No good will come of this: 2023

John Wick: Chapter 4

John Wick (Keanu Reeves) continues his vendetta against the "High Table" who assign the Marquis de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård) to deal with him.

Gramont forces retired blind swordsman Caine (Donnie Yen), an old friend of Wick's, to join the hunt, while an enigmatic tracker Mr Nobody (Shamier Anderson) and his dog are already on his trail.

CW: ultraviolence, wound detail

In a sprawling galaxy of varied worlds everybody fears the Motherworld's conquering armies.

While searching for rebels and in need of resupply a Motherworld dreadnought "The King's Gaze" comes to the agricultural settlement Veldt and Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein) demands the locals hand over their entire harvest.

Leaving a small contingent behind the dreadnought departs with Noble promising to return in ten weeks.

Following a fatal altercation with the ill-disciplined Motherland troops, Kora (Sophia Boutella) an offworlder they've taken in, makes it clear that this now means the Veldt will be razed to the ground and they must recruit people able to fight and defend themselves when "The King's Gaze" returns.

Kora and the farmer Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) begin their search for rebels, mercenaries and outcasts willing to stand up to the Motherworld.

Mike (Josh Hutcherson) struggles to make ends meet and look after his young sister Abby (Piper Rubio). He's facing a custody battle with his aunt after losing his latest job and will take literally anything offered.

He ends up doing night security at the mothballed family entertainment restaurant "Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria" an 80s nightmare of arcade machines, ball pits and the piece de resistance giant dancing and singing animatronic anthropomorphic animals.

After some weird goings on he meets local beat cop Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail) who tells him more of the history of the place.

No good will come of this.

Six year old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) lives with her father Wink (Dwight Henry) in "The Bathtub" a region of bayou forever threatened by the rising sea.

She has few worries and little schooling but daydreams of the Aurochs: ancient beasts that hunted early mankind.

One day she strikes her father causing the storm that washes everything away and unleashes the Aurochs from their icy prison.

No good will come of this.

CW: squalor, putrefaction, animal gutting/butchery

This biopic tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) from his early days working in parallel with the great theoretical physicists of the early 20th century, then a rapidly changing field, his famous time steering the Manhattan Project and his later downfall due to a witch hunt founded on his early association with known communists.

Out of the blue, Advertising Executive Amanda (Julia Roberts) wakes her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) early and announces that they are having a weekend break. She's booked an AirBnB not too far outside the city at a great price.

The house is amazing, their kids aren't moaning too much and everything is going great. The only annoying thing is that the Internet and TV goes out during the day. Their phones lose signal too.

That night there's a knock at the door and a man claiming to be G.H. Scott (Mahershala Ali) has arrived with his daughter Ruth (Myha'La). He says there's been a blackout in the city and they'd like to come in and stay the night.

CW: horrible shit with teeth

Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) lives an unchanging life in Barbie World where everything is perfect.

Her boyfriend Beach Ken (Ryan Gosling) wishes she paid him more attention but it's girls night every night.

One day after some intrusive thoughts things start to go wrong. She's informed by Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) that out in the real world there's a little girl in trouble who needs her help and she must travel there to help. This comes as something of a shock as Barbie knows nothing about the real world.

Georges (Jean Dujardin) is going through a divorce and drives to a distant small town where he pays a large sum of money for a fringed deerskin jacket and a camcorder.

With nothing much to do he bullshits the local barmaid (Adèle Haenel) he's making a film. She's a frustrated film student and shows an interest.

Meanwhile the deerskin jacket has been talking to Georges. No good will come of this.

CW: bloody random murder

Pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) is Captain on a budget airline flight out of Singapore on New Year's Eve. There are only a handful of passengers on board, including extradited murder suspect Louis Gaspar (Mike Colter) and his escort.

With heavy weather inbound they attempt to climb above the storm instead of rerouting around it.

No good will come of this.

CW: air crash, occasional brutal violence

Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) is a young woman with aspirations of being a writer but has her ideas for ghost stories disparaged and is told she should try romantic fiction instead. Edith knows little of love but is quite certain ghosts exist as she has seen one. Her own dead mother has warned her of the "Crimson Peak".

The dashing English Baronet Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddlestone) has travelled to America with his sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain) seeking finance for a business idea from a consortium of businessmen including Edith's father.

When Thomas and Edith meet a romance swiftly blossoms and after the tragic death of her father the pair are married and Edith returns with them to the ancestral Sharpe estate.

No good will come of this.

