Thunder, bolts of cash and frightener

THE Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding, with the latest addition to the franchise, Thunderbolts* (12A), directed by Jake Schreier, out today at the Regal Picturehouse in Henley.

A team of antiheroes – Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) – find themselves in a death trap, set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.

To resolve matters, they must take part in a mission which makes them face their pasts. The film has a running time of just over two hours.

Sandra Hüller stars in German comedy caper Two to One (12A), written and directed by Natja Brunckhorst.

Set in the country on the cusp of reunification between East and West in 1990, when three friends discover a huge stash of East German “ostmark” banknotes with just days left to exchange them for deutsche marks (at a rate of two to one), they hatch a madcap plan to recirculate them before they become worthless. The film has a running time of nearly two hours.

Also out today, Michael B Jordan plays identical twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, in Sinners (15), a film of two halves. When the duo return to their hometown in Mississippi to escape their troubles, they have high hopes to start afresh with talented musician cousin Sammie (Miles Caton), but soon find an even worse, preternatural situation and have to fight.

The film has a running time of two hours, 18 minutes.

Other films being screened this week include Ocean with David Attenborough (PG), Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII (PG) and a 50th anniversary showing of Slade in Flame (12A).

Continuing are A Minecraft Movie (PG), Conclave (12A) and The Penguin Lessons (12A).