Prospect

Damon (Jay Duplass) is an itinerant prospector going from job to job with his daughter Cee (Sophie Thatcher).

He gets word of a great strike on a poisonous forest moon and the pair have three days to grab what they can and leave on the freighter currently parked in orbit.

What was already a risky job gets harder when they run into opportunistic bandit Ezra (Pedro Pascal).

JUNG_E

Mankind unites to overcome the challenges of climate change and conquers low earth orbit, building great orbiting habitats but shortly afterwards civil war erupts.

Famed Mercenary War Heroine Yun Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-joo) is left critically injured in a battle that could have ended the war.

Now years later her own daughter Yun Seo-hyun (Kang Soo-yeon) is leader of a project to train an AI modelled on Jung-yi's mind to pilot a fleet of robot warriors (JUNG_E)

to finally end the decades long conflict.

This does not go to plan.

Men

Harper (Jessie Buckley) rents a large historic home in a small village to get away for a while after the suicide of her husband.

At first she revels in the nature and quiet but then while on a walk finds she is being stalked by a naked man who eventually ends up back at the house. The Police respond quickly and effectively but this is not the last trouble she will face from Men.

CW: suicide, domestic controlling abuse, injury detail, gore, birthing, fucking weird

Moon

In the future, Earth's energy problems have been solved by He3, strip mined from the surface of the moon by automated harvesters. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is a lone maintenance worker making sure this runs like clockwork. The live satellite link is down so his only company is a tethered robotic assistant Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey) and he tends to anthropomorphise things around the station.

He's approaching the end of his three year contract, glad to return to his family as he's feeling increasingly tired and sick. Occasionally he sees things.

When one of the harvesters breaks down he takes a drive out to fix it but loses concentration and crashes his rover.

No good will come of this.

Vesper

In a world made grim by a slow Gibsonian Jackpot apocalypse young Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) tends to her paralysed father.

People scrape a living in the mud where most life has been replaced or hybridised with artificial genetically engineered organisms. Nothing edible grows but the seeds produced by the last bastions of technology and comfort: The Citadels.

When a Citadel flyer crashes and she rescues one of the occupants, Vesper hopes this will be their ticket up into the sky.

This does not come to pass.

CW: very mild body horror, some play with themes of slavery and untermensch/unpersonhood

Red Dawn

In an alternative history of the Cold War the Soviet Union makes a sudden surprise invasion of the United States with a mixed force of troops from different communist states.

In the ensuing chaos a group of young adults escape to the Colorado mountains with rudimentary supplies and weapons. After hiding out for some weeks they return to town only to find many people they knew dead and those remaining living in fear of the occupiers.

They resolve to fight back, engaging in partisan activity under the banner of their High School football team, The Wolverines.

CW: war crimes and quite a lot of mostly bloodless battle scenes

The Hunt for Red October

It is the height of the Cold War and the Soviet Union has developed a new submarine drive, essentially making a boat untrackable. The shakedown voyage of this new terrifying first strike weapon, the Red October, is handed to legendary submarine Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery).

CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) has been following the development of the Red October and when it is detected leaving port there is great consternation in the US military command.

Shortly after leaving base, Captain Ramius kills his political officer, ignores his orders and plots a new course. Neither side knows his intentions.

A Banquet

After Betsey's (Jessica Alexander) father dies, the family try to carry on as before. Her mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) cooks lavish meals and keeps the house immaculate while spiralling into debt and sister Izzy (Ruby Stokes) struggles to enjoy the things she used to.

Then one night Betsey has an epiphany under the night sky and discovers new purpose. Divine purpose.

CW: suicide, anorexia, fucking miserable