When a cutting edge hardware cyberwar toolkit unexpectedly ends up in the hands of a Colombian drug enforcement agent he sees a way to make some money and puts it up for sale on the Black Market.

Being quite naive about this sort of thing he immediately comes to the attention of multiple Intelligence agencies causing a scramble to get hold of the device.

Richard (Paddy Considine) returns to his home town from a time in the Army. He's there for one thing: to get revenge on the group of men (mostly local drug dealers and ne'er-do-wells) who tormented his disabled younger brother Anthony (Toby Kebbell).

No good will come of this.

CW: drug abuse, sexual assault, cruelty, violence, suicide

With the rebellion approaching Capitol only District 2 stands in the way.

To keep the propaganda output going Katniss goes to be the face of a standoff with the armoury there to try and smooth the path to surrender. This doesn't go to plan and she is injured so President Coin recalls her to District 13 to follow up when the main assault is done.

Katniss has other plans: President Snow must die.

Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was revealed as a turncoat agent of the rebellion in spiriting Katniss away from the Games Arena at the conclusion of the last movie.

Now she is immediately set up by Plutarch to be a propaganda tool of President Coin (Julianne Moore) of the mysterious District 13. Which was long thought to be destroyed in the War by the other Districts. Katniss agrees to this with some conditions.

Meanwhile Peeta is returned to Capitol where he starts doing much the same for President Snow.

The rebellion is intensifying and both sides need their weapons.

Before the next annual Hunger Games begins Katniss and Peeta are obliged to take part in the Victory Tour where they visit each District.

The intervening time has seen them become comparatively comfortable but their romance of convenience fizzled once they were safe. Now they again have to put on a show for the cameras.

The small crumbs of rebellion they showed to the Districts in the Games has sparked a minor but irksome rebellion.

President Snow makes it clear to Katniss that any misbehaviour or failure to convince him of the on-screen couple's undying love will end with her death and that of everybody she loves including Gale: her actual lover in District 12.

Katniss has never been very good at following instruction.

In some post new Civil Nuclear War, North America is divided into Districts ruled by Capitol. Each district is a a slave state responsible for the labour and industry that keeps Capitol in luxury and some are poorer than others. District 12 is poorest of all.

As part of its show of power, every year Capitol selects by lottery two youths from each District to fight in a Battle Royale which is televised nationwide: a form of reality TV with ceremony, betting, punditry, leaderboards and opportunities for patronage.

When young Primrose Everdeen is chosen to represent District 12 her sister Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers in her stead. Nobody ever volunteers: it is a likely death sentence.

The Freelings live in a growing housing Estate where Steve (Craig T. Nelson) works as a salesman selling new houses. One night young Carol Anne becomes fascinated by the late night static on the TV after the programming ends and begins to converse with the "TV people".

Soon, things in the house begin to move by themselves and Diane (JoBeth Williams) observes highly repeatable behaviour in the Kitchen where things move across the floor.

This all seems quite fun. Carol Anne says the "TV people" are behind it all.

Funnily enough, no good will come of this.

CW: strobing lights

When Jeremiah O'Keefe's (Tommy Lee Jones) family firm of Undertakers struggles financially after an investment goes bad they're on the verge of losing their licence.

Following legal advice he travels to Canada to sell a portion of the business to a large holding company and use the money to get back on his feet. Everything seems settled but then the deal stalls. Young lawyer Hal Dockins (Mamdou Athie) thinks they've used the process to assess the company's vulnerability to bankruptcy and are holding out to buy it after foreclosure.

Jerry is keen to sue over this sharp practice and Hal has an unusual suggestion. Instead of using their usual lead lawyer they should take on the flamboyant Willie E. Gary (Jamie Foxx) who's won dozens of high profile cases.

There's a problem though: Willie E. Gary doesn't practice contract law.

When King Aurvandil War-Raven returns home his brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang) betrays and kills him, claims the kingdom, orders Aurvandil's son Amleth killed and drags away Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman).

Escaping, Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) lives a life of violence for years until he hears of Aurvandil's fall and exile to Iceland at which point he he decides to finally act upon his childhood oath of revenge.

No good will come of this.

CW: bloody violence, slavery

The Killer (Michael Fassbinder) leads a very disciplined quiet life, concentrating on each job in turn and trying to remain invisible.

When a job goes wrong there are consequences.

Following the discovery of the reserve of ancient sea life where the Megalodon was encountered in the first movie there's now a permanent presence at the station Mana One mapping and exploring the trench.

However they're not the only ones working there, it's also a source of precious minerals. No good will come of this.

