The Big Four

Petrus (Budi Ros) has two families: his daughter Dina (Putri Marino) and the four orphans he secretly raised and trained as a team who take down criminal gangs.

Topan (Abimana Aryasatya), Alpha (Lutesha), Jenggo (Arie Kriting) and Pelor (Kristo Immanuel) are known as "The Big 4".

When Petrus is murdered The Big 4 retire and Dina concentrates on her police career, but several years later their paths eventually cross again.

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Bee (Maria Bakalova) travels to a "hurricane party" at the remote mansion owned by a friend of her girlfriend Sophie (Amandla Stenberg). She doesn't really fit in with the trust fund kids that will be there, being working class and from an (unspecified) Eastern European country, and is filled with trepidation.

The plan is to party through the storm, getting wasted, horny and to conspicuously consume at each other.

Things are going OK, with the odd bit of sniping amongst old friends until they get to the party game "Bodies Bodies Bodies".

No good will come of this.

Red Sonja

The warrior priestesses guarding an ancient talisman used by the gods in the creation of the world deem it too dangerous to remain accessible to mankind and set about casting it into a pit of eternal darkness. However, evil Queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergman) storms the temple and takes it away to use as a weapon.

One of the priestesses escapes and sends word to her sister Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) who has trained to be a great warrior. She sets out to destroy the talisman, teaming up with the warrior Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who found her sister.

Conan the Destroyer

Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has built himself a reputation as "the king of thieves". Sorcerer Queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) recruits him and sidekick Malak (Tracey Walter) to escort her niece Princess Jehnna (Olivia d'Abo) and her head guard Bombaata (Wilt Chamberlain) to steal a magic gem from the Sorcerer Thoth-Amon (Pat Roach) who dwells in a crystal palace.

In return she promises to resurrect Conan's lost love Valeria.

Needing help fighting magic, Conan also gathers wizard Akiro (Mako), who acts as the narrator. They also free and recruit fierce warrior Zula (Grace Jones) along the way.

Conan the Barbarian

As a child, Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) witnesses all his family slaughtered along with the rest of the settlement where he lives. The raiders send him into slavery and when many years later he has earned a place as a great gladiatorial fighter all he remembers is a symbol.

Two snakes, but as one against a black sun.

When he is finally freed and makes his way in the world he finds out that this is a symbol of the cult of Set and it's leader, the allegedly thousand year old Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones).

CW: some objectification of women but maybe not as bad as it could have been

Glass Onion

When the billionaire founder of tech empire "Alpha" invites his closest group of friends, "The Disruptors" to his private island for a murder mystery weekend they are joined by Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) "the world's greatest Detective".

Sadly he's responsible for a murder himself, that of the great party that had been planned.

Hawk the Slayer

When Voltan "The Dark One" (Jack Palance) kidnaps an Abbess, the church sends for Hawk (John Terry) rather than pay the ransom. Hawk is the Dark One's brother and the pair have a feud to settle.

Vivarium

Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) are looking for a home and wander into the sales office for a new housing estate.

The salesman is very off-putting but out of politeness they agree to follow him and view a house there.

No good will come of this.

CW: Bleak as fuck, do not watch if you're feeling at all mentally fragile

Barbarian

Tess (Georgina Campbell) is in Detroit for a job interview and arriving late at night to the AirBnB she's booked finds it's been double booked via another app and that Keith (Bill Skarsgård) already settled in.

After some initial awkwardness she decides to go with his offer to turn over the bedroom to her and sort out the booking mess in the morning.

No good will comes of this.

Bloodshot

Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) is a Special Ops badass, or at least he was until he died.

When he finds himself aware and seemingly alive again Dr. Harting (Guy Pearce) and KT (Eiza González) of Rising Spirit Technologies explain he has been revived through the wonder of nanotechnology.

As he comes to terms with his new state of being he starts to have flashbacks of the man who murdered him and his wife.

He uses his new found superhuman abilities to track the killer down and return the favour.

No good will come of this.

We are what we are

When the patriarch of the family fails to come home, siblings Alfredo, Julian and Sabina start to fight. One of them needs to be in charge but their mother doesn't think any of them are up to the task.

