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