Certificate: 15 Creator: Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci Distributor: Paramount+ It’s winter and with it brings long, dark nights, possible starvation and a whole lot of troubles for the girls of the stranded soccer team in the second season of Yellowjackets. The traumas the team have dealt with since
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Released: 24 March (in cinemas) Director: Brandon Cronenberg Writer: Brandon Cronenberg Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, Jalil Lespert and Thomas Kretchmann Distributor: Universal Infinity Pool begins in the dark. Novelist James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) has just muttered something creepily nonsensical in his sleep, and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) asks for clarification on
Released: 17 March 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: PG Director: David F. Sandberg Cast: Zachary Levi, Jack Dylan Grazer, Asher Angel, Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, Rachel Zegler Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 130 mins A few years on from the first movie, Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and his still-unnamed superhero alter-ego (Zachary Levi) is proving a
Released: 17 March (cinema, UK) Certificate: 15 Director: Ti West Cast: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright Distributor: Universal Running Time: 102 mins Horror villains can be characterised by their weapon, a mask, their style of killing and more. This origin story set in 1918 during the Spanish Flu pandemic centres on the psychology of
Released: 8 March 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Distributor: Paramount Running Time: 123 mins The first Scream film without Neve Campbell (because of a pay dispute) moves location from Woodsboro to New York City (filmed in Canada) and once again plays with the rules in surprisingly fun ways. Fragile masculinity and toxic fandom continues to
Released: 17 February 2023 Certificate: PG Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp Cast: Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Isabella Rossellini Distributor: Universal A tiny mollusc named Marcel (Jenny Slate) demonstrates courage and perseverance in the aftermath of tragedy in Dean Fleischer-Camp’s delightful stop-motion/live action mockumentary, Marcel the Shell with Shoes on. Originally a short film and YouTube sensation in
Released: 17 February 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 12A Director: Peyton Reed Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lily, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Jonathan Majors Distributor: Disney Running Time: 125 mins The third Ant-Man movie has a lot riding on its sometimes tiny shoulders, as it’s tasked with both kicking off Phase Five of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic
Released: 3 February 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: M. Night Shyamalan Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge Distributor: Universal Running Time: 100 mins The apocalypse meets home invasion in M. Night Shyamalan’s tense adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay’s award-winning novel, The Cabin at the End of the World. Mostly set in one location,
Author: Jonathan Carroll Publisher: Melville House Price: £20 (hardback) ‘Mr Breakfast’ is the name of the photo that made Graham Patterson famous as a world-renowned photographer. Except this Graham Patterson doesn’t remember taking this photo. In fact, this Graham isn’t even a photographer, he’s a comedian, so whose life is he living? As Graham reaches
Released: 27 January (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Jon Wright Cast: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Niamh Cusack, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell Running Time: 104 mins In recent years, a handful of very different films – The Hollow, The Hole in the Ground, the remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark – have tackled the
Creator: Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna Distributor: Sky TV It may have taken nearly ten years since the video games’ release, but finally we get to see The Last of Us on the TV screen (which in our opinion is a much better choice than trying to condense a
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Publisher: Head of Zeus, an Ad Astra book Price: £20 (hardback) The titular City of Last Chances is the city of Ilmar, a disparate and dangerous place where the local population are occupied by the Pallseen, a nation of serial invaders intent on unifying the world into conformity by insidiously replacing language
Released: 18 December 2022 Creator: Philip Pullman, Jane Tranter, Jack Thorne Cast: Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy Distributor: BBC/HBO Running Time: 8 episodes There’s been a two-year hiatus since His Dark Materials last graced the Christmas TV schedules, and now it’s back for its third and final series, adapting Philip Pullman’s The
Released: 16 December Certificate: 15 Director: Nikyatu Jusu Cast: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls Distributor: Prime Video Running Time: 97 mins Nanny, Nikyatu Jusu’s impressive feature debut blends horror and satire to tell a story about entitlement and cultural and societal oppression in the West. It has some things in common with Ousmane Sembene’s
Released: 16 December (in cinemas) Director: James Cameron Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver Thirteen years is a long time. In 2009, James Cameron’s off-Earth sci-fi epic Avatar was busting blocks all over the globe, had everyone briefly imagining that 3D was the next new (old) thing, and built the all-encompassing lunar world of
