No good will come of this: 2021

Wrath of Man

New recruit 'H' (Jason Statham) starts a job at an armoured car cash pickup company after moving to the US from "Europe".

When he calmly and ruthlessly takes down a whole gang that tries to hold up the truck he's in singlehandedly it becomes clear he's not quite who he said on the application form.

Two lighthouse keepers arrive for their stint on a remote outcrop. The veteran keeper (Willem Dafoe) jealously tends the lamp while leaving all the other work to the new lad (Robert Pattinson).

This ensures things start out hostile but as time passes they form a working relationship and begin to share tales of their life with each other.

When the tender fails to arrive and relieve them at the appointed time things begin to unravel.

Young Estrella (Paola Lara) tries to live as normal a life as she can despite the drug gangs and violence that stalk her home. When an escalation in violence shuts her school, one of the last things a teacher does is place three sticks of chalk in her hand, which she says will grant her wishes "like in the stories".

Street kid Shine (Juan Ramón López) lifts a gun and mobile phone from a drunk cartel member little knowing the trouble it will bring to his little gang of orphans.

When the two are thrown together by terrible events, Estrella uses her three wishes to try and fix things but as is the way with such magic there's a price.

CW: Casual violence including on screen child murder. Yes really.

Young affluent academic Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) and her colleague Bernadette (Kasi Lemmons) are working on a paper on urban legends and begin researching a local phenomenon, the "Candyman", who is said to murder people who invoke him with the hook he has instead of a hand.

Her husband Trevor (Xander Berkeley) and his colleagues are scornful, considering it "academic Bolivia" but the pair double down and dig into the one supposed killing they can link to a real event, travelling to the scene of the crime.

Here in the "projects" amongst poverty and crime the Candyman is very real. That reality begins to seep into Helen's life.

Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes from stasis unexpectedly and traumatically aboard the colony starship Elysium. Suffering from amnesia brought on by what seems to be an over long stasis he begins to try and piece together what is happening on the malfunctioning vessel.

He's soon joined by Lieutenant Peyton (Dennis Quaid) and the pair work together, Bower exploring while Peyton directs him from the one working computer terminal they have.

It becomes apparent they are not alone...

FBI profiler Agent Hartly (Dwayne Johnson) is on the trail of notorious art thief Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) who attempts to steal one of the three jewelled eggs gifted to Cleopatra by Marcus Antonius.

The theft is foiled but when the pair are set up by "The Bishop" (Gal Gadot) who actually makes off with the egg the two are forced to team up to either "clear their name" or "beat them to the next one" depending on which one you ask.

In the distant future all power is held by hereditary plutocrats styling themselves as 'noble houses', some more benevolent than others, and above them an Emperor. Peace is just about maintained through obligation, ritual and fear of the Emperor's vengeance.

The most valuable commodity in existence is 'spice' which can only be found on the desert world Arrakis, ruled by House Harkonnen with an iron fist. At the command of the Emperor, House Harkonnen are removed from Arrakis and House Atreides installed in their stead.

Duke Leto Atreides knows he cannot refuse the request and mistrusts the Emperor's motives but looks to make the best of a bad situation by offering a hand of friendship to the local population, previously rebelling and being brutally oppressed, in the hope to make them allies.

Meanwhile the Duke's young son Paul has been dreaming of the desert world and a mysterious woman. His dreams are not just idle fancy, he is part of a generations long eugenics program looking to create a superior human with unique mental and prophetic abilities. He is considered a misstep on the path, but on arriving in Arrakis something in him awakens...

Alicia West (Naomi Harris) returns to her childhood neighborhood in New Orleans as a rookie Police Officer after a stint in the Army which she saw as the only way to escape the crime and lack of opportunity.

On her first night shift she witnesses a corrupt colleague shooting a local drug dealer to cover up his own deals in confiscated narcotics.

West has the whole thing recorded on her bodycam and is suddenly on the run from both her own dept. and the drug dealers who blame her for the death.

Miles (Daniel Radcliffe) has a very humdrum life working for a company that makes exploitative mobile games. To give himself some sense of achievement he spends his evenings "trolling the trolls", arguing with people online and reporting content he disapproves of.

One night, he picks a fight with the wrong person, the admin of the infamous fight channel Skizm where people fight to the death for fame and transient fortune.

