FROM MAJESTIC CINEMAS, WYNNUM
The Phantom of the Open (CTC) – July 14th
The Phantom of the Open tells the remarkable true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator and optimistic dream from Barrow-in-Furness who, with the support of his family and friends, managed to gain entry to the 1976 British Open qualifying, despite never playing a round of golf before. With pluckiness and unwavering self-belief, Maurice pulls of a series of stunning, hilarious and heartwarming attempts to compete at the highest level of professional gold, drawing the ire of the golfing elite but becoming a British folk hero in the process.
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Falling for Figaro (M) – July 14th
A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer. She meets a fellow opera student while in training, and what begins as a rivalry develops into something more.
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Where the Crawdads Sing (CTC) – July 21st
Based on Delia Owens’s critically lauded page-turner, Where the Crawdads Sing centre’s on Kya, the endlessly resourceful resident of a North Carolina marsh. We meet her as a child in the early ’50s, as she is abandoned by her parents and older siblings, and learns to survive on her own. She is taught to read and write by her friend Tate Walker and falls for him, but is left behind once again when he goes to college. Enter Chase Andrews, a quarterback who draws Kya into a tryst with promises of marriage that never materialise. After she ends their relationship, he attacks her and she narrowly escapes. Then, while she’s away, Chase is found dead and Kya is engulfed in a murder trial – and the evidence against her seems insurmountable.
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The Black Phone (MA15+) – July 21st
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who’s being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer’s previous victims — and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
