Moon posterStill, they are return­ing from the Fes­ti­val: Moon by Bowie’s boy Dun­can Jones is a Para­mount exclu­sive which should do quite nice­ly for them as they pre­pare for new own­er­ship (dis­cuss rumours you might have heard in the com­ments). After three years alone min­ing the moon Sam Rock­well might be going slight­ly nuts and imag­in­ing that he’s got com­pa­ny. Or is he?

The Pent­house and the Light­house both share Stephen Frears’ Chéri and the doc­u­men­tary that launched the Fes­ti­val back in June, The Sep­tem­ber Issue. Chéri is based on two nov­els by Colette and is a cher­ished project by acclaimed screen­writer Christo­pher Hamp­ton (Dan­ger­ous Liaisons, The Div­ing Bell and the But­ter­fly).

[The rest of this week’s new releas­es after the jump]

The Sep­tem­ber Issue is a fly on the wall thing about Anna Win­tour, edi­tor-in-chief of Vogue and tor­men­tor of edi­to­r­i­al assis­tants. In a vague­ly Welling­ton-relat­ed link, Anna Win­tour’s step-daugh­ter-in-law is from New­lands.

Cre­ator of The 40-Year-Old Vir­gin and Knocked Up, Judd Apa­tow gets a lit­tle bit seri­ous with his over­long new film Fun­ny Peo­ple. Adam San­dler plays a rich stand-up comic/movie star who dis­cov­ers he is dying and attempts to recon­nect with the world via a friend­ship with aspir­ing come­di­an Seth Rogen. Read­ings and Sky City Queens­gate.

Aliens in the Attic is that rare thing at the moment — a film that under 16s can go and see (that isn’t Up). A group of toothy kids (one of whom was sec­ond fid­dle to the leads in High School Musi­cal) dis­cov­er an advanced par­ty of angry look­ing but knee-high aliens intent on tak­ing over the plan­et — and only the kids can stop them. Read­ings, Empire, Sky City Queens­gate.

There’s a one-off screen­ing at 4.00pm on Sun­day at the Para­mount of Rus­sell Camp­bel­l’s new doc­u­men­tary, Sis­ters from Siberia about WCC coun­cil­lor Stephanie Cook’s adop­tion of two Russ­ian daugh­ters (and by exten­sion a look at the Russ­ian emi­gré com­mu­ni­ty in Welling­ton).

The film I’m most look­ing for­ward to this week is at the Film Soci­ety on Mon­day night: Parad­janov’s The Colour of Pome­gran­ates from 1968, a film described on IMDb as “one of the great­est mas­ter­pieces of the 20th cen­tu­ry”. I’ve missed almost every­thing the Film Soci­ety has screened this year as Mon­day night is Cap­i­tal Times “write the bloody review” night but there’s no way I’m miss­ing this.

And, at the Embassy on Sun­day at 2.30pm they have Grease.

All the com­mer­cial releas­es will be reviewed (sub­ject to space) in the Cap­i­tal Times on Wednes­day. Funer­als & Snakes is in a bit of dis­ar­ray at the moment after a botched host change but plans are afoot for a relaunch in ear­ly Octo­ber. Mean­while, tell us what you are watch­ing in the com­ments.