Erupjca (June 5th cinemas)
After conquering the pop music world, Charli XCX seems set on a
second career in the movies. We recently saw her in
100 Nights of Hero
and she played a fictional version of herself in the meta-comedy
The Moment. Charli has also collaborated with director Pete Ohs (Jethica) as star and co-writer of Erupjca. The film sees the singer play Bethany, who finds herself stranded
in Warsaw with her boyfriend
Rob (Will Madden). Bethany takes the opportunity to explore
herself in a foreign city while reuniting with a childhood friend
(co-writer Lena Góra).
Köln 75 (June 5th cinemas)
Perhaps the most famous piece of long form musical improvisation is jazz
pianist Keith Jarett's January 1975 solo performance in the German city of
Köln. Director Ido Fluk's Köln 75 tells the story of how young concert
promoter Vera Brandes (Mala Emde) pulled off a concert that would go down
in musical history.
Disclosure Day (June 10th cinemas)
Steven Spielberg reteams with his Jurassic Park and
War of the Worlds writer David Koepp for the
mysterious sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day. Plot details are still under wraps but we know the film features an
alien invasion plotline. Given the planet's current population is over
eight billion, the marketing's mention of the truth belonging to "seven
billion people" may suggest aliens are living among us already.
Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor head the cast.
Over Your Dead Body (June 10th Prime Video)
Directed by Jorma Taccone (Popstar; MacGruber) from a screenplay by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney,
Over Your Dead Body is a remake of the 2021 Norwegian action
comedy The Trip. The movie stars Samara Weaving and Jason Segel as a
couple who head to a remote cabin for a vacation, only to discover that
they both have plans to kill each other.
Find Your Friends (June 12th Shudder)
Like a gender swapped Deliverance, writer/director Izabel Pakzad's Find Your Friends sees a group of
young Los Angeles women (Helena Howard, Bella Thorne, Zión Moreno, Chloe Cherry, Sophia Ali) head to a remote desert town for a girls' weekend. There they run
into some evil locals who turn their getaway into a fight for
survival.
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford (June 12th cinemas)
Writer‑director Seán Dunn makes his feature debut with
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford. The film stars Peter Mullan as the recently widowed Kenneth, a
tour guide who takes great pride in being descended from 18th century
inventor and philosopher Sir Douglas Weatherford. When his town becomes
the setting for a fantasy TV show, Kenneth fears his ancestor's legacy may
be about to be overshadowed.
Effi o Blaenau (June 19th cinemas)
Adapted from Gary Owen's stage work 'Iphigenia in Splott', director Marc Evans' Welsh language drama Effi o Blaenau stars Leisa Gwenllian as the titular Effi, a young woman in a neglected
Welsh town who finds herself dealing with an unplanned pregnancy after an
encounter with an injured solider.
Familiar Touch (June 19th cinemas)
Inspired by her work as a memory care worker and teaching artist to older adults, writer/director
Sarah Friedland's Familiar Touch stars Kathleen Chalfant as Ruth, an elderly woman with dementia.
Finding herself in an assisted care facility, Ruth shuns her peers,
preferring to bond with the young workers as she rallies against her
condition.
A Private Life (June 26th cinemas)
Written and directed by Rebecca Zlotowski (Planetarium, Other People's Children), A Private Life
is a blackly comic thriller starring Jodie Foster (in her first French language lead role) as a psychiatrist who
conducts an investigation when she believes one of her patients was
murdered.
Blue Heron (June 26th cinemas)
Having garnered much acclaim for her shorts, writer/director Sophy Romvari makes her feature debut with the
semi-autobiographical Blue Heron. The film details a Hungarian immigrant family to Canada's experiences
of raising the troubled Jeremy (Edik Beddoes), with the meta layer of Jeremy's now grown-up sister Sasha (Amy Zimmer) making the very film unspooling before us as she reckons with her
childhood memories.