Lockworks Cinema Listings: Friday 09 Oct

Digger is one of the most unexpected collaborations of the decade, pairing global superstar Tom Cruise with four-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the visionary filmmaker behind Birdman and The Revenant. Described by its creators as a “comedy of catastrophic proportions,” the film marks a rare move for Cruise, who plays Digger Rockwell, “the most powerful man in the world,” a larger-than-life figure racing to convince humanity that he is its saviour before a disaster he has unleashed destroys everything. The film features a remarkable ensemble cast alongside Cruise, including Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde, Emma D’Arcy, Michael Stuhlbarg and John Goodman, bringing together one of the most eclectic line-ups of performers in recent years. The project is especially intriguing because comedy is something audiences rarely see from Tom Cruise. While he has dominated the box office in recent years with action juggernauts like Top Gun: Maverick and the Mission: Impossible series, his last widely recognised full-on comedic performance was the scene-stealing studio executive Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder (2008)—a role so outrageous it became instantly iconic. Now, under Iñárritu’s direction, Cruise returns to comedy in a much darker and stranger form. Digger is the Mexican director’s first English-language film since The Revenant (2015) and was shot on 35mm film with legendary cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, the three-time Oscar winner known for Gravity, Birdman and The Revenant. With a reported budget of around $125 million, the film represents a bold, auteur-driven studio project—mixing biting satire, star power and one of Hollywood’s most ambitious filmmakers in what could become one of the most talked-about releases of the year.

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont 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. From acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer, Heart Of The Beast is an intense adventure thriller that explores the unbreakable bond between a man and his best friend as they face their greatest battle yet.

Bela, an 8-year-old girl living in a home with marital problems, confronts a sinister entity that comes out of her closet. The presence, whom she calls "Other Mommy," becomes increasingly threatening to her and her family.

From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger comes a thrilling - and terrifying - reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen's iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.

Andrew Garfield stars as the leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II. In 1831 plague sweeps across Europe, killing half the population of England. As King Richard II and the oligarchs impose a brutal tax on the poorest members of society, a farmer's simmering discontent erupts into full-blown anger. Within days, he leads a ferocious rebellion as thousands of commoners march on London in the name of justice and freedom.

Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social media reckoning we’re seeing play out today, this Aaron Sorkin original screenplay is a companion piece to the hit film The Social Network and a true David and Goliath story. Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

Adapted from Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, this seductive, psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford and Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity's chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy, and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession.