As Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder return to an 80s classic and Brad Pitt and George Clooney pair up again in a comedy thriller, here are the unmissable movies to see this month. In April 1970, an oxygen tank exploded on Nasa's Apollo 13 moon rocket. The incredible story of how the three astronauts made it back to Earth has already been told in the Ron Howard film starring Tom Hanks as Commander Jim Lovell.
(Incidentally, the film's screenplay changed Lovell's understated comment from "Houston, we've had a problem," to "Houston, we have a problem.") Now a Netflix documentary tells the story in more detail, from the perspectives of the astronauts, their families and the mission controllers. According to Wendy Ide in Screen Daily , the documentary is a "white-knuckle viewing experience [that] benefits from access to a wealth of previously little-seen material, including the home videos of the Lovell family".
The director, Peter Middleton, "uses a combination of archive audio, film footage and photography, blended with later interviews of key figures and some new footage to create a gripping, edge-of-the-cockpit reconstruction of the eventful mission". Released on 5 September on Netflix internationally As the summer holidays come to an end, this sadistic Blumhouse chiller suggests that that might be for the best. Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy play an American couple who are travelling around Europe when they are befriended by a British couple played by James McAvoy and Aisli.