Happy New Year campers. You know the score by now, we’re going to give you a list of some movies coming out, what it’s about, who’s in it, and a pithy summary that hopefully makes you laugh.
As always, these are subject to change because we know the landscape of cinema is ever-changing with titles, release dates and so on in flux until the film is literally on a DVD in your hands, but thus far, this is what we know will be the films released in 2020.
JANUARY
JOJO RABBIT
Roman Griffin Davis, Taika Waititi and Scarlett Johansson in Jojo Rabbit.
comedy / Drama / War
Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant
Plot: A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
Expect: A coming of age comedy-drama with social relevance.
THE GENTLEMEN
Action / Crime
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, Hugh Grant
Plot: A British drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires.
Expect: Yeehaws and guv’nors.
1917
Drama / War
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: George McKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Daniel Mays
Plot: Two young British privates during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier’s brothers from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Expect: Best Picture Nominee 2020
SEBERG
Biography / Drama / Thriller
Director: Benedict Andrews
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Jack O’Connell, Stephen Root, Colm Meaney
Plot: French New Wave icon Jean Seberg becomes a target of Hoover’s FBI because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Expect: A righteously angry film of injustice and love.
BOMBSHELL
Biography / Drama
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Alice Eve, Jennifer Morrison, Mark Duplass, Kate McKinnon, Allison Janney, Connie Britton, Robin Weigert, Stephen Root, Malcolm McDowell, Rob Delaney, Holland Taylor
Plot: A group of women decide to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic environment he presided over at the network.
Expect: MeToo’s movie event.
JUST MERCY
Drama
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, Jamie Foxx, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Plot: Defence Attorney Bryan Stevenson recounts his case of a condemned death row prisoner he fought to free.
Expect: A Time to Live
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Comedy / Drama
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Gwendoline Christie, Ben Whishaw, Benedict Wong, Peter Capaldi, Nikki Amuka-Bird
Plot: Adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
Expect: Classic literature but with a modern comic twist.
THE PUBLIC
Drama
Director: Emilio Estevez
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Jena Malone, Christian Slater, Gabrielle Union, Michael K. Williams, Jeffrey Wright
Plot: An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Expect: A searing drama about how we treat our fellow man.
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Biography / Drama
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Maryann Plunkett, Enrico Colantoni
Plot: A true friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod, that inspired the latter to adopt a more positive outlook.
Expect: A big warm hug of a film.
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Drama / Fantasy / horror
Director: Robert Eggers
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson
Plot: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Expect: Mind bending horror heavy on the bending of the mind.
QUEEN & SLIM
Drama
Director: Melina Matsoukas
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chloe Sevigny, Flea, Indya Moore
Plot: A couple’s first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
Expect: A racially charged drama for the BlackLivesMatter crowd.
RICHARD JEWELL
Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Paul Walter Hauser
Plot: American security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely report that he was a terrorist.
Expect: Eastwood back on form with a true story of mistaken identity.
THE GRUDGE
Horror / Mystery
Director: Nicolas Pesce
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Betty Gilpin, William Sadler, Lin Shaye, John Cho, Jacki Weaver, Demian Bichir, Frankie Faison
Plot: A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.
Expect: A low AirBnB rating.
THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard, Olga Kurylenko, Joanna Ribeiro, Jason Watkins
Plot: Toby, A disillusioned film director becomes pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza.
Expect: A film two decades in the making.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
Action / Drama / Mystery
Director: Reed Morano
Starring: Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, Max Casella, Richard Brake, Daniel Mays, Geoff Bell, Raza Jaffrey
Plot: A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
Expect: Blake Deadly.
FEBRUARY
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
Action / Adventure / Family
Director: Jeff Fowler
Starring: Jim Carrey, James Marsden, Neal McDonough, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Tika Sumpter, (voice): Ben Schwartz
Plot: A cop in the rural town of Green Hills will help Sonic escape from the government who is looking to capture him.
Expect: A better looking Sonic than that awful first trailer.
