Author: Eve Smith Publisher: Orenda Books Released: Out now Despite wild advances in IVF and gene therapy capable of curing life-limiting diseases in-utero and helping women to conceive, Susan is still suffering from unexplained infertility in Eve Smith’s sci-fi novel Off Target. Desperate for a child and breaking from the marital pressure to conceive naturally,
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Author: Edward Ashton Publisher: Rebellion Released: Out now Price: £7.99 (ebook) The business of interstellar colonisation is a dangerous one in Edward Ashton’s Mickey7. No matter how good your robots and drones may be, sometimes you’ve got to send a man to do a human’s job. But what about when it’s a suicide mission? Who
Director: Johannes Roberts Writer: Johannes Roberts Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Robbie Amell, Hannah John-Kamen, Tom Hopper Distributor: Sony Pictures Running Time: 107 mins Six films and over a billion dollars later, the Resident Evil movies are undeniably successful. But like many video game adaptations, the stories deviated so strongly from the source material, that it soon
Released: 4 February (in cinemas) Director: Roland Emmerich Cast: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley Distributor: Lionsgate Running Time: 130 minutes Conspiracies run rife in Moonfall, Roland Emmerich’s latest take on a disaster movie. The twist this time? The moon is on a collision course with Earth after it’s knocked out of orbit, fuelling doubt
Released: 4 February (in cinemas) Certificate: 12A Director: Mamoru Hosoda Writer: Mamoru Hosoda Cast: Kaho Nakamura, Takeru Satoh, Kōji Yakusho, Lilas Ikuta, Ryō Narita Distributor: Anime Limited Running Time: 127 mins The first time we encounter our titular heroine, Belle, she’s riding atop a flying whale covered in speakers while singing her heart out, and
Released: 28 January (in cinemas) Certificate: PG Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura Writer: Yasuhiro Yoshiura, Ichiro Okochi Cast: Tao Tsuchiya , Haruka Fukuhara, Asuka Kudo, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Mikako Komatsu, Satoshi Hino Distributor: Funimation Running Time: 109 mins When you think AI, you probably think of Steven Spielberg’s eponymous offering, Skynet’s war on humans, or, keeping it anime,
Released: 28 January (in cinemas) Director: Romola Garai Writer: Romola Garai Cast: Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu, Imelda Staunton Distributor: Republic Film Distribution In her directorial debut, Romola Garai delivers an unnerving experiment on our perceptions of penance and predators in Amulet. Having escaped his life as a reluctant soldier from an unnamed, war torn country,
Creator: Matthew Mercer Cast: Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Taliesin Jaffe, Marisha Ray & Sam Riegel Distributor: Prime Video Running Time: 12 episodes Following the record-breaking 2019 Kickstarter campaign, Critical Role’s adult animated fantasy-adventure series is finally here. Based on the ‘nerdy-ass’ voice actors’ first live-streamed dungeons and dragons campaign,
Director: Guillermo del Toro Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Running Time: 139 mins If you like this, try… Fallen Angel Otto Preminger’s suspenseful film noir follows a con-man who falls for a sultry thief and falls prey to a morally dubious
Author: James Breakwell Released: Out now Distributor: Rebellion Young Gamma has questions in The Chosen Twelve. Like, if he and his friends are only twelve years old, then how come the markings on his wall – one of which he makes every day – add up to much more than twelve years? Luckily, Gamma has
Released: 14 January 2022 (in cinemas) Certificate: 18 Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett Writer: James Vanderbilt, Guy Busick Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette Distributor: Paramount Pictures Running Time: 114 mins If you like this, try… Tragedy Girls Brianna Hildebrand and Alexandra Shipp star as two psychotic high-school girls obsessed with making a name
Director: Lana Wachowski Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris Running Time: 148 mins After such a long absence, our beloved Neo and Trinity are back on the big screen… sort of. When we are reunited with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in Lana Wachowski’s Matrix: Resurrections,
Released: 7 January Certificate: 18 Director: Jamie Donoghue (Lead Director) Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Edward Bluemel, Louise Brealey, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Owen Teale, Alex Kingston Distributor: Sky Running Time: 7 episodes If you like this, try… Shadow And Bone Centered on magic and fighting for what’s right, this Netflix fantasy hosts a number
Format: Digital, 4K Ultra HD™, Blu-ray™ & DVD Director: Andy Serkis Writer: Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy Cast: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Running Time: 97 mins When Venom was released back in 2018, some critics (including us) may have been a bit sniffy
Format: Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Certificate: 18 Director: James Wan Writer: James Wan, Ingrid Bisu, Akela Cooper Cast: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 111 minutes James Wan has always been one to push boundaries in genre (just take a look at Saw and The Conjuring to see how lovingly
Released: 15 December Certificate: 12A Director: Jon Watts Writer: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers Cast: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Marisa Tomei Distributor: Sony Pictures Running Time: 148 mins If you like this, try… Superman III Superman battles with his identity and morality in the third film in the Christopher Reeve era of the superhero franchise.