The problem is they need something for dinner tomorrow and their appetites are unusual...

Velvet Buzzsaw

Gallery administrator Josephina (Zawe Ashton) is struggling to make a name for herself in the LA art scene until one day she stumbles across the art left in the apartment of one of her neighbours after his sudden death.

The work is dark and mesmerising, so on hearing he left instructions for it to be destroyed she steals it. It is an instant hit on the notoriously faddy LA high art scene.

No good will come of this.

Willow

Dark Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) ravages the land with her armies but it is prophesied that a girl child will be born that will destroy her. Gathering all the expectant mothers in the land she hopes to to eliminate it at birth. However a midwife scurries away with the chosen one and sets her to float downriver when Bavmorda's hounds are after her.

Nelwyn (kinda hobbits) farmer Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) finds the child but the Nelwyn are a bucolic people usually uninvolved in the wars of the Daikini (humans) and tries to return her to one of her own kind.

This doesn't quite work out.

The Night House

Beth (Rebecca Hall) is struggling with grief after the sudden and unexpected suicide of her husband Owen.

Rattling around the large house the couple built by a lake she begins to have odd experiences that make her think she is being haunted by Owen. Some of them are clearly complicated layered lucid dreams, others seem to have actually happened.

When she finds some curious things amongst Owen's possessions she decides to investigate where he got them.

No good will come of this.

CW: suicide

Knives Out

After venerable crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) dies in an apparent suicide the night of his 85th birthday party the bickering family linger at his mansion.

The police return a few days later with more questions and this time the famed private Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is with them. It seems he has been hired to investigate a murder...

1984

Winston Smith (John Hurt) works for The Ministry of Truth, reworking past issues of the newspaper and other documents to ensure that all references to unpersons are replaced with more suitable candidates. The party is ruthless in ferreting out rebellion and thought crime so it is an endless task.

His path crosses with a woman, Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) and the two begin to have regular sex and fall deeply in love. This is something the Party disapproves of beyond the need for procreation to make the next generation of proud soldiers.

No good will come of this.

CW: scenes of torture and general misery

3:10 to Yuma

Rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is struggling to keep his ranch going through a period of drought and owes a bunch of money to an unscrupulous local businessman.

When famous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his gang rob a coach the two cross paths briefly.

Later, when Wade is unexpectedly captured in town, Evans joins the group transporting him to the nearest railroad station to put him the 3:10 train to Yuma prison. It's a dangerous job but he needs the money.

No good will come of this.

Last night in Soho

Ellie (Thomasin McKenzie), a somewhat sheltered fashion student moves to London to study. Unable to handle the loud partying of her classmates she moves out of student accommodation and into a room at the top of landlady Miss Collins' (Diana Rigg) old house.

There she has vivid visions of the life of aspiring 60s singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy) who is everything Ellie is not.

At first this gives Ellie inspiration and confidence she lacks, but then things start to turn sour, for Ellie has always been 'sensitive' and she can't switch these visions off. Every night she must live Sandie's life.

No good will come of this.

Malevolent

Angela (Florence Pugh) and Jackson (Ben Loyd Hughes) are American siblings in 80s Scotland running a supernatural investigation/exorcism "business". Angela is the "medium" and Jackson the "manager" but it's mostly a scam using prerecorded spooky sounds and early "ghost hunting" tech.

They take a job at a big old house for Mrs Green (Celia Imrie), the site of some infamous child murders, even though Angela (who DOES see things but is in denial about it) is reluctant.

No good will come of this.

CW: scenes of mutilation and torture

You are not my mother

Teenager Charlotte (Hazel Doupe) has a slightly chaotic home life. Her mother (Carolyn Bracken) is depressed and grandmother, who lives with them is infirm. It's implied they don't have much money and live in a run down Dublin estate. At school she is bullied by a gang of aggressive girls.

One day, while dropping her off at school, her mother exclaims "I can't do this any more" and when later that day she's missing everybody fears the worst.

