Sisu

Late WWII in a remote area of Finland, lone prospector Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) strikes lucky and finds a huge deposit of gold.

While travelling to bank this he crosses paths with a group of retreating Waffen SS. Initially they ignore him but some stragglers decide to shake him down for whatever they can.

No good will come of this.

CW: riotously bloody grindhouse violence, rape

Ash

Riya (Eiza González) awakes in her quarters injured and unable to recall anything much. People she vaguely remembers as colleagues have been brutally murdered and the installation is malfunctioning. As she tries to get things working again she begins to get flashes of what happened: it might be that she is responsible.

Soon, Brion (Aaron Paul) arrives from the orbital station to find out why they've gone offline.

No good will come of this.

CW: gore, body horror

Smile 2

Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is a pop princess on the promotional round for her comeback tour. It's a year since she was in a serious car accident that killed her high profile actor boyfriend and left her scarred and in pain.

The people around her are decent and supportive but with her history of drug use she is under the microscope and nobody will prescribe her the strong painkillers she thinks she needs even though she's made real progress on staying clean.

In desperation she goes to an old school friend who's her occasional drug dealer to get something to tide her over.

No good will come of this.

CW: suicide, mutilation, gore, loss of agency

Captain America: Brave New World

Running on a platform of "Together", the notoriously hawkish General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross (Harrison Ford) defies expectations and becomes POTUS.

It seems his intentions are genuine: he's trying to agree an international treaty on access to the new wonder material Adamantium found on Celestial Island and reaches out to Captain America (Anthony Mackie), who he once imprisoned, to reform the Avengers.

However following an assassination attempt Ross reverts to paranoid form leaving Cap to find out what's really going on.

Perfect Days

Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) lives a sparse life of striking uniformity.

Early every morning he buys coffee out of a vending machine and travels from his tiny home to clean toilets in Tokyo's public parks. He goes about this with great diligence.

At lunchtime Hirayama photographs the light through the trees. He mostly eats from the same few places. Aside from this he reads and listens to music, mostly 60s and 70s Western rock, on cassette. At night he dreams in black and white.

That's it.

Control Freak

Valerie Nguyen (Kelly Marie Tran) is a motivational self-help speaker with several successful books under her belt and about to embark on a speaking tour in Asia-pacific. This could catapult "the Queen of good habits" career to the next level.

Val has an affluent lifestyle and loving husband Robbie (Miles Robbins) and the pair are trying for a baby. Things couldn't be better: a world away from her working class Vietnamese immigrant childhood.

She just needs to get her birth certificate for the visa, something her estranged father may still have in a box somewhere. It's approaching the anniversary of Val's mother's death and she'd rather avoid speaking to him. Also she's developed an irritating persistent itch on the back of her head. Robbie says to visit the doctor but she's simply got no time for that.

No good will come of this.

CW: body horror, mutilation, bugs

The Electric State

In an alternative world where 1950s style helpful somewhat 'kawai' robots became ubiquitous eventually there is a robot uprising and war. Humanity prevails through the use of remotely piloted drones and the remaining robots are exiled to a huge country-sized enclave in the desert.

Now decades later that drone/VR technology has evolved so that people can become couch potatoes indulging in VR fantasies while using a fraction of their mind to do everyday labour, taking the place of the robots.

One day, orphan Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) finds a fugitive robot in her backyard. It is in the form of Cosmo: a cartoon robot beloved by her younger brother who died around the time of the uprising. Through its rudimentary vocabulary of cartoon phrases it manages to persuade her that somehow it is him and that it needs her help.

Sing Sing

Divine G (Colman Domingo) and Mike Mike (Sean San José) are on the "steering group" of inmates at the notorious maximum security prison Sing Sing that get to pick out people to be part of the "Rehabilitation Through the Arts" programme. Every six months RTA does a stage production for an audience of inmates.

Divine G suggests they bring in Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin (himself) but the troubled drug dealer is sullen and disruptive claiming all their material is too serious and that they should do a comedy.

Unsure where to go with this the men throw in an absurd hotchpotch of ideas: cowboys, Egypt, pirates, time travel, Freddie Kruger and Hamlet but their external Director unexpectedly throws all this this into a script over a weekend.

Now all they've got to do is actually deliver it.