Finest Television Selections: Seven Essential Motion Pictures This Coming Week
Top Selection
The Substance Film
The filmmaker's daring critique tackles the demanding standards for women's appearance as well as the perceived horrors of advancing years. Hollywood star Demi Moore offers a masterful performance playing Elisabeth, an aging celebrity demoted to presenting a fitness program on TV. Forced aside by her slimy boss Harvey, she undergoes a secretive and terrifying treatment called this experimental method. This creates a younger clone named Sue, leading to a progressively vampiric relationship among both women. This Friday, Paramount+
This Mystery Thriller
This Agatha Christie-esque story stars Keira Knightley playing Laura, a skilled journalist who decides to take a hiatus from covering world issues to board a high-end voyage with a terminally ill Scandinavian billionaire and donor, her spouse, as well as other affluent guests. But after an enigmatic female falls into the sea overnight and all passengers denies she ever existed, the reporter's sleuthing skills awaken. Out now, Netflix
Presence Film
The acclaimed director challenges his creative boundaries in this innovative ghostly tale captured wholly from the viewpoint of the spirit. After a clan with Lucy Liu as Rebekah and troubled teenage daughter Chloe occupies their new suburban house, the filming device – AKA the Presence – follows them around. The daughter appears sensing the supernatural presence, and it seems protective of her. Yet what is the reason? This is an entertaining concept that avoids overstaying, featuring a surprise you might not see coming. Saturday 11 October, 4.35pm, 10.10pm, Sky Cinema
This Self-Referential Film
Nicolas Cage wholeheartedly adopts his unique fame in this meta comedy caper. He portrays a narcissistic film star named Nicolas Cage who agrees to a million-dollar gig to visit a birthday party at a Mediterranean location for billionaire Javi Gutierrez. Recruited by the CIA to investigate the alleged criminal, Cage's unique performing skills proves useful. This Saturday, evening, on Channel 4
The Black Phone Horror
The director's contained scarefest stands strong despite the lack of a follow-up. Located in 1970s Colorado, several kidnappings has rendered the children frightened. After Finney gets captured by the kidnapper and held captive in a dungeon, he anticipates a terrible outcome. But the disconnected phone on the wall keeps ringing, with spooky callers giving advice, while the prophetic visions of Gwen, his sister may be his salvation. An effective horror. This Saturday, nighttime, on Film4
The Tammy Faye Biopic
In the struggle between God and Mammon, it's a knockout win for Mammon in this director's brilliantly over-the-top biopic about the fallen TV preacher and her criminal husband. Andrew Garfield plays the greedy Jim, who declares at the beginning, claiming divine approval for wealth. The couple set about profiting from the American public's Christian beliefs. It's an extravaganza of bad interior design, excessive cosmetics and bad faith, however Jessica Chastain achieves to depict the real-life figure as a sympathetic figure. Tuesday 14 October, early morning, Film4
The Spy Mystery
The current week's additional entry from the filmmaker is a intelligence thriller as precise as the polo necks sported by Michael Fassbender's intelligence officer. His assignment is with uncovering a double agent among the team from a group of five – one of whom is his spouse. The two stars excel of deadpan cool, so a delicious mental battle of fact versus fiction unfolds. Additional actors take part the intelligent intelligence fun. This Friday, various showings, Sky Cinema Premiere
