Publisher: Titan Released: Out now Writer: David Quantick Price: £18.99 If you like this, try… Mickey 7 Mickey has been created specifically for suicide missions. But what if he doesn’t want to do that anymore? Author Edward Ashton delivers an intelligent and heartfelt bittersweet existential body-horror-comedy Perhaps best known for his political comedy screenwriting credits
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Released: 9 September (cinema) Certificate: 18 Director: David Cronenberg Writer: David Cronenberg Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart Distributor: Vertigo Releasing Running Time: 108 mins If you like this, try… Videodrome Cronenberg’s iconic science fiction nightmare about a world where video controls human life would make a great double bill with Crimes of the
Released: 9 September 2022 (cinema) Certificate: 15 Director: Halina Reijn Writer: Sarah DeLappe, Kristen Roupenian Distributor: Sony Running Time: 94 mins If you like this, try… Shiva Baby Though not a horror in name, this Jewish funeral comedy starring Rachel Sennott, plays with genre tropes in imaginative ways. “Relationships can be complicated,” explains one of
Director: Zach Cregger Writer: Zach Cregger Cast: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Richard Brake, Matthew Patrick Davis Running Time: 102 mins The title of writer/director Zach Cregger’s superlative thriller, Barbarian, is – at least at first – a bit of a puzzler, even though its associations and implications cast their shadow over the rest
Released: 2 September 2022 Director: J.A. Bayona Writer: Patrick McKay, John D. Payne, Gennifer Hutchison Cast: Morfydd Clark, Nazanin Boniadi, Robert Aramayo, Benjamin Walker Distributor: Amazon Prime Based on the appendices from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the first two episodes of Amazon’s ambitious prequel, The Rings Of Power, set in
Director: Scott Mann Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Fulton, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding Distributor: Signature Entertainment Running Time: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Fulton, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding The opening title credit for Scott Mann’s Fall is written vertically, with the initial ‘f’ at the top of the screen and the final ‘l’ at the bottom.
Director: Ben Parker Cast: Harriet Walter, Tom Felton, Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner Running Time: 95 mins Burial opens in London, during the Christmas of 1991, at a particularly momentous turn of global events. For as the TV news reports Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation as the President of the Soviet Union in what appears to be the
Director: Dominic Brunt Cast: James Fleet, Jay Taylor, Nicky Evans, Rupert Proctor Running Time: 85 mins Those expecting the film that they are watching to be Dominic Brunt’s Wolf Manor might be surprised to see a title at the beginning for Crimson Manor, directed by Derrick Francis. There is a blood moon, and lightning over
Director: Brea Grant Cast: Katey Sagal, Abby Quinn, Alexxis Lemire, Joshua Leonard Running Time: 97 mins “We’re like sisters,” says Leigh Blackhouse (Alexxis Lemire) about herself and her best friend/bandmate Jordan Wilder (Abby Quinn). Their country band Torn Hearts is starting to gain traction in Nashville’s bar circuit, but not nearly fast enough to match
Director: Scott Lyus Writer: Scott Lyus Cast: Sophia Eleni, Reece Douglas, James Swanton Scott Lyus’ Walking Against The Rain opens with text which sounds like a quote from the Biblical Book of Revelation (although it is in fact of the filmmaker’s invention), about the defiant ones knowing ‘great pain’, and beasts risen from the abyss
Director: Neil Marshall Cast: Charlotte Kirk, Jamie Bamber, Jonathan Howard, Hadi Khanjanpour Running Time: 90 mins It is April 2017, in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, and if there is one thing that we know, it is that Neil Marshall’s The Lair is going to end with a bang. We know this because text at the very
Director: Jacob Gentry Cast: Brea Grant, AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress, Sandra Benton Running Time: 96 mins Near the end of Night Sky, someone will menacingly promise protagonist Oren (AJ Bowen) “a long excruciating couple of agonisingly painful hours while you – you helplessly wait to bleed out,” adding, “a sensation with which I think you’re
Director: Michael Hazanavicius Cast: Romain Duris, Berenice Bejo, Finnegan Oldfield, Gregory Gadebois Running Time: 111 mins Final Cut (Coupez!) opens with a conflicted young woman (Matilda Lutz) fending off a young man (Finnegan Oldfield) with an axe, while trying to reconcile herself to the fact that he is no longer her boyfriend but a braindead
Director: Travis Stevens Writer: Travis Stevens, Nathan Faudree Cast: Sarah Lind, Josh Ruben, Malin Barr A Wounded Fawn opens with a quote from Leonora Carrington about the sudden realisation of her embodied vulnerability – and later we will see a copy of Susan L. Aberth’s book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (2010), while a
Director: Francois Descraques Cast: Arnaud Ducret, Florent Dorin, Enya Baroux, Raphael Descraques Running Time: 105 mins “Turn back!”, are the first words heard in Visitor From The Future (Le visiteur du futur), addressed to a technician who is running into a nuclear power plant in meltdown while his colleagues are all fleeing the other way.
