THE LAST VERMEER (Cert 15, 118 mins, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, available from March 1 on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, Thriller/War)
BASED on Jonathan Lopez's book The Man Who Made Vermeers, director Dan Friedkin's courtroom thriller dramatises the true story of a Dutch art dealer, who was tried as a war criminal in the aftermath of the Second World War.
While his countrymen are fighting against the Nazis, Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce) hosts parties for the invading Germans and sells Dutch art treasures to high-ranking officers including Hitler's second in command, Hermann Goring.
When the conflict ends, Dutch Jew Joseph Piller (Claes Bang) works as an investigator, unearthing stolen art and returning pieces to the rightful owners. He probes the case of van Meegeren, who faces a death sentence if he is found guilty of collaboration.
Aided by his assistant Minna Holberg (Vicky Krieps), Piller becomes convinced that van Meegeren is innocent of the charge and he faces a moral dilemma to defend the accused in court.
MOXIE (Cert 15, 111 mins, streaming from March 3 exclusively on Netflix, Comedy/Drama/Romance)
FOR her second feature film behind the camera, Emmy Award-winning Saturday Night Live alumnus Amy Poehler heads back to high school for a coming-of-age comedy drama based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu.
Shy 16-year-old student Vivian Carter (Hadley Robinson) has always kept her head down at school, removing herself from the need to fit in with various cliques. When new student Lucy Hernandez (Alycia Pascual-Pena) arrives, Vivian becomes increasingly frustrated by the conduct of her classmates and she decides to react.
Drawing inspiration from the rebellious youth of her mother (Poehler), Vivian writes and anonymously publishes an underground fanzine entitled Moxie, which exposes corruption and appalling behaviour in the classrooms and hallways.
Moxie unexpectedly gives birth to a new teenage movement and Vivian finds herself at the centre of exciting alliances.
