Edge of Tomorrow

Humanity is in a unified struggle against an alien threat that arrived on an asteroid. Humanity is losing.

Despite a massive effort to coordinate military action and the development of exo-skeletal powered suits that allow infantry to bring vehicle scale weapons to the fight there has been but one small victory led by Sgt. Rita Vratasky (Emily Blunt), the "Angel of Verdun".

Sgt. Vrataski's signature weapon is a helicopter rotor blade that she wields like a sword and her image is everywhere.

US Army Media relations officer Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise) is summoned to London to cover the upcoming massive assault on Northern France, Operation Downfall, from the battlefront.

Cage is a coward and tries to twist out of then refuses the order, finds himself arrested for desertion and shipped off to the forward operating base to be sent into battle: the very thing he was trying to avoid. He does not live long.

CW: suicide

Apollo 10½

Young Stanley (Milo Coy/Jack Black) is chosen to do a dry run for Apollo 11 when a slight miscalculation means the capsule is too small for adult Astronauts. He is put through a secret accelerated training programme under the cover of going to Summer Camp.

The mission is unofficially called Apollo 10½.

CW: nothing

The Vigil

Ronen (Dave Davis) is a young man who has renounced his Orthodox Jewish observances and is trying to integrate with mainstream culture and less restrictive practices.

He's not doing great, struggling to find work and low on money.

Ronen is asked to stand as Shomer by one of his old community: waiting until dawn with a body when the undertakers will come.

While initially reluctant he negotiates a higher fee for this, which he's done before when he was still active in the Orthodox community, and agrees.

The deceased was a  survivor of the Holocaust who'd been a recluse for many decades.

No good will come of this

CW: jump scares and a little body horror

In the Mouth of Madness

Psychiatric patient John Trent (Sam Neill) is visited by Dr. Wrenn (David Warner) who asks him to explain how he thinks he came to be there.

Trent explains how he was an insurance fraud investigator hired by a publishing company to track down missing horror writer Sutter Cane, their highest grossing talent.

Together with Cane's editor Linda Styles (Julie Carmen) he travelled to a place in New England hinted at by Cane's books thinking to find him there.

No good will come of this

CW: some jump scares and squishy 80s style gore and monster effects

Broker

Moon So-young (Lee Ji-eun) is a young mother who dumps her baby outside an orphanage on dark rainy night.

He is taken in by Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) who volunteers there but he then deletes the record. Dong-soo has an arrangement with Ha Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) who spirits away unwanted babies for sale to rich couples who can't navigate Korea's byzantine adoption rules.

Meanwhile, two detectives watch on intending to follow and catch them in the act.

CW: nothing of note

Prince of Darkness

When an old priest dies, the last of the Brotherhood of Sleep, he passes on a secret to the archdiocese. They have for many centuries kept an ancient relic beneath what is now a neglected urban church.

An unnamed representative of the church (Donald Pleasance) contacts Professor of Physics Howard Birack (Victor Wong) to help. It seems this artefact contains the very physical essence of evil, perhaps the devil himself and if it is physical it can be studied, quantified and contained.

Birack gathers a multidisciplinary team of researchers who set up in the church but withholds from them what it is they are there to study.

No good will come of this.

CW: some 80s sexism, insect swarms and an awful moustache

Antiviral

Syd March (Caleb Landry Jonas) is a salesman and technician at The Lucas Clinic. Here, diseases and ailments are harvested from celebrities and cultivated for resale to their most dedicated fans so they can experience a piece of their life.

It's a lucrative operation and the products are modified before injection to make them less contagious preventing 'resale'.

Syd has a side-line in infecting himself with product to get it out of the building, extracting it and undoing the copy protection for sale on the bootleg market.

When he gets a chance at an amazing scoop he injects himself straight from the source.

No good will come of this

CW: needles, lots of needles and mild body horror throughout

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Ten years after the events of "Terminator 2" and Judgement Day has been averted. John Connor (Nick Stahl) lives an off-grid life in case a Terminator ever comes looking for him again.

After a road accident he breaks into a veterinary practice looking to do some DIY medical treatment as he won't go to a hospital. There he is caught by school acquaintance Kate Brewster (Claire Daines).

This is a bad idea as after all this time a new model Terminator (Kristanna Loken) has arrived but this time is looking for Brewster.

Luckily there's also an old fashioned T101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) along too to lend Connor and Brewster a hand.

CW: injury detail