Released: September 2022 Certificate: PG Director: Kogonada Writer: Kogonada Cast: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja Distributor: Sky Cinema Running Time: 96 mins If you like this, try… Sans Soleil Chris Marker’s trippy essay film examines time, ritual, memory and place with profound insight. The sudden loss of Yang (an android played by Justin
Certificate: 12A Director: Tetsuro Kodama Writer: Akira Toriyama Cast: Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Ryou Horikawa (Japanese) Distributor: Crunchyroll Running Time: 200 mins Dragon Ball is one of the biggest and most popular anime franchises of all time and one that is many fans’ gateway anime, the one that turned them from normies into weebs. It
Certificate: 15 Director: William Brent Bell Writer: David Coggeshall Cast: Julia Stiles, Isabelle Fuhrman, Rossif Sutherland Distributor: Signature Entertainment Running Time: 86 mins If you like this, try… Greta Isabelle Huppert has loads of fun playing a psychopath in Neil Jordan’s trashy and twisted horror-thriller. Isabelle Fuhrman who played a con artist and psycho-killer in
Released: 5 August (on Netflix) Director: Various Cast: Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Vivienne Acheampong, David Thewlis, Jenna Coleman, Vanesu Samunyai Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… American Gods Another show in which ancient beings have personal problems and humans get caught in the middle? It’s almost like Neil Gaiman has a type… (in the
Director: Carlota Pereda Writer: Carlota Pereda Cast: Laura Galán, Claudia Salas, Carmen Machi, Pilar Castro Pink is a colour associated with girlishness, and with pigs. The opening credits of writer/director Carlota Pereda’s feature debut Piggy (Cerdita) are pink, to match the colour of its teenaged (anti)heroine’s trainers – yet the film also begins with the
Director: Quentin Dupieux Writer: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel In the opening sequence to Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (2010), a police officer inexplicably steps out of the boot of a car in the desert and addresses both the camera and an intradiegetic audience about what he calls “the ‘no reason’” in films,
Director: Dario Argento Writer: Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini Cast: Ilenia Pastorelli, Asia Argento, Andrea Gherpelli Giallo king Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses opens with a wide establishing shot of residential buildings in Rome’s leafy suburbs, and then various mobile shots looking upwards at roadside trees and apartment blocks. As it is revealed that the perspective belongs
Released: 29 July (cinema) Director: Jared Stern, Sam Levine Writer: Jared Stern, John Whittington Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon Distributor: Warner Bros Pictures Running Time: 106 mins The latest addition to Warner Bros’ ever increasing DC library is the curiously flat DC League Of Super-Pets. Co-written and directed by Jared Stern (The Lego
Director: Rodrigo Gudiño Writer: Nick Cutter (book), Ian Weir (script) Cast: Natalie Brown, Emily Alatalo, Allan Hawco The Breach begins where Friday the 13th (1980) ends, with a canoe free-floating in the water – which is to say that as the vessel drifts downstream, the film is both advertising and literalising its own derivativeness. Yet
Director: Andy Mitton Writer: Andy Mitton Cast: Stephanie Roth, Haberle Raymond, Anthony Thomas, Laura Heisler The Harbinger is a film of virus, infection and masks. It is set in the early wave of the pandemic when there was no vaccine and the Coronavirus was decimating New York City’s elderly and middle-aged populations. Monique ‘Mo’ Cartwright
Director: Mali Elfman Writer: Mali Elfman Cast: Gavin Powers, Joe Powers, Katie Parker, Karen Gillan, Rahul Kohli The road movie is, famously, a metaphor for life. Where the journey starts and ends is arbitrary, but as our travellers have strange encounters with passers-by, take various unexpected detours, and look back over what they are leaving
Director: Dima Ballin, Kat Ellinger Writer: Dima Ballin, Kat Ellinger Cast: Howard S. Berger, Véronique Djaouti, David Hinds At the age of five, during the Second World War, Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was taken to the cinema for his first time to see Abel Gance’s La capitaine Fracasse (1943). From that moment on,
Author: Karen Heuler Publisher: Angry Robot Released: Out now Price: £9.99 After deliberately (and maybe just a little accidentally-on-purpose-permanently) transforming her despicably risible co-worker Stan into a black cat, novice witch Eleanor finds herself excommunicated from her coven in Karen Heuler’s The Splendid City. Now intrinsically bound to her feline frenemy, her only hope of
Released: 8 July (cinemas) Certificate: PG Director: Jim Archer Writer: David Earl, Chris Hayward Distributor: Universal Running Time: 90 mins If you like this, try… Robot & Frank Jake Schrier’s comedy teams up a robot butler and an elderly ex-burglar (the wonderful Frank Langella) sliding into dementia to heart-warming and hilarious ends. Isolation and the
Publisher: Macmillan Released: 7 July Writer: Blake Crouch Price: £16.99 If you like this, try… Off Target Eve Smith’s novel explores one mother’s desire to give her and her miracle child the best chance at life leads Susan to confront the morality of DNA and gene manipulation. In the years following a global famine, caused
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