The Skizm crew track him down, break into his house, abduct him and surgically attach guns to his hands. He's been set up for a deathmatch with Nix (Samara Weaving), current top of the Skizm leaderboard.

Haley Keller (Kaya Scodalerio) travels to her father Dave's (Barry Pepper) house to check on him when he is incommunicado as a major hurricane is about to hit Florida.

As the hurricane rises it's not just the weather she has to contend with but Florida's other famous feature.

Hungry alligators.

Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) lives an unremarkable life slightly in the shadow of his successful realtor wife Becca (Connie Nielson).

One night, armed burglars break into their home and Hutch, along with his son fight back but then he relents, de-escalating the situation and the burglars flee with his watch, a small amount of cash and random handful of stuff they grab on the way out.

Friends and neighbours are shocked but slightly dismissive of Hutch for not "kicking their asses" like any red blooded American male should.

Bridling at this, when Hutch funds out a toy bracelet his daughter likes is missing, he looks to track down the thieves and starts a spiral of escalating violence.

Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCapprio) is a fading star from the era of Western serials now guest starring on TV and playing in the occasional movie as a bad guy. He's morose and slightly self destructive but has his long term friend and stunt double/gofer Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) looking out for him.

It's the late 60s and Rick has new neighbours in the shape of rising stars Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) and he idly dreams of befriending them and becoming relevant again but the summer of love is no more and Helter-skelter is on the horizon.

Jill (Gina Rodriguez) and her family are caught up in a car accident as an odd event, perhaps a solar flare, occurs and all modern electronics are fried. The power is out and the worst elements of society see it as an opportunity to loot and rob.

It soon becomes evident that nobody can sleep any more.

Much as this seems like an opportunity for partying for some, proper sleep deprivation is a serious problem and society goes into collapse as even the most stable suffer from poor judgement and hallucinations.

For some reason, Jill's daughter can still sleep so she heads to a place where people are trying to work out what's wrong and how to fix it.

As the protagonists from part 1 try desperately to survive the night we flash back to 1666 and the story of the demise of the witch, Sarah Fier.

The Water Man

Ten year old Gunner Boone (Lonnie Chavis) moves to Pine Mills with his parents Amos (David Oyelowo) and Mary (Rosario Dawson). He is artistic and working on a graphic novel, correcting anybody who calls it "a comic".

Things are about as good as they can be although Amos is clumsy in trying to relate to him. The elephant in the room they all skirt around is that Mary has terminal leukemia and it won't be long until she passes.

Setting aside his artistic work he starts to devour medical literature hoping to find something the doctors have missed, but that also stops when he encounters the local legend of "The Water Man". This ancient revenant is said to have discovered the secret to endless life and haunt the remote woodlands searching for his long dead wife to resurrect.

Gunner enlists streetwise older teen Jo (Amiah Miller) who claims to have seen and been attacked by The Water Man, to lead him into the forest where he is to be found so he can wrest the secret from him.

Balram (Adarsh Gourav) resents his missed opportunity to attend school in the rural village where he and his low caste extended family live when his overbearing grandmother forces him to work in her tea shop.

As soon as he can Balram manages to get a job driving for the local landlord, who rules over them like a king, promising to send most of his wages back to grandmother.

With devoted service and a few unethical grifts he quickly secures the role of driver and manservant to the landlord's westernised son Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) and his American wife "Pinky" (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) when they travel to Delhi to represent the family's (corrupt) business interests.

Despite the caste divide, Ashok and Pinky treat Balram well if occasionally condescendingly and he works tirelessly in their service.

Then one night something terrible happens and everything changes.

The survivors of part 1 go to the home of C Burman, the survivor from the last massacre that they tried to contact for help.

After gaining her trust they hear the tale of Camp Nightwing and the night one of the councillors went on a rampage with an axe.

This to was caused by the witch's curse and we learn more about the grim history of Shadyside.

Following some unspecified apocalyptic event (Yellowstone supervolcano?) Papa (Viggo Mortensen) and Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) travel through the cold dead ruins of the world, heading south in search of better conditions.

They must contend with starvation, wildfires and earthquakes but also violent cannibals and thieves.

Papa says to "keep the flame alive" in not succumbing to barbarism and keeps a gun with two bullets one for each of them should it become necessary.

