January

 

1st

Song Sung Blue (2025)

A couple of blue collar Milwaukeeans with musical aspirations get together in the late 1980s and join the tribute act circuit, forming a Neil Diamond tribute band and falling in love, finding unexpected sequinned success as husband and wife and proving that it’s never too late to find love and live your music dreams in this dramatisation of the Mike and Claire Sardina story.

Directed by Craig Brewer and starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson and Michael Imperioli among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

UK Release: 1st of January   US Release: 25th of December 2025

 

 

 

2nd

Peter Hujar’s Day (2025)

In 1974 a conversation between New York writer Linda Rosenkrantz and celebrated New Jersey photographer Peter Hujar becomes unexpectedly revealing when she convinces him to recount the events of one day in his life and create unique portrait of an artist, whilst illuminating his humanity and strengthening a unique friendship in this biographical chamber piece character drama from the writer/director of ‘Little Men’ and ‘Passages’.

Directed by Ira Sachs and starring Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Drama

UK Release: 2nd of January   US Release: 7th of November 2025

 

 

 

9th

Hamnet (2025)

A celebrated 16th century stage-play writer and his wife struggle to come to terms with the tragic loss of their young son and its effect on their relationship, as the bard pours his grief into his work and the creation of his tragic masterpiece ‘Hamlet’ in this soulful ode to grief and fictional take on the bond between legendary English playwright William Shakespeare and his beloved wife, adapted from the Maggie O’Farrell historical fiction novel by the director of ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Eternals’.

Directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley and Emily Watson among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 9th of January   US Release: 5th of December 2025

 

 

 

People We Meet on Vacation (2026)

After building a friendship over a decade by spending one week together every summer holiday, two buddies with very different personalities—she an extroverted free spirit and he a reserved homebody—reunite after years apart on a vacation adventure to fix their friendship, only to form a new bond and finally reveal their true unspoken feelings towards each other.

Directed by Brett Haley and starring Tom Blyth, Emily Bader and Lukas Gage among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

UK Release: 9th of January (Netflix)   US Release: 9th of January (Netflix)

 

 

 

Giant (2026)

In working-class immigrant Britain of the 1990s, a young British-Yemeni kid with a tough Sheffield upbringing and big personality teams up with a respected local boxing trainer to rise through the boxing ranks and become a brash larger-than-life sporting icon of the decade, as the Prince Naseem Hamed true story gets the underdog big screen treatment.

Directed by Rowan Athale and starring Amir El-Masry, Pierce Brosnan and Samir Arrian among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Drama, Sport

UK Release: 9th of January   US Release: N/A

 

 

16th

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)

After leaving his isolated community and surviving the savage infected wilderness, young Spike seemingly finds salvation in the company of a cult and its colourful leader only to be plunged into another dangerous nightmare, while the resilient Dr. Kelson unravels a discovery which could change the course of the post-apocalyptic UK as everything comes to a head at his morbid bone temple, in this sequel to last year’s latest instalment in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s beloved British horror franchise.

Directed by Nia DaCosta and starring Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell among others.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

UK Release: 16th of January   US Release: 16th of January

 

 

 

Rental Family (2025)

In the midst of a professional and existential crisis whilst living in Tokyo, a struggling American actor unexpectedly finds new purpose when he’s recruited by a “rental family” service, hired to play stand-in roles in social situations for clients looking for absent loved ones, as he develops personal connections and finds the joy he was longing for only for things to take a turn when he goes a little too deep into his roles and the lines between acting and reality become blurred, in this quirky meditation on loneliness and connection and feelgood dramedy take on a curious real Japanese cultural practice.

Directed by Hikari and starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira and Mari Yamamoto among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 16th of January   US Release: 21st of November 2025

 

 

 

The Rip (2026)

When a couple of shady cops and their team uncover a huge stash of cash and contraband in a Miami house, they’re plunged into a moral dilemma when they begin to consider pocketing their find, which escalates into a dangerous paranoid struggle for survival when interested parties from either side of the legal line come calling, and they begin to question their trust in each other.

Directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Teyana Taylor among others.