The following night Char's mother is mysteriously back in the house and in uncharacteristically good mood.

No good will come of this.

Sightseers

Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe) are off on their first holiday together: a caravan tour of mediocre tourist attractions in Yorkshire.

Tina is suffocated by a controlling relationship with her mother and Chris bitter at all the unfairness he believes life has dealt him.

When an accident threatens to ruin the holiday they resolve to press on, with deadly consequences. For everybody else...

Cronos

Antique dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) has a large carving of an angel in his shop which he has paid little attention to.

After a slightly odd, rude man shows interest in it he looks at the statue again and finds an ornate clockwork device hidden in the base.

This is the very thing a dying industrialist (Caludio Book) has had agents scouring the globe for and he sends his thuggish son Angel (Ron Perlman) to buy the statue hoping it is inside.

It is claimed the ancient clockwork thing can bestow eternal life, at a cost.

CW: mild body horror

The Devil's Backbone

It is the closing months of the Spanish Civil War and young Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is abandoned at a remote orphanage by comrades of his father, who have neglected to tell Carlos that his father is dead.

Headmistress Carmen (Marisa Paredes) and Dr. Casares (Federico Luppi) do their best to look after the children but times are hard.

Almost as soon as he arrives Carlos has visions of a spectral child who whispers "many of you will die"...

Take Shelter

Curtis (Michael Shannon) has a good "traditional" small town life. A loving wife Sam (Jessica Chastain), young daughter, works in construction, goes to church, has close friends the whole white picket fence blue collar American dream.

At some point he begins to have troubling dreams with a common theme of a coming, apocalyptic storm.

As the feelings from his night terrors bleed into the day, his behaviour becomes erratic and he obsesses with kitting out the storm shelter in their garden for the coming events.

Enola Holmes 2

Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) has started her own Detective agency after the events of the first movie but it is overshadowed by her more famous older brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill). With no meaningful clients she is in the midst of shutting up shop when an orphan matchgirl comes begging her to look for her missing sister.

Unable to turn down such a desperate case, little does she know it will uncover a terrible conspiracy.

CW: nothing, this is super family friendly adventure fun for all but younger kids

Sator

Adam (Gabriel Nicholson) lives alone in the forest, looking for signs of "Sator", a supernatural entity that speaks to and through his grandmother, Nani (June Peterson) according to her.

The existence (or not) of Sator has cast a shadow over three generations of the family. Adam stalks the woods by day and listens to Nani's recorded ramblings and reviews her Sator-dictated writings by night.

No good will come of this.

Relic

Kay (Emily Mortimer) returns to her childhood home with her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) when her mother Edna (Robyn Nevin) is reported missing. Edna has been deteriorating mentally, showing signs of dementia and erratic behaviour.

When Edna suddenly reappears after a few days unclear or unwilling to say where she's been everybody is relieved but something is not right.

CW: distressing portrayal of Alzheimers and mental deterioration

The Void

Danny Carter (Aaron Paul) is a bored sheriff in a rural area facing the end of a dull evening shift. When he spots a bloodied man by the side of the road he rushes him to the quiet hospital where his former partner Alison (Kathleen Munroe) works.

No good will come of this.

CW: body horror and squishy abominations a go-go. They also treat the female characters badly in a "just there to be victims" 80s style

Incantation

Li Ronan (Tsai Hsuan-yen) is getting her daughter Dodo back home after her being looked after by the state for several years due to Li Ronan's mental health problems.

She records a video diary so her daughter can have it to look back on.

Once Dodo is home things initially go well but she starts to behave erratically and talk about there being "baddies" in the home and at school.

Li Ronan realises that she has not been able to escape the past but seems powerless to do anything without reliving the things that drove her to abandon Dodo in the first place.

Amulet

Tomaz (Alec Secareanu) is living homeless in London working cash in hand as a labourer. At night he has terrible dreams. Flashbacks to a a war (Kosovo maybe, the year is vague) when he was younger. When his current refuge burns down, a nun (Imelda Staunton) finds him passed out with smoke inhalation in the street and ensures he gets to hospital.