Released: 9 December Certificate: TBC Director: Lorcan Finnegan Cast: Eva Green, Mark Strong, Chai Fonacier, Billie Gadsdon Distributor: Vertigo Running Time: 96 minutes After her home life and career are derailed by a calamity that literally knocks her off her ‘lucky shoes’, a mystery illness afflicts chic Christine (Eva Green), an affluent designer of children’s
Director: Andrew Seamans Writer: Andrew Seamans Cast: Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman Distributor: Universal Starring Rebecca Hall as Margaret, Resurrection is an uncomfortably intense study of the powerful grip that echoes of past trauma can have on a person’s psyche. Dressed up as a psychological horror, Hall’s nuanced and intelligent performance gifts the serious
Released: 2 December (cinema) Certificate: 15 Director: Tommy Wirkola Cast: David Harbour, Beverly D’Angelo, John Leguizamo Distributor: Universal Running Time: 112 There’s an opening gambit in Scrooged where a promo attempting to entice a new Christmas audience with a super violent movie starring Lee Majors plays out. It’s called ‘The Night the Reindeer Died’ and
Released: 23 November (in cinemas) Certificate: 18 Director: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Taylor Russell Distributor: Warner Brothers Running Time: 131 mins Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell star as two teen cannibals, Lee and Maren respectively, who meet on the backroads of the late 1980s American Midwest in Luca Guadagnino’s melancholic, genre straddling
Released: 11 November (in cinemas) Director: Ryan Coogler Cast: Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta, Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Running Time: 161 mins The passing of Chadwick Boseman in 2020, left a giant hole in the lives of many, including the cast and crew of the Black Panther film; a landmark moment in
Released: 21 October (in cinemas) Certificate: 12 Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Quintessa Swindell, Marwan Kenzari, Bodhi Sabongui Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 124 minutes In the case of Black Adam, DC could stand for Deep Cut. It’s a whole movie built around Billy Batson’s third
Released: 9 December (on Netflix) Certificate: PG Director: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson Cast: Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Gregory Mann, Finn Wolfhard Distributor: Netflix Running Time: 114 mins It should come as no surprise to anyone that the master of modern dark fairy-tales like Pan’s Labyrinth delivers an adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s fantasy novel that
Cast: Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore, André Dae Kim, J. August Richards Distributor: Sky and NOW TV The Vampire Diaries collides with Game of Thrones’ political drama, in Sky’s fantasy offering Vampire Academy. Based on the book series of the same name by Richelle Mead, in a world where vampire royalty ‘Moroi’ are guarded
Released: 25 November Director: Noah Baumbach Cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Don Cheadle Distributor: Netflix Running Time: 136 mins Death, the endless ways to die, and the anxiety that comes with overthinking it fuels the actions of the adult characters in White Noise, Noah Baumbach’s faithful adaptation of Don Delillo’s cult novel published
Released: 2 November (in cinemas), 16 November (on Netflix) Director: Sebastian Lelio Cast: Florence Pugh, Kila Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy Distributor: Netflix Running Time: 108 minutes Hope and despair collide in unsettling fashion in The Wonder, a suspenseful psychological thriller about faith, family, love and reason set in rural Ireland in 1862. Directed
Released: 25 November 2022 (in cinemas) Certificate: PG Director: Matthew Warchus Cast: Lashana Lynch, Emma Thompson, Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Graham Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing UK Running Time: 117 mins This vivaciously imagined film adaptation of the Matilda stage musical by the same creative team behind the multi-award-winning West End and Broadway show is beautifully choreographed
Released: 18 September (cinemas) Certificate: 18 Director: Parker Finn Writer: Parker Finn Cast: Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Jessie T. Usher, Caitlin Stasey, Robin Weigert, Kal Penn Distributor: Paramount Running Time: 115 mins Writer-director Parker Finn, making his first feature, expertly crafts scary sequences in which psychiatrist Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is spooked by random folks
Released: Out now Director: Olivia Wilde Writer: Katie Silberman Cast: Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles Distributor: Warner Brothers Running Time: 123 mins Following her hit teen comedy Booksmart, director and actor Olivia Wilde presents a glossy, high concept sci-fi thriller with Don’t Worry Darling. The film follows 1950s housewife Alice (Florence Pugh)
Certificate: 12A Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney Writer: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney Cast: Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki Distributor: Bulldog Film Running Time: 90 mins As he stays in the home of elderly, eccentric ‘atmosphere creator’ Bella (Penny Fuller) to audit her dreams, Preble (Kentucker Audley) finds himself sharing a room with Bella’s pet
Author: A.G Riddle Publisher: AdAstra Released: Out now Price: £16.99 (hardcover) If you like this, try… Project Hail Mary When an amateur astronomer discovers that the sun is getting dimmer, forecasting the next ice age and the end of all life on Earth, the world’s scientists are put to work to understand why in Andy
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