Peter Hujar's Day (Jan 2nd, cinemas)
Peter Hujar's Day, the latest from writer/director Ira Sachs (Passages; Little Men), is a biographical drama set in a New York apartment in the winter of
1974. Ben Whishaw plays photographer Peter Hujar, who
spends a day with his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall).
Hamnet (Jan 9th, cinemas)
Director Chloé Zhao (The Rider; Nomadland) and co-writer Maggie O'Farrell adapt the latter's 2020
novel Hamnet. The film is a fictional account of the life of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley) in the wake of the death of
their son Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe).
Oh, Canada (Jan 12th, VOD)
Writer/director Paul Schrader reunites with his American Gigolo leading man Richard Gere for Oh, Canada, adapted from the novel by Russell Banks. The film sees Gere play Leonard Fife, a documentary filmmaker who fled
to Canada during the Vietnam War. In his dying days, Leonard agrees to
allow a film crew record his final testimony, but his memories prove
unreliable.
The Rip (Jan 16th, Netflix)
Writer/director Joe Carnahan's latest macho action thriller is The Rip. The film sees Matt Damon and Ben Affleck team up once again to play cops whose team discovers a fortune in
cash in an abandoned house. Will they hand the cash to the appropriate
authorities or attempt to keep it for themselves? Do you really have to
ask?
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Jan 16th, cinemas)
The Voice of Hind Rajab sees writer/director Kaouther Ben Hania recreate one of the most
infamous incidents of the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict, the 2025
killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab. Trapped in a car under fire from the
IDF, Rajab called the emergency services hoping for a rescue that never
came. Using the actual dialogue, the film focusses on the members of the
Red Crescent who receive the fateful call.
Man Finds Tape (Jan 19th, VOD)
The directorial debut of Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman, Man Finds Tape is a fictional documentary that pulls in a series of strange and
unexplainable video clips. The title unfolds as a brother and sister's documentary investigation
into disturbing footage that reveals a haunting secret that's been eating
away at a small Texas town.
No Other Choice (Jan 23rd, cinemas)
Director Park Chan-Wook's No Other Choice is a blackly comic thriller adapted from a novel by Donald Westlake, previously adapted by Costa-Gavras as 2005's The Axe. Lee Byung-hun plays the lead role of a man who takes
increasingly desperate measures to find new employment after losing the
job he held for 25 years.
Nouvelle Vague (Jan 30th, cinemas)
Richard Linklater quickly follows his acclaimed
Blue Moon
with Nouvelle Vague,
which details the behind the scenes drama of the making of
Jean-Luc Godard's ground-breaking 1960 debut Breathless. Godard is portrayed by Guillaume Marbeck with Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg.
Rabbit Trap (Jan 30th, cinemas)
The feature debut of writer/director Bryn Chainey, Rabbit Trap stars Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen as a sound engineer and his experimental musician wife who capture a forbidden sound not meant for human ears while making field
recordings in the ancient Welsh woodlands. This brings a strange child (Jade Croot) to their doorstep who draws them into an enigmatic realm where the line
between reality and myth begins to blur.
For his latest stint as director, Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born; Maestro) presents a fictional story inspired by the life of British comedian John Bishop. Is This Thing On? sees Will Arnett, who co-writes with Cooper and Mark Chappell, plays the role of Alex, a man who discovers a talent for stand-up comedy amid the chaos of an impending divorce.