At The Flix: Last Christmas, Depeche Mode: Spirits In The Forest & 2040

Last Christmas (12A)

Starring: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson

Director: Paul Feig

Genre: Drama, Romance

Release Date: Fri 15 November

Based on the music of George Michael, 'Last Christmas' follows Kate, a young and directionless woman. Unsure of her life, she harumphs around London, a bundle of bad decisions accompanied by the jangle of bells on her shoes, another irritating consequence from her job as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. Tom seems too good to be true when he walks into her life and starts to see through so many of Kate's barriers. As London transforms into the most wonderful time of the year, nothing should work for these two. But sometimes, you gotta let the snow fall where it may, you gotta listen to your heart . . . and you gotta have faith.

Depeche Mode: Spirits In The Forest 

Starring: Depeche Mode

Director: Anton Corbijn

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: Thurs 21 November

Across 2017/2018 Depeche Mode embarked on their Global Spirit Tour, in which they performed to more than 3 million fans at 115 shows across the globe. This new visually-striking film, directed by award-winning filmmaker and longtime artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn, captures the energy and spectacle of the band’s performance from the tour along with a deeper look into how their music and shows have been woven into the fabric of their fans’ lives. Through the deeply emotional stories of six special Depeche Mode fans, the film shows not only how and why the band’s popularity and relevance has continued to grow over the course of their career, but provides a unique look into music’s incredible power to build communities, enable people to overcome adversity, and create connections across the boundaries of language, location, gender, age, and circumstance.

2040 (PG)

Starring: Damon Gameau

Director:  Damon Gameau

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: Fri 15 November

2040 is an innovative feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important right now. Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and the planet.