Check out what's showing at cinemas across the region this month...

SEE HOW THEY RUN - CERT 12a (98 mins)
Released Fri 9 September
Starring Harris Dickinson, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, Shirley Henderson  Directed by Tom George

World-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and over-eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) have got a murder on their hands in the West End of 1950s London. 
Plans for a film version of a smash-hit play are brought to an abrupt halt when a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. 

Now, faced with a puzzling whodunnit, Stoppard and Stalker find themselves investigating the glamorously sordid underbelly of the theatre world. 

But can they keep themselves safe from danger while doing so?...

This lighthearted murder-mystery is helmed by Tom George, who directed all 19 episodes of the hit Cotswolds-set BBC mockumentary sitcom, This Country. Indeed, one of the series’ stars, Charlie Cooper (he played the character of Kurtan in the show), features in the film’s cast.

THE FORGIVEN - CERT 18 (117 mins)
Released Fri 2 September
Starring Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbey Lee   
Directed by John Michael McDonagh

Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy. Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police. But when the boy’s father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David and Jo must come to terms with their fateful act and its shattering consequences.

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING - CERT 15 (108 mins)
Released Fri 2 September
Starring Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Pia Thunderbolt, Berk Ozturk, Anthony Moisset, Alya Browne   
Directed by George Miller

An academic and a woman of reason, Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba) while in Istanbul and finds herself being offered three wishes in exchange for his freedom. At first, she doubts the Djinn is real. She’s also familiar with all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. But with the Djinn pleading his case and Alithea more than a little beguiled, she finally grasps the nettle and makes a wish. And it’s one that surprises both of them...

BODIES BODIES BODIES - CERT 15 (94 mins)
Released Fri 9 September
Starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders, Pete Davidson  
Directed by Halina Reijn

Backstabbing, fake friends, and an event that goes very, very wrong are the unsavoury dishes on the menu when a group of rich twentysomethings attend a ‘hurricane party’ at a remote family mansion. 
It’s not the drinking, dancing and drug-taking that sees the get-together take a significant turn for the worse, but rather a session of ‘murder in the dark’-style game Bodies Bodies Bodies. After two of the participants argue, a third storms off - only to then be found outside with his throat slashed. As the tension mounts, it soon becomes clear that there’ll be more than one dead body at the mansion before the hurricane subsides... 

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE - CERT 18 (108 mins)
Released Fri 9 September
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Lihi Kornowski, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman, Kristen Stewart
Directed by David Cronenberg

Cult sci-fi/horror director David Cronenberg here makes a welcome return with a movie for which he wrote the script way back in 1998. 

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. Assisted by partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde presentations. 

An investigator from the National Organ Registry, Timlin (Kristen Stewart), obsessively tracks the duo’s movements. Meanwhile, a mysterious group tries to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution...

TICKET TO PARADISE - CERT tbc
Released Fri 16 September
Starring Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd, Lucas Bravo, Maxine Bouttier
Directed by Ol Parker

With Academy Award winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts topping the bill, romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise should have no problem accessing a significant and appreciative audience. 

The A-list duo star as exes who find themselves on a shared mission to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made. 

“I think it’s so funny,” Julia Roberts told Vanity in talking about the movie, “and George is so funny, and George and I together... it’s probably going to be terrible because there’s too much potential for it to be great; it’ll just implode on it itself!” 

DON'T WORRY DARLING - CERT tbc
Released Fri 23 September
Starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll 
Directed by Olivia Wilde

If Alice (Florence Pugh) had just left well alone, everything could’ve been perfect. Living in a utopian community in California during the 1950s, there’s plenty to recommend the life she shares with husband Jack (Harry Styles). Problem is, she can’t shake the need to understand more about the experimental town that she calls home - a town which has been created and is paid for by the mysterious company for which Jack works. Unable to rein-in her curiosity, she begins her own investigations, in the process not only creating tensions within the town but also making her question her own sanity...

FLUX GOURMET - CERT 15 (112 mins)
Released Fri 30 September
Starring Gwendoline Christie, Asa Butterfield, Richard Bremmer, Ariane Labed, Fatma Mohamed
Directed by Peter Strickland

A dysfunctional sonic collective - a band of experimental performance artists devoted to the challenge of extracting disturbing sounds from various foods - navigates both internal and external rivalries, in a movie which is described by its official publicity as ‘an absurdly original feast for the senses’. 

Peter Strickland is the man who’s helmed the film, four years after causing a significant stir with comedy-horror flick In Fabric, in which a haunted red dress torments its various owners. 

Critics have had a mainly positive response to Flux Gourmet, hailing it ‘a wild and witty ride’ (Deadline Hollywood) and praising Strickland for having yet again created ‘a crazy maelstrom of quirk’ (The Hollywood Reporter).