The Zone of Interest

Rudolf (Christian Friedel) and Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) are raising their family right next to his place of work in a home surrounded by an expansive garden. The house maybe isn't quite as big as Hedwig would like but the garden is magnificent having been cultivated over just a few short years with the help of local gardeners.

Rudolf's work is stressful: he's a workaholic, occasionally meeting with suppliers and colleagues at the house but when he can he rides his horse and takes the children swimming in the nearby river.

Rudolf is the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

CW: the Holocaust done matter of fact, off screen but constantly within earshot

Predator: Badlands

Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is a juvenile Yautja denied entry into adulthood by his disapproving father. Dek is a "runt" and a disappointment to the clan.

Dek vows to prove himself in the most ostentatious way: to hunt and kill the Kalisk, the apex predator of the death world Genna where everything hunts everything else. The Kalisk has never been taken as a trophy.

The Weyland-Yutani corporation has an expedition on Genna entirely composed of Synths: humans would simply not survive. Nonetheless things have not been going smoothly to say the least.

Dek encounters the heavily damaged, abandoned Synth Thia (Elle Fanning) who claims to have encountered the Kalisk. Much as Yautja hunt alone Dek decides Thia can be used, like a tool, in his hunt.

Shenanigans ensue

The Quiet Earth

Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakes in a motel room with a stinking headache. When he goes outside there's nobody around.

This continues to be the case for some time.

CW: full frontal nudity

Black Phone 2

Years after the events of the first movie Finn (Mason Thames) still receives calls from the unquiet dead, which he rejects, and is developing real teenage angst.

Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) is less affected but suddenly receives a dream where she speaks to their mother in the past while she was at Camp Alpine Lake, a Christian youth resort in the mountains.

Convinced there are souls trapped there in some way related to The Grabber (Ethan Hawke), perhaps some earlier victims she resolves to sign up as a trainee youth leader there. Reluctantly Finn tags along.

No good will come of this.

CW: violence, suicide, lots of woo

Shelby Oaks

A group of paranormal investigators, niche famous in the early days of YouTube, go missing while investigating the abandoned town of Shelby Oaks.

Some while later, three of them are found dead and mutilated in a remote house along with some inconclusive but sinister footage. Main host Riley Brennan (Sarah Durn) and their second camera is never found.

Now twelve years later, Riley's older sister Mia (Camille Sullivan) who has never got over this, is working with a new team of true crime videographers making a documentary in the hope it will keep the search alive.

No good will come of this.

CW: implied sexual assault, suicide and a little violence

Cleaner

Joey (Daisy Ridley) works as a window cleaner at a skyscraper. She's having a bad day: her autistic brother Michael (Matthew Tuck) got ejected from the sheltered accommodation he lives in, she's late for work and her asshole boss is threatening to fire her if she doesn't make up the hours she's missed tonight.

Things are about to get worse: radical environmentalist Marcus Blake (Clive Owen) has made plans to gatecrash the company's glitzy gala this evening.

No good will come of this.

The Rip

In the aftermath of the shooting of a well liked Police Captain, the unit she headed is being investigated as there's a whiff of corrupt officers from the team being involved.

Second in command Dane (Matt Damon) pushes to act on a tip for a stash house at the end of the day and assembles the reluctant team.

When they get there it's a _huge_ stash, over 20m, and seemingly unguarded.

No good will come of this.

CW: more of the big swears than usual for a Netflix original

Sinners

1930s, twin brothers Smoke & Stack (Michael B Jordan) return home early one morning to Mississippi after years in Chicago with a big bag of money and truck full of booze. Set on establishing a juke joint they buy an old sawmill and start flashing the cash to recruit people for their big opening night.

First on the agenda their cousin Sammie (Miles Caton) followed by local blues legend Delta Slim (Delroy Lindo).

They're in a hurry and want to open that same night.

The previous night something else came to town that also loves music. No good will come of this.

CW: lots of violence and era appropriate racial slurs

Anniversary

Ellen (Diane Lane) and Paul (Kyle Chandler) Taylor are hosting a large party for their 25th anniversary.

All their children are there: Environmental Lawyer Cynthia (Zoey Deutch), successful alternative comedian Ellen (Madeline Brewer), early career author Josh (Dylan O'Brien) and budding scientist 'Birdie' (Mckenna Grace).

They're a wealthy comfortable family with a beautiful lakeside home and the scene is set for a beautiful party.

Josh has brought his new girlfriend Liz (Phoebe Dynevor) along and Ellen swears she recognises her from somewhere.

Liz is pleasant and respectful but suddenly Ellen realises where she knows her from.

No good will come of this.

CW: a grim watch in the current US political climate

The Invitation

Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) is an aspiring ceramics artist but works as a waitress doing silver service work to get by. Sometimes she manages to swipe one of the goodie bags of whatever function she's working as they tend to have alcohol or small gifts in.

This time it's a launch for DNA genealogy startup and the bag contains one of their testing kits. On a whim she submits it and hears back in a few days she's related to a wealthy English family. She meets up with the foppish Oliver (Hugh Skinner) who's been put in touch with her and he invites her to a big family wedding. With nothing much else going on in her life she accepts.

No good will come of this.

CW: mild jump scares and some bloodletting

The Long Walk

In an alternative United States of some indeterminate past, poverty is rife in the wake of a war and one route out is to enter the annual Long Walk lottery.

Fifty young men must walk without a break until only one is left standing, who wins a huge cash prize and their 'one wish'. Fail to keep up the pace or break one of the many rules and you get your "ticket" from the barrel of a gun.

Ray (Cooper Hoffman), Pete (David Jonsson), Art (Tut Nyuot) and Hank (Ben Wang) become fast friends at the start of the gruelling ordeal calling themselves "The Musketeers".

No good will come of this.

CW: 80s style homophobic and misogynistic language, bloody executions that the camera lingers on

Red Sonja (2025)

In her childhood, Sonja (Matilda Lutz) is orphaned, separated from her tribe and grows up to become a guardian of the ancient Hyrkanian forest. She travels its vastness with just her horse for company, looking for any remnants of the tribe with no success.

Having conquered all the other lands, Emperor Dragan's (Robert Sheehan) minions turn to the forest to fell the trees for lumber to build the Empire's growing cities. They are also there to look for Hyrkania's ancient secrets, which the Emperor jealously covets.

Sonja attempts to fight them but is overpowered and sent to fight in the great gladiatorial arena in the capital.

No good will come of this.

CW: bloody violence but it's very comic book

Companion

Josh (Jack Quaid) and Iris (Sophie Thatcher) are off to a weekend with his friends in a grand house in the country. Iris is apprehensive: she doesn't feel she fits in with his rich friends and worries she'll say or do the wrong thing.

There's a reason for this: Iris is a companion sexbot and everybody knows it. Soon Iris will too.

No good will come of this.

CW: all the expected stuff about non consensual slave like robot companions but not as bad as it usually is

Thief

Frank (James Caan) is a successful jewel thief working independently and building up resources. He's a man in a hurry: prison robbed him of over a decade of his life. He has a plan to get himself back on track to the life he always wanted but he's going to have to strongarm other people to get it.

When things with a fence go bad after his latest job it brings him into contact with the Chicago Mob and after a tense confrontation they offer him work.

Having always worked for himself he's reluctant but they dangle such a big job he thinks this could be his ticket out of the game and accepts.

No good will come of this.

CW: all manner of slurs, child trafficking