Sanity is the Home of Country Music - if you're looking for a CD or DVD, if it's available, we will get it for you! Empire of Light boasts a starry cast that includes Academy Award winners Olivia Colman and Colin Firth alongside 2020 BAFTA Rising Star Michael Ward and the likes of Toby Jones, Tanya Moodie and Monica Dolan – if that sounds like your cup of tea, read on for everything you need to know about how to watch it. But [Sam] Mendes presents his anger, fear and distress with the same dissociated stare that freezes Hilary in her tracks when she sees skinheads tormenting Stephen on a sidewalk.

Beautifully written, (also by Mendes), directed and acted, (as another employee Tom Brooke is also outstanding), this moving and intelligent picture really shouldn't be missed. New employee Stephen, who is Black British and lives with his mother Delia, a nurse, starts his new job at the cinema. Colman is good, Micheal Ward is great, but Empire of Light struggles to find its voice resulting in the most aggressively okay movie of the year.

While Stephen is at her flat checking on her, mental-health authorities break down her door and take her to be re-institutionalised. Set in the early 1980’s in and around an old cinema on the South Coast of England, Empire of Light stars Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Tom Brooke, Hannah Onslow, Tanya Moodie and Crystal Clarke. Empire of Light's involving story, beautiful cinematography, and great performances overshadow the movie's slow pace and occasionally scattered focus. Hilary and Stephen go to the beach, where Stephen tells her about his first love, Ruby, who works at the same hospital as his mother. The setting is an unnamed town on England's South Coast in the early 1980's and the Picture Palace in question, (the Dreamland Cinema in Margate standing in for the Empire), really is a Picture Palace of the old school, (well, the bits of it that are open to the public are, at least), and Hilary, (an Oscar-worthy Olivia Colman), is the unhappy, lonely and mentally challenged duty manager who has allowed herself to drift into a casual sexual relationship with her married boss, (Colin Firth), and who now finds herself drawn to a new young employee who happens to be black, (Michael Ward, excellent).

The site's critics consensus reads: " Empire of Light contains some fine performances and a few flashes of brilliance, but this tribute to the magic of cinema is disappointingly mundane. The film was released for VOD on 7 February 2023, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on 21 February 2023. I guess I’m one of the few who loved Empire of Light, as I fell hard for this deftly directed romantic drama, elevated by two of the most tender performances of the year courtesy of Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward. Empire of Light is a 2022 British romantic drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Sam Mendes.We don't yet have an exact date for a physical media release for the film – but it will likely follow shortly after it is added to Disney Plus. Empire of Light received praise for Colman and Ward's performances and Roger Deakins's cinematography, but the screenplay was criticised. Set in an English coastal town in the 1980s, the story is all about love, friendship, and compassion. Comic whodunnit See How They Run arrived on the platform on 2nd November 2022, less than two months after its theatrical release on 9th September, while Martin McDonagh's black comedy Banshees of Inisherin landed on the streamer on 21st December, exactly two months after it debuted in cinemas. There were 20 other movies released on the same date, including The Whale, I Am DB Cooper and To The End.