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

THE INCOMER CERT 12a (102 mins)
Released Fri 4 September
Starring Gayle Rankin, Domhnall Gleeson, John Hannah, Emun Elliott, Michelle Gomez, Grant O’Rourke 
Directed by Louis Paxton

Dark comedy combines with modern folk fairytale in The Incomer. The winner of the Next Innovator Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the movie stars Domhnall Gleeson as Daniel, a painfully awkward land-recovery coordinator whose boss sends him to a remote and tiny Scottish isle on which two siblings - Isla and Sandy - have lived alone since the loss of their parents 30 years earlier. 
Daniel’s brief is straightforward enough: to evict the pair and have them return to the mainland within 10 days. But Isla and Sandy are set in their ways, survive by hunting and eating seabirds, speak to mythical beings,  and most pertinently of all from Daniel’s point of view, have vowed to fight off any ‘incomers’... 

PRESSURE CERT 12a (100 mins)
Released Wed 9 September
Starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, Damian Lewis, Tamsin Topolski 
Directed by Anthony Maras

There can’t have been many bigger decisions to make in the 20th century than the one facing General Dwight D Eisenhower and chief meteorological officer Captain James Stagg in the three days prior to the D-Day Landings. With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, do they launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history, or risk losing the war altogether?
Based on the 2014 stage play of the same name by David Haig - who co-wrote the screenplay with director Anthony Maras - Pressure focuses on the impact which meteorological conditions had on crucial decisions about the D-Day operation. 

It’s certainly an impressive work of cinema, which in itself is no small achievement given that its action basically revolves around the rather prosaic subject of a weather forecast.

PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 CERT tbc (110 mins)
Released Fri 11 September
Starring Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Joey King, Maisie Williams 
Directed by Susanne Bier

The season of the witch has returned - 28 long years after Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock last stepped into Practical Magic’s world of moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral sorcery. 

The Hollywood A-listers once again play Gillian (Kidman) and Sally (Bullock), sister witches who find themselves having to confront the dark curse that threatens to finally unravel their family...

The original 1998 film, based on the same-named novel by Alice Hoffman, was by no means a resounding success, either with critics or at the box office. However, subsequent decades have seen it achieve cult status, which is nowadays a surefire reason for film studios to back a sequel.   

Kidman and Bullock are co-producing the new movie alongside Denise Di Novi, who also produced the first film.

“I think the big mistake people make with sequels is when they kind of want to reinvent the wheel and be totally original and surprise people,” Di Novi told People.com. She added that they “[get] how important the first movie is to so many people, women in particular, and we want to honour that for sure.”

THE RUNNER CERT 15 (107 mins)
Released Fri 11 September
Starring Alan Ritchson, Owen Wilson, Leila George, Rodrigo Santoro, Peta Sergeant, Geraldine Hakewill 
Directed by Scott Waugh

A former soldier is thrown into a brutal race against time when a critical medical delivery makes him and his unlikely partner the targets of a ruthless cartel. As the mission spirals into a deadly manhunt, they must survive the chase and successfully deliver their cargo, to save the life of a little girl...

That’s the synopsis for a film that pairs Owen Wilson - perhaps best known from Ben Stiller comedies such as Zoolander and Starsky & Hutch - with Alan Ritchson, who’s come to prominence over the last few years for his portrayal of Midlands born-and-bred author Lee Childs’ action-hero Jack Reacher.

“Runner is the kind of theatrical film audiences have been waiting for,” says the movie’s director, Scott Waugh. “Big action, real heart, and a story that brings light into this world. When everything’s on the line to save a life, real men don’t run from the fire; they drive straight into it.” 

RESIDENT EVIL CERT 15 (90 mins)
Released Fri 18 September
Starring Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Johnno Wilson, Devon Stewart 
Directed by Zach Cregger

The latest entry in the well-established Resident Evil franchise sees medical courier Brian unwittingly finding himself in a race for survival ‘as one fateful, horrifying night collapses in chaos around him’. 
Based on the famous Japanese video-game franchise, the Resident Evil movies have done exceptionally well at the box office, despite almost universally being panned by the critics. 
This brand-new offering is the second reboot of the series and runs parallel to the timeline of the Resident Evil 2 computer game. 

“So I had this idea for a story in the world of Resident Evil,” explains the film’s director, Zach Cregger, “but it’s kind of like me; like if I was dropped into a Resident Evil game. I’m terrible with guns. I wouldn’t know how any of them work. I would miss 99 percent of all of my shots!” 

HEART OF THE BEAST CERT U (91 mins)
Released Wed 23 September
Starring Brad Pitt, JK Simmons, Anna Lambe
Directed by David Ayer

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements... 

Described by its publicity as ‘an intense adventure thriller exploring the unbreakable bond between a man and his best friend’, Heart Of The Beast is helmed by David Ayer, who brings to bear his experience of being involved with such muscular two-handers as Training Day and The Fast And The Furious.
“Working with animals is its own experience,” he told GQ, “and sometimes you can see the lack of connection when people do these movies, but we really made the dog a living, breathing, fully formed character, with a soulful presence. And you can feel their history, their connection.”

SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM CERT U (91 mins)
Released Fri 18 September
With the voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour 
Directed by Steve Cox and Matthew Walker

Halloween’s a-coming and the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm are suitably excited - until, that is, the clumsy Farmer trashes the flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! 

With no time to waste, Shaun the Sheep turns ‘mad scientist’ to fix the problem. But he quickly finds things rapidly spiralling out of control when the farmer goes missing and a wild creature appears in the woods... 
The Beast Of Mossy Bottom is the third film in stop-motion studio Aardman’s Shaun The Sheep franchise, following on from Shaun The Sheep Movie (2015) and the Academy Award-nominated Farmaggedon (2020).  

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY CERT PG (131 mins)
Released Fri 25 September
Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Fiona Shaw, Caitríona Balfe
Directed by Georgia Oakley

Focus Features and Working Title Films once again team up to present another cinematic adaptation of a Jane Austen novel; they previously harnessed their talents for a 2020 adaptation of Emma, while their 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice earned four Academy Award nominations and secured Focus’ status as a leading independent film company. 

For those whose interest in Austen has at best been cursory, Sense And Sensibility revolves around the characters of Georgian-era sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The storyline follows the siblings as they busily make their first forays into the excitingly decadent world of 18th-century high society, where the giddy excitement of love and the terrible pain of heartbreak await them...