CW: I think this movie is a genuine danger to your IQ

Once virtual reality technology is perfected almost 75% of humanity spends most of life online in escapist simulation.

When hundreds of players die due to a computer virus attack, Private investigator Nash (Mike Dopud) is hired by the Synternis Corporation to track down the terrorist group responsible: The Necromancers.

Meanwhile Interpol are also on the case.

Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) is having a bad day. Over and over again. Badass as he is, having a squad of idiosyncratic assassins try to kill you from the moment you wake is no fun. Also at some point he's realised the only woman he ever really loved died and it's got something to do with this.

No matter. He's got time.

CW: Ultraviolence and suicide

In a world ravaged by climate change and war resources are scarce but some of the world has not descended into Mad Max style barbarism. Instead what we see of humanity lives a life of hedonism tended to by mecha: robots of varying complexity that have no wants of their own.

When the Swinton's son Martin is put into a coma to delay the progress of an incurable disease they are offered a prototype mecha David (Haley Joel Osment) that is capable of emotion and more complete human interaction to assauge their grief.

This does not go as planned.

Laura (Jemima Rooper) has a successful career in an advertising agency but lives an empty personal life she fills with drugs and alcohol.

She has a significant nosedive and one night overdoses, recovering unexpectedly but finds herself unable to cope any more, lashing out at work and also suffering from unexplained bleeding.

When her mother Celia (Kate Dickie) calls out of the blue this triggers her to go back to her childhood home despite the two being estranged for twenty years.

No good will come of this.

CW: eating disorder, drug abuse, body horror

Mia (Sophie Wilde) and Jade (Alexandra Jensen) are into usual late teen stuff. There's drama, boyfriends, disagreements with their parents and parties.

The hottest party ticket is anywhere Hayley and Joss pitch up with the hand: supposedly the embalmed hand of a medium that can put you in touch with the dead. Videos of the unnerving results are all over their phones.

One night they manage to get an invite and Jade's younger brother Riley (Joe Bird) tags along, like he does.

No good will come of this.

CW: self harm, gore

Sara (Desiree Akhavan) has a YouTube channel where she meets up with people who've posted personal ads looking for companionship, the odder the better, and records the results. It's a cavalcade of lonely and/or odd people at times bordering on the fetish scene.

The channel is not doing well.

Her next meet is with Aaron (Mark Duplass) who almost immediately confesses to being a serial killer, although that's OK because he promises he won't kill her in the next 24 hours and he never lies.

No good week come of this.

CW: murder, suicide, stalking, full frontal nudity

The Shibatu family live in a tiny cramped home in a poor part of Tokyo.

Grandmother Hatsue's (Kirin Kiki) pension provides some basic stability but otherwise they live precariously. Osamu (Lily Franky) does day labour on building sites and Nobuyo (Sakura Ando) works part time in an industrial laundry. Aki (Mayu Matsuoka) work on the fringes of the sex industry in a hands off fetish peep show.

To make ends meet Osamu takes young Shota (Kairi Jō) shoplifting for things they need or can sell and they're all into small grifts to make money.

One night walking home, Nobuyo spots a young girl shut outside of an apartment in the cold. They take her in and give her a meal, planning to take her home in the morning.

When it becomes clear Yuri is poorly fed and being beaten that plan sort of evaporates with nothing to take its place.

No good will come of this.

CW: child neglect

Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) has unconventional dreams for a young British Pakistani woman: training diligently in martial arts and making her own YouTube channel with her performing moves and stunts.

Ria wants to be a stuntwoman. Fuck being a Pharmacist.

Her older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) has just dropped out of art school and is going through a despondent phase.

Their quite traditional parents tolerate their dreams but try to steer them onto a more conventional path.

When a chance meeting with a handsome Doctor has Lena in a whirlwind romance and sudden engagement Ria decides this is suspicious and that she must stop the wedding by any means necessary.

CW: solid swearing

1985. When a plane carrying a smuggler's shipment of cocaine is forced to ditch over the Georgia mountains the cargo is distributed widely over the area.

No good will come of this

CW: gore splatterfest

Sadie (Sophie Thatcher) and Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair) Harper miss their mother, who died unexpectedly in an accident. Their father Will (Chris Messina) is distant and in a kind of denial.

Will works as a therapist, seeing patients in his home office. One day a troubled man comes to see him without an appointment.

No good will come of this.

CW: Jump scares

Back in 1987 a masked killer slaughtered three high school girls around Halloween, stabbing them sixteen times each and the town has a small industry doing "sweet sixteen slasher walks" every year.

