Movie experts share their favourite new releases

With cinemas and the entire country spending more time at home, lockdown has turbocharged the video-on-demand market.
By The Showroom cinema team
Published 2nd Jun 2020, 13:07 BST
Updated 2nd Jun 2020, 13:08 BST
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There are also a steady stream of new releases on streaming platforms and, while it’s a shame these fantastic films probably won’t see a theatrical release, there’s a huge potential audience ready to watch.

With that in mind, here are our top five recommendations for new and upcoming titles…

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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (15): Eliza Hittman’s heartbreaking and painfully authentic drama follows a teenage girl from small-town Pennsylvania as she travels to New York City with her cousin to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. A Reclaim the Frame Q&A with producers Adele Romanski and Sara Murphy is available to watch on The Showroom’s Facebook page.

The Assistant (15): Another brilliant and understated US indie, director Kitty Green’s #MeToo fiction feature debut is about a promising college graduate who finds herself working as the junior assistant for a media mogul.

Coincoin and the Extra Humans (15): Bruno Dumont’s follow up to his funny and absurd film/mini-series P’tit Quinquin catches up with the same cast of colourful and bizarre characters in a small town in Northern France. This time, the film’s buffoonish cop investigates some deeply weird extra-terrestrial goings-on.

The County (12): Grímur Hákonarson’s follow up to 2015’s Rams sees Inga, a middle-aged dairy farmer living in a small Icelandic farming community, rebel against the all-powerful local cooperative, who she blames for her husband’s suicide. Like last year’s Woman at War, it’s a heartfelt, funny, and bittersweet portrait of a woman using her resilience and resourcefulness to push back against powerful interests.

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Dreamland (15): Dreamland is a truly bonkers hard-boiled noir meets vampire B-movie from director Bruce McDonald (Pontypool). Surely destined to become a midnight movie staple, the film stars Pontypool’s Stephen McHattie in dual roles as both a grizzled hitman and a Chet Baker-esque trumpet player.

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