Asteroid City

The final work by acclaimed playwright Conrad Earp is the subject of a documentary and we see reconstructions of its writing, production and in the main, a mind's eye view of the story imagined in the play itself.

Abigail

Lambert (Giancarlo Esposito) puts together a crew for a kidnap and ransom of a young girl with a potential $50m payoff as the victim's father is a secretive but significantly wealthy figure.

The grab goes well and they hole up at a big old house in a remote area while Lambert goes off to secure the cash.

While waiting, petty rivalries form and silly mistakes are made. Unexpectedly the victim, the titular Abigail (Alisha Weir), sees one of the kidnappers' faces and they consider offing her and doing a bunk.

It's at this point she lets slip her father is Kristof Lazar, a Keyser Soze-esque boogeyman in underworld circles, somebody you absolutely positively do not fuck with.

No good will come of this.

CW: mountains of gore

Rambo III

When Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) is captured during a secret mission in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) teams up with local rebels to rescue him. That's it.

Bushwick

Lucy (Brittany Snow) is taking her boyfriend Jose (Arturo Castro) to meet her family for the first time. As they are leaving the subway station things are eerily quiet and the announcer says the station is closing as all services are suspended. Lucy dismisses this as just usual Brooklyn bullshit.

No good will come of this.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) is not just the King of Atlantis, he's a father. Struggling with the burdens of state he spends as much time as he can on land with his son.

Meanwhile Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is scouring the globe for lost Atlantean technology with which to build his dreams of conquest. When they stumble across a cache of artefacts older than even Atlantis a Black Trident calls out to him. No good will come of this.

Arcadian

Fifteen years after the collapse of society, Paul (Nic Cage) lives on a remote smallholding with his two sons Joseph (Jaeden Martell) and Thomas (Maxwell Jenkins). They're not the only people around, there are several farms within extend walking distance and Thomas spends a lot of time at the Rose farm because he has a crush on Charlotte (Sadie Soverall).

This all sounds slightly idyllic (per the title) and it would be but for the hideous monsters that come out at night forcing everybody to barricade themselves indoors at dusk. One night Thomas is late coming back from the Rose farm.

No good will come of this.

CW: icky in places, shakycam which I thought had died a death

Rebel Ridge

Terry (Aaron Pierre) has sold his truck and gathered all his savings to travel to the small town of Shelby Springs and bail out his cousin Mike who's been arrested for drug possession. The vague plan is to use the surplus to get Mike away from there and straightened out.

When he's stopped unexpectedly by local Police they use the drug connection to seize all the cash despite not actually arresting him: an entirely legal seizure which he can contest in court but at great cost and delay.

With this meaning Mike will be jailed Terry goes to the local Police Chief (Don Johnson) to plead for the return of at least some of the cash.

No good will come of this.

The Mothman Prophecies

Travelling to interview a politician, journalist John Klein (Richard Gere) finds himself micro-sleeping at the wheel then his car cuts out. Knocking at a nearby house he has an incomprehensible confrontation with a local man who claims Klein's been harassing him for days. A local Police officer Connie Mills (Laura Linney) defuses the situation and it's only then Klein discovers he's hundreds of miles from where he expected to be: an improbably long journey to the town of Point Pleasant, Ohio.

No good will come of this.