Movie of the Week

• Sense and Sensibility

Cinemas

• Heart of the Beast
• Boorman and the Devil
• Hope
• Babystar
• Her Private Hell
• Shadows of Beirut
• Remake

Streaming/On-Demand

• Unabomber
• The Love Hypothesis

Re-Releases

• Avengers: Endgame – Encore
• Manhunter: The Final Cut

CAST: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, Fiona Shaw, Herbert Nordrum, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Stacy Martin, Tom Brooke, Turlough Convery, Chloe Pirrie, Bethany Slater, Ceara Coveney, Eliot Sumner, Forrest Bothwell

CREW: Georgia Oakley (director), Diana Reid (writer), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, India Flint and Jo Wallett (producers), Roger Goula (composer), Arnaud Potier (cinematographer), Izabella Curry (editor)

PLOT: In 18th century England, the Dashwood sisters – Elinor (Edgar-Jones), Marianne (Creed-Miles) and Margaret (Breathnach) – and their widowed mother (Balfe) are forced to leave their family estate and move into a humble cottage, where Elinor and Marianne experience love and heartbreak…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Jane Austen’s timeless debut novel is given a fresh cinematic coating by director Georgia Oakley, previously of the BAFTA-nominated queer drama Blue Jean
• Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, George MacKay and Herbert Nordrum all fill roles that were respectively occupied by Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and the late Alan Rickman in director Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning 1995 adaptation
• Here, Oakley reinforces the glistening beauty of the English countryside with grounded yet artsy filmmaking that gives Austen’s story a more lived-in feel to it
• The themes will ring true to a younger Gen Z audience that, thanks to hit shows like Bridgerton, will find it impossible to not be won over by the Regency-era costumes and mannerisms
• It’s a gorgeously shot and wonderfully acted new version of the story that further proves how, despite being well over 200 years old, the original book has lasted and will last for generations to come

Sense and Sensibility is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons, Anna Lambe, Uber

CREW: David Ayer (director, producer), Cameron Alexander (writer), Marty Bowen, Olivia Hamilton and Brad Pitt (producers), Jared Michael Fry (composer), Mauro Fiore (cinematographer), Dody Dorn (editor)

PLOT: After their plane crash-lands in the Alaskan wilderness, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Pitt) and his retired combat dog Odin (Uber) are forced to survive…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Brad Pitt may be the headlining act, but it’s a fiercely brave dog who steals the show in director David Ayer’s inspiring survival thriller
• Both the Oscar-winning A-lister and the well-trained animal actor Uber share a profound on-screen bond as they fight whatever the harsh wilderness throws at them
• The striking New Zealand landscape doubles for Alaska in sequences that immerse you within the tense situation in ways not seen since The Revenant
• Behind the scenes, Ayer also has in his corner Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle as an executive producer, while his wife Olivia Hamilton also produces through the couple’s Wild Chickens Productions
• Whether you’re going in for Pitt or for the dog, you’ll more than likely get more than what you originally came to see

Heart of the Beast is showing in cinemas from Wednesday 23 September 2026

CAST: John Boorman, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Mike Flanagan, Karyn Kusama, Joe Dante

CREW: David Kittredge (director, writer, producer, editor), Jim Fall and Travis Stevens (producers), Eduardo Daniel Victoria (composer), Seamus Deasy, Ed Herrera, Alan Jacobsen and Elle Schneider (cinematographers)

PLOT: A look at the infamously troubled production of director John Boorman’s notorious horror sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• It was one of the most despised films of its day, but Exorcist II: The Heretic is reevaluated under an all-new light in filmmaker David Kittredge’s astonishing new making-of documentary
• Viewers will learn how the original script enticed not just director John Boorman but also original star Linda Blair – who famously hated donning the make-up and prosthetics on the first movie – onto the project, as well as the various other elements that transformed it into the movie it became
• In addition of archive behind-the-scenes footage, Kittredge also provides on-screen interviews with Boorman, Blair and the late Louise Fletcher, as well as famous fans like Joe Dante and Mike Flanagan (who is set to release an all-new entry next year)
• We also see the physical and mental toll that the production had on its cast and crew, some of whom partially blame their discomfort on other, possibly even supernatural forces
• For anyone who loves movies about making movies, especially ones that turn out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons, this is a goldmine that will reinforce your love for the craft

