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Linda (Rachel McAdams) works in Strategy and Planning with a head for statistics and rules that makes her a real asset to the company. She's not particularly popular: Linda is prone to social faux pas but the CEO has lined her up for promotion.

When he passes away suddenly and his son Bradley (Dylan O'Brien) takes over this is immediately canned and he gives the role to one of his golf bros in the Sales dept. He needs a "people person".

The company is relying Linda's expertise for a complicated business negotiation so she joins the crowd of executives on the company jet to Thailand. Bradley lured her on board with a 'second chance' at promotion but plans to let her go straight after this.

When the plane ditches and only Linda and an injured Bradley make it to a small tropical island her outdoorsy hobbies and obsession with the TV show Survivor puts her very much in charge.

No good will come of this.

CW: bloody violence, mutilation, bush tucker vileness

The Fall

Silent movie stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is bedridden in hospital after a serious fall during filming.

In another ward, young Romanian immigrant Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) is recovering in a partial body cast, she too has had a fall, but is able to move around. Alexandria starts to explore the hospital and get up to mischief out of boredom and a degree of naivete.

When she wanders into Roy's ward he starts to regale her with an epic tale of a group of heroes who are intent on revenge against evil Governor Odious, who has wronged them all.

Roy parcels out bits of the tale each day. For each piece he asks her to do him a favour: something he can't manage in his newly paraplegic state.

No good will come of this

CW: suicidal ideation

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

In the first movie, Grace (Samara Weaving) marries into an old money family only to find out that her in-laws are Satanists who live by byzantine rules set down by a "Mr. Le Bail" in return for great wealth and power.

These rules occasionally include human sacrifice and Grace is chucked into a to-the-death game of hide and seek on her wedding night.

Unexpectedly Grace wins, killing the whole Le Domas family, but now this opens up a seat at the table of the global cabal of Satanists. Mr Le Bail's rules say she must contest for this.

CW: bloody violence throughout

Backrooms

Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) owns a failing discount furniture store. He always wanted to be an architect but blames the need to make a living and support his now ex-wife for his failure to pursue his dreams.

He's a bitter man and is trying to come to terms with things through therapy with Dr Kline (Renate Reinsve) but with little success.

The electrics in the store (where he also lives) are weird and when he goes down to check the breakers one night he sees light emanating through an impossibly thin discontinuity in an otherwise plain wall. When he starts looking for the source he literally falls through the wall as if it isn't there.

No good will come of this.

CW: weird as fuck

Obsession

Bear (Michael Johnston) works in a musical instrument store with his friends Ian (Cooper Tomlinson), Sarah (Megan Lawless) and Nikki (Inde Navarrette).

The young friends moan about work, go to bars and hang out in a standard "rubbish jobs in a boring town" kind of way.

Bear has a crush on the vivacious Nikki but in typical rubbish bloke fashion, can't bring himself to tell her.

One day he buys a novelty gift from a "new age" shop thinking to give it to Nikki. The One Wish Willow claims to give you one true wish if you snap it.

After a fumbled conversation with Nikki that he regrets, Bear snaps the One Wish Willow and asks that it makes her "love him more than anything in the fucking world".

No good will come of this.

CW: bloody violence, gore, mutilation, suicide, generally pitch black

Disclosure Day

Daniel Kellner (Josh O'Connor) is on the run from sinister forces led by Noah Scalon (Colin Firth) with a rucksack full of stolen classified data. After Noah's renta-spooks abduct Daniel's girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson), he plans a hostage exchange but from the beginning it starts to go wrong.

Meanwhile TV weather presenter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), who is struggling with being overlooked for serious work, starts to have a very weird day.

They Will Kill You

"Isabella" (Zazie Beetz), a new maid, arrives at The Virgil on a dark rainy night. She's desperate for work and using false ID.

It's a baroque old building with a large in-house staff tending to rich tenants and Superintendent Lily (Patricia Arquette) welcomes her, setting Isabella up in her new room.

No good will come of this.

CW: Ultraviolence and goopy gore

One Battle After Another

Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and "Ghetto" Pat (Leonardo DiCaprio) are part of a militant revolutionary group the "French 75" taking direct action against a government and system they despise. She's a flamboyant firebrand leading raids while he's a quiet bombmaker and their slightly unexpected relationship is maintained by the thrill of danger through ever more audacious capers.

During a raid where a large number of people in an immigrant detention centre are freed Perfidia humiliates the CO, Colonel Lockjaw (Sean Penn) and he becomes sexually obsessed with her. Lockjaw begins to co-ordinate the hunt for the French 75 as a pretext to get to her, specifically.

