Sure, daylight and sunshine have been replaced with the kind of icy climes only a White Walker could love, but don’t despair: your local cinema is here for you. There’s a wide array of new big-screen offerings to see this month, including Edgar Wright’s action-packed take on Stephen King’s The Running Man, a much anticipated acting return for Daniel Day-Lewis, and November’s big kahuna, Wicked: For Good. Here’s ten to get started with.
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Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey was a thrilling, widescreen Predator reboot that almost no one got to see on the big screen. No such misfortune this time, with his new Preda-tour of an alien planet getting a full cinema release this time. For the first time, it’s the Predator itself who gets the starring role, teaming up with Elle Fanning’s Weyland-Yutani synth for a perilous trek across hostile terrain.
In cinemas Nov 7
Lynne Ramsay’s blackly funny new family drama is a startlingly vivid and deep-down compassionate study of motherhood in extremis. The Oscar-winner plays Grace, a new mum who is done with her husband’s (Robert Pattinson) shit and whose rural life begins playing havoc with her psyche. Think Nightbitch with rabies.
In cinemas Nov 7
Ring the bells! Launch the fireworks! Acting legend Daniel Day-Lewis is back on screen after an eight-year break with a family drama that’s directed by his son Ronan. The script, co-written by the father-son duo, charts a traumatised army veteran whose self-imposed exile is interrupted when his brother (Sean Bean) pitches up looking to reconnect.
In cinemas Nov 7
The media’s true-crime industrial complex goes under the spotlight in a documentary that will ask why we’re all so obsessed with seriously dark shit (our words, not the logline). David Osit’s film looks back at early noughts small-screen sensation To Catch a Predator, a Dateline NBC show where sex offenders were lured onto a film set and arrested on live TV, and interrogates its methods and popularity to shed some light on this murky corner of the entertainment business.
In cinemas 14
Edgar Wright should bring energy and freshness to a dystopian Stephen King sci-fi that once had Arnold Schwarzenegger donning shiny Spandex in a glossy 1987 actioner. The Hot Fuzz man’s lead, Glenn Powell, plays hunted game show contestant Ben Richards this time – and he’ll be trying to stay alive long enough to collect the life-changing winnings. As Arnie redoes go, we’ll put good money on it being a lot better than 2012’s Total Recall.
In cinemas Nov 14
We don’t want to say that Russell Crowe was born to play Hermann Göring, but the burly Aussie does seem like a good physical fit for the Nazi leader and war criminal in his ‘don’t cry for me’ era. This courtroom thriller follows him in the immediate aftermath of World War II as he in jousts with Rami Malek’s American psychologist and tries to evade the hangman’s noose at the Nuremberg trials.
In cinemas Nov 14
No one remotely invested in the Wickedverse will need telling that Elphaba and Glinda are reuniting for the second and final part of the hit movie musical this month. Cynthia Erivo’s green witch is fighting a guerilla war against Jeff Goldblum’s manipulative Wizard and Michelle Yeoh’s sneaky Madame Morrible, while Ariane Grande’s goody two shoes Glinda just tries to keep up. You pay to see the movie, but you’ll get the out-there press tour completely free.
In cinema Nov 21
Every couple of years, Rian Johnson will round up every available A-lister in Hollywood, pile them into a minibus, plonk them on set and get them to play out a spiky new twist on the old-school murder-mystery. (At least, we’re pretty sure how that’s how the Knives Out casting process works.) He’s assembled his best cast yet for a religious whodunnit in which Josh O’Connor’s priest teams up with Daniel Craig’s sleuth Benoit Blanc to sift through a bunch of potential wrong’uns that includes Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Cailee Spaeny, Jeremy Renner and Andrew Scott. The game is afoot!
In cinemas Nov 26 and on Netflix Dec 12
It’s taken eight years but Disney Animation’s effervescent answer to Chinatown finally gets its richly deserved sequel. This is cop/bunny Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and foxy sidekick Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) are on the trail of Ke Huy Quan’s mysterious viper Gary De'Snake. Once again, the voice cast features Idris Elba and Colombian national treasure Shakira.
In cinemas Nov 26
Debut Brit filmmaker Harry Lighton has delivered something remarkable with a tender-hearted BDSM romance that manages to be funny and thoughtful and feature woodland orgies and sex by the bins. Alexander Skarsgård’s studly biker is the dom, Harry Melling is the shy sub who finds himself while surrendering to his repressed desires. Don’t miss this one.
In cinemas Nov 26
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