Boorman and the Devil is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Hwang Jung-Min, Zo In-Sung, Jung Ho-Yeon aka Hoyeon, Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Eum Moon-Suk, Lee Sang-Hee, Im Hyun-Sik

CREW: Na Hong-Jin (director, writer, producer), Kim Sae-Mi and Kim Sae-Rom (producers), Michael Abels (composer), Hong Kyung-Pyo (cinematographer), Kim Sum-Min (editor)

PLOT: In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbour, police chief Bum-Seok (Jung-Min) and rookie cop Sung-Ae (Ho-Yeon) set out to find and capture a mysterious extraterrestrial creature that has laid havoc upon their community…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• One of the biggest blockbusters to ever come out of South Korea, and certainly the most accomplished film to date by filmmaker Na Hong-Jin, finally lands on UK shores
• It features some of the most fast-paced chase action since Mad Max: Fury Road, as well as terrifyingly violent alien creatures that apparently do not come in peace
• South Korean superstars Hwang Jung-Min and Jung Ho-Yeon (of Squid Game fame) feature heavily, as do more recognisable Hollywood actors like real-life couple Michael Fassbender and Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander
• The film was among the most anticipated titles in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it vied for the Palme D’Or and won critical praise for its striking genre filmmaking
• While there are traces of Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host in its effortless blending of monster action and allegorical writing, the film is a memorable enough experience to stand firmly on its own

Hope is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Maja Bons, Bea Brocks, Liliom Lewald, Joy Ewulu, Maximilian Mundt, Verena Altenberger, Maria Matschke Engel, Matthias Matschke, Alexander Schuster, Katharina Ley, Leonard Burkhardt

CREW: Joscha Bongard (director, writer), Nicole Rüthers (writer), Lisa Purtscher and Lotta Schmelzer (producers), Jonas Vogler (composer), Jakob Sinsel (cinematographer), Emma Holzapfel and Wolfgang Purkhauser (editors)

PLOT: Luca (Bons) is a teenage social media star whose lifestyle has been forced upon by her parents Stella (Brocks) and Chris (Lewald), but when they announce plans to have another child, Luca finds herself confronted with an existential crisis…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The hollow reality of online influencers is exposed in German filmmaker Joscha Bongard’s striking and unnerving feature debut
• Young lead Maya Bons impresses as a social media superstar whose insecurities and emotional emptiness greatly contrast with the affluent lifestyle she constantly promotes
• Also put on blast are her controlling and manipulative parents whose vicarious nature replaces the crucial love and support that young people, especially those heavily exposed to the world, desperately need
• Bongard displays a haunting aesthetic as the plot takes darker and darker turns which cause the viewer to see these figures as victims of a much wider cautionary tale about the dangers of online exposure
• It’s already been likened to The Truman Show for its critical examination of being known everywhere yet not being known at all

Babystar is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth, Shioli Kutsuna, Aoi Yamada, Dougray Scott, Diego Calva, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Parker Sawyers

CREW: Nicolas Winding Refn (director, writer, producer), Esti Giordani (writer), Pino Donaggio (composer), Magnus Nordenhof Jønck (cinematographer), Matthew Newman (editor)

PLOT: In a futuristic city that’s engulfed by a mysterious mist, troubled young actor Elle (Thatcher) searches for her missing father and crosses paths with Private K (Melton), an American GI who is looking for his daughter…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The neon-drenched stylings of Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn are back with an original and hugely ambitious dystopian tale
• For his first film in ten years, Refn takes viewers on a mind-bending trip that goes into some strange and unpredictable directions
• He’s also hired numerous up-and-coming actors like Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton and Havana Rose Liu for roles that lean heavily into the campiness of the premise
• Like most of Refn’s films, it’s proven to be extremely divisive among critics and audiences, though it does lead one to be extremely curious about seeing it and coming to their own conclusions
• Whether you love or loathe him, Refn is the kind of filmmaker whose uncompromising style is always something to cherish, and this is just further proof of his unique appeal

Her Private Hell is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Tala Calil, Assaad Bouab, Flavia Bechara, Michael E. Rodgers, Thuraya Baghdadi, Cristina Serafini, Lily Sucheva, Velizar Binev, Mo Ahmad

