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A selection of four feature films released in the week of September 4th, 2026, spanning from a violent Robin Hood retelling starring Hugh Jackman to a quirky Scottish island drama featuring Domhnall Gleeson, a nostalgic nature documentary shot on vintage Super 8, and a horror tale set in a strict Christian community starring Mia Wasikowska and Joe Bird.
Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Domhnall Gleeson and Joe Bird feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 4th, 2026Directed by Michael Sarnoski.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Faith Delaney, Murray Bartlett, Noah Jupe, Bill Skarsgard. 16 cert, gen release, 122 min Revisionist study of Robin Hood’s final days featuring Jackman as the most heartlessly violent version we have seen for quite some time. There is a sense of the world coming to a desperate end. Which it nearly does. After the fighting is over, an injured Robin awakes under the care of nuns in the starkly attractive Priory of St Clement.
His most conspicuous carer is Jodie Comer as the endlessly patient Sr Bridget. That shift has undone many viewers on US release. But the interactions between Jackman and Comer are nicely judged in their skirting of awkward truths. Directed by Louis Paxton.
Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O’Rourke, Emun Elliott, Michelle Gomez, John Hannah. 12A cert, gen release, 102 min Gleeson is back playing one of his trademark shy naifs – a council worker sent to eject two weird siblings from a remote Scottish island – in a film that revels in Scottish weird. The three core actors bump against each other with admirable comic invention.
The siblings are oddballs alone and unmolested in their own oddball empire. Daniel is an oddball in a society that would prefer him to conform. The director can’t quite find a way out of the puzzles he has set for himself, but an arresting debut nonetheless. Photo portrait of Katie Taylor aged 10: ‘You can see the steel in her eyes even then’Directed by Ed Sayers.
Featuring Ed Sayers. No cert, select release, 83 min Here is a nature documentary made against the grain of a genre now characterised by drone shots and crisp digital precision. Instead of pursuing the immaculate, high-definition imagery familiar from National Geographic, Sayers curates his film entirely from vintage Super 8 footage, creating an episodic, arresting portrait of the natural world. Sayers’s careful editing and Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres’s score give the disparate material coherence.
The effect is curative, but there is urgency among contributors protecting endangered species such as northern white rhinos in Kenya and turtles in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Directed by Adrian Chiarella. Starring Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, Jeremy Blewitt, Mia Wasikowska. 16 cert, gen release, 88 min This zeitgeisty horror, frequently cited with the similarly buzzy Obsession and Backrooms, follows two Australian teenagers whose emerging sexuality clashes with the strictures of their backwater Christian community.
Producer and star Mia Wasikowska, revisiting the dark matriarchal energies of Club Zero, makes for a terrific fundamentalist mom. Bird gives his character a compellingly awkward, inward quality as he moves from sexual awakening toward attachment. Writer-director Chiarella ingeniously conjures horror off-screen, relying on atmosphere, shadows and the recurring device of an apparently familiar person behaving with unexplained menace. Puppy love has seldom seemed so terrifying.
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