CINEMA & HOME RELEASES

We take a look at 2 movies coming to UK cinemas and BluRay in April 2024 so check our thoughts on new horrors Imaginary and Baghead

This big budget extravaganza from South Korea was a box office smash in its domestic market, and was quickly picked up for a sequel – Badland Hunters – by Netflix. Directed by Tae-hwa Eom, who also co-wrote the film with Lee Shin-ji and Kim Soong-nyung, it follows the survivors of a devastating earthquake in Seoul

Midlands Movies writer Matt Tilt headed off for a day of features and shorts at Derby Quad's Darkness in the Fields festival. Check out his reviews of the full set of horror features shown on the day

The fight over inherited wealth is a theme that has seen a resurgence lately especially with the excellent TV show Succession alongside recent movies Knives Out, The Fortress and The Estate. The Origin of Evil sits alongside these - particularly as they all have the same family portrait poster design (!) - and tries to include a few new twists in an attempt to stick out from this busy crowd.

Paul Duane’s feature All You Need is Death explores one of the more difficult to film aspects of folk horror – how these tales are passed through the generations. It follows Anna and Aleks (Simone Collins and Charlie Maher) who travel around Ireland collecting rare folk ballads

The filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has often turned to bodily autonomy in the director’s efforts to tell weird, often disturbing stories. This is often combined with a musing on the nature of innocence, harking back to his third film Dogtooth (2009)

The Zone of Interest may stand as one of the most disturbing narrative films about the Holocaust ever produced, yet it achieves this without ever dramatizing the horrors that went on within the concentration camps

Standout performances from Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph anchor this fantastic comedy-drama set over the festive period at a New England boarding school.

Are you lonesome tonight? Well, Priscilla often is with Elvis on tour. Bathed in a hazy glow of 1959 nostalgia, Priscilla is a new biopic from Sophia Coppola that attempts to examine a complex woman very much on the side lines of Elvis’ huge music superstar status.

It’s not easy to compress a man’s life into a single film, let alone a man who played a significant role in European history in the way that Napoleon Bonaparte did.

As statements of intent go, it’s hard to think of one more representative of a director than Martin Scorsese’s 1973 masterpiece Mean Streets. While not his directorial debut, it was the first in a very distinct blueprint that Scorsese has continued to dip into throughout his career.

Following on from the ‘filmed painting’ style of Loving Vincent, Polish filmmakers Hugh Welchman & Dorota Kobiela return with the use of the same animated technique in their latest film The Peasants

Released without much fanfare in the UK back in May, Full Time is a French drama that sees a single mother facing the growing pressures of the modern world, ones which rapidly increase inside her chaotic life.

After the somewhat divisive pet-project Mank, the master of the dark thriller David Fincher returns once again to his dark roots with Michael Fassbender as a professional assassin seeking revenge and redemption in this adaptation from writer Andrew Kevin Walker

Ghosts of the past permeate this new religious horror from the director of REC, which explores the haunted life of a woman who joins a convent for salvation but experiences disturbing and frightful events