At The Flix: Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets, The Emoji Movie & Maudie

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (12A)

Starring: Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Dane DeHaan

Director: Luc Besson

Genre:Action

Release Date: 2nd August 2017

A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

The Emoji Movie (G)

Starring: Anna Faris, James Corden, T.J. Miller

Director: Tony Leondis

Genre:Animation

Release Date: 2nd August 2017

The Emoji Movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris). Together, they embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.

Maudie 

Starring: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett 

Director:  Aisling Walsh

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance 

Release Date: 4th August 2017

MAUDIE, based on a true story, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. MAUDIE charts Everett's efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie's deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.