CREW: Tina Gharavi (director, writer), Tala Calil (writer, producer), Dimo Aleksandrov, Pia Patatian and Robert Van Norden (producers), Yavor Zografski (composer), Jaime Ackroyd (cinematographer), Veselin Lazarov and Desislava Petrova (editors)

PLOT: Lana (Calil) returns to her home city of Beirut, Lebanon for the first time in 25 years to visit her estranged dying father, but during her struggle to forgive him or even face him, she begins to reconnect with the city through the people she encounters…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• This powerful drama explores the cultural and political landscape of the titular Lebanese city within a universal story of family bonds
• Director Tina Gharavi, who earlier this year brought us Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, works with lead actor and writer Tala Calil to illustrate the latter’s screenplay, which was based on her own experiences
• The film was shot across multiple years amid numerous severe events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Lebanon’s economic collapse, and the devastating chemical explosion at Beirut Port
• All these events are gently woven into the fabric of the story, with Gharavi and Calil crafting a narrative that plays into the city-wide despair as well as the plight of their original characters
• It’s ultimately a hopeful film which shows how anyone, whether it be an estranged daughter or an entire city, can pick themselves up from their despair and retain their humanity

Shadows of Beirut is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Ross McElwee, Adrian McElwee, Charleen Swansea

CREW: Ross McElwee (director, writer, cinematographer, editor), Mark Meatto (producer), Adrian McElwee (cinematographer), Joe Bini (editor)

PLOT: After the death of his son and a failed attempt to adapt his previous documentary Sherman’s March, filmmaker Ross McElwee reexamines his approach to filmmaking…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Famed documentarian Ross McElwee offers viewers a more personal window into his deeply tragic life than ever before
• Best known for the 1986 documentary Sherman’s March, McElwee also provides a frank perspective into his unrealised attempt to turn that film into a narrative feature
• Various snippets of home footage and clips from other films create a moving portrait of an artist and his family as they force their way through an unspeakable loss
• It picked up the Golden Globe Impact Prize for Documentary at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it debuted to universal acclaim
• While its subject matter will no doubt cause a few tears, the film is an essential film to watch about the filmmaking process and its importance in artists’ lives

Remake is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Jacob Tremblay, Russell Crowe, Shailene Woodley, Annabelle Wallis, Alexander Ludwig, Steven Ogg, Marc Menchaca, Tanya Clarke, Mark Camacho, Matthew Kevin Anderson, David Webster, Bruce Ramsay, Michael Laurence, Emily Lê, Michael Buie, Jace Fleming, Madison Seguin, Michelle LeBlanc, William Kosovic

CREW: Janus Metz (director), Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves (writers), Sophie Cassidy (producer), Marco Beltrami (composer), Yves Bélanger (cinematographer), Zach Staenberg (editor)

PLOT: In 1958, maths prodigy Ted Kaczynski (Tremblay) attends Harvard University where he participates in a series of psychological experiments by his radical professor Henry Murray (Crowe), which results in Ted years later becoming the subject of a nationwide manhunt as the domestic terrorist known as the “Unabomber” …

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Discover what made a certified lunatic turn out the way he did in director Janus Metz’s chilling study of the infamous titular terrorist
• Jacob Tremblay stars as the Unabomber himself Ted Kaczynski, while Oscar-winner Russell Crowe plays the controversial psychologist that possibly warped his fragile young mind
• It’s a film split into two distinct time periods, one covering his years at Harvard as a young man, and during the 1990s during the tail-end of what ended up being the longest manhunt in FBI history
• Even though he’d become a dangerous terrorist later in life, you’ll feel a little sorry for young Kaczynski as he becomes further radicalised by the experiments he was subjected to
• You’ll be fascinated by this gripping and thought-provoking thriller that asks what exactly goes into making a monster

Unabomber is streaming exclusively on Netflix from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: Tom Bateman, Lili Reinhart, Rachel Marsh, Jaboukie Young-White, Nicholas Duvernay, Arty Froushan, Jeananne Goossen, Kenny Wong

CREW: Claire Scanlon (director), Sarah Rothschild (writer), Elizabeth Cantillon (producer), Laura Karpman (composer), TBA (cinematographer), Tia Nolan (editor)

