This Weeks Movie Menu (27 May 2 June 2024) [Video]

There’s a mighty current of new releases that’s about to splash onto your screens, including an inspirational swimming tale, a terrifying creepy-crawly throwback horror, the story of a pioneering puppeteer, and the third (and best?) of a magical film series…

Movie of the Week

Young Woman and the Sea (2024, dir. Joachim Rønning)

CAST: Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fleshler, Jeanette Hain, Sian Clifford

CREW: Joachim Rønning (director), Jeff Nathanson (writer, producer), Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman (producers), Amelia Warner (composer), Oscar Faura (cinematographer), Úna Ní Dhonghaíle (editor)

PLOT: In 1926, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion Gertrude Ederle (Ridley) sets out to become the first woman to swim 21 miles across the English Channel…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

Disney brings the inspiring tale of swimming legend Gertrude Ederle to truly cinematic life
Daisy Ridley stars as Ederle, alongside a number of esteemed fellow British actors like Stephen Graham and Christopher Eccleston
Director Joachim Rønning, who also …

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