PARASITE
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Starring: Song Kang Ho, Lee Sun Kyun, Cho Yeo Jeong, Choi Woo Shik, Park So Dam, Lee Jung Eun, Chang Hyae Jin
Plot: All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected accident.
Expect: Best Foreign Film 2020
BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE Harley Quinn)
Action / Adventure / Crime
Director: Cathy Yan
Starring: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollet-Bell, Rosie Perez, Ewan McGregor, Chris Messina, Ali Wong
Plot: After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Expect: A big splash of neon fun
DOLITTLE
Adventure / Comedy / Family
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Starring: Everyone Robert Downey Jr., Harry Collett, Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jessie Buckley, Ralph Ineson, Jim Broadbent, (voices): Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, Carmen Ejogo, Frances de la Tour
Plot: A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.
Expect: Well if he can talk to the animals…
UNDERWATER
Action / Drama / Horror
Director: William Eubank
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr., Mamoudou Athie, Gunner Wright
Plot: A crew of aquatic researchers work to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean lab.
Expect: H.P Underwatercraft
EMMA
Comedy / Drama
Director: Autumn de Wilde
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Gemma Whelan, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart
Plot: An adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
Expect: Bonnets, and muted laughs.
FANTASY ISLAND
Horror
Director: Jeff Waflow
Starring: Lucy Hale, Maggie Q, Michael Pena, Portia Doubleday, Kim Coates, Charlotte McKinney, Ryan Hansen, Jimmy O. Yang, Austin Stowell, Parisa Fitz-Henley
Plot: A horror adaptation of the ’70s TV series about a magical island resort.
Expect: Worst holiday ever.
GREED
Comedy / Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield, Shirley Henderson, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Pearl Mackie, Asim Chaudrey
Plot: A billionaire attempts to overshadow a controversy by throwing an extravagant 60th Birthday party on the Greek island Mykonos.
Expect: A pin sharp satire of the super rich and callous.
BLOODSHOT
Action / Drama / Science Fiction
Director: Dave Wilson
Starring: Vin Diesel, Toby Kebbell, Eiza Gonzalez, Guy Pearce, Sam Heughan, Talulah Riley, Lamorne Harris, Johannes Haukur Johannesson
Plot: Ray Garrison, a slain soldier, is re-animated with superpowers.
Expect: Some trademark growling from Diesel.
DARK WATERS
Biography / Drama / History
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, William Jackson Harper, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman, Mare Winningham, Victor Garber, Bill Camp
Plot: A corporate defence attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
Expect: A decent amount of controversy amid a true story with importance.
THE INVISIBLE MAN
Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid
Plot: After an apparent suicide, Cecilia’s abusive ex appears to be causing her problems from beyond the grave, but it might be something far worse.
Expect: To see right through him.
COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
Horror / Science Fiction
Director: Richard Stanley
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Q’orianka Kilcher, Joely Richardson, Tommt Chong, Madeleine Arthur, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight
Plot: A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic.
Expect: The year’s weirdest film.
WENDY
Drama / Fantasy
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Starring: Shay Walker, Tommie Lynn Milazzo, Stephanie Lynn Wilson
Plot: Lost on a mysterious island where raging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up.
Expect: A film full of child-like wonder and imagination.
MARCH
A QUIET PLACE: PART II
Horror
Director: John Krasinski
Starring: Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cillian Murphy, Djimon Hounsou, Wayne Duvall
Plot: A sequel to 2018’s A Quiet Place
Expect: Quiet cinemas for once.
Read our review of A Quiet Place
ONWARD
Animation / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Dan Scanlon
Starring: (voice) Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Ratzenberger, Octavia Spencer
Plot: Set in a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on a quest to discover if there is still magic out there.
Expect: Pixar magic like you would expect.
THE PHOTOGRAPH
Drama / Romance
Director: Stella Meghie
Starring: LaKeith Stanfield, Issa Rae, Chelsea Peretti, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lil Rel Howery, Courtney B. Vance, Teyonah Parris, Rov Morgan
Plot: A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and present.
