Welcome to Launching Films 3:

Here’s a look at what’s showing at your local cinema from this weekend.

All went on release Friday April 22

First off we have a music biography directed by and starring Don Cheadle

(Soon to be seen in Captain America: Civil War as War Machine)

Miles Ahead (15)
Biography / Drama / Music
Starring: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield, Emayatzy Corinealdi and Austin Lyon

Synopsis:
Cheadle brings us the tortured story of real life jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis. Cheadle plays music genius Miles Davis and gives a warts and all performance including his drugs habit and leaving the music scene and becoming a recluse. Labour of love from Cheadle.

Bastille Day (15)
Action / Thriller
Starring: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Kelly Reilly, Anatol Yusef and Daniel Westwood

Synopsis:
A young pickpocket Michael (Richard Madden, Game of Thrones Rob Stark) and former CIA agent Briar (Idris Elba) embark on an anti-terrorist mission in France.

Desert Dancer (15)
Biography / Drama
Starring: Nazanin Boniadi, Freida Pinto, Tom Cullen, Reece Ritchie, Marama Corlett and Simon Kassianides

Synopsis:
A film based on an incredible true story. Desert Dancer is a classic hero story about brave young people risking their lives to rebel against their government where dance is forbidden. The company learn their dance moves from watching  YouTube, where they emulate such greats as Michael Jackson, Pina Bausch, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev. With this new found freedom they rebel against their oppressor's.

Friend Request (15)
Thriller / Drama / Supernatural
Starring: Alycia Debnam-Carey, Brit Morgan, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brooke Markham and Sean Marquette

Synopsis:
When a college student unfriends a mysterious girl on-line, she finds herself fighting a demonic presence that wants to make her lonely by killing her closest friends.

Jane Got A Gun (15)
Western / Drama / Action
Starring: Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro, Noah Emmerich, Boyd Holbrook and Joel Edgerton

Synopsis
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.

Louder Than Bombs (15)
Drama
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Ryan, David Strathairn, Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis:
An exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) three years after her untimely death. Brings her eldest son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) back to the family house. This forces him to spend more time with his father Gene (Gabriel Byrne) and withdrawn younger brother Conrad (Devin Druid) than he has in years. Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently.

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