Once he's well she finds him a place to stay with Magda (Carla Juri) in the decrepit old house where she looks after her invalid mother. All they ask is he helps out around the house.

No good will come of this.

CW: rape, body horror

Predators

A group of ultimate badasses and a doctor (Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, Mahershala Ali, Oleg Taktarov, Danny Trejo & Louis Ozawa Changchien) are parachuted into a mysterious jungle not really remembering how they got there. At first they're suspicious of each other but then must work together when they realise they are being hunted by the titular Predators.

The reflecting skin

Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) lives a life ruled by superstition and ignorance in rural 50s America. At age 9 it's unclear if he ever goes to school and is punished cruelly for minor disobedience by his weirdly religious mother, Ruth.

His father has a small run down garage that sells gasoline and his mother constantly chides the man for stinking of the stuff.

He has a slightly odd encounter with their neighbour Dolphin Blue (Lindsey Duncan), a widow who has a home filled with curiosities, where she cries and shows him keepsakes of her dead husband and Seth takes a strong dislike to her.

Later, on being regaled by tales of Vampires from a pulp novel his father is reading he decides Dolphin must be a vampire. When his friends start turning up dead it just makes him more sure.

No good will come of this.

CW: animal cruelty, suicide

The Black Phone

Finney (Mason Thames) goes to school where the town is littered with missing posters and all the kids talk about "The Grabber" the person supposedly responsible for all the missing kids.

One day he falls victim to the sinister masked figure (Ethan Hawke) and finds himself locked in a stark soundproofed basement.

On the wall is a disconnected phone but it starts to ring and the voices on the other end begin to offer him advice on how to escape.

Meanwhile his sister Ginny (Madeleine McGraw) is having visions of the Grabber that might lead her to him.

Roma

Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) works as a maid for an affluent Doctor's family in 1970s Mexico City.

(that's it, there is no complicated premise)

CW: Absolutely mundane horrible onscreen death of people including a baby that is so unglamourised and matter of fact it's more horrific than any horror movie.

Ringu

Journalist Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) begins investigating the circumstances of her niece's unexplained death, which her schoolmates attribute to the watching of a "cursed" video cassette. It seems she's not the only one that died after viewing it.

Initially sceptical at this urban legend she tracks their movements and she ends up at the hotel where apparently the group of friends (now all dead) watched this.

While speaking to the proprietor she spots an unmarked tape on the shelves.

No good will come of this.

The Farewell

When aspiring New York writer Bilii's (Awkwafina) much loved but rarely visited grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer the family members in China resolve to cover this up to spare her distress until the last possible moment when it can no longer be kept from her.

A family wedding is hastily arranged as a pretext for the family to say goodbye to "Nai Nai" but Billi's parents deter her from attending. Travelling alone, she surprises everybody on arrival but the family are insistent that under no circumstances should her grandmother be told the truth.

Await further instructions

Nick (Sam Gittins) and his new girlfriend Annji (Neerja Naik) go home to his parents' house for Christmas and when faced with an overbearing conservative Christian father, vile racist grandfather and obstinately stupid sister there's a massive disastrous argument despite the best efforts of his mother to smooth things over. So the pair resolve to do an early morning flit the next day.

However on getting ready to leave they find every exit to the house blocked by a black fibrous wall and the TV displaying the cryptic message "Stay indoors and await further instructions".

No good will come of this.

Rogue One: A Star Wars story

Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is the daughter of famed Imperial Enginer Galen Erso who goes on the run with his family rather than work on a planned weapon of mass destruction.

When the Empire catches up with Galen, Jyn hides while Commander Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) kills her mother and drags her father away. Made orphan she is rescued by uncompromising Rebel Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) and raised as part of his cadre.

Now, fifteen years later, going by an assumed name she is stuck in an Imperial labour camp having long forsaken any ideas of resistance to the Empire when Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) "rescues" her.

Cassian is a Rebel spy who needs to speak to Saw about an Imperial defector and he thinks Jyn is his way in. The increasingly violent and paranoid Saw and the Rebel Alliance parted ways years ago. This defector claims to have information about the aforementioned superweapon.