Sometimes Papa dreams of Boy's mother (Charlise Theron) and better times.

CW: grimdark barbarism including the aforementioned cannibals

In the near future the two Koreas unite out of necessity when the world political situation destabilises. This partially works but there is great hardship, partially caused by international sanctions. Civil unrest builds and a Special Unit, the Wolf Bigade is formed to deal with the worsening situation and a nascent terrorist group, The Sect.

Infamous for a massacre of innocent schoolgirls they are the only thing The Sect really fear.

Now some years later Special Unit member Im Joo-kyung is injured in an operation against the Sect, reminiscent of the old atrocity. Afterwards he is sent to visit the sister of one of the Sect members Lee Yoon-he, unaware he is being set up in a guilt/romance sting to further discredit the Special Unit.

The town of Shadyside is notorious for bloody murder and violence with seemingly well adjusted residents going on murder sprees every few years.

Local urban legend says this is due to an ancient witch curse and one night the curse strikes again. Now five friends must survive the night, but one of them has studied the stories and they make a plan.

Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) works as a school bus driver by day but at night has a thing for occasionally stalking, abducting and killing young women. One night his victim is Jang Joo-yun, daughter to the local Police chief and fiancée to NIS agent Kim Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun).

The Police have been maintaining a list of suspects for these murders but have been unable to narrow it down and Joo-yun's grieving father passes this to Soo-hyun who vows bloody revenge.

CW: torture, mutilation, rape, bloody violence generally

Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a very specialised operative, who through the use of kidnap to surreptitiously install implants can remotely inhabit a person for a few days.

Vos works for a business which facilitates assassination and espionage at the request of high net worth individuals and businesses and is being groomed to replace her mentor Girder (Jennifer Jason Leigh).

Outside of work she struggles to relate to her now estranged husband and son, wearing her own persona much like she's one of her own targets.

We follow her as she takes the place of Colin Tate (Christopher Abbot) who is to alter the path of a corporate dynastic succession by eliminating those higher in the pecking order.

CW: Suicide, mutilation, grisly murder, loss of self

Gifted young woman Justine (Garance Marillier) gets a place at a prestigious veterinary school where her older sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) also studies.

The school has a tradition of lengthy, elaborate and humiliating hazeing rituals which at one point involve eating some raw meat. Lifelong vegetarian Justine is disgusted but goes along with this after pressure from her sister.

After this she becomes ill and develops a taste for meat she can't quite satisfy...

CW: bullying, animal slaughter & cannibalism

During the English Civil War, cowardly alchemist's assistant Whitehead (Reece Shearmith) is hunting his master's nemesis O'Neil (Michael Smiley) when they are caught up on the fringes of a battle and the mercenaries he is travelling with are killed.

Fleeing the battle he meets up with several deserters and they resolve to travel to a nearby Inn one of them knows of, which is just down the hill and across the field.

However it soon transpires that he is working for O'Neil who has laid a mystical trap for Whitehead in the field.

CW: flashing kaleidoscopic imagery

1980: hundreds of civilians are killed in the Gwangju uprising when it is brutally put down by the Army. (This is a real event from Korea's recent history)

Now 26 years later the President who ordered this atrocity has been legally censured for it but lives in luxurious retirement, still feted by elements of business and high society.

Five disparate people who were victims of Gwangju are brought together to get justice and if not that, revenge.

Will (Armie Hammer) is the bartender at a dive bar in New Orleans with a crowd of somewhat rough regulars. One night there is a fight, one of the more robust clientele gets glassed and in the general chaos, some affluent underage drinkers run out of the bar. One of them leaves their phone behind and Will picks it up to return to them.

Later he guesses the unlock code and starts messaging contacts to try and contact the owner.

No good will come of this.

Captain Quinn McKenna all round US military badass is on a covert mission when a Predator ship damaged in a space battle crashes on earth and into the middle of his operation. The Predator on board kills the rest of the team but he manages to steal some tech and get away. Looking for a fall guy the military line him up for the nuthouse because he mentioned aliens.

Shortly after a secret government project manages to capture the Predator and brings in conveniently hot big brain scientist Casey Bracket to study it. Bracket wants to interview McKenna so the bus taking him to the nuthouse (along with various "comedy" nut job ex military) diverts to the secret facility.