Expect: Love to truly be all around.
THE WAY BACK
Drama / Sport
Director: Gavin O’Connor
Starring: Ben Affleck, Janina Gavankar, Micheala Watkins, Hayes MacArthur, Da’Vinchi, Glynn Thurman, Rachel Carpani, Lukas Gage
Plot: A former HS basketball protege, struggling with alcoholism, is offered a coaching job at his lama mater.
Expect: A worthy performance from the former Batman.
RADIOACTIVE
Biography / Drama / Romance
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jonathan Aris, Aneurin Barnard, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Woodward
Plot: The scientific and romantic passions of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie have effects of the rest of history.
Expect: A story of intense genius, and womanly ways.
MULAN
Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Niki Caro
Starring: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Li Gong, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Tzi Ma, Rosalind Chao
Plot: A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father.
Expect: Getting down to business to defeat some huns.
APRIL
NO TIME TO DIE
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Ana De Armas, Lea Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Ben Whishaw, Lashana Lynch, Rory Kinnear, David Dencik
Plot: Having left active service, Bond’s peaceful life is short-lived when Felix Leiter of the CIA turns up asking for help, leading to a confrontation with a villain in possession of dangerous new technology.
Expect: To be both shaken and stirred.
ANTLERS
Horror / Mystery
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane
Plot: A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, become entwined with a young student harbouring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences.
Expect: A horn-y movie.
THE SECRET GARDEN
Drama / Family / Fantasy
Director: Marc Munden
Starring: Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Maeve Dermody, Amir Wilson, Dixie Egerickx, Jemma Powell, Edan Hayhurst
Plot: A girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her uncle’s house.
Expect: A magical delight for the whole family.
ANTEBELLUM
Horror / Thriller
Director: Gerard Bush & Christopher Renz
Starring: Janelle Monae, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Gabourey Sidibe, Marque Richardson, Lily Cowles
Plot: Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it’s too late.
Expect: Best horror of the year – easily.
MAY
BLACK WIDOW
Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
Director: Cate Shortland
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, O-T Fagbenle
Plot: Between the events of Civil War and Infinity War Natasha Romanoff must face her past along with some people she long thought gone.
Expect: Marvel’s answer to Mission: Impossible
GREYHOUND
Drama / War
Director: Aaron Schneider
Starring: Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Elisabeth Shue, Lee Norris, Tom Brittney, Rob Morgan
Plot: During World War II, a Merchant Marine skipper must maintain his ship’s place in a convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boat wolf packs.
Expect: Drowning Private Ryan
UNTITLED SAW PROJECT / “THE ORGAN DONOR”
Horror
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Starring: Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Marisol Nichols, Max Minghella, Zoie Palmer
Plot: Plot details unreleased currently.
Expect: To play a game.
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Wyatt Russell, Anthony Mackie, Brian Tyree Henry
Plot: An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins to spy on her new neighbours only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Expect: Fear Window
FAST & FURIOUS 9
Action / Crime
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, John Cena, Nathalie Emmanuel, Finn Cole, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michael Rooker, Cardi B, Ludacris
Plot: Ninth instalment in the franchise.
Expect: Endless wanking on about family.
JUNE
WONDER WOMAN 1984
Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Patty Jenkins
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Gabriella Wilde, Natasha Rothwell, Ravi Patel
Plot: Diana of Thymescira faces a new threat at the height of the Cold War.
Expect: A feminist masterpiece.
CANDYMAN
Drama / Horror / Mystery
Director: Nia DaCosta
Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tony Todd, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Rebecca Spence, Brian King, Cassie Kramer
Plot: A return to the now gentrified Chicago neighbourhood where the legend began.
Expect: Stupid white people saying his name three times.
SOUL
Animation / Adventure / Family
Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
Starring: (voice) Jamie Foxx, John Ratzenberger, Tina Fey, Daveed Diggs, Phylicia Rashad, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson
Plot: A musician who lost his passion for music is transported out of his body and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul learning about herself.
Expect: A musical odyssey that’ll connect to your very.. well soul.
