Knock At The Cabin, Renfield, 80 for Brady, Bank of Dave, Next Exit, The Good House, Gringa and more
KNOCK AT THE CABIN | 13 November
From Oscar-nominee M. Night Shyamalan (Old, The Sixth Sense), Knock at the Cabin is set at a remote holiday cabin, where a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
A #1 box office hit in the USA, Knock at the Cabin stars Dave Bautista (Dune, Guardians of the Galaxy), Grammy winner and Emmy nominee Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Mindhunter, and Smith in The Matrix Resurrections), Queerty Award nominee Ben Aldridge (Thomas Wayne in Pennyworth), Nigerian-born BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Old, Avenue 5), and People’s Choice winner Rupert Grint (Harry Potter’s Ron Weasley, and Julian Pearce in Servant), as well as newcomer Kristen Cui.
Based on the bestselling novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Bram Stoker Award winner Paul Tremblay, Knock at the Cabin was nominated for Best Horror Film at this year’s Hollywood Critics’ Association Midseason Awards.
“A harrowing, economical thriller that will sit with you for days, this is Shyamalan’s best film in years, and a calling card for Bautista in his strongest performance yet,” says Empire Magazine.
RENFIELD | 30 November
In Renfield, Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) stars as the tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic boss, Dracula, played by Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent). After lifetimes of servitude, forced to procure his master’s prey and do his bidding, Renfield is ready to see if there’s a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness … if he can just figure out how to end his codependency…
Based on a story by The Walking Dead and Invincible creator Robert Kirkman, Renfield co-stars Emmy nominee Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, Crazy Rich Asians), Emmy winners Ben Schwartz (Die Hart, The Afterparty) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse), and Critics Choice nominee Brandon Scott Jones (Ghosts, The Other Two).
The New York Times says, “Count Dracula has been dead for so long and gone through so many iterations — exotic, satanic, romantic — that it’s almost surprising there’s any juice left in the thirsty old boy. Yet here he is again, resurrected by a glorious, vamping Nicolas Cage, swinging a cape, baring his fangs and stealing his every scene.”
80 FOR BRADY | Stream now
Four life-long best friends. One wild trip…
Oscar winners Sally Field (Forrest Gump), Rita Moreno (Anita in the original West Side Story, and Valentina in the 2021 remake) and Jane Fonda co-star in 80 for Brady, along with Fonda’s long-time co-star (from Grace and Frankie and Moving On all the way back to 9 to 5), Oscar nominee Lily Tomlin.
Inspired by the true story of four best friends living life to the fullest when they take a wild trip to the 2017 Super Bowl to meet their hero, 80 for Brady is produced by real-life NFL superstar and seven-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, who won the Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Male Sports Star last year and was nominated again this year.
Brady himself co-stars, along with the likes of Emmy winners Billy Porter (Pose), Rob Corddry (Ballers), and Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fargo) and Emmy nominees Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law, Mad Men) and Food Network celebrity host Guy Fieri.
RogerEbert.com says, “It’s pure joy to see these women we have loved and grown with over the decades. They still give their considerable best to make us laugh, dream of our own adventures, and wish they could be around for another two centuries.”
BANK OF DAVE | 16 November
Based on the true-life experiences of self-made millionaire Dave Fishwick, Bank of Dave follows a working class van salesman from Lancashire who tries to set up a small community bank in the once-thriving mill town of Burnley… and comes up against London’s elitist finance authorities, which hadn’t granted a new bank licence for over 150 years.
BAFTA and Critics Choice Super Award nominee Rory Kinnear (The Diplomat, No Time To Die) stars as Dave, with Screen Actors Guild nominee Joel Fry (Our Flag Means Death), MTV TV Award nominee Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton’s Daphne Basset, Clare in Younger), and Emmy nominee Hugh Bonneville (Robert Crawley in Downton Abbey and Henry Brown in Paddington 2) co-starring. There’s also a cameo from the band Def Leppard.
Bank of Dave has an 85% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus calls it, “A feel-good underdog story…[with] sweetness and charm to spare.”
NEXT EXIT | 20 November
Winner of Best Cinematography at the Tribeca Film Festival, Next Exit follows two people in a hurry to get to the afterlife. When a contentious study claims to have found proof of life after death, Rose (Katie Parker from Alt, Doctor Sleep, and The Haunting of Hill House) and Teddy (Rahul Kohli from iZombie, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass) race to join the project and leave their lives behind. But as these two misfits humorously quarrel their way across the country, they must reckon with what is really driving each of them.
Next Exit has an 80% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Collider calling it, “A spectacular piece of blended genre storytelling, filled to the brim with life.”
The debut directorial feature from BAFTA Scotland Award-winning producer Mali Elfman (The Party’s Just Beginning), Next Exit’s cast includes award-winning Zimbabwean actor Tongayi Chirisa (Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, iZombie, Tanyaradzwa), and Teen Choice nominee and MTV Fandom Award winner Rose Mciver (iZombie, Ghosts), with Critics Choice Super Award and Teen Choice nominee Karen Gillan (Marvel’s Nebula and Doctor Who’s Amy Pond) as the maverick scientist behind the Life Beyond project.
THE GOOD HOUSE | 27 November
Hildy Good’s wicked humour and seeming success mask her life’s one dark truth: she enjoys her wine a bit too much. Based on Ann Leary’s bestselling novel of the same name, The Good House is a portrait of a proud, resilient woman who wouldn’t think of asking for help… and whose life won’t change until she does.
Triple-Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Avatar, Gorillas in the Mist) and Oscar winner Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) scooped a nomination for Best Screen Couple at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards for their lead performances.
The Good House also features Emmy nominees Morena Baccarin (Homeland, Deadpool, Firefly), Rob Delaney (Catastrophe, Deadpool 2, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 1), and Beverly D’Angelo (National Lampoon’s Ellen Griswold, Doris in American History X), as well as Screen Actors Guild Award winner David Rasche (Succession’s Karl Muller).
As The Hollywood Reporter says: “In the film’s sharp comic observations… and especially its two fine leads, something real and messy sparks to life.”
GRINGA | 23 November
In Gringa (aka Halfway to Somewhere), an unpopular teen tracks down her estranged father: an ex-soccer star living in rural Mexico as a “tequila aficionado”, surfer and coach to the local women’s fútbol team.
Emmy nominee Steve Zahn (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones) and Jess Gabor (Shameless) co-star. Also look out for Teen Choice nominee Judy Greer (White House Plumbers, The Thing About Pam, Halloween).
Gringa has won six festival awards so far.
BOONIE BEARS: GUARDIAN CODE | 16 November
Boonie Bears: Guardian Code tells the story of Bramble and Briar, two young bears who lost their mother during a forest fire when they were cubs. Years later, a visit to a robot research institute leads them to an unexpected discovery and reignites their hope of finding her.
This adorable, eco-conscious adventure is the ninth movie in the megahit Chinese animated Boonie Bears franchise.
Also watch Boonie Bears: Blast Into The Past (2019), Boonie Bears: The Wild Life (2020), and the award-winning Boonie Bears: Back To Earth (2022) on Showmax.
EVERYTHING ON SHOWMAX IN NOVEMBER 2023
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