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

UK Release: 16th of January (Netflix)   US Release: 16th of January (Netflix)

 

 

 

23rd

No Other Choice (2025)

Down-on-his-luck and desperate to find work after long term unemployment, a middle-aged South Korean family man and former paper mill worker hatches a crazy scheme to secure an new job—ruthlessly getting rid of the competition by any means necessary—only for his best laid plans to to go off the rails and put his family at risk when he goes deeper into a dark rabbit hole in this gripping and droll Korean dark comedy thriller from the writer/director of ‘Oldboy’ and ‘The Handmaiden’.

Directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin and Lee Sung-min among others.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 23rd of January   US Release: 25th of December 2025

 

 

 

The History of Sound (2025)

In the early American 20th century two young aspiring musicians and music conservationists form a deep and romantic bond only to be separated by World War I and the complexities of maturing lives which send them on two diverging paths, but never diminishes a unique connection which is rekindled by their quest to record the music of their country, in this sonic portrait of trauma, memory and longing from the director of ‘Moffie’ and ‘Living’.

Directed by Oliver Hermanus and starring Josh O’Connor, Paul Mescal and Chris Cooper among others.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

UK Release: 23rd of January   US Release: 12th of September 2025

 

 

 

H Is for Hawk (2025)

Reeling from the sudden death of her journalist father and struggling to cope with the grief, a struggling writer and naturalist forms an unexpected bond with an unruly pet hawk which pulls her out of an emotional spiral and provides new purpose, in this human drama meditation on grief and emotional healing adapted from the celebrated Helen Macdonald memoir.

Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe and starring Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson and Lindsay Duncan among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 23rd of January   US Release: December 2025

 

 

 

Mercy (2026)

In a technologically advanced but dystopian and totalitarian near future Los Angeles, a detective accused of murdering his wife is plugged into the massive state surveillance apparatus and has 90 minutes to prove his innocence before a high-tech legal system and its advanced A.I. judge passes a definitive sentence—a system he championed and helped to implement.

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starring Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson and Annabelle Wallis among others.

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller

UK Release: 23rd of January   US Release: 23rd of January

 

 

 

Saipan (2026)

Secluded on the Pacific Island of Saipan to prepare for the Republic of Ireland’s imminent 2002 FIFA World Cup campaign in South Korea & Japan, intractable and headstrong but respected team captain Roy Keane begins to clash with team manager Mick McCarthy over the standard of training facilities and opposing footballing ideologies, which soon escalates into a heated personal feud and professional rivalry which sees the country’s on-field leader and star player leave for home and trigger a national crisis in this dramatisation of a true sporting scandal.

Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn and starring Éanna Hardwicke, Steve Coogan and Alice Lowe among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Drama, Sport

UK Release: 23rd of January   US Release: N/A

 

 

 

30th

Is This Thing On? (2025)

When a white collar New York family man slips into a mid-life crisis as his marriage falls apart, his life takes a turn when he signs up for an open mic night at a comedy club only to discover a new calling, and navigates an evolving relationship with his ex-wife as they figure out co-parenting and the possibilities of middle age, in this charming and characterful American family dramedy based on the real life experiences of British comedian John Bishop.

Directed by Bradley Cooper and starring Will Arnett, Laura Dern and Bradley Cooper among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 30th of January   US Release: 19th of December 2025

 

 

 

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

In Paris of the late 1950s, French film critic Jean-Luc Godard decides the best way to challenge the filmmaking conventions of the time is by making his own feature debut, gathering a rag-tag group of like-minded characters behind and in front of the camera to craft a seminal independent picture and a pillar of the revolutionary French New Wave of cinema—1960’s ‘Breathless’.

Directed by Richard Linklater and starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch and Aubry Dullin among others.

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 30th of January 2026   US Release: 14th of November (Netflix)

 

 

 

Primate (2026)

An idyllic tropical Hawaiian vacation turns into a nightmare for a group of friends and a young family when their highly intelligent adoptive chimpanzee turns on them, as the now sinister simian reverts to a more savage nature combined with human paranoia which plunges the surrounding people into a struggle for survival.

Directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur and Jessica Alexander among others.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

UK Release: 30th of January 2026   US Release: 9th of January

 

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