IN THE HEIGHTS
Drama / Musical
Director: Jon M. Chu
Starring: Anthony Ramos, Leslie Grace, Corey Hawkins, Jimmy Smits, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Marc Anthony, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Plot: A bodega owner has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting his grandmother’s fortune
Expect: Dancing in the street
JULY
FREE GUY
Action / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi, Jodie Comer, Channing Tatum, Utkarsh Umbudkar, Lil Rel Howery
Plot: A bank teller discovers that he’s actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.
Expect: GTA: Deadpool City
GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE
Action / Comedy
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Bokeem Woodbine
Plot: Plot undisclosed, a continuation of the Ghostbusters & Ghostbusters 2.
Expect: Who ya gon’ call?
TENET
Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Clemence Poesy, Himesh Patel, John David Washington, Andrew Howard, Martin Donovan
plot; An action epic revolving around international espionage, time travel and evolution.
Expect: Regardless of quality it’ll be in the IMDB top twenty before the end of the opening weekend.
TOP GUN: MAVERICK
Action / Drama
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Monica Barbaro, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller
Plot: Sequel to the 80s action film.
Expect: The need for speed.
JUNGLE CRUISE
Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti, Edgar Ramirez, Jack Whitehall, Andy Nyman
Plot: Based on the theme park ride where a group travel up river in a jungle filled with dangerous animals.
Expect: The Boat that Rock’d.
MORBIUS
Action / Drama
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Starring: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Adria Arjona, Charlie Shotwell, Archie Renaux, Tyrese Gibson
Plot: Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he instead infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
Expect: The return of Jared Leto’s emo phase.
AUGUST
INFINITE
Science Fiction
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Jason Matzoukas, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Dylan O’Brien, Rupert Friend, Tom Hughes, Toby Jones
Plot: A man discovers that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives.
Expect: Every past life to be a Boston thug.
MALIGNANT
Horror
Director: James Wan
Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White, Jake Abel, Ingrid Bisu, Paula Marshall
Plot: A horror film with an undisclosed plot.
Expect: A return to horror form from the master of nasty.
BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC
Comedy / Science Fiction
Director: Dean Parisot
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Jillian Bell, Jayma Mays, Kristen Schaal, William Sadler, Holland Taylor
Plot: Once told they’d save the universe, two would-be rockers from California find themselves middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfil their destiny.
Expect: To be most excellent
SEPTEMBER
THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT
Horror / Mystery
Director: Michael Chaves
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Sterling Jerins, Charlene Amoia, Sarah Catherine Hook, Ruairi O’Connor, Stacy Johnson, Julian Hillaird
Plot: Third part in the Warren saga.
Expect: Things to go very bump in the night.
THE KING’S MAN
Action / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson, Gemma Arterton, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Bruhl, Rhys Ifans, Tom Hollander, Alexandra Maria Lara, Alison Steadman
Plot: As a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Expect: Impeccable manners and some jolly good fisticuffs.
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Thomasin McKenzie, Dianna Rigg, Terence Stamp, Rita Tushingham
Plot: A young girl, passionate in fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol a dazzling wannabe singer.
Expect: Best editing and music choices of the year easy.
WITHOUT REMORSE
Action / Crime / Drama
Director: Stefano Sollima
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cam Gigandet, Brett Gelman, Luke Mitchell, Colman Domingo, Jack Kesy
Plot: John Clark, a Navy SEAL, goes on a path to avenge his wife’s murder only to find himself in a larger conspiracy.
Expect: A new action franchise for Tom Clancy to rake in some money.
THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK
Crime / Drama
Director: Alan Taylor
Starring: Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, Corey Stoll, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Gandolfini, Leslie Odom Jr., Nick Vallelonga, Joey Diaz
Plot: A look at the formative years of New Jersey gangster Tony Soprano.
Expect: FUGGEDDABOUTIT
OCTOBER
DEATH ON THE NILE
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Annette Bening, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Tom Bateman, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright, Russell Brand, Sophie Okonedo, Ali Fazal, Dawn French
Plot: While on vacation on the Nile, Poirot must uncover the murder of a young heiress.
