At the Movies for 1 June 2022

Simon Morris realizes that not all films are aimed at him - this week being a prime example. Two films are aimed at the popular Girls' Night Out market, while the Tom Cruise blockbuster is a sequel to a film he didn't bother to see the first time. Top Gun: Maverick is the long-delayed follow-up to the 1986 Tom Cruise smash hit. Thirty years on, Pete "Maverick" Marshall (Cruise) is summoned to train a new generation of Top Guns. Also starring Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connolly and Val Kilmer. The Tuesday Club is a Swedish film about disgruntled middle-aged women who look for a new lease on life at a weekly cooking class, run by a Swedish chef, played by Peter Stormare (Fargo). And How to please a woman is an Australian film about a middle-aged woman who sets up a combination house-cleaning and sex-worker business. Stars Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones's Diary) and Erik Thomson (TV's Packed to the rafters).