August movies: What’s worth watchingBy If you’re heading to the cinema or just your couch, our reviewers have you covered with the new releases you need to know about each week.And don’t forget to sign up to our Screening Room newsletter for must-see movies, interviews and the latest news from the world of film. Popcorn not included!Sex and Death In Camp Miasma; The Ice Cream Man; Super Troopers 3; Holy Days.Stephen KiprillisLatest Posts12.13pmTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ★★★½By Sandra Hall(MA) 112 minutes The psychological horror movie covers a broad canvas these days. Eating disorders, homophobia, sexual obsession and the labyrinthine possibilities of the digital world have all been treated to a touch of the supernatural in the past few months by young filmmakers with big ideas and small budgets and most have proved astonishingly successfulJane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death is the latest – a brave and shamelessly batty satire on slasher movies that has similarly wide-ranging ambitions. Like Schoenbrun, Kris (Hannah Einbinder from Hacks), the main character, is a filmmaker who identifies as queer. She shares Schoenbrun’s longstanding horror movie fixation and she’s delighted when she’s hired to write and direct a new instalment of Camp Miasma, a slasher movie franchise she’s loved since she was a teenager.She’s also determined to reinvigorate it after a lacklustre series of sequels. And she believes the key to this plan depends on the casting of Billy Preston (Gillian Anderson), a reclusive actress who starred in the original.12.12pmHoly Days ★★★½By Sandra Hall(PG) 101 minutes It had to happen. In Holy Days, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis are playing nuns. I don’t know why this should seem such a milestone. Between them, they have portrayed every other human emotion in their long careers. Now piety has joined the cavalcade.Not that Davis’ Sister Agnes and Weaver’s Sister Mary Clare practise piety with particular strictness. It’s upstaged in their psychological make-up by compassion and a willingness to be irreverent when circumstances demand.Davis is the convent’s Mother Superior, which makes sense. She’s always possessed the necessary air of authority, while Weaver is the warmest and most approachable.yesterday 5.09pmSuper Troopers 3 ★★½By Jake Wilson(MA) 100 minutesThere are any number of arty 21st-century filmmakers who have cultivated a knowing taste for the no-frills, politically incorrect exploitation cinema of yesteryear. By comparison, there’s absolutely nothing arty about Super Troopers 3 – but it gets as close as anyone can today to the vibe of a laid-back comedy that might have screened at a drive-in in 1977, brought to us by a team who give the genuine impression of not trying too hard.The team in question deserve marks for persistence. Like the previous entries in this modest franchise, Super Troopers 3 is the work of Broken Lizard, a comedy troupe comprising five guys who met at university in upstate New York in the late 1980s and have collaborated on half-a-dozen features since.While the original Super Troopers struck a chord with the early DVD market in 2001, the crowd-funded sequel didn’t arrive until 2018. How far long-term fans have been clamouring for more, I can’t say – but from an outside perspective, this follow-up seems like less the culmination of a trilogy than an excuse for a group hang.Pinned post from yesterday 12.21pmAugust movies: What’s worth watchingBy If you’re heading to the cinema or just your couch, our reviewers have you covered with the new releases you need to know about each week.And don’t forget to sign up to our Screening Room newsletter for must-see movies, interviews and the latest news from the world of film. Popcorn not included!Sex and Death In Camp Miasma; The Ice Cream Man; Super Troopers 3; Holy Days.Stephen Kiprillis1 of 1