The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

As the US Civil War rages, three cruel and greedy men, The Good (Clint Eastwood), The Bad (Lee Van-Cleef) and The Ugly (Eli Wallach) travel the land doing violent stuff for money.

They become aware of a lost Army payroll amounting to $200,000 in gold, an absolute fortune, and set about locating it.

CW: scenes of violence and torture

Tales from the lodge

A group of friends meet up to scatter the ashes of a friend at a lake. They talk nonsense, reminisce and tell scary stories.

CW: mild transphobia

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Years after the events of "The Terminator" John Connor (Edward Furlong) is a juvenile delinquent in the custody of foster parents while his mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton) languishes in a sanitarium.

John lived a strange itinerant life being raised to be the great military leader his mother said he was "riding in helicopters, learning to blow shit up" until one day she was arrested and he encountered the normal world. Clearly all the talk of Judgement Day was psychosis. He blames her for his messed up life.

That is until a Terminator walks into his life.

CW: injury detail, abuse of power

The Terminator

In the distant future of 2029, mankind was almost made extinct by Skynet: an AI that triggered nuclear war and built an army of killer machines to exterminate the survivors.

One man, John Conner, organises a resistance that fights back. At the threshold of victory they discover that Skynet has sent one of its infiltration units: a Terminator T101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back in time to kill his mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and ensure he is never born.

One more trip is possible and Connor selects volunteer Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) to follow and protect her.

Reese is outmatched in almost every way by The Terminator but has some critical information it lacks: her full name and knowing her face from an old photograph.

CW: injury detail and DIY surgery, enucleation.

Uncut Gems

Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is a jeweler with a massive gambling problem, a wife Dinah (Idina Menzel) who's about to divorce him, an expensive mistress Julia (Julia Fox) a dubious business relationship with Demany (Lakeith Stanfield) who attracts wealthy marks to his shop and a horde of loan sharks, creditors and unsatisfied customers who dog his every turn.

Luckily his big break has come in, a rare uncut black opal smuggled out of Africa which he thinks he can get a million dollars for at auction.

No good will come of this.

CW: gambling addiction

Heart of Stone

Novice agent for MI6 Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) is working a job in Switzerland when it starts to go off the rails and she has to "get out of the van" instead of providing the remote tech support her teammates are expecting.

What her team don't know is she's a top agent for "The Charter", a supranational entity guided by a quantum AI who could probably do the whole mission herself.

Shenanigans ensue.

CW: nothing of note

Sinister

True crime writer Ellison (Ethan Hawke) moves his family to Pennsylvania to research his next book. While his first was a massive smash he's been getting diminishing returns and needs another hit badly as they are struggling financially.

He neglects to tell them the house belonged to the family whose murders he is researching.

In the attic he unexpectedly finds a box of Super8 film and projector. When Ellison plays the first film it breaks from innocent family scenes to footage of the murders. How can this be: it makes no sense that the Police would have missed this at the time.

He considers reporting this but when the other films in the box show a series of bizarre murders seemingly committed by the same person he decides that cracking this will be the relaunch his career needs.

No good will come of this.

CW: snuff movie footage, jump

Europa Report

The crew of the Europa One (Anamaria Marinca, Michael Nyqvist, Karolina Wydra, Daniel Wu, Sharlto Copley annd Christian Camargo) travel to Jupiter's moon Europa on a scientific mission to explore its frozen surface and if possible drill through into the ocean expected beneath it.

No good will come of this.

CW: flashing images and fast cuts