Expect: That awesome ‘tash to return.
VENOM 2
Action / Horror / Science Fiction
Director: Andy Serkis
Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Naomie Harris, Stephen Graham
Plot: A follow up to the 2018 film.
Expect: Everybody gloops.
HALLOWEEN KILLS
Horror
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Anthony Michael Hall, Kyle Richards, Dylan Arnold, Nick Castle, James Jude Vourtney, Robert Longstreet, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Stephens
Plot: Michael Myers and Laurie Strode face off against each other once more.
Expect: That catchy theme, and women taking fate into their own hands.
THE WITCHES
Adventure / Comedy / Family
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Octavia Spencer, Chris Rock, Angus Wright, Codie-Lei Eastick
Plot: The story of a seven year old boy who has a run in with some real witches.
Expect: Anne Hathaway in some gnarly make-up.
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
Drama / Musical
Director: Jonathan Butterell
Starring: Max Harwood, lauren Patel, Richard E. Grant, Sharon Horgan, Sarah Lancashire, Ralph Ineson, Samuel Bottomley, Shobna Gulati
Plot: Musical about a teenager from Sheffield who wants to be a drag queen.
Expect: The feel good musical of the year.
SNAKE EYES
Action / Adventure
Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Henry Golding, Samara Weaving, Iko Uwais, Andrew Koji, Ursula Corbero
Plot: Spin-off from the G.I. Joe series.
Expect: Does anyone watch these things?
NOVEMBER
THE ETERNALS
Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Chloe Zhao
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Kit Harrington, Kumail Nanjiani, Barry Keoghan, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Dong-seok Ma, Lia McHugh
Plot: The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped it’s history.
Expect: A marvel epic that’ll blow our minds.
DEEP WATER
Thriller
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck, Kristen Connolly, Tracy Letts, Finn Wittrock, Lil Rel Howery, Dash Mihok, Rachel Blanchard
Plot: A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
Expect: A return to the screen for one of Hollywood’s raciest directors.
RED NOTICE
Action / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot
Plot: An interpol agent tracks the world’s most wanted art thief.
Expect: Big action laughs.
DUNE
Adventure / Drama / Science Fiction
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Dave Bautista, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard, Javier Bardem, David Dastmalchian, Charlotte Rampling
Plot: The son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital elements in the galaxy.
Expect: A big visual feast with big ideas to go with it.
GODZILLA VS KONG
Action / Science Fiction
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Eiza Gonzalez, Alexander Skarsgard, Rebecca Hall, Lance Reddick, Kyle Chandler, Danai Gurira, Jessica Henwick, Ziyi Zhang, Julian Dennison, Brian Tyree Henry, Demian Bichir
Plot: As the gigantic Kong meets the unstoppable Godzilla, the world watches to see which one of them will become King of the Monsters.
Expect: A headache
KING RICHARD
Biography / Drama / Sport
Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Starring: Will Smith
Plot: A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard.
Expect: The Fresh Prince of Wimbledon
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON
Animation / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Paul Briggs, Dean Wellins
Starring: (voice) Awkwafina, Cassie Steele
Plot: In a realm known as Lumandra, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.
Expect: How to gain your dragon.
DECEMBER
WEST SIDE STORY
Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Rita Moreno, Mike Faist
Plot: The rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnicities, hit a crisis when romance blooms between members in their ranks.
Expect: I want to be an American! I want to be an American!
THE TOMORROW WAR
Action / Science Fiction
Director: Chris McKay
Starring: Yvonne Strahovski, Chris Pratt, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Seychelle Gabriel
Plot: A man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies of his ability to confront his past.
Expect: Big action with a fun twist.
UNCHARTED
Action / Adventure
Director: Travis Knight
Starring: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg
Plot: The origin of young Nathan Drake and how he became a tomb raider and adventure seeker.
Expect: A surprise if this film ever really gets made to be honest.