Lightyear

Gung ho, overconfident Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear causes the scientific expedition he's tasked to protect to become marooned on a planet teeming with hostile life.

Trying to complete his mission and atone for his mistake he spearheads the endeavours to help them get home but becomes marooned himself in the process.

Antlers

Teacher Julia (Keri Russell) is concerned for the welfare of one of her students Lucas (Jeremy T Thomas) who is painfully thin and showing textbook signs of abuse. She tries to get her brother Paul, the local sheriff (Jesse Plemons) to intervene but the family are known local drug cookers who've been in trouble endlessly and he's frustratingly defeatist, writing them off as a lost cause.

Frustrated, Julia starts to investigate by herself. No good will come of this.

CW: themes of child abuse

Minari

Jacob (Steven Yuen) and Monica (Han Ye‐ri) Yi are Korean immigrants working in the poultry industry in the USA. Dreaming of owning a farm, Jacob uproots the family and buys a parcel of land in rural Arkansas.

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) lives a mundane life working for the Postal Service in a grim inhospitable 70s vision of New York with his partner Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña).

He used to have a different, better life before he spent time in the Vietnam War and was discharged after being injured in a chaotic incident that killed many of his unit.

As he goes about his days he has occasional strange visions and casual glimpses of horrible things but it isn't until they escalate that he feels he needs to do something about them. When he finds others of his unit have had similar experiences things start to unravel and sinister figures intervene.

CW: body horror, surgery, strobing effects

The Invisible Man

Cecilia (Elizabeth Moss) does a midnight flit from her controlling tech-bro partner Adrian and goes into hiding with friends, fearful he will enact some kind of revenge.

Shortly after, Adrian is found dead and the inheritance he leaves her gives Cecilia new independence but it soon becomes clear she's not as free of him as she thought.

CW: domestic violence

After Midnight

Hank (Jeremy Gardner) is in a nosedive after his partner Abby (Brea Grant) walks out one day leaving him a vague note about needing to go away for a bit. His friends worry for him especially when he gets reclusive and threatening, telling them there's a monster stalking him at night.

Every night he barricades himself inside his remote home clutching a shotgun and waiting for it to come.

Samaritan

Granite City is a decaying hellhole ruled by crime and corruption. Once there was hope in the form of the superpowered vigilante Samaritan but he was killed years back along with his brother, the supervillain Nemesis in a climactic battle to stop the total destruction of the city.

A few, including teenager Sam (Javon Walton), think Samaritan still lives and when his taciturn neighbour Joe (Sylvester Stallone) saves Sam from a street gang he begins to think that Joe just might be the fabled hero.

Spring

Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a directionless young man who after losing his mother to cancer gets into an ill advised drunken fight with a local gang member.

Somewhat randomly he travels to Italy, bums around and becomes infatuated with a flirtatious woman Louise (Nadia Hilker).

No good will come of this.

Titane

Alexia (Agathe Rouselle) is involved in a car accident as a young child, seriously injured and ends up stuck in a fixator with a titanium plate in her skull.

Now as an adult she is working as an erotic dancer at car meets, having an affinity for the machines she performs on.

One evening she is assaulted by a stalkerish fan and things take an increasingly violent turn.

CW: Body horror as fuck with violent mayhem, a DIY abortion and general machine fetish weirdness.

Prey

Naru (Amber Midthunder) envies her brother Taabe (Dakota Beavers) who is seen as a great hunter and wishes she could join him rather than staying near the camp and foraging.

When one of their party is taken by a mountain lion Naru tags along on the mission to hunt it down. However there is a much more dangerous threat hunting them all.

The Grey Man

Six (Ryan Gosling) is the last of the CIA's Grey Men, former prisoners recruited and trained as 100% deniable assassins. When his latest mission goes awry he finds himself on the run from the agency that made him what he is.

Lamb

Icelandic farmers Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) live a quiet and somber life in their remote homestead.

At Christmas, one of their ewes gives birth to a very special lamb and the two adopt it as their own.

No good will come of this.

CW: animal births