Undergods

Two garbage men travel a nameless decaying industrial hellscape picking up corpses from the street. To pass the time they tell stories which are also interconnected portals into other worlds where if you're not careful you might just end up in theirs.

CW: bloody dehumanising violence

The Godfather: Part III

Having got mostly out of anything criminal, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is thinking about his legacy and gets involved in a complicated international business deal with the Vatican Bank.

His son Anthony, much like he did as a younger man, wants nothing to do with the business.

His daughter Mary (Sofia Coppola) is however beginning to get enmeshed in their business affairs.

When his dead brother's son Vincent (Andy Garcia) comes to him over an argument he takes him under his wing.

No good will come of this.

The Godfather: Part II

After consolidating power in the wake of his father's death, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) has created a gambling empire in Las Vegas but faces threats from other players and the government itself.

Interleaved with this we get flashbacks to his father Vito's (Robert DeNiro) early life and adoption of a life of crime.

CW: domestic violence

The Godfather

Shortly after WWII, Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) the patriarch of a great New York criminal dynasty holds court while supplicants come to him at his daughter's wedding. It is a tradition that on this day he can refuse no request so there are many.

Over the coming years much will change and not all his plans for his family will go how he wishes.

CW: some domestic violence

48 Hrs

When a convict escapes from a work gang and ends up killing two of his fellow Detectives, Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) gets one of the killer's former accomplices Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) out of jail for 48 hours to assist with tracking him down.

CW: all manner of late 70s/early 80s racism and sexism but in a kind of "it was like that then: shrug" kind of way.

Donkey Punch

Tammi (Nichola Burley), Kim (Jaime Winstone) and Lisa (Sian Breckin) go on holiday to Mallorca after Kim has a messy breakup.

There they hook up with some lads who are working as yacht crew and agree to go aboard for "one drink".

No good will come of this.

CW: graphic sex, full frontal nudity, misogyny, sexual assault, torture, injury detail

Reality

Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney) returns home from work and finds two FBI agents (Josh Hamilton & Marchánt Davis) waiting for her.

They inform her that they have a search warrant for her, her house and her car and that they'd like to ask her voluntarily to answer some questions.

Reality (yes that's her real name) agrees.

American Fiction

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is pissed off.

He's a published author of serious fiction and a teaching professor but struggling to get his latest work accepted.

Going from what's garnering press and sales it seems to him the world wants "black writing" not "black authors".

While on enforced "gardening leave" for upsetting students (again) with his abrasive manner and dealing with a family tragedy he lashes out in the only way he can: by giving people what they want.

No good will come of this.

We're all going to the World's Fair

Casey (Anna Cobb) is a lonely listless teen who decides to do the "World's Fair Challenge": a viral online experience where people perform a ritual that "changes them" and they document their symptoms & experiences.

No good will come of this.

CW: body horror, flashing lights and shakycam

Damsel

Princess Elodie (Milly Bobby Brown) reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage with a Prince of distant Aurea. The bride price is huge: enough to help the struggling domain of her father Lord Bayford (Ray Winstone) bring in supplies to get them through winter.

Once they arrive in Aurea, as much as everything is very glamorous Elodie's stepmother (Angela Basset) fears things are not as they seem.

Nonetheless Lord Bayford and Elodie resolve to go ahead with the marriage.

No good will come of this.

CW: cartoony violence