PLOT: At Stanford University, third-year PhD student Olive (Reinhart) fakes a relationship with her professor Dr. Adam Carlsen (Bateman), but soon their feelings for each other start to become real…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The literary phenomenon by Ali Hazelwood becomes a major rom-com event that will charm just about everyone
• Claire Scanlon, who previously directed the hit Netflix rom-com Set It Up, brings jovial and heartfelt life to a script by Sarah Rothschild, who also has history with Netflix after writing the family comedy The Sleepover
• Riverdale alumni Lili Reinhart plays the chipper young PhD student who falls for her menacing yet soft-natured professor Tom Bateman
• Bateman’s casting is significant as he is married to Daisy Ridley, who of course played Rey in the Star Wars sequels – but what you may not know is that The Love Hypothesis started out as fan-fiction about Rey and her nemesis Kylo Ren!
• Even if the movie itself has nothing further to do with Star Wars, it’s a winning rom-com that will bring balance to the force that is love

The Love Hypothesis is streaming exclusively on Prime Video from Wednesday 23 September 2026

CAST: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Brolin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chadwick Boseman, Tom Holland, Zoe Saldaña, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Letitia Wright, William Hurt, Cobie Smulders, Winston Duke, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Jacob Batalon, Vin Diesel, Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ross Marquand, Michael James Shaw, Terry Notary, Kerry Condon, Evangeline Lilly, Tessa Thompson, Rene Russo, John Slattery, Tilda Swinton, Hayley Atwell, Marisa Tomei, Taika Waititi, Angela Bassett, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Linda Cardellini, Maximiliano Hernández, Frank Grillo, Robert Redford, Callan Mulvey, Ty Simpkins, James D’Arcy, Hiroyuki Sanada, Lexi Rabe

CREW: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (directors), Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (writers), Kevin Feige (producer), Alan Silvestri (composer), Trent Opaloch (cinematographer), Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt (editors)

PLOT: After losing to Thanos (Brolin) and his plan to wipe out half the universe using the Infinity Stones, the surviving Avengers – including Tony Stark/Iron Man (Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers/Captain America (Evans), Thor (Hemsworth) and others – embark on a perilous mission through time to undo the damage, which leads to some making the ultimate sacrifice…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Before the arrival of Avengers: Doomsday later this year, make sure you’re all caught up with this very special new re-release of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s epic culmination of The Infinity Saga
• Not only will you get the chance to relive some of the most iconic moments in the entire franchise on the big screen once more, but there will also be some exclusive new footage that ties directly into the upcoming Doomsday!
• It’s also the first Marvel movie to be shown with the studio’s new “Infinity Vision” certification for premium large format screens, which basically ensures that certain visual and audio standards have been met so that audiences can get the best experience possible
• If enough people decide to go and see this re-release, it could very well nudge past James Cameron’s Avatar to reclaim its title as the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide!
• The film nonetheless remains a superhero juggernaut that provides plenty of satisfying payoff to an entire line-up of films, in addition to setting the course for the soon-to-conclude Multiverse Saga!

Avengers: Endgame – Encore is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026

CAST: William Petersen, Tom Noonan, Dennis Farina, Brian Cox, Kim Griest, Joan Allen, Stephen Lang

CREW: Michael Mann (director, writer), Richard Roth (producer), The Reds and Michel Rubini (composers), Dante Spinotti (cinematographer), Dov Hoenig (editor)

PLOT: Will Graham (Petersen), a former FBI criminal profiler, is reluctantly brought back to investigate and track down a serial killer known as the “Tooth Fairy”, forcing him to receive help from incarcerated murderer Hannibal Lecktor (Cox)…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Michael Mann’s underrated crime thriller, an adaptation of Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon, is back on the big screen for its 40th anniversary, with an all-new 4K restoration overseen by the director himself
• It was the first movie to feature the infamous Hannibal Lector (slightly renamed “Lecktor” here for some reason), predating the more famous soft-reboot The Silence of the Lambs
• Here, Brian Cox turns in a chilling and understated performance as Lector Lecktor while William Petersen is gripping as the psychologically tormented Will Graham, all set to Mann’s signature directorial style
• Although the film originally bombed at the box office and received mixed critical feedback, it has since been reevaluated and better appreciated among viewers, with the original book getting another version made in 2002 (this time with Anthony Hopkins reprising his signature role)
• Those looking for a riveting and rather creepy take on the material will find themselves thoroughly entertained by this early outstanding feature from the beloved filmmaker

Manhunter: The Final Cut is showing in cinemas from Friday 25 September 2026