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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

The countdown to Sunrise On The Reaping, Doomsday, Dune: Part Three, and more epic year-enders is already on, but there’s still lots before that you won’t want to miss.

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Spooky season arrives in full force. DC Studios unveils a new face of Gotham in Clayface, while Austin Abrams faces terror twice: swallowed whole in Whalefall and thrust into hell in Weapons director’s Resident Evil.

Shaun The Sheep is baa-ck with his own flock-friendly spooktacular, too. Beware The Beast Of Mossy Bottom!

Brad Pitt fights to survive in Heart Of The Beast, but the battle is even bigger in a brand-new big-screen take on the button-bashing battle royale Street Fighter.

DreamWorks Animation spark a magical bond in Forgotten Island, Klara And The Sun introduces Jenna Ortega as your box-fresh AI BFF, and brotherly love lives forever as Oasis reunite in a new cinema event.

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are also back together for Practical Magic 2. Jane Austen proves timeless again with a new Sense And Sensibility, while Verity brings a modern page-turner to the screen.

Stars power true tales as Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser headline Pressure, Andrew Garfield rallies The Uprising, and Jeremy Strong, Jeremy Allen White, and Mikey Madison lead The Social Reckoning. And see the biggest names like never before: Jessica Chastain in T Other Mommy, Saoirse TREEER S Ronan in Bad Apples, FIGHTES! and Tom Cruise in Digger.

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IT’S THE SEASON OF THE WITCH

PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 IN CINEMAS 11 SEPTEMBER Director Susanne Bier / Starring Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Lee Pace / Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Return to a world that’s steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic as the Owens sisters confront the dark curse threatening to unravel their family once and for all in a spellbinding cinematic gathering full of fun, magic, and mayhem. The long-awaited sequel to the 1998 classic reunites Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the Owens sisters, who are now joined by Joey King and Maisie Williams as the next generation of Owens women navigating young love and their complicated family legacy. Xolo Maridueña, Solly McLeod, and Lee Pace complete the lineup of exciting newcomers joining the coven, while Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest reprise their roles as the delightfully eccentric aunts who bewitched audiences almost thirty years ago.

Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom IN CINEMAS 12 SEPTEMBER Everyone is looking forward to Halloween on Mossy Bottom Farm – until the clumsy farmer trashes the flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! But when Shaun turns Mad Scientist to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control. With the farmer missing and a wild beast roaming the woods of Mossingham, all the ingredients are in place for a monstrously fun family adventure from the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run.

Tad And The Magic Lamp IN CINEMAS 23 OCTOBER Get ready to journey through time on a new adventure with Tad Jones. After they discover a magic lamp in Buckingham Palace and Mummy asks it to travel back to Paititi, Peru, in 1502, Tad, Sara, and the whole team follow Mummy into the past, before he changes history.

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CLAYFACE IN CINEMAS 23 OCTOBER Director James Watkins / Starring Tom Rhys Harries, Naomi Ackie, Eddie Marsan / Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Meet the new face of Gotham in DC Studios’ first-ever foray into the horror genre, starring Tom Rhys Harries in the title role of the cult villain from Gotham’s rogues’ gallery.

Matt Hagen’s meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss’s actions leave him horribly disfigured.

Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge treatment that miraculously returns him to his former self… but also unexpectedly affects his grip on reality. The monstrous transformation that follows sends him spiralling down a destructive path of all-consuming revenge.

Street Fighter IN CINEMAS 16 OCTOBER Bringing the battle from the arcade to the big screen with Hadoukens, roundhouses, and all your favourite characters, this all-star, nineties-set showdown sees former Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters re-enter the fight when Chun-Li recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. But when they discover a deadly conspiracy that pits them against each other – and the ghosts of their past – it’s fight... or GAME OVER.

Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House IN CINEMAS 23 OCTOBER The beloved, award-winning BBC comedy haunts cinemas this Halloween. Stars and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond reunite alongside Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie, and Kiell Smith-Bynoe for a feature-length family adventure that brings their spectral chaos to the big screen.

