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 24 Jul: 
ON THE SEA
ANIMAL FARM
HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL
CHICKENHARE AND THE SECRET OF THE GROUNDHOG (Bel)
SOUR PARTY
TOMORROW'S TOO LATE
ASK E JEAN
BRUNELLO: THE GRACIOUS VISIONARY (It)31 Jul: 
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY
ISH
MIDDLE LIFE
WHAM! 10 DAYS IN CHINA7 Aug:
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA*
TONY
LATE FAME*
THE SUMMER BOOK
FALL 2: DEADPOINT
SUPER TROOPERS 3
PAW PATROL: THE DINO MOVIE
THE WEIRD KIDZ
LOVE ME TENDER14 Aug:
TONY
THE END OF OAK STREET
HOLY DAYS
PAW PATROL: THE DINO MOVIE21 Aug: 
STOP! THAT! TRAIN!
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA*
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE
INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER
FRANZ28 Aug: 
BITTER CHRISTMAS (Sp)
FINDING EMILY
COLONY*
DE GAULLE: RESISTANCE*
BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL4 Sep:
LATE FAME*
THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD
FALL: DEADPOINT*
THE LAST BLOSSOM (Jpn)11 Sep:
PRESSURE
FALL 2*25 Sep: 
FORGOTTEN ISLAND*  2 Oct:
CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN'
KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE*16 Oct:
FORGOTTEN ISLAND*
HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL27 Nov:
THINK OF ENGLANDRELEASE DATE TBC . . .
C O M I N G U P . . .
UNRELEASED FESTIVAL FILMS . . . 
• Annecy: NOBODY. SOUL SHIFT.
THE VIOLINIST.• Raindance: MY DAUGHTER'S HAIR. PESCADOR. THE TROLL. WHISKEY DIXIE AND THE BIG WET COUNTRY. • Flare: 10s ACROSS THE BORDERS. BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. BLACK BURNS FAST. THE BROKEN R. CAN'T GO OVER IT. HUNKY JESUS. I AM GOING TO MISS YOU. JARIPEO. KEEP COMING BACK. THE LAST GUEST OF THE HOLLOWAY MOTEL. LOW RIDER. LUNAR SWAY. OUT LAWS. SATISFACTION. STRANGE RIVER. TO DANCE IS TO RESIST. UCHRONIA. WHAT WILL I BECOME? • Cinema Made in Italy: A BRIEF AFFAIR. FUORI. LA GIOIA. THREE GOODBYES. • LFF: THE VILE • FrightFest: THE DEGENERATE. DON'T LET THE CAT OUT. NIGHT OF VIOLENCE. WHERE IS JUAN MOCTEZUMA? SHADOWS FILM FEST |
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY
dir Destin Daniel Cretton; with Tom Holland, Zendaya, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Bernthal, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando 26/USrelease US/UK 31.Jul.26 This fourth adventure starring Tom Holland has a new director in Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi), so it's bound to have a different tone, even if the Marvel machinery keeps pushing the usual mix of action and comedy. The premise of this one is both annoying and intriguing: it's set in an altered reality in which Peter Parker has lost his entire support network, so needs to face a new villain on his own. Let's hope the script takes some original directions, avoiding the same old save-the-planet structure (and multiverse nonsense) for something fresh. TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA
dir-scr Jane Schoenbrun; with Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Patrick Fischler, Jack Haven, Sarah Sherman, Zach Cherry, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Eva Victor 26/Canrelease US/UK 7.Aug.26 Gathering big buzz out of Cannes, this looks like another fiendishly clever film from the talented Jane Schoenbrun, after her breakout hit I Saw the TV Glow. This one is about a filmmaker (Hacks' Hannah Einbinder) who is making a stalker slasher thriller when her reality begins blurring with her fiction. Schoenbrun has proven her skill at playing with surreal storytelling, and her distinctive visual sensibilities are perfect for a film-within-a-film premise. Best of all is how she refuses to get locked into the usual genre structures. THE END OF OAK STREET
dir-scr David Robert Mitchell; with Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, PJ Byrne, Chris Coy, Bethany Anne Lind, Emily Kuroda 26/USrelease US/UK 14.Aug.26 Promisingly, this is from the filmmaker behind It Follows and Under the Silver Lake, and the premise looks very intriguing inded. It centres on a family trying to make sense of the fact that their entire neighbourhood seems to have been transported into another dimension. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor are pretty high-powered actors to have on board, both willing to go deep into a character. And the supporting cast features rising stars who are likely to continue to win us over. THE DOG STARS
dir Ridley Scott; with Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Allison Janney, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong, Alara-Star Khan
