Released: 29 September (in cinemas) Certificate: 18 Director: Kevin Greutert Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnove Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Renata Vaca, Joshua Okamoto, Octavio Hinojosa, Paulette Hernandez Distributor: Lionsgate Running Time: 118 mins It’s nearly 20 years since James Wan’s Saw (2004) kicked off an unlikely franchise, elevating familiar bit player Tobin Bell to
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Author: Em X. Liu Publisher: Solaris Price: £16.99 In The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu, Hayden Lichfield’s world shatters when he discovers his father has been murdered and crucial camera logs in their lab have been deleted. The motive is clear: the coveted Sisyphus Formula, capable of potentially defying death. To draw
Released: 8 September 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Michael Chaves Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid Distributor: Warner Brothers Running Time: 110 mins A decade on from the release of James Wan’s terrifying The Conjuring comes a sequel to The Nun spinoff which marks the ninth film in this particular horror universe that
Author: Henry Chebaane Released: Available now Times of London, the first book in Henry Chebaane’s Panharmonion Chronicles series is a genre-bending, super-powered time travel tale packed with unique perspectives and fantastical concepts. When orphaned Canadian musician Alex Campbell inherits an enormous, run-down Victorian London house from a mysterious ancestor, she moves to the UK in
Director: Anthony Waller Writer: Anthony Waller, Duncan Kennedy Cast: Elizabeth Hurley, Mia Jenkins, Jack Stewart, Robert Daws Running Time: 105 mins In Piper, a car speeds alongside woods in the rain at night. Inside Kerry Weiss (Alma Rix) tries to stay in command of the vehicle, while preventing her manically humming young son Matty (Jékabs
Director: Xavier Gens Cast: Nassim Lyes, Olivier Gourmet, Loryn Nounay, Vithaya Pansringarm Running Time: 96 mins ‘Farang’ is the Thai word for ‘Caucasian’, or more generally for ‘foreigner’ – and while Xavier Gens’ film of the same name begins in France, its Algerian protagonist Samir ‘Sam’ Darba (the extraordinary Nassim Lyes) is already an outsider,
Director: Michael J. Hurst Cast: Vernon Wells, Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, Sadie Katz Running Time: 73 mins Transmission begins with a satellite flashing a red light over Earth, and a large radar dish below picking up its signal – which is to say that, as the film’s very title suggests, here the medium is the
Director: Graham Hughes Cast: Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Annabel Logan, Andy Stewart Running Time: 80 mins Much like writer/director Graham Hughes’ previous feature Death of a Vlogger (2019), Hostile Dimensions begins with intradiegetic camerawork, as unseen cameraman Brian follows graffiti artist Emily (Josie Rogers) into an abandoned building where they discover a door and frame
Director: Joe Stephenson Cast: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Simon Callow Running Time: 90 mins From the very outset, Doctor Jekyll is concerned with class, and with the illusory notion of its boundaries. We know this because it opens with a journalist (Simon Callow) asserting the need to quash “the idea that human beings
Director: Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp Cast: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Rie Inoo, Shinya Tsukamoto Running Time: 95 mins J-Horror typically features alienated individuals and viral curses, and uses technology – whether outgoing and analogue, like hand-me-down VHS cassettes, or incoming and digital, like the internet – as the medium for its uncanny hauntings. As its
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein Writer: Maximilian Erlenwein, Joachim Hedén Cast: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause “I still get a bit nervous every time,” says Drew (Sophie Lowe), about to step off a narrow jetty into the sea for a cave dive. “Lucky you,” replies her sister May (Louisa Krause), “Nervous is good. Excitement’s a good thing.” May
Certificate: 12A Director: Angel Manuel Soto Writer: Gareth Dunnet Alcocer Cast: Xolo Mariduena, Bruna Marquezine, Damian Alcazar, George Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Adriana Barraza, Belissa Escobedo Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 127 mins Let’s not dwell on it. Superhero movies have been on a downward trajectory for some time. Recent efforts, like Shazam: Fury Of The
Director: John Rosman Writer: John Rosman Cast: Tony Amendola, Hayley Erin, Sonya Walger Running Time: 85 mins New Life launches the viewer in medias res, with Jessica Murdock (Hayley Erin) walking down a suburban street, her face covered in blood that is in fact not her own. She lets herself into the house that she
Released: 11 August (in cinemas) Director: Justin Simien Writer: Katie Dippold Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto Running Time: 123 mins Once upon a time a movie based on an amusement park ride would have been a laughable concept. But in 2003 Disney rewrote those
Director: Bishal Dutta Writer: Mehta Ashish, Dutta Bishal Cast: March Gage, Suri Megan, Krishnan Mohana, Bajwa Neeru, Sahay Vik Running Time: 99 mins “Talk to me,” says Poorna (Neeru Bajwa) to her teen daughter Samidha (Megan Suri) as they sit across the table from each other some way into It Lives Inside. Although writer/director Bishal