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Director Georgia Oakley / Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, George MacKay / Genre Drama, Romance

Director Aaron Sorkin / Starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong / Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller

Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu / Starring Tom Cruise, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed / Genre Comedy, Drama

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles star in an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense And Sensibility.

From Focus Features and Working Title, this fresh interpretation of Austen’s timeless, charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood also boasts a stellar supporting cast that includes Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, Herbert Nordrum, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, and Fiona Shaw.

Aaron Sorkin’s companion piece to The Social Network traces the real events behind the Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files. This gripping new thriller is inspired by the true story of Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer who enlists the help of Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz to go on a dangerous journey that will blow the whistle on Mark Zuckerberg and his social network’s most guarded secrets.

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bold new original film. As Digger, Academy Award-winner Tom Cruise appears as you’ve never seen him before, starring alongside Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sandra Hüller, and Jesse Plemons.

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ONE DECISION CHANGED HISTORY

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Director Travis Knight / Starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Richard E. Grant, Angela Bassett, Mahershala Ali / Genre Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director Anthony Maras / Starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Damien Lewis, Chris Messina, Con O’Neill / Genre Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War

The makers of Coraline – the Oscar-nominated and BAFTAwinning stop-motion studio LAIKA – return with a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about a young girl who ventures into a dangerous hidden forest to rescue her baby brother; an odyssey shaped by love, power, and the courage to confront the unknown. The new handcrafted epic fantasy from Kubo And The Two Strings director Travis Knight features an extraordinary voice cast, including Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Richard E. Grant, Awkwafina, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Rob Delaney, Jemaine Clement, Angela Bassett, Mahershala Ali, and more.

Discover the untold story behind D-Day in a high-stakes World War II thriller from the producers of Darkest Hour, starring BAFTA-winner Andrew Scott and Academy Awardwinner Brendan Fraser. In the tense seventy-two hours before D-Day, the fate of the free world hinges on one thing: the British weather. Any delay risks German intelligence catching wind of the plan, but any misstep could cost the Allies the war. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Britain’s chief meteorological officer Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice: launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing it all.

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BAD APPLES IN CINEMAS 18 SEPTEMBER Director Jonatan Etzler / Starring Saoirse Ronan, Eddie Waller, Nia Brown / Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Saoirse Ronan, the multiple Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-nominated star of Lady Bird, Little Women, and The Outrun, takes a daring turn as Maria, a well-meaning primary school teacher hanging on by a thread. She’s doing her best to inspire a class of ten-year-olds, but is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child’s behaviour spiralling, she makes a series of bad decisions that ultimately lead to her taking and locking this “bad apple” in her home. Faced with the severity of what she’s done, Maria tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament in this darkly comic satirical thriller.

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The Incomer IN CINEMAS 4 SEPTEMBER

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Director Brian Duffield / Starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue / Genre Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director Rob Savage / Starring Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Arabella Olivia Clark, Dichen Lachman / Genre Horror

Director Zach Cregger / Starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis / Genre Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

After the death of his father, Jay Gardiner goes diving off the coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. Trapped in the darkness inside its belly, with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realise that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape. Austin Abrams is thrust into a race against time in a breathless survival thriller based on the Daniel Kraus novel.

James Wan, one of the most influential architects of modern horror, the studio behind Backrooms and Obsession, and breakout genre director Rob Savage invite you on a terrifying trip into the darkening world of a young girl, Bela, who forms a relationship with a sinister entity who looks uncannily like her own mother. Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain stars in dual roles as Bela’s mother and as the entity known as “Other Mommy.”

From the dark mind of the visionary filmmaker behind Barbarian and Weapons, Zach Cregger, comes a thrilling – and terrifying – reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Austin Abrams’ Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

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Don’t Look Back In Anger

The Uprising

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Directors Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace / Starring Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher / Genre Documentary, Music

Director Paul Greengrass / Starring Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane / Genre Action, Drama, History

The landmark Oasis film from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s epic reunion tour, Oasis Live ‘25, one of the most anticipated rock ‘n’ roll comebacks of our time.