The ship from the space battles arrives, piloted by another Predator which somehow causes the first one to escape. McKenna and Bracket team up with the bus of misfits to hunt it down as it's heading to retrieve the stolen tech, which is with McKenna's family, oh no!

Katie Mitchell, an aspiring film student gets her dream spot in film school. Following a big family argument her father decides to cancel her flight and drive across the USA as a family to "fix things". This goes about as well as could be expected.

While they're at a run down roadside attraction the ubiquitous AI assistant most people rely on in their phones and computers turns against mankind and begins rounding everybody up with its army of robots.

Through a freak accident the Mitchells end up with information that can defeat the robot army and hatch a plan to save the world.

Society has been destroyed by the arrival of vicious predatory creatures that hunt by sound. The Abbot family have built themselves a rural haven where they live as quietly as possible and have many tricks and routines to keep themselves safe if threatened.

Now Evelyn (Emily Blunt) is pregnant and almost due so the family are preparing to bunker down in the basement for the birth. However a few misfortunes and a little teenage rebellion from daughter Regan (Millicent Simmons) mean they're about to have a bad night of it.

Maud (Morfydd Clark) is a young palliative care nurse assigned as a live in carer to Amanda (Jennifer Ehle) a once famous hedonistic dancer and choreographer now living out her last months in an old house in a run down seaside town.

Given Maud's strong religious beliefs the two clash but she is determined to stay the course and save Amanda's soul.

CW: self harm, body horror, rape, blasphemy worthy of mention if you're remotely Christian, suicide

When her mother is gravely ill in hospital, Kim Seo-yon (Park Shin-hye) returns to her family home. Having lost her mobile phone, she connects up an old handset to the long ignored landline to keep in touch.

Unexpectedly the phone rings and she gets what she at first thinks are prank calls from a distressed young woman Oh Young-sook (Jeon Jong-seo) who says she thinks her mother is going to kill her.

Looking into this online she finds out that this actually happened 20 years ago and using information about the Police case resolves to save her from this terrible fate.

Park Tae-goo, works as an enforcer for a Korean organised crime gang and when that world impacts on his family exacts bloody revenge on those responsible.

In the aftermath he is sent to lay low on the holiday island of Jeju with legendary gang elder Kuto for a few weeks. There he meets Kuto's coarse and self destructive niece Kim Jay-yeon and is unsure what to make of her.

Soon, the repercussions from his actions catch up with him...

CW: suicide attempts

Aboard an ageing spaceship, Monte (Robert Pattinson) struggles to raise an infant child.

He is the last survivor of the original crew, sent to a distant black hole to conduct hazardous experiments.

Slowly we learn how he came to be here, alone, and why he can never go back.

A zombie outbreak in Las Vegas is contained at great cost by the US military while a makeshift barrier wall is constructed penning the infected within Sin City. Now, years later after all other sources of infection have been eliminated the US government decides to eradicate the threat once and for all by nuking Las Vegas.

With just days to go, a wealthy businessman assembles a team to go in and steal the contents of a casino vault under cover of the evacuation. That however is not all they are after...

It is winter in rural France and a cold snap brings heavier than expected snow. Abandoned by the side of the road is the car belonging to missing Evelyne Ducat. One by one we are introduced to the people whose lives she has touched in unexpected ways.

A musical biopic of Elton John, not much else to say.

After leaving college, aspiring writer Lee Jong-su is working a series of dead end jobs in Seoul to make ends meet. While delivering stuff he bumps into Shin Hae-mi a chilhood neighbour from the poor area near the DMZ where they both grew up. He doesn't recognise her at first but the two meet later and reminisce.

She persuades him to look after her cat while she is away on a trip and the two end up hooking up when they meet to sort this out. With Hae-mi gone away Jong-su waits eagerly for her return, diligently feeding the cat, which he never sees.

When Hae-mi flies back into the country she introduces Jong-su to urbane affluent trustafarian "Ben" who she met on vacation and it's very quickly apparent that he's been replaced romantically.

Regardless, Jong-su awkwardly continues to hang around with the pair, getting a taste of a life he can never have until one day he comes to suspect that Hae-mi is not safe with "Ben".

