We're finally getting some payback for having to sit through Suicide Squad.
You wait all year for something, anything, worthwhile to fill your local cinema screen and then four come along in the one day.
Today, Friday 9 September, sees four top class film releases here in the UK. If you can tear yourselves off the couch or away from the pub this weekend, then we've got you sorted.
Anthropoid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blAKCJcXC5c
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan
Anthropoid is based on the extraordinary true story of "Operation Anthropoid," the code name for the Czechoslovakian operatives' mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution, was the Reich's third in command behind Hitler and Himmler and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
The film follows two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubis (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city under lock down, they must find a way to assassinate Heydrich, an operation that would change the face of Europe forever.
Captain Fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1kH4OMIOMc
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Steve Zahn, Kathryn Hahn
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father (Viggo Mortensen) dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults.
But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
Hell or High Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQoqsKoJVDw
Starring: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges
Texas brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) come together after years divided to rob branches of the bank threatening to foreclose on their family land.
For them, the hold-ups are just part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that seemed to have been stolen from under them. Justice seems to be theirs, until they find themselves on the radar of Texas Ranger, Marcus (Jeff Bridges) looking for one last grand pursuit on the eve of his retirement, and his half-Comanche partner, Alberto (Gil Birmingham).
As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their scheme, and with the Rangers on their heels, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the values of the Old and New West murderously collide.
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