Creator: Lauren Schmidt (for television) Cast: Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan, Jodhi May, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Adam Levy Distributor: Netflix Running Time: Eight episodes Almost two years to the day since we were first introduced to the world of ‘the Continent’, our beloved grunting blonde cynic of a mercenary, Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill)
Format: Blu-ray Released: 6 December Certificate: 15 Director: Hideaki Anno Writer: Hideaki Anno Cast: Kamiki Ryūnosuke, Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara, Yūko Miyamura Distributor: Anime Limited Running Time: 783 minutes Sitting down to watch Hideaki Anno’s magnum opus, Neon Genesis Evangelion on Blu-ray for the first time ever, we realised just how much this show means
Released: 10 December (in UK and Irish cinemas) Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson Writer: Valdimar Jóhannsson, Sjón Cast: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason Distributor: MUBI Running Time: 106 minutes If you like this, try… Rosemary’s Baby One of the best movies ever made about the terrors of motherhood. Something is amiss at the isolated Icelandic sheep farm
Released: Out now (cinemas) Director: Russell Owen Writer: Russell Owen Cast: Tom Hughes, Kate Dickie, Greta Scacchi Running Time: 103 mins Based on the folk tale of a remote worker driven mad by isolation (the same story that Roger Eggers used for The Lighthouse no less, though the two are very different), Shepherd is an
Released: 18 November 2021 Certificate: 12A Director: Jason Reitman Writer: Gil Kenan, Jason Reitman Cast: Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd Distributor: Sony Pictures Running Time: 124 mins If you like this, try… The Lost Boys A single mum and her sons relocate to the murder capital of the world in this joyfully
Director: Chloé Zhao Writer: Chloé Zhao, Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, Kaz Firpo Cast: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit Harington, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Ma Dong-seok, Harish Patel Running Time: 157 mins Sent here 7000 years ago to battle an alien lifeform known as the
Certificate: PG Director: Miguel Sapochnik Writer: Craig Luck, Ivor Powell Cast: Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones Distributor: Apple TV+ Running Time: 115 minutes Finch is set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by the effects of a gamma flare where, instead of everyone turning into the Incredible Hulk, the population is now non-existent and the landscape
Released: 29 October (at cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Kenji Nagasaki Writer: Yōsuke Kuroda (screenplay) Cast: Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yuki Kaji Running Time: 104 mins With five seasons done and dusted, a sixth announced, and now three movies, My Hero Academia is something of an unstoppable force in the world of anime. That’s not surprising
Released: 29 October Certificate: 15 Director: Matthias Schweighöfer Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Stuart Martin, Ruby O. Fee, Guz Khan, Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Nakai, Christian Steyer Distributor: Netflix Running Time: 127 mins A non-horror prequel to a horror movie, where zombies are relegated to news reports and dreams, Army of Thieves is a film where
Released: 29 October at cinemas Certificate: 15 Director: Mike Mort Writer: Mike Mort Cast: Mike Mort, Jennifer Saunders, Paul Whitehouse Distributor: Animortal Studio/Blue Dolphin Films Running Time: 90 mins Question: how long do you keep at something before you decide that, maybe, it’s time to give up? Six months? A year? Five years? If you’re
Certificate: TBC Director: Rob Savage Cast: Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela Enahoro, Seylan Baxter, Mogali Masuku, Jemma Moore Running Time: 77 minutes Shot and seemingly set during late 2020, Rob Savage’s Host follow-up, Dashcam, is a similarly short horror that also uses a ‘screen-life’ aesthetic. Sick of L.A. pandemic lifestyle, popular live-streamer Annie (Annie Hardy)
Released: 15 November Director: Richard Miller Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Nina Wadia, Tom England, Ellila-Jean Wood Distributor: Trinity Creative Running Time: 95 minutes University lecturer Ryan Moore (Tom England) is a professor of cognitive science in sci-fi drama Repeat. After making a breakthrough into what appears to be a telepathy machine, he believes he has found
Released: 21 October Certificate: 12A Director: Denis Villeneuve Writer: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa Distributor: Warner Bros Entertainment Running Time: 155 mins If you like this, try… Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnan war epic stars Martin Sheen as a soldier on a risky mission
Released: 15 October Certificate: PG Director: Sarah Smith, Jean-Phillipe Vine, Octavia E. Rodriguez Writer: Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney Distributor: Twentieth Century Studios Running Time: 106 mins New British animation studio, Locksmith Animation, first feature-length action comedy centres on introverted loner 13-year-old
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