Following the brutal rape and murder of two young women in provincial Korea, lead Detective Park Doo-man resorts to the local department's usual old school methods to try and apprehend the killer. Rumour suggests a local mentally handicapped man is responsible and Park sets to beating and twisting a confession from him.

Separately, well educated Detective Seo Tae-yoon travels from Seoul to assist with the investigation and when he arrives is appalled at how the investigation is being conducted.

The two men clash, unsurprisingly...

In a very tongue in cheek setup, humanity survives one potential extinction event only to end up hiding underground in bunkers from giant mutated insects, amphibians and so on. Separated from his high school girlfriend during the "monsterpocalypse" Joel makes contact with her years later over the radio the bunkers use to stay in touch.

Feeling lonely and slightly unappreciated he leaves the safety of the bunker and heads out on a perilous journey across the surface to reunite with her.

Rural police officer Jong-Goo, unused to anything too exciting to investigate gets called out to a series of frenzied family murders in the village of Gokseong. The people involved seem to be 'infected' somehow and he starts to see evidence of this in others around town.

Local rumour is it's all the doing of an elderly Japanese man who moved in to the area and is said to have done all manner of bad things including sexual assault and attacking a local shopkeeper.

Incredulous, Jong-Goo goes to visit the newcomer who lives way up in the hills.

No good will come of this.

The world is on the edge of another Great Depression and self reliant drifter "Nada" (Roddy Piper) arrives in LA looking for work.

He manages to get a labouring gig on a building site and strikes up a friendship with Frank (Keith David). Frank directs "Nada" to a local shanty town for somewhere to stay. In the camp, a mix of manual workers and the unemployed eke out a life with help from community organisers and the local church.

Becoming suspicious of odd comings and goings at the church, "Nada" sneaks in one day and finds its a front for some kind of lab but it's not clear what's going on. After being confronted he runs off and later that day the Police arrive in force, bulldozing the settlement, rounding up various people and trashing the church.

Returning in the morning to see if he can salvage any of his possessions "Nada" goes back to the church, finding a box hidden behind a secret panel. Thinking it something valuable he makes off with it but is disappointed to find it's just full of cheap looking sunglasses.

Nonetheless he stashes the box, picks up one pair to wear and starts to walk back to the camp.

No good will come of this.

Late 60s small town USA, Halloween. Three friends take refuge in stranger's car at a drive-in movie to hide from local bullies. Discovering a mutual love of horror and scary stories they decide to take him to see the local "real haunted house" the old Bellows mansion. Uncovering a hidden room they find Sarah Bellows' hand written story book, the focal point of the grisly tales that made the place infamous.

They take the book when they leave, but the blank pages start to spontaneously fill with new grisly tales that come true.

In the 22nd century, Earth is an industrialised environmental disaster with frequent wars and rampant inequality. When scientist Tom Sully is killed in a street mugging, the corporation that had been preparing him for an offworld posting reaches out to his identical twin brother Jake (Sam Worthington) to take his place. Their genetic similarity makes him the only person capable of doing so.

Arriving on the alien world Pandora Jake is to remotely pilot an Avatar, a genetically engineered human/alien hybrid the science team attached to the corporate mining operation uses to engage with the mostly hostile indigenous population the Na'vi..

Being mostly unprepared for this job, Jake's Avatar is separated from the rest of the team on his first trip out. Alone in the hostile forest environment he is rescued by one of the Na'vi, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) who treats him like a stupid baby that needs protecting. Which he does.

Jake's naivety and the unplanned nature of this event gives him an introduction to the Na'vi the science team have been unable to re-establish after losing their trust some time back and soon he is lost in their world. Meanwhile efforts to strip mine Pandora continue.

On a Chicago night the Rawlings gang make their fateful last armed robbery. Fleeing the scene injured they rush to their warehouse base of operation only to be confronted by a SWAT team and killed in the resulting firefight and horrific gas explosion.

Fast forward to their various funerals and Veronica (Viola Davis) widow of the gang leader is passed a safety deposit key. The box it opens contains her husband's notebook, filled with detailed plans for past jobs and also the next one.

Wanting nothing more to do with the criminal life Viola tries to sell on the plans but events conspire against her and she must take on the next job. She turns to her fellow widows Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) to pull it off.

