries, Ed Jackson harnessed the power of positivity and determination to deliver a future for himself, that most thought impossible.
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When faced with life changing injuries, Ed Jackson harnessed the power of positivity and determination to deliver a future for himself, that most thought impossible.
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Widow Clicquot (15)
After her husband's untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she defies her critics and revolutionises the champagne industry to become one of the world's first great businesswomen.
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After her husband's untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she defies her critics and revolutionises the champagne industry to become one of the world's first great businesswomen.
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Friday 30th August 2024
AfrAId (15)
The Curtis' family is selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA learns the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing - and no one - gets in her family's way.
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The Curtis' family is selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA learns the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing - and no one - gets in her family's way.
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Close to You
Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years.
Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years.
Sing Sing (15)
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Touch (15)
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.