Stir of Echoes

Tom (Kevin Bacon) and Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) live in a blue collar neighborhood of Chicago and their son Jake can see the dead, although this mostly manifests as him having "invisible friends" that aren't problematic.

One night at a party Tom is goaded into being hypnotised by Maggie's sister where she instructs him to "open up" little knowing Tom too has the same gift, just repressed.

No good will come of this.

A Cure for Wellness

 The CEO of a major financial services corporation in New York sends a strange rambling letter to the board from his stay at a Swiss "wellness retreat" saying he will likely not return. It's a disaster: they are mid merger and rumours of his absence have got out, tanking the share price.

Rising star salesman Lockhart (Dane Dehaan) is dispatched to bring the CEO back, by any means necessary.

No good will come of this.

CW: body horror, sexual assault, sadistic dentistry and eels, lots of eels

Promising Young Woman

Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan) haunts nightclubs and bars of L.A. pretending to be insensibly drunk and vulnerable and if a predatory man tries to pick her up will go with them, later shaming them.

No good will come of this.

CW: sexual assault

MaXXXine

 1985, years after the events of "X", Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) is an established porn star but is trying to break into "straight" movies as she says herself: "in porn, women age like bread not wine".

British horror auteur Elizabeth Bender (Elizabeth Debicki) gives her a chance at the lead in horror sequel "Puritan II" but all the while the Satanic serial killer "The Night Stalker" is terrorising L.A. and seemingly working his way through Maxine's friends and colleagues.

CW: some gore

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A group of 12 year old girls gather for a sleepover at one of their parents' modernist mansion filled with art.

No good will come of this.

CW: bullying

Baghead

 When her long estranged father dies in Berlin, Iris (Freya Allen) travels there and finds she has inherited an "English Pub": The Queen's Head. The executor urges her to break up the estate but on seeing the place Iris decides to sign the deeds as it may get her out of her poverty stricken rut in the UK.

No good will come of this.

The Instigators

 It is the eve of the Boston Mayoral election where incumbent Mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) is expected to romp home. Miccelli is notoriously corrupt and reputedly many favours and contracts will be bought with cash bribes at his private victory party.

Nobody crosses the Mayor but local crime boss Mr Besegai decides to raid the party and steal the cash. When the rumour gets out he's going to try roll the Mayor nobody will take the job except the desperate: ex-con Cobby (Casey Affleck) and down on his luck ex-Marine Rory (Matt Damon).

No good will come of this.

Alien: Romulus

On the mining colony Jackson's Star, Rain (Cailee Spaeny) just like endless generations of young people stuck in a dead end location longs to escape. She has more motivation than most: the perilous mining work ultimately killed her parents.

Rain cares for her 'brother' Andy (David Jonsson) a damaged Synthetic her father fixed up who is somewhat childlike and occasionally malfunctions. When she was a child he was a playmate, now he's a dependent.

When a group of her friends tries to recruit her for a less than legal caper to loot a decommissioned Weyland-Yutani installation they've detected while on a supply run in their beaten up mining shuttle she reluctantly agrees. This may be her only ticket out of there.

No good will come of this.

CW: body horror, injury detail, jump scares

Insomnia

Detectives Dormer (Al Pacino) and Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent from L.A. to the remote community of Nightmute Alaska to assist with the investigation of the murder of a 17yr old woman. This is unusual but the local Police have asked for assistance and it also gets them out of the immediate grasp of an ongoing Internal Affairs investigation that may implicate one or both of them. When they arrive they are greeted by Det. Burr (Hilary Swank) who is a follower of Dormer who is somewhat of a famous solver of tough murder cases.

Nightmute is inside the Arctic circle and as it's summer has day round daylight. Dormer can't sleep.

No good will come of this.

Fortress

In a dystopian totalitarian future USA families are limited to one child. 

John Brennick (Christophe Lambert) and his wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) attempt to escape across the border to Canada. She is pregnant again after they lost their first child.

When the pregnancy is detected they make a run for it.

No good will come of this.

CW: weird creepy sex hostage stuff

The Holdovers

Christmas is approaching at a prestigious New England boarding school and misanthropic Classics master Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) has been selected to supervise the small number of holdovers: those boys who will not be going home for Christmas.

Together with Kitchen supervisor Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) he must ensure the boys' wellbeing until the rest of the staff return. Among their number is a particularly troubled young man Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa).

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Born in one of the few places still green after the six day war, Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) is kidnapped and dragged away by one of biker Warlord Dementus' (Chris Hemsworth) horde. Her mother tries to rescue her but is crucified by Dementus who then 'adopts' Furiosa as his daughter and carts her around in a cage like a trophy.

No good will come of this.

CW: General post-apocalyptic nastiness and stylised violence

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Many decades after the death of the mythical Caesar a young chimpanzee, Noa (Owen Teague) is on the verge of his coming of age ceremony. His clan specialises in falconry and he has just undergone the perilous trial to take an eagle's egg from its nest to raise.

That night he encounters a human (Freya Allan) for the first time. The 'echoes' as his clan call them are almost never seen in the valley.

No good will come of this.

Looper

It is 2044 and thirty years before the invention of time travel Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works as a Looper. A vicious future crime Syndicate sends people back in time, trussed up and helpless, to be disposed of so there's no forensic trace of them.

It's a lucrative easy life with a shelf life. Once you're no longer of use to the Syndicate they send you back to be disposed of by yourself, "closing the loop".

Occasionally a looper won't go through with it and there is hell to pay.

When Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) is sent back he's not helpless.

No good will come of this.

CW: child murder

The Nice Guys

In 1970s L.A. Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) makes a less than legal living beating people up for money: he prefers it if they're something unsavoury like a sex pest but he's not fussy.

Holland March (Ryan Gosling) has a more legitimate business as a Private Investigator tracking people down for money but he's scarcely any more moral. March has been hired to look for the famous porn actress Misty Mountains, despite her dying very publicly a few days earlier in a car crash. Her aunt is convinced she's seen her since.

March's investigation has lead him to a young woman called Amelia (Margaret Qualley) but Healey has been paid by her to frighten March off.

Shenanigans ensue.

The Host

Years after an unethical scientist disposes of gallons of toxic chemicals down the drain a huge mutated monster emerges and attacks the people at a park by the Han river.

Lazy food stall operator Park Gang-Du's (Song Kang-ho) daughter Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung) is grabbed by the beast and dragged away. When she makes a desperate phone call suggesting she may still be alive the Korean authorities prove useless and the whole family resolve to try and find her, but first they must escape the quarantine they've been placed under.