Jay, a young woman, is on a date with her new boyfriend Hugh. Joking around in the cinema playing a people watching game he suddenly becomes unnerved and insists they leave. They move the date elsewhere, the evening goes well and they have sex in his car. Afterwards, suddenly and unexpectedly he incapacitates her with chloroform.

Waking, tied to a chair among urban decay, an obviously distressed Jay receives an explanation from Hugh about how she now "has it" and should listen very carefully or "it" will kill her.

CW: Mechanical sex without intimacy that's effectively assault. A little bloody violence but nothing to write home about.

The future is a bleached white hallucinogenic place shorn of intimacy and passion in the name of compliant efficiency through constantly adjusted cocktails of drugs. A surveillance panopticon ensures compliance and congratulates people on safety and progress.

THX and LUH are centrally assigned roommates. THX is struggling with mental composure and concentration and seeks advice from a confessional style automated booth that reassures him that his dose cannot be increased and everything is as it should be. It becomes clear LUH has been switching THX's drugs and may have been doing so for a while. That night they have sex.

A colleague of LUH, SEN has LUH reassigned and plans to become his new roommate. SEN seems to be some form of computer hacker or criminal but it's not clear exactly what his long term plan might be. THX reports SEN's criminality on his way to work and is highly agitated.

In the background, the panopticon watches all this and the anonymous android police are despatched to detain them all.

It is the start of a new year at High School and best friends Vivian (Hadley Robinson) and Claudia (Lauren Tsai) are comfortable in their spot in the brutal pecking order. Keep your head down and nobody will bother you. Secretly though, Vivian is unfulfilled and looking for something to pour her

passion into.

After witnessing the escalating harassment of new student Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) and inspired by the forgotten mementos of her mother's grungey rebellious feminist past Vivian starts to publish the scrappy 'zine "Moxie" calling out the behaviour of the school's "jock" contingent.

The acts of rebellion spiral and Vivian begins to lose her way and her connections with those around her.

So, you know the history right? Zack Snyder wanted to make a Justice League story as two movies. Then the poor reception of Batman v Superman meant that got downsized to one movie. Then that movie apparently became production hell with rumours of all manner of problems.

Then Zack Snyder's daughter committed suicide and he stepped down from the project.

Joss Whedon got brought in to finish it off, more rumours of production problems of different kinds. The thing with Henry Cavill's moustache. Generally poor reception of other DC releases etc. all set it up to fail.

The theatrical release is a bit rubbish in places. Some people love it, some hate it but I think it's just sort of OK, with a VERY dull CGI antagonist and terrible boss fight at the end. It looks like a movie that went through development & production hell.

Snyder got back into working, didn't like what he saw and buoyed up by his fans finally got momentum to rebuild his idea of what Justice League should have been.

This is that movie. Sort of.

In the distant future Earth is largely denuded of natural flora and fauna. it is implied this is part unstoppable ecological disaster, part lack of interest from a society focused on convenience and consumer consumption.

Samples of life taken from some of the Earth's great forests are used to recreate them in miniature inside domes attached to gargantuan commercial freighter spaceships orbiting Saturn.

Many years later the crews are informed the domes are to be jettisoned and destroyed and the freighters brought back into commercial service.

Aboard the Valley Forge, most of the crew are happy to be cutting short a long boring tour of duty. One though, Freeman Lowell an ecologist who has dedicated his life to the project, simply says...

"No"

In the not so near future, mankind lives in the wreck of the present after years of diminution.

Environmental disaster has lead to war, famine and the prioritisation of simple survival over progress. It is not a post apocalyptic world, but one in steep post-industrial decline.

Farmer "Coop" (Matthew McConaughey), once an astronaut shortly before NASA wound down operation lives with his family on a dustbowl farm scratching an ever more precarious living.

A series of strange things begin to occur in his daughter Murph's bedroom, with objects being moved around and she begins to take notes. Deciphering a simple code from this they give coordinates to NASA's hidden base of operation. Here Coop finds out that mankind is in far worse straits than he thought but that NASA, what's left of it, has a last ditch plan. Well two plans actually...

A writer spends a while at The Grand Budapest Hotel, once a notable destination now much reduced and while there meets the similarly famously faded proprietor.

Sitting down to dinner with them our writer is spun a rambling tale of love, war, a contested legacy and a stolen old master painting that led to them becoming the proprietor.