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$0Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, Poor Things has been given an 18 age rating in the UK for strong sex, nudity, very strong language.
Star Emma Stone has previously been seen in Crazy, Stupid, Love and Friends With Benefits as well as an Oscar winning performance in La La Land, the movie also stars Willem Dafoe who has been seen in Go Go Tales and Jiminy Glick In Lalawood among his many screen appearances.
The movies director, Yorgos Lanthimos, has previously directed The Killing of a Sacred Deer and the Oscar winning movie The Favourite.
Movie Synopsis
An unusual woman goes on a journey of self-discovery and sexual enlightenment. Although she comes face to face with cruelty and abuse, the tone never darkens for long.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
One of the top music stars in the modern era Taylor Swift is performing a sell out world tour and for those who could not make it a recording is hitting cinemas, and Taylor Swift The Eras Tour has been giving a 12A age rating in the UK for infrequent strong language.
As the name would suggest the cinema experience stars Taylor Swift who has previously appeared in The Giver and Cats.
The director for the big screen is Sam Wrench who has previously been responsible for bringing to cinemas Brandi Carlile In the Canyon Haze Live and Billie Eilish Live At the O2 among others.
Movie Synopsis
A recording of a live performance by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift at the SoFi stadium in California.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Hot on the heels of her Oscar nominated performance in Everything Everywhere all at Once Stephanie Hsu stars in Joy Ride~2023 which has been given a 15 age rating for sex, sex references, nudity, drug misuse, language, comic injury, racism
Apart from Everything Everywhere all at Once Stephanie Hsuhas also starred in The Four Faced Liar and Asking For It, the movie also stars Ashley Park who has appeared in Are You Joking and Tune In For Love.
The movie is directed by Adele Lim who is making a feature film debut with Joy Ride~2023 but has been a prolific TV produces with series such as Lethal Weapon and the American version of Life on Mars.
Movie Synopsis
When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
When the movie was first released it was a quirky movie about multiverse jumping, coinciding with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, but here we are nearly a year later and the movie is doing well in the awards season and is nominated for 11 Oscars.
The movie is nominated in the following categories
Its good to see a movie like this getting recognition for its creative flair and anti-blockbuster independent look and feel.
Michelle Yeoh gets recognitions in a lead actress role although Cate Blanchett is also nominated for Tar and is the current favourite.
Jamie Lee Curtis gets her first ever nomination but Angela Bassett also get a nomination for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which is the current favourite.
Here is a list of all the movies up for best picture of the year
Its interesting seeing both Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick on the list, 2 of the highest grossing movies of the last 12 months, Oscar does not normally award big budget, high grossing blockbusters, although neither will probably get the award!
In the lead actor category Colin Farrell gets a nod for The Banshees of Inisherin but the hot favourite is Brendan Fraser in The Whale who is the one to beat.
The most wide open category is best director which has no out and out leader, Steven Spielberg is an Oscar darling and must be a favourite for The Fabelmans, but then Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan must also be in with a shout for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The ceremony takes place on Sunday March 12th and the full list of nomination can be found on the Oscars Website.
Horror movie Smile~2022 remains at the top of the UK box office for a second weekend as The Woman King enters at number 2 as the top new movie of the week.
Meanwhile Amsterdam~2022 makes its box office debut at number 5 and The Lost King is new at 7 with £368,753.
At the lower end of the box office at number 12 is a new entry for Babe Bhangra Paunde Ne with £100,437 and one place below is Godfather with £93,212
Making it 2 weeks at the top is the low budget horror movie which on its second weekend of release takes £1.7 Million, a very small 8% drop over last weekend.
If you remove the advanced screening from last weekend which added over £2 Million to the weekend total, the movie took £1.5 Million last weekend Friday - Monday which gives it a 17% increase weekend over weekend.
The movie has taken a total of £4.7 Million in the UK, but with Halloween on our doorsteps and a host of horror movies being released, including the high profile Halloween Ends this movie could sink fast.
Highest new movie this weekend
With a critically acclaimed performance from star Viola Davis the highest new movie of the weekend comes in at number 2 with a debut gross of £1.3 Million.
The movie is a strong contender for Oscar recognition at next years ceremony which could see it hang around for a while, and potentially have a second bite of the box office next February.
Falling to number 3 this weekend, but the Florence Pugh and Harry Styles starring movie is doing better in the UK than it is in other territories.
The movie take just over £1 Million on its third weekend of release, which is down 44% from last weekend which gives the movie a UK total of £8.2 Million.
With the star powere the film has it has clearly not performed to the standard hoped by the studio, but in the UK at least it has been a minor hit.
The George Clooney and Julia Roberts double header continues to pull in the crowds as its spends a third weekend inside the top 5 at number 4 with £861,172, a 36% drop over last weekend.
The movie now has a total UK gross of £6.7 Million after 3 weeks of release.
A high profile cast including Margot Robbie, Christian Bale and John David Washington has not stopped this movie from being critically panned and not making an impact on the UK box office as it makes its debut at number 4 this weekend.
A debut gross of £632,722 and an entry at number 5 will see it sing out of the box office fast having spent a single weekend at the top end of the box office.