CINEMA & HOME RELEASES

With 28 Years later coming in at number four on our favourite films of 2025, hopes were high for this follow up with director Danny Boyle handing over the reins to Nia DaCosta to continue this zombie nightmare.

Second Sight continues its excellent run of special edition releases with this stunning edition of Emilie Blichfeldt’s 2025 horror The Ugly Stepsister - a gruesome retelling of the Cinderella story

After an inevitable divorce starts and a marriage comes to an end. The life of Alex (Will Arnet) only just begins. After accidently being roped into doing standup comedy, Alex finds a real passion for it.

Benoit Blanc returns for a 3rd murder mystery, but this time it’s an impossible crime. After Monsignor Wicks gains a cult like following in a small town, he is murdered in a sealed concrete box. He has been murdered by one of the members in the congregation, but how can he be killed if everyone is outside the box?

Following off the back of surprise horror hit X and its even more surprising prequel follow up Pearl, director Ti West finishes his trilogy with an 80s-inspired slasher flick with Mia Goth returning as Maxine Minx.

It’s increasingly rare a horror franchise springs up in this day and age that isn’t a reboot or based on an existing and well-known property. But Ti West not only delivered a great film in his 70s-tinged fright flick X, he secretly shot his own prequel back-to-back whilst making it.

Two conspiracy theory barn pots kidnap a powerful CEO and chain her in their basement. Their goal? To expose her for being an Alien who wants to take over and destroy the world.

As Bruce Springsteen rises to fame, he starts making a record that no one expected. A passion project that helps him come to terms with his childhood trauma and the overwhelming nature of it all.

Hamnet is a historical drama, telling the true tale of how the famous Shakespeare play Hamlet came to be. A tragic tale of love, loss, and grief from academy award winning director Chloé Zhao.

This slice of life film tells the story of a professor at Yale University, who learns from her star student, that her fellow professor and close friend has crossed the line. As she navigates these feelings, she struggles to keep her own dark past coming to light.

A conman addicted to high stakes gambling takes refuge in Macau, China, after his debts catch up with him. As he tries to make enough money to pay back his mountain of debt, he starts getting premonitions of ghostly beings as he sinks deeper and deeper into his addiction.

Only Monsters play God. The oldest science fiction story in the world, is a tale about an egotistical mad scientist trying to conquer death, by reanimating a monster made of various body parts. What will Victor Frankenstein do when he creates life? How will the world react to something so grotesque?

A dollop of crime and American iconography permeate the first feature from poet Tony Tost who writes and directs this tale of Dixie-infused characters embroiled in a twisty plot of violence and theft.

“These go up to 11”. Who would have thought that from a humble 1984 mock/rock-umentary - itself spun off from a 1978 sketch show - a quote from a dumb guitarist has now become part of our global lexicon and beloved by millions.

Like many others the first time I heard of Weapons was from the public fallout of its bidding war which resulted in horror maestro Jordan Peele parting with his mangers.