CINEMA & HOME RELEASES

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.

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.

Demián Rugna’s follow up to his cult classic Terrified (2017) gets the special edition treatment from Second Sight. When Evil Lurks was originally released in 2023 and showcased that Rugna had lost none of his ability to create shocking, uncomfortable horror sequences.

If their stunning debut, Talk to Me (2022), used possessions and hauntings as representations for substance abuse and grief, in Bring Her Back Danny and Michael Philippou double down on the generational trauma that can be caused through grief. The result is a thoroughly disturbing horror film that never resorts to jump

31 years after Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, a reboot sees the infamous Lt. Frank Drebin Junior and the police squad, uncovering the mystery behind a suspicious death in Miami. Going from one disaster to another, Frank takes on electric cars, a love interest, and an evil CEO.

Marvel’s post-Endgame output has been rather patchy and I had all but given up on the whole thing by avoiding all their films and TV shows for the last 2 years. Thor: Love and Thunder was the breaking point for me.

I can remember it vividly, the excitement, the spectacle and the long drive home afterwards. Needless to say, Batman V Superman, with its convoluted exposition and overall drabness isn’t a film I hold in high regard against its peers.

This twisted Australian horror tale stars Meg Clarke as Grace Jennings who unfortunately gets lost whilst injured and alone in a forest - of course she does - during a mission to look for her brother who has gone missing.

It could be argued that Ken Russell found his perfect combination of themes with his adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, initially released in 1969 and starring Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden.

TwentyFourSeven is Shane Meadow’s feature debut and stars Bob Hoskins as a hard-working boxing club owner desperate to help young men in his community get their wayward lives back on track.