Sisu

Late WWII in a remote area of Finland, lone prospector Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) strikes lucky and finds a huge deposit of gold.

While travelling to bank this he crosses paths with a group of retreating Waffen SS. Initially they ignore him but some stragglers decide to shake him down for whatever they can.

No good will come of this.

CW: riotously bloody grindhouse violence, rape

Ash

Riya (Eiza González) awakes in her quarters injured and unable to recall anything much. People she vaguely remembers as colleagues have been brutally murdered and the installation is malfunctioning. As she tries to get things working again she begins to get flashes of what happened: it might be that she is responsible.

Soon, Brion (Aaron Paul) arrives from the orbital station to find out why they've gone offline.

No good will come of this.

CW: gore, body horror

Smile 2

Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is a pop princess on the promotional round for her comeback tour. It's a year since she was in a serious car accident that killed her high profile actor boyfriend and left her scarred and in pain.

The people around her are decent and supportive but with her history of drug use she is under the microscope and nobody will prescribe her the strong painkillers she thinks she needs even though she's made real progress on staying clean.

In desperation she goes to an old school friend who's her occasional drug dealer to get something to tide her over.

No good will come of this.

CW: suicide, mutilation, gore, loss of agency

Captain America: Brave New World

Running on a platform of "Together", the notoriously hawkish General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross (Harrison Ford) defies expectations and becomes POTUS.

It seems his intentions are genuine: he's trying to agree an international treaty on access to the new wonder material Adamantium found on Celestial Island and reaches out to Captain America (Anthony Mackie), who he once imprisoned, to reform the Avengers.

However following an assassination attempt Ross reverts to paranoid form leaving Cap to find out what's really going on.

Perfect Days

Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) lives a sparse life of striking uniformity.

Early every morning he buys coffee out of a vending machine and travels from his tiny home to clean toilets in Tokyo's public parks. He goes about this with great diligence.

At lunchtime Hirayama photographs the light through the trees. He mostly eats from the same few places. Aside from this he reads and listens to music, mostly 60s and 70s Western rock, on cassette. At night he dreams in black and white.

That's it.

Control Freak

Valerie Nguyen (Kelly Marie Tran) is a motivational self-help speaker with several successful books under her belt and about to embark on a speaking tour in Asia-pacific. This could catapult "the Queen of good habits" career to the next level.

Val has an affluent lifestyle and loving husband Robbie (Miles Robbins) and the pair are trying for a baby. Things couldn't be better: a world away from her working class Vietnamese immigrant childhood.

She just needs to get her birth certificate for the visa, something her estranged father may still have in a box somewhere. It's approaching the anniversary of Val's mother's death and she'd rather avoid speaking to him. Also she's developed an irritating persistent itch on the back of her head. Robbie says to visit the doctor but she's simply got no time for that.

No good will come of this.

CW: body horror, mutilation, bugs

The Electric State

In an alternative world where 1950s style helpful somewhat 'kawai' robots became ubiquitous eventually there is a robot uprising and war. Humanity prevails through the use of remotely piloted drones and the remaining robots are exiled to a huge country-sized enclave in the desert.

Now decades later that drone/VR technology has evolved so that people can become couch potatoes indulging in VR fantasies while using a fraction of their mind to do everyday labour, taking the place of the robots.

One day, orphan Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) finds a fugitive robot in her backyard. It is in the form of Cosmo: a cartoon robot beloved by her younger brother who died around the time of the uprising. Through its rudimentary vocabulary of cartoon phrases it manages to persuade her that somehow it is him and that it needs her help.

Sing Sing

Divine G (Colman Domingo) and Mike Mike (Sean San José) are on the "steering group" of inmates at the notorious maximum security prison Sing Sing that get to pick out people to be part of the "Rehabilitation Through the Arts" programme. Every six months RTA does a stage production for an audience of inmates.

Divine G suggests they bring in Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin (himself) but the troubled drug dealer is sullen and disruptive claiming all their material is too serious and that they should do a comedy.

Unsure where to go with this the men throw in an absurd hotchpotch of ideas: cowboys, Egypt, pirates, time travel, Freddie Kruger and Hamlet but their external Director unexpectedly throws all this this into a script over a weekend.

Now all they've got to do is actually deliver it.

A Quiet Place: Day One

Sam (Lupita Nyong'o) is a terminal cancer patient currently residing in a hospice just outside New York with her cat Frodo.

She has become bitter and cynical, unwilling to take part in group activities, but is persuaded to head into the city for a theatre performance by the promise of pizza afterwards.

No good will come of this.

CW: violent mayhem

All the President's Men

Diligence on the part of a security guard foils a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate building late one evening.

The five would-be burglars have unusual profiles and when Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) attends their hearing he finds that they are better represented than expected and one admits to being a former CIA agent.

Smelling something off he begins to collaborate with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) on the story.

