Thirteen Lives: dir Ron Howard (2022)

Ron Howard’s dramatisation of the incredible rescue of 12 boys and their football coach from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system in 2018. Trapped following an unexpected rainstorm, a team of world-class divers navigated through miles of dangerous cave networks to find the boys – but finding them was only the beginning. Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, and Joel Edgerton star. Howard, who knows how to ramp up the tension in a true-life near-disaster (he did Apollo 13, after all) delivers a gripping survival drama built on tension, realism, and quiet heroism. Another good pick in Cinema Space’s continuing programme of free screenings …