MOVIE UPDATE 2024
2024 movie releases: new films out this year A number of blockbuster new films and sequels will hit our screens in 2024 Twenty years after the success of Sideways, the comedy-drama about two men on a wine tour, The Holdovers reunites director Alexander Payne with actor Paul Giamatti, and the result is a "great big warm hug of a movie", said Kevin Maher in The Times. Giamatti plays Paul, a "misanthropic" classics teacher at a New England boys’ boarding school in the 1970s that serves as an Ivy League feeder. Paul is contemptuous of his pupils, whom he dismisses as "vulgar little philistines" and "foetid layabouts"; so he is annoyed when he is asked to babysit "the holdovers" – a handful of boys who are not going home for Christmas. Initially there are five, but four of them find somewhere to go, leaving just one, the recalcitrant Angus (Dominic Sessa). Also marooned at the school over the holidays is kitchen manager Mary (Da’Vine Joy Ran
