The Last House

Ann (Greta Lee) and Jason (Wagner Moura) are faffing about at home and trying to get the kids ready to go out and choose a Christmas tree.

It starts to rain and when they finally go to open the door it won't budge. Everything they try fails including smashing a window, it's like the rain won't let them leave.

They settle in and start exchanging messages with their neighbours but nobody has any telephone or Internet service so they've no idea what's going on.

Days turn to weeks and they start to realise there's something in the rain.

Y2K

Eli (Jaeden Martell) and Danny (Julian Dennison) are awkward kids, trying too hard to be cool in the run up to New Year's Eve 1999. Originally planning to stay in and watch videos they raid Eli's parents' liquor cabinet and head to a party because Eli's crush Laura (Rachel Zegler) will be there.

No good will come of this.

CW: embarrassing teen misogynistic language and death by power tools.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

Din Djarin / The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) is working with the New Republic to root out remnants of the Galactic Empire. He brings along his adopted child/apprentice Grogu on missions, training him in the Mandalorian creed.

Colonel Ward (Sigourney Weaver) gives Mando his next mission and it means dealing with the infamous Hutt twins and their criminal organisation. Reluctantly he goes along with it.

No good will come of this.

Hotel Artemis

The Nurse (Jodie Foster) and Orderly Everest (Dave Bautista) run Hotel Artemis: a private members hospital for the criminal fraternity running out of the Penthouse of a derelict luxury hotel. Everybody goes by aliases and there are strict membership rules.

It's a busy night: The City is awash with riots and disorder after mains water was discontinued by the Corporation with a monopoly on supply.

Tonight's guests include Arms Dealer Acapulco (Charlie Day), Assassin Nice (Sofia Boutella) and bank robber brothers Waikiki (Sterling K. Brown) and Honolulu (Brian Tyree Henry).

Then news comes a very particular VIP is on their way in.

No good will come of this.

CW: some violence

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Nobody knows Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is Spider-Man. In fact after the events of "No Way Home" he's been erased from everyone's memory and records including his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya), best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) and the broader support network he had as a member of The Avengers, albeit a junior one.

In a lonely grieving state he pours himself into Spider-Man's crime fighting and becomes a trusted hero to the City, with a hotline to the Police and a list of defeated wronguns.

When an unknown actor tries to break in to the Dept. of Damage Control by seemingly possessing bystanders, Spider-Man manages to save the day, just. No thanks to Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) who has his own particular way of dealing with things.

The Guest

The Spencer family, are visited by David Collins (Dan Stephens) who claims to have served with their son Caleb who was killed in action in Afghanistan. He's right there in a photo on their mantlepiece with Caleb so there can be no doubt he is who he says he is.

He delivers some final words from Caleb he was asked to pass on and when he goes to leave, mother Laura (Sheila Kelley) insists he stay at least one night.

One night turns into several and he begins to have a positive effect on the family's fortunes. Even Paula's initially sceptical daughter Anna (Maika Monroe) begins to warm to this handsome macho stranger.

No good will come of this.

CW: some action movie violence

Blow Out

Jack (John Travolta) works in low budget movie making, doing foley work on trashy X rated horror movies.

Frustrated at recycling stock sounds, the director of "Co-ed Frenzy" sends Jack out to try and record some more environmental sounds.

While recording in a park late in the evening he witnesses an incident where a car suffers the titular 'blow out' and goes over a bridge into an ornamental lake.

Jack dives into the lake and rescues a young woman, Sally (Nancy Allen) from the rapidly sinking car but fails to rescue the driver.

Later in hospital he finds out the driver was a prominent Congressman tipped for a run at the Presidency. The Congressman's aide persuades a reluctant Jack to pretend that Sally was never there in order to prevent a scandal. Reviewing the tape he had running when the car went over the bridge, Jack concludes something more sinister happened and tries to get people to listen.

No good will come of this.

Masters of the Universe

When the evil forces of Skeletor (Jared Leto) overrun Eternia, young Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) is sent to Earth with the Sword of Power by the Sorceress (Morena Baccarin) to prevent the Power of Greyskull falling into his hands. As he falls through the portal Adam is separated from the sword.

Now a young man working in a very progressive HR department, Adam still yearns for the life he knew as a child and searches for the Sword of Power. He makes no secret of this and recounts his stories to anyone he can: obviously this makes him be seen as something of a weirdo.

One day the sword is found and almost as soon as he touches it this brings Eternia back into his life.

Red Rooms

Every night, Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) sleeps in an alleyway near Montréal's high court so she can be first in the queue to join the public gallery at the trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) for the murder of three teenage girls he streamed live on the dark web, for money.

It is the first case of its kind.

Kelly-Anne doesn't need to do this, she lives a high end but austere lifestyle funded by modelling and high stakes games of online poker. She has highly automated her life and is slightly paranoid about surveillance. Kelly-Anne is well versed in OSINT and the information economy of the dark web so is seemingly doing this to avoid identification.

The case is a sensational media circus and Chevalier has "fans" who protest his innocence. Kelly-Anne befriends one of these, Clémentine (Laurie Babin) who is also sleeping near the court.

CW: reference to and audio from torture/snuff videos with upsetting themes of sexualised crimes including murder

Send Help

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