Verity (Oct 2nd cinemas)
Adapted from the novel by Colleen Hoover, director Michael Showalter's Verity stars Anne Hathaway
as Verity Crawford and Dakota Johnson
as Lowen Ashleigh, the struggling writer hired to ghost write for her. In
the process, Lowen stumbles across damning evidence regarding Verity's
husband (Josh Hartnett).
The Weight (Oct 2nd cinemas)
Director Padraic McKinley takes us back to the rugged terrain of 1930s
Oregon with The Weight. Written by Matthew Chapman and Shelby Gaines, the film stars
Ethan Hawke as Samuel, who is sent to a work camp where the warden
(Russell Crowe) offers him a chance at freedom if he can smuggle a
consignment of gold through the wilderness.
Animals (Oct 9th Netflix)
Ben Affleck's latest film as director is the crime thriller Animals, which he co-wrote with Connor O. McIntyre and Billy Ray. Inspired by true events,
the film sees Affleck play a mayoral candidate whose son is kidnapped. In
order to raise the ransom money he must expose his secrets and jeopardise
his political future.
The Social Reckoning (Oct 9th cinemas)
Writer/director Aaron Sorkin
returns to the subject matter of his script for David Fincher's The Social Network with The Social Reckoning. The film dramatises the Wall Street Journal's investigation into the
practices of Facebook. Mikey Madison plays Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, with Jeremy Allen White as WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz.
The Uprising (Oct 9th cinemas)
Director Paul Greengrass
has become known for focussing on key incidents in recent history with
films like United 93, Omagh and 22 July. Now he's going back to 14th century England for The Uprising. The film stars Andrew Garfield
as Wat Tyler, a farmer who played a key role in the peasants' revolt
against the tyrannical reign of King Richard II.
By Design (Oct 16th cinemas)
Written and directed by Amanda Kramer (Give Me Pity!), By Design sees Juliette Lewis
play Camille, a woman who becomes envious of a chair she sees in a
showroom. When a body swap transforms Camille into said chair, she
discovers her family and friends like her better in this new form.
Fatherland (Oct 23rd cinemas)
Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida; Cold War) scooped the Best Director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival for Fatherland. Co-written with Henk Handloegten, the film is set in 1949 Germany. There we find writer
Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter, the actress, author and race car driver Erika (Sandra Hüller), as they embark on a fraught road trip through a country attempting to
rebuild itself.
Possible Love (Oct 23rd cinemas)
South Korea has selected Lee Chang-dong's
Possible Love as its submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards. The
Burning
writer/director's latest feature sees a laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and
her spouse, confronting their hidden desires in the process.
Gentle Monster (Oct 30th cinemas)
Written and directed by Marie Kreutzer (The Ground Beneath My Feet;
Corsage), Gentle Monster stars Léa Seydoux as Lucy, a
concert pianist whose life is shattered by a surprise police raid on her
home that leads her to discover her husband isn't who she thought he was.
Primetime (Oct 30th cinemas)
Documentarian Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven; Ren Faire) makes his narrative feature debut with Primetime. The film tells the story of Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), host of the controversial TV show 'To Catch a Predator'.