Never After Dark (Nov 2nd VOD)
Written and directed by Dave Boyle,
Never After Dark stars Moeka Hoshi as Ari, a medium dedicated to guiding restless spirits
to the afterlife. At a remote country house Ari comes up against a
formidable force and is threatened by the living rather than the
dead.
Wild Horse Nine (Nov 4th cinemas)
Writer/director Martin McDonagh follows up The Banshees of Inisherin
with the 1970s-set black comedy Wild Horse Nine. The film stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell
as a pair of CIA agents sent to Easter Island, where their loyalties are
tested by a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas).
Godzilla Minus Zero (Nov 6th cinemas)
Writer/director/VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki scored a worldwide hit with 2023's
Godzilla Minus One, becoming one of the most successful Japanese films of all time and
earning rave reviews. The sequel, Godzilla Minus Zero, sees Yamakazi return while Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe
reprise their roles in a story set two years after the previous
movie.
La Bola Negra (Nov 6th cinemas)
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi collected the Best
Director award at this year's Cannes Film Festival for
La bola negra. Inspired by the unfinished final work of Federico García Lorca and
the acclaimed play by Alberto Conejero, the film plays across the
years 1932, 1937 and 2017 and explores the interconnected lives of three gay
men.
I Play Rocky (Nov 6th cinemas)
Directed by Peter Farrelly (Green Book) from a script by Peter Gamble, I Play Rocky
tells the story of how a then unknown Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) wrote the screenplay for future Oscar winner
Rocky and held firm to his insistence that it could only be
made if he played the lead role.
Fjord (Nov 13th cinemas)
Writer/director Cristian Mungiu (Graduation;
R.M.N.) draws inspiration from real events with his latest work.
Fjord stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a Romanian-Norwegian
couple who find themselves accused of mistreating their children when they
move to a small Norwegian village.
A Talent for Murder (Nov 20th cinemas)
Helen Mirren plays crime author Patricia Highsmith in director Anton Corbijn's A Talent for Murder. Adapted by screenwriter
Joanna Murray-Smith from her own novel 'Switzerland', the film
sees a fictional version of Highsmith visited by Edward (Alden Ehrenreich), a devoted young fan determined to convince her to
pen another instalment of her Tom Ripley series, by any means
necessary.
Josephine (Nov 20th cinemas)
Writer/director Beth de Araújo follows up her 2022 debut
Soft & Quiet
with another confrontational thriller in Josephine. The film sees Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan cast as parents coping with
the aftermath of their eight-year-old daughter (Mason Reeves)
witnessing a brutal sexual assault in a San Francisco park.
Big Girls Don't Cry (Nov 27th cinemas)
New Zealand writer-director Paloma Schneideman makes her feature
debut with the Jane Campion-backed drama
Big Girls Don't Cry. The film stars newcomer Ani Palmer as 14-year-old Sid, who becomes obsessed with
the older teens in her community over the course of her school summer
holidays.
Minotaur (Nov 27th cinemas)
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan,
Loveless, The Return) and co-written by Semen Liashenko, Minotaur is a
reimagining of Claude Chabrol's 1969 film The Unfaithful Wife. Dmitriy Mazurov plays Gleb, a troubled businessman who discover
his wife's (Iris Lebedeva) infidelity. As Gleb's professional and personal
lives fall apart, he heads down a path towards violence.