Capturing the experience and emotions of the band and their fans across the world, the film is an unapologetically uplifting account of the biggest musical event of 2025, with exclusive rehearsal, backstage, and onstage access – as well as the first joint Noel-and-Liam interviews in over twenty years. Alongside the band’s sold-out world tour, the film explores the profound impact of this phenomenal global cultural moment and what their music means to audiences and generations worldwide.

Paul Greengrass, the acclaimed director of the Bourne films and Captain Phillips, brings a defining chapter of British history to the screen in an action-packed, character-driven historical drama. Inspired by the true story of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion rising against the tyranny of King Richard II. As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival. Alongside Garfield, an exceptional ensemble cast features Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Cosmo Jarvis, Woody Norman, and Katherine Waterston.

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Heart Of The Beast

Verity

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Director David Ayer / Starring Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons, Anna Lambe / Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller

Director Michael Showalter / Starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett / Genre Romance, Thriller

Director Martin McDonagh / Starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi / Genre Comedy, Drama

After a plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his best friend – veteran combat dog, Odin – find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into an unforgiving and brutal fight for survival against the elements. Brad Pitt stars in a rugged adventure thriller from the director of End Of Watch and Fury where it’s not who you live for, it’s who you’d die for.

Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett star in a dark, seductive psychological thriller that brings Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel to the screen.

Lowen Ashleigh becomes ghostwriter for renowned author Verity Crawford and moves into her remote estate, but the chilling discovery of what seem to be dark, twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy sparks a dangerous struggle to separate fiction from reality.

The acclaimed writer-director of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees Of Inisherin is back with a new dark comedy. Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched to Easter Island where, among the island’s iconic heads, the long-time partners wrestle with their dark pasts, present conspiracies, and newfound bonds that threaten to send the trip to this remote paradise sideways.

NO MEMORY LEFT BEHIND

MEET THE FUTURE OF FRIENDSHIP

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Klara And The Sun

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Directors Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado / Starring H.E.R., Liza Soberano / Genre Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Director Taika Waititi / Starring Jenna Ortega, Mia Thaw, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi / Genre Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

The studio that brought you unforgettable bonds between a boy and a dragon, an ogre and a donkey, and a robot and a gosling now welcomes a dazzling and emotional story about two lifelong best friends on the edge of goodbye.

Grammy and Oscar-winner H.E.R. and Liza Soberano lead the all-star voice cast of DreamWorks Animation’s new film as Jo and Raissa, whose last night together after leaving school takes an unexpected turn when they’re transported to the fantastical island of Nakali. Surrounded by mythical creatures from Filipino folklore and the memories of every moment they’ve shared now at risk, Jo and Raissa must escape the island’s magic before it steals their bond forever.

Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara And The Sun introduces audiences to Klara, an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home. When Klara meets Josie, each immediately senses a kindred spirit in the other. Josie has a fraught relationship with her mother and they’ve suffered great loss, but Klara’s innocent wonder and unwavering loyalty begin to heal them and bring light to Josie’s complex world. Adapted by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi, Jenna Ortega stars alongside Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Aran Murphy, Steve Buscemi, and Natasha Lyonne in a tender, thought-provoking story about connection, hope, and what it means to be human.

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The Social Reckoning IN CINEMAS 9 OCTOBER

Director Aaron Sorkin / Starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Wunmi Mosaku / Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller It’s been sixteen years since The Social Network; a lifetime in the fastmoving, constantly-refreshing world of social media.

Back in 2010, social media was new, thrilling, and a cultural craze.

Today, while most remain glued to their platforms, public opinion is fractured and sharply skewered across the globe.

A long-awaited return to Silicon Valley will be nothing short of fascinating and eye-opening as Aaron Sorkin delivers a follow-up chapter and companion piece to his acclaimed script from 2010. His new original screenplay, which he directs from himself, tackles a subject that’s sensitive, deeply complex, and still trending: The Facebook Files of 2021.

