FILMS OUT THIS WEEK

The one-time friendship of Optimus Prime and Megatron is remembered this week in Transformers One, a woman pursues her supposed true love through multiple lives in Timestalker, and a Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is on an unusual hunt - see our interview with director Ariane Louis-Seize. Traditional haenyeo fishing is the focus of The Last Of The Sea Women, and a bereaved boy attracts something sinister in Daddy's Head, while professional assassins find themselves pinned down by a sniper in Take Cover - we spoke with star Scott Adkins. Love emerges in the strangest of places in Joker: Folie À Deux, while bank-robbing siblings hope that Things Will Be Different and an actor contends with an altered face in A Different Man. Tensions between pastoralists and white landowners in Kenya are explore in The Battle For Laikipia - we spoke with directors Daphne Matziaraki and Peter Murimi about it. A mute serial killer faces up to his past in The Deserving and there's a new instalment of the popular horror anthology series with V/H/S/Beyond. Plus Gladiator is on re-release.

We also have a great selection of film and streaming suggestions in our Stay-at-Home Seven. Plus read our selection of London Film Festival highlights.

DVD/STREAMING HIGHLIGHTS

Packshot of The Last Of The Sea Women on The Last Of The Sea Women Streaming now on Apple TV+
Portait of the endangered tradition of haenyeo fishing and the threats it faces today.
Packshot of In Her Place on In Her Place Streaming now on Netflix
Chile, 1955. When the popular writer María Carolina Geel kills her lover, the case captivates court secretary Mercedes, who begins to question her life.

FESTIVALS

We're bringing you all the latest from Newfest, where Meanwhile is screening, plus the New York Film Festival and the London Film Festival.

News

'I always thought that losing my mother also was discovering her' Sylvia Le Fanu on bringing her own experience of grief to My Eternal Summer

Lights, gunfire, action Scott Adkins on acting, fighting and having fun in Take Cover

20/20 vision in the eye of the storm Salomé Jashi on current challenges facing Georgian documentarians

'I have always adored being pushed out of my comfort zone' Reawakening's Juliet Stevenson on making choices, working with Jared Harris and never repeating herself

Behind the scenes of Blueberry Dreams Elene Mikaberidze on bringing her farming documentary to fruition

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