🔗 Share this article Prime Television Choices: Seven Can't-Miss Motion Pictures This Week Top Selection The Substance Director Coralie Fargeat's bold satire tackles the tyranny of feminine aesthetics and the perceived horrors of advancing years. Demi Moore offers a masterful performance as Elisabeth, an aging celebrity demoted to starring in a workout series on TV. Forced aside thanks to her deceitful superior Harvey, she undergoes a secretive and terrifying procedure titled the Substance. This generates a younger clone portrayed by Margaret Qualley, leading to a progressively vampiric relationship among both women. Friday 17 October, the streaming service Paramount+ The Woman in Cabin 10 This suspenseful story includes Knightley playing Laura, a skilled journalist who takes some time off from covering global conflict to embark on a high-end voyage with an ailing Norwegian shipping heiress and charitable figure, her husband, plus additional affluent guests. However when a mysterious woman goes overboard overnight and all passengers denies she ever existed, her journalistic curiosity take over. Out now, Netflix This Supernatural Story Steven Soderbergh tests his creative boundaries with this innovative supernatural story captured wholly through the eyes of the spirit. As a family including mother Rebekah and troubled teenage daughter Chloe settles into their fresh home, the camera – representing the ghost – follows them around. The daughter appears aware of the ghostly being, and it seems defensive toward her. Yet what is the reason? This is an entertaining concept that remains concise, featuring a surprise you might not see coming. October 11th, 4.35pm, 10.10pm, Sky Cinema Premiere Nicolas Cage's Meta Comedy Nicolas Cage fully commits to his cult stardom through this self-referential adventure. He plays an egotistical Hollywood actor playing himself who takes on a million-dollar gig to attend a celebration on the Spanish island for the wealthy Javi Gutierrez. Contacted by government spies to spy on the suspected cartel boss, his unique performing skills proves useful. Saturday 11 October, 9pm, the Channel 4 network This Creepy Thriller Derrickson's locked-room horror holds up well even without a continuation. Set in 1970s Colorado, several child abductions has made the children anxious. After Finney is kidnapped by “the Grabber” and locked up in a dungeon, he anticipates a fatal end. Yet the old telephone mounted nearby continues to ring, with eerie communicators offering help, as the prescient dreams from his sibling Gwen might rescue him. A solid creepfest. Saturday 11 October, 10.50pm, the Film4 channel This Dramatic Portrait In the conflict between spirituality and money, the winner is obvious for materialism in this director's delightfully tacky biopic of the disgraced televangelist and her criminal husband. Andrew Garfield plays the greedy Jim, who proclaims initially, “God does not want us to be poor,”. The couple begin capitalizing on the American public's spiritual convictions. It's a spectacle of tacky decor, excessive cosmetics and hypocrisy, however Jessica Chastain manages to show Tammy Faye as a sympathetic figure. October 14th, early morning, on Film4 Black Bag This period's second offering from Steven Soderbergh delivers a espionage tale as tight similar to the collars worn by Michael Fassbender's British agent. His assignment is to discover a double agent among the team from five suspects – including is his own wife. Both actors are masters of understated style, so a delicious psychological game of deception or honesty develops. Additional actors take part the clever spy entertainment. Friday 17 October, various showings, the Sky channel