Fri 23 November – Sat 1 December
Fri 23, 5.30pm
Sat 24, 2.30pm
Tue 27, 8.30pm
Wed 28, 6pm
Thu 29, 8.30pm
Fri 30, 6pm
Sat 1, 8pm
F-rated
Dir. Steve McQueen, US, 2018, 130 mins.
Cast. Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Kaluuya.
A blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption: the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Steve McQueen’s film is a strikingly contemporary reworking of Lynda La Plante’s ground-breaking 1980s television series, relocating the action to Chicago, with a local election exposing race and class conflict, along with political corruption, in urban America. Always deeply satisfying as a heist film, but never simply that, these ass-kicking widows have some glass ceilings to shatter into a million tiny pieces.