Whodunit and story told in reverse

NOVELS by quiz show host Richard Osman and horror author Stephen King have been adapted for the big screen and come to the Regal Picturehouse in Henley this week.

Starring Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie, Osman’s tale The Thursday Murder Club (12A), directed by Chris Columbus, follows four intrepid amateur detectives and retirees, whose investigation into cold cases suddenly turns hot with a present-day whodunit.

The cast also includes Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant and Richard E Grant and the film has a running time of just under two hours.

Star Wars veteran Mark Hamill and Tom Hiddleston star in an adaptation of King’s story The Life of Chuck (15).

Adapted and directed by Mike Flanagan, Hiddleston plays Charles “Chuck” Krantz, in a story about three chapters of his life, but with the chronology reversed.

With a cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Lillard, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara and Nick Offerman, Chuck is also played at different ages by Jacob Tremblay, Benjamin Pajak and Cody Flanagan.

The film has a running time of one hour and 50 minutes.

This week’s £1 film is Paddington in Peru (PG), the threequel in which the much-loved, marmalade sandwich-eating bear, voiced by Ben Whishaw, returns to his home in the Peruvian jungle.

Aunt Lucy is refusing to budge at the Home for Retired Bears so Paddington and his adopted family have to travel deep into the Amazon rainforest.

The film has a running time of one hour and 46 minutes.