When Perfidia gives birth to a daughter Pat tries to settle down and this is when things between them start to disintegrate. A bank robbery goes wrong and Pat is left literally left holding the baby, on the run under a false identity.

Now, sixteen years later Pat is a washed up, out of shape middle aged guy with a headstrong daughter (Chase Infiniti) who doesn't believe in any of his paranoid ramblings.

Colonel Lockjaw comes for them.

Monolith

A journalist (Lily Sullivan) is house sitting for her parents after being involved in a political scandal that cost her job for releasing unverified information. Although she probably was right about the issues she was trying to highlight. There's also an element of being in hiding as she was doxxed and feels threatened.

Unable to find what she considers proper work she's signed to produce episodes for a sensationalist "conspiracy" podcast channel but is struggling to come up with material and might lose that job too.

Out of the blue she receives an anonymous email about people who have received strange 'bricks' that have odd effects on their life. Looking into it reveals a decades long pattern she starts to investigate.

No good will come of this.

Dust Bunny

Young Aurora (Sophie Sloane) is scared the monster under her bed will eat her and wishes on a falling star for somebody to protect her.

A new, intriguing neighbour (Mads Mikkelson) moves in opposite and she follows him, witnessing him slay a monster in the form of a group of men piloting a Chinese dragon.

When her parents are finally eaten (the monster is very real), concluding he has been delivered by the wish, she steals money to hire him to slay the monster.

The neighbour is an elite hitman but very much doesn't believe in monsters other than human ones.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

A man (Sam Rockwell) bursts into an L.A. diner announcing that he's from the future and needs people to volunteer to save the world from an imminent AI apocalypse.

At a first glance he looks like a homeless person, dressed in weird stuff including a see-through raincoat with lots of random dirty electronics attached. To keep everybody in line he announces he has a bomb and the "suicide vest" looks pretty convincing to the diners.

He claims this isn't the first time he's been there, the endeavour has failed numerous times, but maybe this time will be "the win".

CW: school shootings

Midnight Run

Bounty Hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) is contracted by bail bondsman Eddie (Joe Pantoliano) to find famous former Mob accountant Jonathan "Duke" Mardukas (Charles Grodin).

Duke's fame comes from how, when he found out who he was working for, stole $15m from the Chicago Mob gave the bulk of it to charities and went on the run.

Mob Boss Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina) is, not unexpectedly, also looking for Duke but so is FBI agent Mosely (Yaphet Kotto) who wants to turn him State's evidence.

Shenanigans ensue.

Deadpool & Wolverine

When he is rejected by the 'serious' Superhero teams, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) settles for a 'normal' life  but not without some regret.

Things aren't going particularly great, he's split up with Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) and sucks at his job at a car dealership but at least he still has friends.

That is until the Time Variance Authority agent "Paradox" (Matthew Macfadyen) shows up and informs him his whole timeline is collapsing because Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) died in the events of "Logan" and offers him a chance to finally really matter.

No good will come of this.

CW: all the big swears and lots of messy comic gore/deaths

Under the Silver Lake

Sam (Andrew Garfield) is an directionless slacker with voyeuristic tendencies.

Watching his neighbour, who likes to go around topless, from his balcony he notices a new neighbour (Riley Keough) who has a small white dog. Later he starts up a conversation with her, gets invited into her apartment and the two start to flirt. When her roommates reappear suddenly she ushers him out and says he can see her tomorrow.

The following morning she and most of the contents of the apartment are gone. Sam decides to investigate.

No good will come of this.

CW: nudity and lots of male gaze/objectification of women

Mickey 17

Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) and his best friend Timo (Steven Yeun) sign up for a space colonisation mission out of desperation when their macaron business fails and they owe an obscene amount of money to a sadistic loan-shark whose only pleasure in life is cutting people up.

The mission is fronted by failed Trumpian politician Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) and his repellent culinary snob wife Ylfa (Toni Collette).

The hapless Mickey, not one to look at contracts, signs up to be an 'expendale' who will die over and over only to be resurrected by a 3D printer.

One day Mickey survives unexpectedly and staggers back to the room he shares with his girlfriend Nasha (Naomi Ackie).

No good will come of this.

CW: gross out weirdness

No other choice

Yoo Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) "has everything": a smart pragmatic wife Lee Mi-ri (Son Ye-jin), two well behaved kids one of who's a cello prodigy, a good job, an expansive quirky home that was built by his father in good times and a pair of fat contended labradors.

When the job that supports all this disappears and he struggles through a series of embarrassing failed job interviews he becomes quite untethered. Eventually as it looks like the house is going to be repossessed Man-su comes up with a solution: eliminate the competition.