Alara-Star Khan, Sebastian Rokison-Woodall 26/UKrelease US/UK 28.Aug.26 Ridley Scott continues to quickly crank out big-screen extravaganzas, and this one looks like another large-scale thriller, set around survivors in a post-apocalyptic world that was ravaged by a virus. So it's bound to feature some exciting set-pieces and beefy characters in conflict with each other. The cast makes this especially intriguing, with the sizzling hot Elordi and Qualley, plus ace veterans Janney, Brolin, Pearce and Wong. Scott has been a bit hit and miss lately, but when he gets it right, he's unmissable. THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD
dir-scr Michael Sarnoski; with Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Noah Jupe, Bill Skarsgard, Murray Bartlett, Clive Russell, Alfie Lawless, Jade Croot 26/UKrelease US 19.Jun.26, UK 4.Sep.26 After making Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, filmmaker Michael Sarnoski is very much on the radar for his ability to tell complex stories that remain intensely grounded. And this looks like it will be an unusually original take on the Robin Hood legend, giving Hugh Jackman a chance to play up his age as the grizzled folk hero facing up to his criminal life. Jackman is terrific at tapping into these kinds of redemptive arcs, and both he and Sarnoski are able to deploy sentimentality without getting sappy. But why the delayed digital release in the UK? DIGGER
dir-scr Alejandro G Inarritu; with Tom Cruise, Sandra Huller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Goodman, Emma D'Arcy, Burn Gorman 26/UKrelease US/UK 2.Oct.26 Another ambitious movie from Alejandro Inarritu, although this one is being mainly talked about for the prosthetic makeup that makes Tom Cruise actually look his real age. What bodes well is that Cruise seems to be taking on another character role, something he's very good at but does only rarely. The cast is stacked with awards-worthy performers like Huller, Plemons, Ahmed and Stuhlbarg. And the plot looks superbly timely: about a billionaire trying to play the world's saviour by halting a disaster that he unleashed himself. THE SOCIAL RECKONING
dir Aaron Sorkin; with Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr, Gbenga Akinnagbe 26/USrelease US/UK 9.Oct.26 More than 15 years after the chilly intensity of David Fincher's The Social Network (2010), which outlined the creation of Facebook, writer Aaron Sorkin returns as both writer and director of this sequel, which sets out to explore the impact social media has had on the world. The cast is very strong, and Sorkin will no doubt invest the film with brainy dialog and a riveting plot. The question is whether it will be more engaging than the earlier film, more deeply allowing us to identify and resonate with the topic at hand. SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM
dir Steve Cox, Matthew Walker; with Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour 26/UKrelease US 18.Sep.26, UK 31.Oct.26 After the alien nuttiness of Farmageddon, the geniuses at Aardman are back with a new adventure for this cheeky flock. And it's a rare Halloween-themed movie! The story centres around Shaun's mad-scientific experiments to try to regenerate a ruined pumpkin patch. But instead there's some sort of freaky monster that appears in the woods. Skilfully using characters that rarely speak, these filmmakers are great at appealing to both kids and the kid in all of us, as they know how to combine humour, horror, innuendo and emotion to tell a superbly involving story. Also on my want-to-see list...
MOTOR CITY
BRINK OF WAR
IDIOTS
ONE NIGHT ONLY
THE RIVALS OF THE AMZIAH KING
THE WHISPER MAN
THE WRONG GIRLS
Autumn: BY ANY MEANS
FALL 2: DEADPOINT
MAYDAY
PRACTICAL MAGIC 2
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER
THE WEIGHT
HEART OF THE BEAST
I LOVE BOOSTERS
KLARA AND THE SUN
RUNNER
VERITY
WILDWOOD
BEHEMOTH!
THE CAT IN THE HAT
GODZILLA MINUS ZERO
HEXED
I PLAY ROCKY
SUNRISE ON THE REAPING
WILD HORSE NINE
Winter: AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
THE DEBUT
DUNE: PART THREE
2027: WERWULF
ICE AGE: BOILING POINT
GATTO
VARANASI
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Release dates: British film release schedules are even more fluid than American ones, so please be patient as I try to keep up with distributors. I'm working to keep this list up-to-date as they keep trying to outfox me. I'm sure it's personal. Embargoes: Britain's Film Distributors Association asks us to hold reviews until the week of release, and distributors are increasingly restrictive (and proscriptive) about when reviews can run. Normally, once the film is shown to a paying audience, even at a festival, the full review can be posted. © 2026 by Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall HOME | REVIEWS | NEWS | FESTIVAL | AWARDS | Q&A | ABOUT | TALKBACK | ||
• PAW PATROL: THE DINO MOVIE.
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY. MIDDLE LIFE. JUST AN ILLUSION.
MISSION. TONY. SUPER TROOPERS 3. LOVE ME TENDER. THE SUMMER BOOK.
THE APOLOGIST. THE MAD WORLD OF HARVEY KURTZMAN.
SONGS OF FORGOTTEN TREES. FRANZ. THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD. PRESSURE.
