Last weekend saw House of Gucci at the top of the UK box office, with 6 new releases can any of them do enough to top the box office chart this weekend?

Here are this weeks new releases

• West Side Story
• Being the Ricardos
• Back to the Outback
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Lamb
• Don't Look Up

West Side Story

• The movie is directed by Steven Spielberg, it is the directors 36th movie.
• Steven Spielberg also directed A.I.: Artificial Intelligence in 2001 which grossed £8 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Ansel Elgort who also starred in The Divergnt Series: Allegiant (2016).
• The film also stars Rachel Zegler who is making a feature film debut.
• UK box office prediction: 1

Being the Ricardos

• The movie is directed by Aaron Sorkin, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Aaron Sorkin also directed The Trial of the Chicago 7 in 2020.
• It stars Nicole Kidman who also starred in Australia (2008).
• The film also stars Javier Bardem who last appeared in Dune (2021).

Back to the Outback

• The movie is from director Harry Cripps and Clare Knight
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Isla Fisher who also starred in Blithe Spirit (2020).
• The film also stars Tim Minchin who last appeared in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021).

Clifford the Big Red Dog

• The movie is directed by Walt Becker, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Walt Becker also directed Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip in 2016 which grossed £16.6 Mil. in the UK and grossed $234.8 Mil. globally.
• It stars Darby Camp who also starred in Dreamland (2019).
• The film also stars Jack Whitehall who last appeared in Jungle Cruise (2021).
• UK box office prediction: 2

Lamb

• The movie is from director Valdimar Johannsson
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Noomi Rapace who also starred in Daisy Diamond (2007).
• The film also stars Hilmir Snaer Gudnason who is making a feature film debut.
• UK box office prediction: 9

Don't Look Up

• The movie is directed by Adam McKay, it is the directors 10th movie.
• Adam McKay also directed Vice in 2018 which grossed £3.2 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Timothee Chalamet who also starred in Little Women (2019).
• The film also stars Leonardo DiCaprio who last appeared in Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood (2019).

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there is 1 new movie

• Spider-Man: No Way Home - Wednesday, 15th December

This week hitting the home streaming services are Tom And Jerry in a live action/cartoon mix, adaptation Six Minutes To Midnight starring Eddie Izzard along with Made In Italy and Malibu Road.

Tom & Jerry: The Movie

• The movie is directed by Tim Story
• Tim Story also directed Shaft in 2019.
• It stars Chloë Grace Moretz who last starred in Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019).
• The film also stars Michael Peña who last appeared in Fantasy Island (2020).

Six Minutes to Midnight

• This new release stars Judi Dench who's last film was Blithe Spirit (2020)
• It also stars Eddie Izzard who appeared in The High Note (2020).
• The film is brought to us by 2 time director Andy Goddard.

Made In Italy

• The movie is directed by James D'Arcy and is their directorial debut.
• It stars Liam Neeson and Micheal Richardson who were last seen together in Cold Pursuit which grossed £1,743,561.

Malibu Road

• Also this week there is Malibu Road from director Montgomery Markland marking a directorial debut.
• The film features Jessica Jade Andres and Benita Robledo in starring roles.

Next weeks there are 3 new movies

• Godzilla Vs. Kong, Thursday, 1st April
• Chaos Walking, Friday, 2nd April
• Minari, Friday, 2nd April

Daniel Radcliffe, for the immediate future anyway, is always going to be Harry Potter, for 10 years he lived and breathed the character and to millions of adoring fans he is the image of the boy wizard, which is why it is an achievement that while watching The Woman in Black Harry Potter hardly crossed my mind.

The story, set in an Edwardian era, centers around Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) who is a solicitor sent to clear up the paperwork of a recently deceased woman. Kipps himself has a 4 year old child and is a widow, his wife having died during child birth.

Kipps arrives in the village of Crythin Gifford where he is to spend the next couple of days working before his son arrives to join him for a holiday. During his train journey Kipps meets the local wealthy man who he befriends and then is given a lift in his car (noted as being the first car in the village) to the inn where he is booked in to stay.

The welcome Kipps gets from everyone else is far from friendly, and as he goes about his business the next day he is more or less told to leave town. What ensues from there is a traditional ghost story with scares and jumps at every opportunity.

As I first mentioned Radcliffe, fresh from the Potter franchise where he IS the boy wizard, manages to detach himself from that completely, not sure if it's the side burns or the fact that his character spends a lot of time alone and doesn't say a lot, or maybe it's the low budget film not being laden with special effect but it's a good move.

I'm showing my age now but I remember the Hammer Horror films of the 70's and 80's which at the time were scary as hell, and the TV show had me hiding behind the sofa more than Doctor Who did, and this film, which is produced by Hammer and filmed in the UK captures the spirit of the old Hammer perfectly.

The film is jumpy if a little corny in places, not too long and has a story which is acceptable for a horror film of this type. I started the question things when a seemingly normal guy decides to spend the night in the creepiest looking house in England that is cut from mainland during for large part of the day and he'd already experienced minor paranormal activity (I'd never have gone anywhere near the house in the first place) and some of the jumpy scenes were far too predictable and came off as amusing but on the whole it's an enjoyable scary horror harking back to the glory days of Hammer.

Good: Decent screenplay from Jane Goldman and some genuinely scary moments. Well directed by James Watkins and a good supporting cast.

Bad: Does get predictable and some of the scares are funny. Too many unanswered things happen and the ending although good could have been better.

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