Rogue One: A Star Wars story

Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is the daughter of famed Imperial Enginer Galen Erso who goes on the run with his family rather than work on a planned weapon of mass destruction.

When the Empire catches up with Galen, Jyn hides while Commander Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) kills her mother and drags her father away. Made orphan she is rescued by uncompromising Rebel Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) and raised as part of his cadre.

Now, fifteen years later, going by an assumed name she is stuck in an Imperial labour camp having long forsaken any ideas of resistance to the Empire when Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) "rescues" her.

Cassian is a Rebel spy who needs to speak to Saw about an Imperial defector and he thinks Jyn is his way in. The increasingly violent and paranoid Saw and the Rebel Alliance parted ways years ago. This defector claims to have information about the aforementioned superweapon.

Lightyear

Gung ho, overconfident Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear causes the scientific expedition he's tasked to protect to become marooned on a planet teeming with hostile life.

Trying to complete his mission and atone for his mistake he spearheads the endeavours to help them get home but becomes marooned himself in the process.

Antlers

Teacher Julia (Keri Russell) is concerned for the welfare of one of her students Lucas (Jeremy T Thomas) who is painfully thin and showing textbook signs of abuse. She tries to get her brother Paul, the local sheriff (Jesse Plemons) to intervene but the family are known local drug cookers who've been in trouble endlessly and he's frustratingly defeatist, writing them off as a lost cause.

Frustrated, Julia starts to investigate by herself. No good will come of this.

CW: themes of child abuse

Minari

Jacob (Steven Yuen) and Monica (Han Ye‐ri) Yi are Korean immigrants working in the poultry industry in the USA. Dreaming of owning a farm, Jacob uproots the family and buys a parcel of land in rural Arkansas.

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) lives a mundane life working for the Postal Service in a grim inhospitable 70s vision of New York with his partner Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña).

He used to have a different, better life before he spent time in the Vietnam War and was discharged after being injured in a chaotic incident that killed many of his unit.

As he goes about his days he has occasional strange visions and casual glimpses of horrible things but it isn't until they escalate that he feels he needs to do something about them. When he finds others of his unit have had similar experiences things start to unravel and sinister figures intervene.

CW: body horror, surgery, strobing effects

The Invisible Man

Cecilia (Elizabeth Moss) does a midnight flit from her controlling tech-bro partner Adrian and goes into hiding with friends, fearful he will enact some kind of revenge.

Shortly after, Adrian is found dead and the inheritance he leaves her gives Cecilia new independence but it soon becomes clear she's not as free of him as she thought.

CW: domestic violence

After Midnight

Hank (Jeremy Gardner) is in a nosedive after his partner Abby (Brea Grant) walks out one day leaving him a vague note about needing to go away for a bit. His friends worry for him especially when he gets reclusive and threatening, telling them there's a monster stalking him at night.

Every night he barricades himself inside his remote home clutching a shotgun and waiting for it to come.

Samaritan

Granite City is a decaying hellhole ruled by crime and corruption. Once there was hope in the form of the superpowered vigilante Samaritan but he was killed years back along with his brother, the supervillain Nemesis in a climactic battle to stop the total destruction of the city.

A few, including teenager Sam (Javon Walton), think Samaritan still lives and when his taciturn neighbour Joe (Sylvester Stallone) saves Sam from a street gang he begins to think that Joe just might be the fabled hero.