Pre-emptively, and permanently.

CW: some violence, DIY dentistry

Rental Family

Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser) is an American actor working in Japan but struggling to find roles outside cheesy token characters and commercials.

One day he rushes to a very confusing booking where he's playing a funeral guest and the "deceased" is very much alive.

It turns out he's been subcontracted by a "Rental family" company that hires out actors to play parts in a range of situations that exist on a kind of continuity through LARP to therapy, social work, fetish and in some cases victimless deception.

The company owner Shinji (Takehiro Hira) offers Phillip more work and after some initial hesitancy he begins to take on longer term roles.

CW: anybody who's ever done any kind of safeguarding training will want to scream at the screen about how unethical and risky this all is under the cover of "Japan being quirky"

Skinamarink

Siblings Kevin and Kaylee wake in the night and find themselves alone in the house. They look for their father but can't find him.

It's dark and unsettling so they go downstairs, build a pillow/blanket fort and watch old Merry Melodies cartoons on VHS.

Things are not right. Fundamental things like doors and then the toilet simply disappear. There are whispers in the dark.

CW: children in peril, constant flickering lights

Deathstalker (2025)

Battlefield scavenger Deathstalker (Daniel Bernhardt) travels a land ravaged by war between the kingdom of Asterian and the Dreadites controlled by the evil sorcerer Necronemnon (Nicholas Rice).

Unknowingly he takes an ancient amulet of power from a dying Prince and is bound to it and the ongoing battle.

Trying to rid himself of this burden he picks up, literally, the goblin wizard Doodad (Laurie Field/Patton Oswalt) and thief Brisbayne (Christina Orjalo) on the way but can't shake his destiny.

CW: so much cheese it could kill the lactose intolerant

Dead of Winter

Barb (Emma Thompson) closes up her bait and tackle shop and gets in her pickup to head to Lake Hilda in remote Northern Minnesota to go ice fishing. It's an ill advised journey: the radio weatherman is advising people not to travel.

Following the hand drawn map she has, Barb struggles to find her way and stops at a remote cabin to ask for directions. The guy there is defensive but points her in the right direction.

Later while Barb fishes she witnesses something terrible happening and recognises the guy from the cabin as the perpetrator. With no mobile phone signal and now properly snowed in Barb decides to do something about it.

CW: violence and dark melancholic themes

War Machine

US Army Ranger candidate 81 (Alan Ritchson) has given up everything to complete his Ranger training and fulfil the promise he made to his brother in doing so.

As he and the other Ranger candidates face their final training scenario, which is to destroy a downed experimental weapon, they find an immensely impressive prop slightly away from the expected location.

Placing their demolition charges they think they've had an unexpectedly easy ride. The only problem is: this isn't their objective.

CW: injury detail, so much jingoistic macho hoora I think I made myself dumber just by watching it

Compliance

It's a busy night at a branch of the fast food restaurant ChickWich and it's all going wrong for franchisee Sandra (Ann Dowd). A slack employee left the freezer door ajar last night so a load of food spoiled and they've only been able to replace some of the stock. They'll have to short some of the ingredients in the sandwiches and it's rumoured a secret shopper from head office is in the area.

Now a Police Officer Daniels (Pat Healy) is on the phone saying one of her counter staff, Becky (Dreama Walker), has stolen from a customer. Officer Daniels asks Sandra to take Becky aside and check her pockets and bag.

No good will come of this.

CW: vile humiliating misogyny throughout, some nudity

Project Hail Mary

Schoolteacher Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakes in a dishevelled, partially amnesiac state aboard a spaceship. After yanking out the life support connections dangling from him he shambles about the vessel looking for help only to find out his two crewmates are long dead.

Grace is not an astronaut and struggles to work out what is going on, but he knows this much: it must be something to do with the phenomenon dimming Earth's sun and threatening all life. Just recently he'd been failing to come up with the words to explain this sympathetically to the children in his class.

Slowly his recollection improves but Grace has another problem: he realises he is not alone.

The Running Man (2025)

Ben Richards (Glen Powell) is a construction labourer blacklisted after numerous incidents of insufficient obedience and a tendency towards union activity. It's the not too distant future and the worst imagined predations of corporate regulatory capture and unbridled power have created a two tier society even more divided than today.

His wife is lucky to have work as a hostess in a bar but when their daughter gets sick they simply can't afford the medicine she needs.

After he pleads for his old job back and fails he resolves to audition for one of the many exploitative reality game shows that pass for entertainment. Not "The Running Man" though: that would be simply suicidal.

No good will come of this.

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