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After an incredible run with Succession, Jeremy Strong steps into the role of Mark Zuckerbeg – no longer the little-known campus prodigy, but one of the most recognisable and influential people on the planet. Mikey Madison, newly crowned with Oscars and BAFTA Best Actress wins for Anora, co-stars as whistleblower Frances Haugen who teams up with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz – played by The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White – to expose Facebook’s flaws, dark secrets, and behindthe-scenes malpractices.

If you’re searching for a story that pulls you into a complex world, where its hard truths have shaped society more than we care to admit, The Social Reckoning is ready to take you there, unapologetically.

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Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu / Starring Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman / Genre Comedy, Drama Tom Cruise is the name, saving the world is the game. Be it Ethan Hunt or Maverick, he’s built a career on death-defying stunts, white-knuckle action, and pushing himself further than any sane person should. But this new role demands a different kind of fearlessness…

Enter the balding, beer-bellied, wildly eccentric billionaire you’d never expect him to be. But yes, Tom Cruise is Digger.

Digger Rockwell is an oil tycoon whose reckless pillaging of the planet triggers an ecological catastrophe that only he has the funds to fix.

He’s not the hero anyone deserves, but in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s surreal satire, he’s the one the world needs right now.

Risky Business Fuelled by the same razor-sharp cynicism that saw Birdman’s takedown of celebrity culture and ego soar, Iñárritu this time looks at eco-hypocrisy, corporate greed, and the relentless churn of the 24/7 news cycle. But Cruise’s remarkable transformation is the engine and, trust us, his infamous cameo as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder is only a taste of what he’s doing here.

And if watching one of the world’s biggest movie stars reinvent himself under one of modern cinema’s most daring filmmakers isn’t enough, the supporting cast will seal the deal.

Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons are all along for the ride as Digger attempts to dig himself – and the world – out of one hell of a mess.

Frank TJ Mackey In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, Cruise delivers an inspiring performance. Twisting his movie-star persona into a toxically masculine self-help guru, he’s the standout among an ensemble stacked with heavy hitters.

Ethan Hunt Free-diving on a single breath for over six minutes. Scaling the world’s tallest building. Jumping out of a plane at 25,000 feet. Cruise has never been afraid to take a career leap as proven by the insane stunts he’s pulled off for Mission: Impossible.

Les Grossman Cruise shocked the world and stole Tropic Thunder as the foul-mouthed studio executive who turns hostage negotiator to save his film. He’s bizarre, brilliant, and completely unhinged… in the best way.

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Director Taika Waititi / Starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Steve Buscemi, Natasha Lyonne, Aran Murphy / Genre Drama, Sci-Fi In the not-too-distant future, loneliness has a cure: Artificial Friends aka AFs – humanoid companions built to observe, learn, and, above all, care for children.

Wednesday star Jenna Ortega’s Klara spends her days watching the world from a shop window, waiting to be chosen. Waiting for a human to pick her. Waiting to feel sunlight on her face. Her chance comes when she meets Mia Tharia’s Josie, a sick teenager whose mother – played by Amy Adams – brings Klara home to help heal a loss.

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But Klara is no ordinary AI. Solar-powered and endlessly curious, she’s a breath of fresh air for Josie, studying human behaviour with childlike wonder and slowly learning the complexities of human hearts and minds. And when Josie’s health deteriorates, Klara turns to the one thing she believes can save her: the Sun. Adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel, Taika Waititi and co-writer Dahvi Waller deliver a tender, wry, and gently uncanny exploration of consciousness, emotion, and the meaning of love.

Can a machine become family? Or will a family teach a machine what it means to be human? Step out of the shop window and into the light with Klara as she discovers that being chosen is only the beginning.

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A BELLY FULL An emotional search for his father’s remains becomes a brutal fight for survival when a scuba diver is swallowed by a whale. WORDS ADAM MATULEWICZ

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Director Brian Duffield / Starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, Emily Rudd / Genre Adventure, Thriller Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin carry the emotional scars of their collaboration in Weapons, tapping into similarly deep trauma as father and son in this moving adaptation of Daniel Kraus’s 2023 novel.