The Gorge

Elite US Army Sniper Levi (Miles Teller) is retired and unwilling to take on any assignments but is persuaded by a shadowy Intelligence Operative (Sigourney Weaver) that the one she has for him is of suitable import.

He is shipped to "The Gorge" a giant mist-filled crevasse. He must crew the western watchtower and maintain the significant automated defensive perimeter, alone for a whole year. He's not there to keep people out but to keep what's inside from getting out.

His opposite number in the east watchtower, Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy), is there to do the same on the behalf of Russia: this is some post-WWII Great Powers joint project that has survived the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union.

Communication across The Gorge is forbidden but as the months roll by boredom takes its toll and the pair start a weird long distance, drawn out flirtation.

No good will come of this.

CW: some body horror imagery

Joker: Folie à Deux

Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is in Arkham prison awaiting trial for the crimes committed in "Joker". His defence attorney Maryanne Stewart (Catherine Keener) is angling heavily for an insanity defence stating "Joker" is a separate personality. Fleck himself seems rudderless and is going along unconvincingly with this.

Contrary to stereotype the Arkham guards are occasionally humane and one (Brendan Gleeson) gets Arthur, who's been a compliant inmate, into a music therapy group. There he meets pyromaniac Lee (Lady Gaga), the two spark and suddenly Arthur has something to live for.

No good will come of this.

CW: some violence

Idiocracy

Joe (Luke Wilson) is an astonishingly mediocre guy working in an archive department in the US military. He's trying very hard to avoid involvement in anything until he can muster out and cash in his pension but gets assigned to a secret military project.

When he arrives he finds that along with a prostitute Rita (Maya Rudolph) he has been chosen to test an experimental hibernation device that will revive the pair in one year's time.

No good will come of this.

CW: packed with slurs, generally offensive language, stereotypes and attitudes, which are all a key point of this pitch black satire

Elevation

When large armoured bugs suddenly emerge from beneath the surface of the Earth they kill almost 95% of our population largely by surprise but also by virtue of being spectacularly hard to kill. Society mostly collapses but it's soon worked out they don't go higher than 8000ft above sea level. Mountain top communities form but things are precarious: little could be saved in the chaos.

Now three years later the medical supplies that keep his son alive are exhausted so Will (Anthony Mackie) decides he has to go down into the nearest city to search for more. He is accompanied by hunter Katie (Maddie Hasson) and antisocial scientist Nina (Morena Baccarin) who has been working on something that might kill the "Reapers". She just needs to get to her old lab...

No good will come of this.

The Order

FBI agent Husk (Jude Law) moves to Idaho to staff the previously vacant local office. Not expecting a heavy caseload he begins looking into outstanding low priority files.

When he notices a lot of White Supremacist flyers in town he pulls out the one relating to the large compound nearby where the 'Aryan Nation' live. Speaking to the local Sheriff's office they reckon they keep themselves to themselves and aren't a problem. Later a Deputy Bowen (Tye Sheridan) takes him aside and says he thinks they're quietly up to a great deal of illegal activity including counterfeiting. The Deputy has been making a dossier of seemingly unrelated crime that he thinks fits a pattern.

No good will come of this.

CW: white supremacy, antisemitism, Nazi symbols, salutes and language; the whole gamut of this stuff

In a Violent Nature

A group of friends are staying in a cabin in the mountainous wooded wilderness. While out on a hike they find a derelict collapsed fire lookout tower where hanging from a beam is a shiny gold locket which one of them pockets.

No good will come of this.

CW: vicious bloody dismemberment

Dream Scenario

Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) is a tenured Professor of evolutionary biology at a mediocre University.

He feels he has failed academically and is bitter at onetime colleagues who have been more successful. He's not a bad man and his family love him but his wife Janet (Julianne Nicholson) does admit he has asshole tendencies.

When people all over the world start to experience him being present in their dreams he "goes viral".

No good will come of this.

CW: some flashing images

Pig

Rob (Nicolas Cage) lives an austere reclusive life in a cabin in the woods and hunts truffles for the fine dining market, relying on his truffle-hunting pig to find them.

He swaps the truffles for supplies with flash gastro-bro Amir (Alex Wolff) in a very one-sided arrangement but doesn't seem to mind being exploited.

One night people break into his cabin, knock him out and steal his pig. The following day Rob contacts Amir and demands to be driven into the city to get his pig back.

No good will come of this.

Section 31

Section 31, the "off the books" Black Ops offshoot of Starfleet is in the process of trying to intercept a black market arms sale of a rumoured superweapon. The deal is taking place in the domain of former Terran Emperor and all-round born-to-be-bad-girl Phillipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) and when it's clear they can't outplay her they instead attempt to recruit her.

No good will come of this.

CW: offensive accents of the most vile kind

I Saw the TV Glow

Owen (Justice Smith/Ian Foreman) is an awkward child struggling with a tense situation at home: his mother is ill and father overbearing. Having seen and been intrigued by the trailer for a Buffy-like supernatural monster of the week TV show "The Pink Opaque" he's not allowed to watch it as it's on past his bedtime.

