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Fopp’s picks
June 2024
June is here, and we’re excited to share our top picks for this month’s releases
All of us Strangers
release: 17th june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray
Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy star in this drama written and directed by Andrew Haigh. Screenwriter Adam (Scott) is struggling to work on a script drawn from memories of his painful past. Afraid of intimacy, he rejects the advances of his flirtatious neighbour Harry (Mescal), until he encounters his dead parents in his childhood home, looking and living as they did just before they died 30 years ago in an accident when Adam was a boy. As he gets to know his parents and shares his sexuality and other parts of his life now with them, he cautiously begins a relationship with Harry and begins to consider a future with him. However, Adam’s ghosts cannot stay with him forever and he must contend with the difficult truths of his new reality.
Documentaries:
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Roots of the Story
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Building Adam’s World
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Limited edition exclusive A3 poster available whilst stocks last
Ferrari
release: 10th june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray / 4k uhd
Michael Mann’s latest feature Ferrari follows Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari during the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle and danger of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage is further fractured with grief for their only son. Ferrari struggles with the acknowledgement of another with Lina Lardi. His drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge. All their fates converge in one race, the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic Mille Miglia.
Documentaries:
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Michael Mann: Building the World
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Building Perfection
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The Mille Miglia
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Adam Driver On Enzo Ferrari
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Penelope Cruz On Laura Ferrari
Mothers’ Instinct
release: 17th june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray
Benoit Delhomme directs this psychological thriller starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. Set in 1960s America, Alice and Celine (Chastain and Hathaway) are two neighbouring suburban housewives and best friends with seemingly perfect lives. One day, however, Celine’s world is turned upside down when she loses her young son in a tragic accident, becoming suspicious of Alice who was the one to witness his death. The women’s mutual mistrust and mounting tension tears their friendship apart, as they each struggle to separate truth from delusion…
Documentaries:
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Director’s Take
The Peasants
release: 17th june 2024
available on blu-ray
From the Academy Award nominated filmmakers behind Loving Vincent comes a stunning and epic new animation based on the Nobel Prize winning novel. A young woman, Jagna, is determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village, rife with gossip, feuds and inequality. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.
Language(s): Polish, English
Subtitles: English
English dub featuring the voice talents of Saoirse Ronan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Cosmo Jarvis, Ralph Ineson, Alfie Allen, and Douglas Booth
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
release: 24th june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray / 4k uhd
The epic battle continues! The cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of “Godzilla vs. Kong” with an all?new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own. “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” delves further into the histories of these Titans and their origins, as well as the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever.
Documentaries:
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GxK: Day of Reckoning
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Evolution of the Titans: Godzilla Evolved
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Evolution of the Titans: Kong’s Journey – From Lonely God to King
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Journey to the Center of Hollow Earth: Visualizing Hollow Earth
Drive-Away Dolls
release: 17th june 2024
available on blu-ray
Iconic filmmaker Ethan Coen, (“Fargo” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”) is riding solo as he directs this delightful comedy about free-spirited Jamie and her demure friend, Marian, together they embark on a road trip to Tallahassee for a fresh start, but things go wrong when they meet inept criminals along the way. Starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon.
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Documentaries:
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The Drive-Away Gang
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Drive-Away Dolls’: An Ethan and Tricia Project
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Road Trip Essentials
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3 x theatrical poster art cards
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Booklet
Robot Dreams
release: 17th june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray
Pablo Berger writes and directs this dialogue-free animation based on the graphic novel by Sara Varon. Dog is fed up of feeling lonely and so when he sees an advert for companion robots, he buys one and builds Robot. The pair soon become inseparable and enjoy all kinds of adventures around Manhattan, even enjoying a day at the beach. After a long day of playing in the sea Dog and Robot fall asleep, but when they wake up to go home, Robot is unable to move. Dog must leave Robot and return for him the next day but when he realises the beach is now closed for the winter, how will he be able to reunite with his best friend?
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Ghibliotheque’s interview with Pablo Berger (director)
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Making of Documentary
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Trailers
Seize them!
release: 24th june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray
Curtis Vowell directs this British comedy starring Aimee Lou Wood, Nicola Coughlan and Nick Frost. In Dark Ages Britain, self-entitled Queen Dagan (Wood) is overthrown and forced into exile by the revolutionary Humble Joan (Coughlan). As she flees for safety with her maid Shulmay (Lolly Adefope), she must traverse the land she once ruled and live amongst the people she once paid no regard to: peasants. The cast also includes James Acaster, Jessica Hynes and Paul Kaye.
The New Boy
release: 3rd june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray
In a remote 1940s Australian monastery, Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett), a rebellious nun, oversees a mission for indigenous Australian children. One night a boy with extraordinary abilities arrives. The monastery comes into possession of a sacred relic, the boy’s encounter with it captivates him. But his Indigenous spirituality clashes with Sister Eileen’s teachings and his enigmatic powers. Sister Eileen must make a choice: uphold tradition or embrace what comes next…
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
release: 24th june 2024
available on dvd / blu-ray / 4k uhd