Jay and his tough-loving father, Mitt, share a strained bond held together by their devotion to deep-sea diving. When Mitt becomes terminally ill, he chooses to say goodbye on his own terms – a decision that unwittingly plunges Jay into a fight for his own life.

Diving into the cold waters off California’s central coast to recover his father’s body, Jay must soon rely on every tough lesson his father ever

taught him. As he’s pulled deeper in the murky depths, one thing becomes clear: he’s not alone.

A traumatising tangle with a giant squid who mistakes him for dinner spirals into something far worse in an ocean with bigger mouths to feed. An eighty-foot sperm whale rises from the dark and swallows them both whole. Injured, trapped, and alone inside the belly of the beast with only an hour of oxygen left, Jay’s battle for survival begins.

In the suffocating dark, he wrestles the physical and mental toll of his escape as well as his grief for a father who haunts him in this nerve-shredding, deeply emotional descent that’s sure to leave you breathless.

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BLURRED LINES Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett spiral into a seductive game where reality tangles with fiction as Colleen Hoover’s gripping bestseller becomes your next obsession. WORDS HANNAH TAYLOR

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Director Michael Showalter / Starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett / Genre Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller Indie author turned viral sensation and two-time #1 Sunday Times bestseller Colleen Hoover sees another of her page-turners leap to the big screen after It Ends With Us became a box-office hit.

Dakota Johnson leads the way as Lowen Ashleigh, a down and out writer who receives an opportunity she just can’t refuse: ghostwriter for the Verity Crawford.

Josh Hartnett’s Jeremy Crawford hires Lowen to complete the successful series his wife – bestselling author Verity, played by Anne Hathaway – can no longer finish after a mysterious accident leaves her incapacitated.

But what seems like a once-ina-lifetime golden chance quickly tarnishes. Putting pen to paper after

moving into the wealthy couple’s remote estate, Lowen uncovers Verity’s diary – a manuscript that’s either a work of staggering imagination or chilling confessions of the couple’s dark past. The more she reads, the more she struggles to separate the lines between fiction and reality. Gripped by paranoia, every page turned draws her closer to the ever-so-charming Jeremy and deeper into the couple’s spiralling web of deception, attraction, and obsession.

Director Michael Showalter returns to literary adaptations after The Idea Of You, reuniting with Hathaway and leading a stellar cast into a darker, twisting thriller – one that echoes the seductive danger and wicked turns of Fifty Shades and The Housemaid, where each chapter hides another secret just waiting to be uncovered.

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MAN’S BEST FRIEND A bond forged on the battlefield is tested by the wilderness as Brad Pitt’s former soldier and his retired combat dog, Odin, fight for their lives in David Ayer’s survival thriller. WORDS AARON POTTER

Heart Of The Beast IN CINEMAS 25 SEPTEMBER

Director David Ayer / Starring Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons, Anna Lambe / Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller Twelve years after their first collaboration with rough-and-tough WWII tank thriller Fury, acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer recruits Brad Pitt for a new, very different, yet no less intense survival story.

Heart Of The Beast centres on former Special Forces officer James Belmont and his loyal dog and scouting companion, Odin, bonded forever after their years serving

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together. When their biplane takes an unexpected dive deep into the Alaskan wilderness, the two battlescarred veterans must rely on every ounce of their skill, instinct, and trust to make it out alive.

Packed with thrilling action, heart pounding tension, and quiet moments of poignant reflection, Heart Of The Beast showcases the full range of Pitt’s talent as he throws himself into the role alongside several real-life canine stunt performers. Their relationship is very much the beating heart of the movie – an unbreakable bond that not only underscores the title but solidifies the timeless truth that dog really is man’s best friend.

With the legendary J.K. Simmons and True Detective: Night Country rising star Anna Lambe in standout support, Heart Of The Beast promises to hit hard emotionally and viscerally. Whether you’re a dog lover or in the mood for a thriller to send your pulse racing, this one aims straight for the heart.

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Buck, a half-St. Bernard, half-sheepdog, is stolen from his California home and thrust into the harsh world of sled work during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. Rescued by a prospector with a heart of gold – played by Harrison Ford – the two undertake a grand wilderness adventure.