When he sees an older student Maddy (Jack Haven) reading an episode guide to "The Pink Opaque" he strikes up a conversation and she sneakily facilitates his interest by variously providing him with VHS tapes and occasionally letting him visit and watch it when he has lied about visiting a friend his own age.

Over the years the pair share their love of the show but don't otherwise socialise much. One day Maddy announces she is leaving and asks Owen to join her but in a moment of understandable youthful cowardice he doesn't.

No good will come of this.

CW: flickering lights

My Little Eye

Five young people sign up to be part of a competition where they must stay in remote house for six months in order to share a million dollar prize. The house is stuffed with surveillance and they are being live streamed 24x7 on the Internet.

As the end approaches after very little drama beyond some relationship tensions suddenly things start to go wrong yet they convince themselves this is just an effort to make them forgo the prize.

No good will come of this.

Enys Men

1973: A botanist (Mary Woodvine) is stationed on an uninhabited island taking observations of a cluster of rare flowers. It is a stark place, home only to heather, lichen and birds. Once there was a mining community here but now all lies in ruins save the partially modernised cottage she is using.

She relies on supply drops of fuel and food with a shortwave radio her only contact with the outside world.

CW mild body horror and self-harm

Smile

Rose (Sosie Bacon) works as a Resident Therapist at a Psychiatric Hospital. Trauma from her childhood has lead her to become a workaholic: pulling enormous shifts perhaps to try and 'fix the world'.

Going out of the door after one of these she turns around to pick up one last call: a young woman admitted as an emergency who is screaming about being stalked by some kind of entity that is going to kill her.

No good will come of this.

CW: suicide, self-harm, mutilation, jump scares

Civil War

The USA is in a state of Civil War and everything points to a secessionist victory. Renowned War photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and journalist/fixer Joe (Wagner Moura) plan to take a circuitous route to Washington DC avoiding most of the fighting and to _try_ to interview the President before the fall of the Capitol. This is considered a near suicidal endeavour by senior journalist Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson) but he nonetheless takes a spot on their truck.

While photographing a food riot Lee encounters a young woman, Jessie (Cailee Spaeny), who wants to be a journalist and is carrying around an old film camera.

Expecting never to see her again, the following morning Lee finds Jessie in the last seat in the truck: she has persuaded Joe to let her tag along.

No good will come of this.

CW bloody violence, executions, lynchings, corpses littering the streets

Kill

Amrit Rathod (Lakshya) comes off a lengthy operation in the commando unit he's posted in to find dozens of messages from his sweetheart Tulika Singh (Tanya Maniktala). She has been betrothed in an arranged marriage she does not want.

He rushes to meet her but the engagement party has already happened. Finding out she will travel on a sleeper train to Delhi he boards it along with his comrade Viresh (Abhishek Chauhan).

Meanwhile a group of bandits board the same train aiming to rob everyone on-board.

No good will come of this.

CW: uncompromising bloody, head smashing, eye puncturing, limb breaking, throat slashing violence from about 15 minutes in that almost never stops

Yule Log 2: Branchin' out

Zoe (Andrea Laing), the lone survivor of the cabin massacre in "Yule log" struggles to cope, seeing the killer log everywhere and has taken to carrying an axe at all times. Her erratic behaviour gets her sacked and she departs for a holiday in Mexico to try and 'reset'.

On the way a freak accident leaves her stuck in the cute little town of Mistletoe which is about to host its annual Yule Log Festival.

No good will come of this.

CW: bloody violence

Yule Log

Zoe (Andrea Laing) and Alex (Justin Miles) arrive at a remote AirBnB cabin they've booked and set a fire in the fireplace with wood they've picked up nearby.

Alex has a side hustle recording videos of relaxing fireside scenes and posting them on YouTube: he's particularly proud of one of a beach bonfire in Bali.

He's hoping to get good footage so sets his camera up fixed, gazing at the fireplace while they go out for a walk.

No good will come of this

CW: bloody violence, sexual assault

Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

Eccentric inventor Wallace (Peter Sallis) and his anthropomorphic dog Gromit are low on funds after he bought a ridiculous birthday present to automate walkies: ex-NASA technotrousers. Forced to take in a lodger they end up with a seemingly pleasant Penguin but as soon as they've moved in it's clear they have designs on Gromit's place in the household.

No good will come of this.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Years after the events of "The Wrong Trousers", Wallace (Ben Whitehead) and his anthropomorphic dog Gromit still live in a state of mild domestic chaos both helped and hindered by Wallace's madcap inventions which have automated many of their chores.

Gromit's only sanctuary is his garden but Wallace designs a robotic gnome NORBOT (Reece Shearsmith) to 'help' there as well. When it proves to be astonishingly efficient in transforming the whole thing, neighbours start asking if NORBOT is for hire and local TV reporter Onya Doorstop (Diane Morgan) comes to report on the amazing invention.

No good will come of this