Mothers’ Instinct

Frothy dramatic thriller with Anne Hathaway & Jessica Chastain

I Saw the TV Glow

Imaginative and colourfully surreal sci-fi pastiche coming-of-age drama

Mysterious Ways

Sensitive Kiwi drama explores the tension between religion and sexuality

Ministry of Ungentlemanly
Warfare
Guy Ritchie offers an entertaining spin on the WWII adventure movie

Didi

Complex and observant comedy-drama about an awkward teen

The Echo

Immersive narrative doc from Mexico explores generational feelings

Brendan is Ike
23.JUL: Fraser will play the US D-Day commander in Maras' historical thriller Pressure, opposite Scott
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Clarke, Butler & Ashley voice animated musical mash-up The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland
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Bratt joins BALLS UP action comedy
Rex, Brady, Sarkis in THE PRINCE
Rice & Smith lead STEAL AWAY
Oyoung joins MISSION IMOSSIBLE 8
Clayton & Ridgely have PRIDE
Hudson/McConaughey in HOW 2?
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Glen fights fires too
21.JUL: Powell is being lined up to star in a remake of the 1991 firefighting thriller Backdraft
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Scott will star in Maras' Pressure a biopic about the D-Day meteorologist
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Chalamet is MARTY SUPREME
Theron in rock-climbing action APEX
Johansson/Berlanti make SASHA
Wilde for Araki's dark comedy SEX
Clement, Sakhno join M3GAN 2.0
Russo Bros up for AVENGERS 4 & 5
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Regina gets caught
17.JUL: King joins Butler and Kravitz in Aronofsky's 1990s New York crime drama Caught Stealing
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Depp voices puffin in animated Arctic adventure Johnny Puff: Secret Mission
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Arterton & Atwell in GRAND PRIX
Rhys & Sackhoff voice WATCHMEN
Arnold & Willis on SECOND STREET
Ramirez joins Haynes' 1930s noir
Refn to direct AVENGING SILENCE
Fennell adapts WUTHERING HEIGHTS
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2 Aug:
KNEECAP
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
KENSUKE'S KINGDOM
DIDI
A STORY OF BONES
SEBASTIAN
DETAINED
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9 Aug:
THE INSTIGATORS
BORDERLANDS
TRAP
IT ENDS WITH US
TUESDAY
DANCE FIRST
RED ISLAND
SKY PEALS
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS
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16 Aug:
ALIEN: ROMULUS
HORIZON CHAPTER II
ROB PEACE
CLOSE TO YOU
HOLLYWOODGATE
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23 Aug:
BLINK TWICE
THE CROW
BETWEEN THE TEMPLES
KNEECAP
WIDOW CLIQUOT
CLOSE TO YOU
YOUR MONSTER
CUCKOO
CLOSE YOUR EYES
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THE ECHO
MYSTERIOUS WAYS
NEVER LOOK AWAY
THELMA
WIDOW CLIQUOT
CHUCK CHUCK BABY

Get to the punchline
STAGE: Zach Zucker's riotous alter-ego Jack Tucker's Comedy Standup Hour at Soho Theatre until 27th July...

All for one and one for all
DANCE: National Youth Dance Company performs Wall at Sadler's Wells and on tour until 29th July...

I’m gonna live forever
STAGE: Dorian: The Musical gives Oscar Wilde's classic a gothic present-day spin at Southwark until 10 Aug...

Just clowning around
STAGE: London Clown Festival kicks off with an opening night cabaret at Soho Theatre, runs to 25th July...

Raging bull
DANCE: Carlos Acosta brings his gorgeously Cuban-flavoured take on Bizet's Carmen to Sadler's Wells...

June TV Roundup
SCREEN: Ripley, Baby Reindeer,
Bridgerton 3, Hacks 3, Palm Royale,
Eric, Supersex, Steve! (Martin)...

Kindness is a survival skill
INTERVIEW: An encounter with
The Wild Robot's creative team at
Annecy Film Festival...

The 11th Sundance London
FESTIVAL: Back at Picturehouse Central. Notes on the BLOG...

A knight to remember
STAGE: Jazz Emu gives the Soho Theatre audience a case of Knight Fever until 22nd June...

Living on-camera
STAGE: Claire Gaydon's Piece of Me gets us bopping and thinking at Camden People's Theatre until 1 June

Killer punchlines and riffs
STAGE: Comic and musician Dave Hill brings Caveman in a Spaceship to Soho Theatre...

Queens of the night
STAGE: From Spain, Yllana's The Opera Locos mixes comedy and music to win over the Peacock audience...

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APR TV: Mary & George, Fargo, Feud...
STAGE: Unfortunate at Southwark
STAGE: Tang Shu-wing's King Lear
STAGE: Why I Stuck a Flare
DANCE: Ray Young's Out, Baylis
STAGE: Flabbergast's Dream, Wiltons
DANCE: Assembly Hall, Sadler's Wells
Shadows @ BFI Flare
DANCE: McGregor at Sadler's Wells
STAGE: Blue at Seven Dials Playhouse
Shadows Awards Sweepstakes 2024
STAGE: Connor Burns at Soho Theatre
DANCE: NYC Ballet at Sadler's Wells
STAGE: Stamptown at Soho Theatre
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Getting It Back

Doc recounts the fascinating story of influential British band Cymande

Twisters

Disaster thriller has strongly well-played characters but a thin story

Widow Cliquot

Swoony 19th century biopic about the grande dame of Champagne

Chuck Chuck Baby

Music-filled romance from Wales finds joy in some bleak emotions

Shayda

Emotionally open-handed drama about immigrants in Australia

Before Dawn

Reverential Aussie drama follows a young man to the Great War

Janet Planet

Thoughtful, observant, indulgent drama about a mother and daughter

Fly Me to the Moon

Charming and surprisingly smart romcom with Scarlett & Channing

Longlegs

Freak-out FBI thriller is infused with a relentless sense of dread

Problemista

Surreal, whimsical art-world comedy with Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton

Sleep

Light-hearted Korean sleep-walking drama shifts into unnerving horror

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Eddie Murphy is back for an oddly unsurprising fourth action comedy

MaXXXine

Mia Goth plays a pornstar aspiring for stardom in Ti West's bonkers horror

What Remains

Moody Scandinavian mystery is whispery and tantalising

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MOTHER, COUCH
THE SECRET ART OF HUMAN FLIGHT
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA
THE MATTACHINE FAMILY
THE IMAGINARY
A FAMILY AFFAIR
BIRDER
THE BIKERIDERS
ULTRAMAN: RISING
INSIDE OUT 2
THE EXORCISM
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Crossing

Powerfully involving Georgian drama set in the margins of Istanbul

Thelma

Sharply funny action comedy with June Squibb and Fred Hechinger

Scala!!!

hugely entertaining documentary about London's iconic cult cinema

Despicable Me 4

Blissfully silly and genuinely engaging antics with Gru and his minions

Sisi & I

Sharply well shot and played Austrian empress biopic with Sandra Huller

Queen Tut

Insightful comedy-drama about a young man finding his fierceness

Kill

Superb Indian thriller puts gritty violence in confined train carriages

Unicorns

Remarkably sympathetic British drama grapples with big issues

The Nature of Love

This romantic and sharply witty comedy is definitely not a romcom

Orlando, My Political
Biography
Fiercely original drama-doc adbased on the classic Virginia Woolf novel

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola's surveillance masterpiece is back on the big screen

Kinds of Kindness

Yorgos Lanthimos' challenging, offbeat triptych of redemption tales

A Quiet Place: Day One

Sharply introspective prequel traces the day blind aliens take Manhattan

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