It’s a totally different story of surviving together in this chaotic, funny, and tender buddy road-movie where Channing Tatum’s Army Ranger escorts Lulu, the unruly Belgian Malinois he’s inherited from a fallen friend, on a journey to her handler’s funeral.

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The undead rise and the mutated march as Weapons director Zach Cregger resets Resident Evil in a new zombie shocker unlike anything the franchise has ever unleashed. WORDS ROBB SHEPPARD

Resident Evil IN CINEMAS 18 SEPTEMBER

Director Zach Cregger / Starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser / Genre Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Deadly loyal to the smash-hit survival horror games in both tone and spirit, this adaptation demands you to stock up on snacks, green herbs, and first-aid spray before you book your ticket. Because once this ride begins… there’s no save point to be found.

Resident Evil is reborn, but don’t expect the Milla Jovovich unlimitedammo bullet ballet of the early noughties. This nightmare is ripped straight from the brain of Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger, a ferocious fan of the Capcom classics hell-bent on bringing that pure survival-horror dread to the big screen like never before. If you’ve seen either of his films, you already know you’re about to see something deeply, deliciously unsettling.

As for the menu – sorry, cast – Weapons and The Walking Dead alum Austin Abrams leads as an

unlucky courier on a routine drop-off to Raccoon City, only to discover something far more sinister than he signed up for. Kali Reis, Zach Cherry, and Paul Walter Hauser round out a lineup that’s undeniably exciting for us… and, unfortunately, downright mouth-watering for whatever’s lurking in the dark. Tasty.

Deep inside the quarantine zone, with each horror more grotesque and terrifying than the last, the real question is who – if anyone – will make it out alive?

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BREAK THE MACHINE. CHANGE THE GAMES

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING IN CINEMAS 20 NOVEMBER Director Francis Lawrence / Starring Joseph Zada, Mckenna Grace, Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Kieran Culkin, Glenn Close / Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games – the infamous Second Quarter Quell.

Francis Lawrence returns with his fifth journey into Panem, directing from a screenplay by Billy Ray, the writer who first brought Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games to the screen.

Joseph Zada stars as a young Haymitch Abernathy, entering the arena long before he became Katniss’s mentor. The rising star leads an exciting cast playing familiar figures from the Capitol and Districts: Elle Fanning is Effie Trinket, Jesse Plemons is Plutarch Heavensbee, Kieran Culkin is Caesar Flickerman, Kelvin Harrison Jr is Beetee Latier, Lili Taylor is Mags Flanagan, Maya Hawke is Wiress, and Ralph Fiennes is President Snow. Mckenna Grace, Ben Wang, Billy Porter, and Glenn Close round out the ensemble as new characters introduced in a chapter that changes the Games forever.

Dune: Part Three IN CINEMAS 18 DECEMBER Director Denis Villeneuve / Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Robert Pattinson / Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller Based on the novel Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, Denis Villeneuve delivers the epic conclusion to his sweeping three-part science-fiction saga of Paul Atreides as he faces the consequences of his rise to power. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Isaach De Bankolé, Charlotte Rampling, Anya TaylorJoy, Robert Pattinson, and Javier Bardem, alongside newcomers Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke.

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Director Ti West / Starring Johnny Depp, Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough / Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Directors Anthony Russo, Joe Russo / Starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth / Genre Action, Sci-Fi

He’s already given us Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands, and The Mad Hatter. This November, the master of misfits returns. Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge in a new take on the classic Christmas tale, told like never before. From Pearl director Ti West, this darkly comic Dickens adaptation also stars Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Arthur Conti, Ellie Bamber, Charlie Murphy, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tramell Tillman, and Ian McKellen.

In Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday, beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and ultimately face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered before. Steve Rogers, Thor, Ant-Man, the X-Men, the New Avengers, Shang-Chi, the Wakandans, the Fantastic Four, Loki, and more will all return to stand against Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom in an epic film that will lay the foundation for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Focker-In-Law IN CINEMAS 25 NOVEMBER Director John Hamburg / Starring Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Ariana Grande, Owen Wilson, Skyler Gisondo / Genre Comedy Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro reunite for another round of family chaos as Greg’s son prepares to get married. Ariana Grande joins in the fun as Meet The Parents comes full-circle.

Hexed IN CINEMAS 27 NOVEMBER Directors Jason Hand, Fawn Veerasunthorn, Josie Trinidad / Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Rashida Jones, Stephen Fry / Genre Animation, Adventure, Fantasy They’ve enchanted generations with Tangled, Frozen, and timeless spellbinding classics, and now a whole world of witches awaits in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ all-new magical coming-of-age saga. Hailee Steinfeld voices Billie, an unconventional teenage girl who discovers secret magical abilities that hurtle her into a spectacle-filled journey into a vast witch realm called Hexe. Forced to team up with her overly cautious mother, Alice, they uncover family mysteries that could change the world of witches forever.

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The Cat In The Hat IN CINEMAS 4 DECEMBER Directors Alessandro Carloni, Erica Rivinoja / Starring Bill Hader / Genre Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy Bill Hader voices Dr Seuss’s famous feline as he pounces onto the big screen in an all-new, epic animated adventure with an edge, where mischief, magic, and mayhem reign supreme.

Jumanji: Open World IN CINEMAS 23 DECEMBER Director Jake Kasdan / Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan / Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy They’re back, but this time the game is coming to us. Jumanji breaks free of its console and unleashes its chaos on the real world in the hilarious new chapter in the smash-hit franchise.

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Shifting the sand-saga almost two decades on, ruthless Emperor Paul Atreides faces betrayal, conspiracy, and rebellion as Denis Villenueve’s epic trilogy reaches its explosive end. WORDS HANNAH TAYLOR

Dune: Part Three IN CINEMAS 18 DECEMBER

Director Denis Villeneuve / Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, Javier Bardem / Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Across two epic parts, we’ve witnessed Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides embrace his destiny – joining the Fremen warriors, finding love, and overthrowing House Harkonnen to claim the throne of Arrakis. Now, Denis Villeneueve’s saga reaches its climactic end as Paul fights his biggest battle yet amid civil unrest, political scheming, and a galaxy on the brink of war.

Adapted from Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah, the story finds Zendaya’s Chani pregnant despite Paul’s public marriage to Florence Pugh’s Princess Irulan. Their forbidden love burns fiercely, but risks being extinguished as Paul hurtles towards a vengeful collision course that threatens everything he once stood for – and everyone he holds dear.

Those bound to his prophecy are drawn even deeper into the storm: his mother, Rebecca Ferguson’s

formidable Lady Jessica; his sister, Anya Taylor-Joy’s enigmatic Alia Atreides; and father figure, Javier Bardem’s mentor-prophet Stilgar.

Meanwhile, Jason Momoa’s reborn, memory-less Duncan Idaho, Charlotte Rampling’s calculating Reverend Mother Mohiam, and Robert Pattinson’s shape-shifting Face Dancer Scytale harbour plots to bring Paul’s empire crashing down.

Beyond an ensemble as vast as the saga’s scope, Hans Zimmer unleashes another thunderous, futuristic score to accompany Linus Sandgren’s ethereal, atmospheric cinematography.

Sandworms roar. Supernatural forces rise. In the final chapter of Paul Atreides’ legend, Villeneuve’s sweeping epic goes out with its biggest bang yet.

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This October… FIGHT! Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER! Based on the CAPCOM video game and helmed by director Kitao Sakurai, Street Fighter brings the battle from the arcade to the big screen with Hadoukens, roundhouses, and all your favourite characters. At the core of this full-throttle action film are three key warriors: Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji as Ryu, and Callina Liang as Chun-Li. But they’re only the opening combo in a relentless gauntlet of big names, including Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoai as Akuma, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki, Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim, and Eric André as Don Sauvage. Rounding out the stacked roster, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson muscles in as Balrog and Jason Momoa transforms into Blanka.

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Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.

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