Plane

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

Crimson Peak

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.

The 355

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.

Dead Man's Shoes

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

The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2

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.

The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1

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.

The Hunger Games Catching Fire

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.

The Hunger Games

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.

Poltergeist

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

The Burial

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.

The Northman

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

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.

Meg 2: The Trench

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

Virtual Revolution

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.

Boss Level

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

AI: Artificial Intelligence

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.