When the killer returns 35 years later, Jamie Hughes (Kiernan Shipka) finds herself thrust back in time and attempts to stop the first murders ever happening using the true crime podcasts about it on her phone.

No good will come of this.

CW: it's a slasher movie laden with 80s slasher movie stuff, but mostly comedically

Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is an anxious young woman living a purposefully solitary life in the house she grew up in. She is a pariah in town due to her involvement in a tragedy when she was young but fills her life with retro styled homewares and makes a living doing mail order sales of her own similarly quirky clothes.

One night she is woken by a noise outside the house and assuming it is just raccoons goes to investigate.

No good will come of this.

CW: mild body horror

During a problematic exorcism Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) is hospitalised and it isn't until after he regains consciousness that Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) finds out they were unsuccessful and the demon had just migrated to the body of a young man present rather than being expelled.

In the meantime he has killed and stands trial for murder but the Warrens suggest a novel defence: "Not guilty by reason of Demonic possession".

CW: suicide

Moving from the Great War era of the first movie to the 1980s, Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) is working in the Smithsonian. She has lost her friends from that period and longs for the only man she loved: Steve Trevor (Chris Pine).

A jewellery heist (which WW foils) uncovers a hoard of antiquities which are sent to the museum and Diana and Barbera Minerva (Kristen Wiig) set to cataloguing them. In particular there is one fake-looking gemstone, fitted with a Latin inscription claiming that it grants wishes. Both the women jokingly make wishes on the stone in unguarded moments.

No good will come of this.

Meanwhile Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) is looking for the stone hoping it can fix his floundering TV personality driven direct sales business empire.

During the closing days of WWII, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and Basil Shaw (Toby Jones) are trying to stop a train loaded with looted antiquities leaving with the retreating Nazis. Amongst the treasures is the famous Antikythera Mechanism. The train crashes and there is much chaos but Jones and Shaw escape with it.

Now decades later Jones is retiring from his teaching position at University just as humanity lands on the moon. He feels very much part of the past when everybody else is looking to the future.

Shaw's daughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) appears asking questions about the Antikythera but there are also other old fossils looking for it.

Shenanigans ensue.

Bridling at being confined to the sewer by their adoptive father Splinter the Turtles start to sneak off and watch the human world longingly.

They distract aspiring student journalist April O'Neil causing her scooter to get stolen. Feeling guilty about this they decide to help get it back.

Mayhem ensues.

CW: nothing really, some gross-out humour

Guitar technician Beth (Lily Sullivan) returns from touring to visit her sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) and her kids.

Ellie lives in a decrepit apartment block soon to be demolished. That night there is an earthquake that causes cracks all over the building and opens a hole in the basement garage. One of the kids goes down the hole into a newly exposed old vault to explore.

No good will come of this.

CW: grim and gory from the outset a well earned 18 cert

When her husband dies in unusual circumstances, falling from a high rock promontory Song Seo-Rae (Tang Wei) is brought in for questioning.

Det. Jang Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) is convinced she was somehow involved in his death as she is insufficiently grief stricken and has some unexplained bruises and cuts.

As he interrogates then follows Seo-Rae, Hae-Jun becomes infatuated with her.

No good will come of this.

After an encounter with Vampire Hunters an injured Count Dracula (Nic Cage) is convalescing in New Orleans. Hiding in an abandoned hospital he relies on his familiar Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) to bring him victims to feast upon and regain his full power.

Renfield tires of being in thrall to the vampire and has been cruising support groups looking for victims who 'deserve' to be eaten on account of being neglectful or abusive partners of the attendees.

While there he begins to take in the self-help message and thinks he can change.

CW: massively OTT bloody violence

Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) lives an ascetic life: working in a large home supply/builders warehouse where he assumes a bit of a mentor role with some of the employees. When he struggles to sleep at night McCall spends time in the 24h diner near his home.

There he befriends a young sex worker Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz) who is pimped out by a Russian mobster.

One day she ends up badly beaten and McCall goes to have words with him. Things escalate slightly.

CW: bloody violence

Humanity is in a unified struggle against an alien threat that arrived on an asteroid. Humanity is losing.

Despite a massive effort to coordinate military action and the development of exo-skeletal powered suits that allow infantry to bring vehicle scale weapons to the fight there has been but one small victory led by Sgt. Rita Vratasky (Emily Blunt), the "Angel of Verdun".

Sgt. Vrataski's signature weapon is a helicopter rotor blade that she wields like a sword and her image is everywhere.