Director: Quarxx Writer: Quarxx Cast: Hugo Dillon, Arben Bajraktaraj, Manon Maindivide, Ophélia Kolb, Carl Laforêt Running Time: 96 mins “I’m not in denial anymore,” says Daniel (Arben Bajraktaraj) to Nathan (Hugo Dillon) very near the beginning of Pandemonium. Nathan has just awoken lying in the middle of an isolated road that snakes through misty mountains,
Director: Writer: Austin Jennings, Matt Frink Cast: Emily Sweet, Brad Thomas, Bruno Veljanovski Running Time: 86 mins Eight Eyes starts as it intends to finish: with an unsettling enigma. The camera tilts down through the darkness of night to a big fire, onto which some clothing is placed, and in which a charred human head
Director: Nicholas Tomnay Writer: Nicholas Tomnay Cast: Penelope Mitchell, Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez Running Time: 101 mins What You Wish For is a story of haves and have-nots, and the morality-challenging divide that exists between them. More than a mere have-not, gambling addict Ryan Mosely (Nick Stahl) is also massively in debt, and
Released: 31 July Certificate: PG Director: Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears Cast: Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr, Jackie Chan, Ayo Edebiri, Ice Cube, Seth Rogen, John Cena, Paul Rudd,Maya Rudolph Distributor: Paramount Running Time: 99 mins Created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird for an underground comic parodying Marvel superheroes and Asian
Director: Alice Maio Mackay Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Ben Pahl Robinson Cast: Lewi Dawson, Etcetera Etcetera, Lisa Fanto, Toshiro Glenn, Lauren Last Running Time: 75 mins “The film you are about to see is a work of fantastic fiction, ooh, but it’s realer than you think,” states Cryptessa (Etcetera Etcetera) to the camera at the
Creator: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman Director: Douglas Mackinnon Writer: John Finnemore, Neil Gaiman Cast: Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm, Doon Mackichan, Gloria Obianyo, Miranda Richardson, Maggie Service, Nina Sosanya Neil Gaiman and Sir Terry Pratchett’s adaption of their book Good Omens lit up Prime Video when it landed back in 2019. Overflowing with the
Director: Junta Yamaguchi Writer: Makoto Ueda Cast: Riko Fujitani, Yoshimasa Kondo, Shiori Kubo, Munenori Nagano, Yuki Torigoe Running Time: 82 mins “You can’t step into the same river twice,” is a quote attributed to the Early Greek philosopher Heraclitus, as an illustration of stability’s absence in a world of flux. Yet in Junta Yamaguchi’s latest,
Director: Jenn Wexler Writer: Jenn Wexler, Sean Redlitz Cast: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Chloë Levine, Madison Baines, Georgia Acken, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre Running Time: 100 mins After a group of Christmas carollers leaves the front porch of an ordinary suburban house, four people watching from the darkness move in, immediately stabbing in the
Director: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser Writer: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser Cast: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser Running Time: 93 mins Where The Devil Roams begins as it ends: on a stage. Shot in flickery monochrome to mimic film from the period, a tattooed, tuxedoed man with no legs drags himself
Director: Yuval Adler Writer: Luke Paradise Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Burns Burns Running Time: 90 mins The title of Yuval Adler’s previous feature – The Secrets We Keep (2020) – might equally have served as a title for his latest, also starring Joel Kinnaman. For Sympathy for the Devil begins with a conversation about
Director: Paris Zarcilla Writer: Paris Zarcilla Cast: Leanne Best, Jaeden Paige Boadilla, Max Eigenmann, David Hayman Running Time: 100 mins Raging Grace opens with the young girl of the title (Jesden Paige Boadilla) sitting at a bedroom desk and drawing a picture of herself happily holding hands with her mother. Then the camera drifts over
Released: 24 July Cast: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio Distributor: Hulu (US), Disney+ (UK) Last seen on Comedy Central in 2013, Futurama is proving more durable than Bender’s gleaming steel posterior. Resurrected once again – this time thanks to the deep pockets of Hulu – Matt Groening’s sci-fi extravaganza promises more of the same
Certificate: 12A Director: Greta Gerwig Writer: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 114 mins Everything is awesome! Well, that’s not what Barbie actually says in the first few minutes of meeting her, but it’s along those lines and like Lord and Miller’s The Lego Movie, Barbie is a giddily fun frolic with
Released: 21 July 2023 (in cinemas) Director: Samuel Bodin Writer: Chris Thomas Devlin Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, Antony Starr Quiet, timid, sad Peter (Woody Norman) is a preadolescent only child who keeps to himself and finds anxiety in everything. Near the beginning of Cobweb, he stays behind in the classroom during recess
Released: Out now Creator: David Goyer Cast: Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn, Terrence Mann, Cassian Bilton Distributor: Apple TV+ If there’s one thing that season one of Apple TV+’s Foundation demonstrated, it’s that the seemingly unadaptable novels by Isaac Asimov can indeed be adapted given the right time and budget.
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