Velvet Buzzsaw

Gallery administrator Josephina (Zawe Ashton) is struggling to make a name for herself in the LA art scene until one day she stumbles across the art left in the apartment of one of her neighbours after his sudden death.

The work is dark and mesmerising, so on hearing he left instructions for it to be destroyed she steals it. It is an instant hit on the notoriously faddy LA high art scene.

No good will come of this.

Willow

Dark Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) ravages the land with her armies but it is prophesied that a girl child will be born that will destroy her. Gathering all the expectant mothers in the land she hopes to to eliminate it at birth. However a midwife scurries away with the chosen one and sets her to float downriver when Bavmorda's hounds are after her.

Nelwyn (kinda hobbits) farmer Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) finds the child but the Nelwyn are a bucolic people usually uninvolved in the wars of the Daikini (humans) and tries to return her to one of her own kind.

This doesn't quite work out.

The Night House

Beth (Rebecca Hall) is struggling with grief after the sudden and unexpected suicide of her husband Owen.

Rattling around the large house the couple built by a lake she begins to have odd experiences that make her think she is being haunted by Owen. Some of them are clearly complicated layered lucid dreams, others seem to have actually happened.

When she finds some curious things amongst Owen's possessions she decides to investigate where he got them.

No good will come of this.

CW: suicide

Knives Out

After venerable crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) dies in an apparent suicide the night of his 85th birthday party the bickering family linger at his mansion.

The police return a few days later with more questions and this time the famed private Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is with them. It seems he has been hired to investigate a murder...

1984

Winston Smith (John Hurt) works for The Ministry of Truth, reworking past issues of the newspaper and other documents to ensure that all references to unpersons are replaced with more suitable candidates. The party is ruthless in ferreting out rebellion and thought crime so it is an endless task.

His path crosses with a woman, Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) and the two begin to have regular sex and fall deeply in love. This is something the Party disapproves of beyond the need for procreation to make the next generation of proud soldiers.

No good will come of this.

CW: scenes of torture and general misery

3:10 to Yuma

Rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is struggling to keep his ranch going through a period of drought and owes a bunch of money to an unscrupulous local businessman.

When famous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his gang rob a coach the two cross paths briefly.

Later, when Wade is unexpectedly captured in town, Evans joins the group transporting him to the nearest railroad station to put him the 3:10 train to Yuma prison. It's a dangerous job but he needs the money.

No good will come of this.

Last night in Soho

Ellie (Thomasin McKenzie), a somewhat sheltered fashion student moves to London to study. Unable to handle the loud partying of her classmates she moves out of student accommodation and into a room at the top of landlady Miss Collins' (Diana Rigg) old house.

There she has vivid visions of the life of aspiring 60s singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy) who is everything Ellie is not.

At first this gives Ellie inspiration and confidence she lacks, but then things start to turn sour, for Ellie has always been 'sensitive' and she can't switch these visions off. Every night she must live Sandie's life.

No good will come of this.

Malevolent

Angela (Florence Pugh) and Jackson (Ben Loyd Hughes) are American siblings in 80s Scotland running a supernatural investigation/exorcism "business". Angela is the "medium" and Jackson the "manager" but it's mostly a scam using prerecorded spooky sounds and early "ghost hunting" tech.

They take a job at a big old house for Mrs Green (Celia Imrie), the site of some infamous child murders, even though Angela (who DOES see things but is in denial about it) is reluctant.

No good will come of this.

CW: scenes of mutilation and torture