US Army Media relations officer Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise) is summoned to London to cover the upcoming massive assault on Northern France, Operation Downfall, from the battlefront.

Cage is a coward and tries to twist out of then refuses the order, finds himself arrested for desertion and shipped off to the forward operating base to be sent into battle: the very thing he was trying to avoid. He does not live long.

CW: suicide

Young Stanley (Milo Coy/Jack Black) is chosen to do a dry run for Apollo 11 when a slight miscalculation means the capsule is too small for adult Astronauts. He is put through a secret accelerated training programme under the cover of going to Summer Camp.

The mission is unofficially called Apollo 10½.

CW: nothing

Ronen (Dave Davis) is a young man who has renounced his Orthodox Jewish observances and is trying to integrate with mainstream culture and less restrictive practices.

He's not doing great, struggling to find work and low on money.

Ronen is asked to stand as Shomer by one of his old community: waiting until dawn with a body when the undertakers will come.

While initially reluctant he negotiates a higher fee for this, which he's done before when he was still active in the Orthodox community, and agrees.

The deceased was a survivor of the Holocaust who'd been a recluse for many decades.

No good will come of this

CW: jump scares and a little body horror

Psychiatric patient John Trent (Sam Neill) is visited by Dr. Wrenn (David Warner) who asks him to explain how he thinks he came to be there.

Trent explains how he was an insurance fraud investigator hired by a publishing company to track down missing horror writer Sutter Cane, their highest grossing talent.

Together with Cane's editor Linda Styles (Julie Carmen) he travelled to a place in New England hinted at by Cane's books thinking to find him there.

No good will come of this

CW: some jump scares and squishy 80s style gore and monster effects

Moon So-young (Lee Ji-eun) is a young mother who dumps her baby outside an orphanage on dark rainy night.

He is taken in by Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) who volunteers there but he then deletes the record. Dong-soo has an arrangement with Ha Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) who spirits away unwanted babies for sale to rich couples who can't navigate Korea's byzantine adoption rules.

Meanwhile, two detectives watch on intending to follow and catch them in the act.

CW: nothing of note

When an old priest dies, the last of the Brotherhood of Sleep, he passes on a secret to the archdiocese. They have for many centuries kept an ancient relic beneath what is now a neglected urban church.

An unnamed representative of the church (Donald Pleasance) contacts Professor of Physics Howard Birack (Victor Wong) to help. It seems this artefact contains the very physical essence of evil, perhaps the devil himself and if it is physical it can be studied, quantified and contained.

Birack gathers a multidisciplinary team of researchers who set up in the church but withholds from them what it is they are there to study.

No good will come of this.

CW: some 80s sexism, insect swarms and an awful moustache

Syd March (Caleb Landry Jonas) is a salesman and technician at The Lucas Clinic. Here, diseases and ailments are harvested from celebrities and cultivated for resale to their most dedicated fans so they can experience a piece of their life.

It's a lucrative operation and the products are modified before injection to make them less contagious preventing 'resale'.

Syd has a side-line in infecting himself with product to get it out of the building, extracting it and undoing the copy protection for sale on the bootleg market.

When he gets a chance at an amazing scoop he injects himself straight from the source.

No good will come of this

CW: needles, lots of needles and mild body horror throughout

Ten years after the events of "Terminator 2" and Judgement Day has been averted. John Connor (Nick Stahl) lives an off-grid life in case a Terminator ever comes looking for him again.

After a road accident he breaks into a veterinary practice looking to do some DIY medical treatment as he won't go to a hospital. There he is caught by school acquaintance Kate Brewster (Claire Daines).

This is a bad idea as after all this time a new model Terminator (Kristanna Loken) has arrived but this time is looking for Brewster.

Luckily there's also an old fashioned T101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) along too to lend Connor and Brewster a hand.

CW: injury detail

Writer James (Alexander Skarsgård) and his heiress wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are holidaying in an enclave resort on (fictional island nation) Li Tolqa.

When he bumps into a fan Gabi (Mia Goth) she persuades the couple to go outside the fence for a boozy picnic. On the drive back there is an accident and James kills a local.

The following day Police Detective Thresh informs him that the penalty for this is death at the hands of the victim's eldest son. However there is an alternative, for a handsome price. He can have a 'double' take his place.

No good will come of this.

CW: injury detail, facial disfigurement, flashing imagery, colonialism, cultural appropriation and entitlement, suicide, psychedelic imagery, toxic hedonism, torture and humiliation