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6th

September 5 (2024)

An ambitious young American TV producer and his sports broadcasting team are unexpectedly thrust into the global limelight and inadvertently change the live news industry forever when their coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics turns into breaking news as they switch to reporting a global hostage crisis, after a group of Palestinian terrorists invade the Olympic village to kidnap members of the Israeli Olympic team and instigate a bloodbath in this dramatisation of the “Munich massacre”.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum and starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 6th of February   US Release: 13th of December 2024

 

 

 

7th

Love Hurts (2025)

An unassuming suburban realtor is unexpectedly pulled back into his seemingly unlikely criminal past by the resurfacing of his deadly old partner and his kingpin brother, unleashing a wave of hoodlums which he must confront before he can finally bury his past.

Directed by Jonathan Eusebio and starring Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose and Daniel Wu among others.

Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller

UK Release: 7th of February   US Release: 7th of February

 

 

 

Bring Them Down (2024)

A family of modern Irish shepherds is thrown into turmoil when a legacy of trauma, familial strife and hostilities with a rival farming family all come to a head, creating a perfect storm of bitterness, conflict and revenge which reflects the history of their culture and threatens to explode in their faces.

Directed by Chris Andrews and starring Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan and Nora-Jane Noone among others.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 7th of February   US Release: 7th of February

 

 

 

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

The tale of an ambitious and newly appointed investigative judge for the Islamic Revolutionary Court, whose ambitions are complicated when his daughters begin to reject his authority and get involved in the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprisings of 2022, putting him and his family in danger as the net of political paranoia and distrust begins to close in on them.

Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof and starring Soheila Golestani, Missagh Zareh and Setareh Maleki among others.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 7th of February   US Release: 27th of November 2024

 

 

 

Dog Man (2025)

The course of police history is changed forever when a cop and his dog are injured on duty and are both saved by a a radical procedure, combining the two together to create the mythical “Dog Man”, a supercop determined to protect and serve while pursuing his nemesis “Petey the Cat”, in this animated adaptation of the Dav Pikey children’s novels and spin-off in the ‘Captain Underpants’ franchise.

Directed by Peter Hastings and starring Isla Fisher, Pete Davidson and Ricky Gervais among others.

Genre: Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

UK Release: 7th of February   US Release: 31st of January

 

 

 

13th

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)

Now a widower struggling with raising two kids whilst re-entering the workforce, Bridget Jones is helped by her friends and former flames to move on whilst addressing a non-existent social life, which picks up when she meets an alluring young man . . . not to mention her kids’ science teacher in this new instalment of the romantic comedy series based on the popular Helen Fielding novels.

Directed by Michael Morris and starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Leo Woodall among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

UK Release: 13th of February   US Release: 13th of February

 

 

 

14th

Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

Having taken up the daunting mantle of Captain America, Sam Wilson is forced to make difficult decisions when his former antagonistic boss and newly elected US president Thunderbolt Ross tries to recruit him for an official position, only to be drawn into an international conspiracy which threatens the global balance of power, and puts him on a collision course with a mighty red menace.

Directed by Julius Onah and starring Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford and Giancarlo Esposito among others.

Genre: Comic-book, Action, Adventure, Sci-fi

UK Release: 14th of February   US Release: 14th of February

 

 

 

Memoir of a Snail (2024)

Outcast snail-collecting bookworm Grace’s life takes a downward shift when she’s tragically separated from her twin as a child, only for it to take a life-affirming hopeful turn when she meets eccentric senior Pinky—who has lived life to the fullest including rubbing shoulders (and much more) with major figures of music and politics—in this offbeat 1970s-set Aussie stop-motion animation dramedy.

Directed by Adam Elliot and starring Sarah Snook, Jacki Weaver and Eric Bana among others.

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 14th of February   US Release: 25th of October 2024

 

 

 

Heart Eyes (2025)

Valentine’s Day in Seattle will never be the same after a young would-be couple gets caught up in the morbid new tradition of a masked psycho brutally dispatching lovebirds during the season of love, leaving them in a scramble for survival as they struggle to live long enough to unmask this mysterious new boogeyman.

Directed by Josh Ruben and starring Olivia Holt, Mason Gooding and Jordana Brewster among others.

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

UK Release: 14th of February   US Release: 7th of February

 

 

 

Cottontail (2024)

After his wife passes away, an ageing Japanese widower reconnects with his estranged son and family to fulfil her dying wish, taking them on a globetrotting trip to picturesque rural northwestern England which might heal old wounds and nourish their souls, while providing some much-needed closure.

Directed by Patrick Dickinson and starring Lily Franky, Ciarán Hinds and Tae Kimura among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 14th of February   US Release: 7th of June 2024

 

 

 

21st

I’m Still Here (2024)

A biographical drama set in a Brazil of the 1970s under strict military rule and adapted from the memoirs of Marcelo Rubens Paiva, centred around his mother who is transformed by the disappearance of their father—a former politician, opponent to the regime and left-wing sympathiser who they suspect was abducted by the military junta—as the family pulls together to uncover his sobering fate no matter how long it takes, whilst becoming targets for harassment and detainment themselves.

Directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro and Selton Mello among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama

UK Release: 21st of February   US Release: 14th of February

 

 

 

The Monkey (2025)

A pair of estranged grown up twin brothers are reunited by the horrors of their childhood when the evil wind-up toy monkey that terrorised their family resurfaces, as they struggle to stop this little devil incarnate from murdering people in the most unexpectedly gruesome and creative ways and get rid of him for good, in this black comedy-horror and Stephen King short story adaptation from the writer/director of ‘Longlegs’.

Directed by Osgood Perkins and starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany and Sarah Levy among others.

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

UK Release: 21st of February   US Release: 21st of February

 

 

 

September Says (2025)

Sisters September and July are close, extremely close, with slightly older sister September leading the line, but their unique bond is tested when younger sister July starts to exert her independence at school, and family tensions grow on a family trip to Ireland as things take an unexpected and surreal turn which will test their sisterhood like never before.

Directed by Ariane Labed and starring Mia Tharia, Pascale Kann and Rakhee Thakrar among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 21st of February   US Release: N/A

 

 

 

28th

The Last Showgirl (2024)

Struggling to come to terms with the imminent end of the Las Vegas revue show she’s headlined for decades, a veteran and glamorous but ageing showgirl is forced to face her life decisions while trying to reconcile with her estranged daughter, and carve a new path for herself in a town now transformed from the bygone glamour era she helped define.

Directed by Gia Coppola and starring Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kiernan Shipka among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama

UK Release: 28th of February   US Release: 10th of January

 

 

 

Last Breath (2025)

Whilst conducting repairs on a deep sea rig out in the North Sea, a young diver is cut off from his team and left stranded in the dark deep with little oxygen and limited survival prospects, triggering the team’s veteran lead and his crew into action to battle the elements and rescue their colleague in this dramatisation of an extraordinary true story.

Directed by Alex Parkinson and starring Woody Harrelson, Finn Cole and Simu Liu among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 28th of February   US Release: 28th of February

 

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