July premieres on Sky Cinema

You’ll be dancing through life when you discover that the Oscar-winning Wicked arrives on Sky Cinema this month –invite your friends around to watch it if you want to be popular! Don’t worry, we won’t crowbar any more Wicked songs in here. There’s no more room thanks to a packed schedule of brilliant film premieres coming your way in July, including Clint Eastwood’s courtroom drama Juror #2, Cate Blanchett in apocalyptic horror-comedy Rumours, Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington in Gladiator II and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in superhero story Kraven The Hunter.

It’s a great month for indie films as well, with movies from inventive and offbeat film-makers, like Strange Darling and Sew Torn. And if you’ve been too busy over the past few months to keep up with all the new premieres on Sky Cinema, scroll down to see our round-up of all the latest titles available in On Demand.

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Read on to find out what’s new on Sky Cinema this coming month.

Available from Friday 27 June in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Celebrated British director Ridley Scott returned to make this sequel 24 years on from the original Gladiator with the spectacle level set to MAX. It may not have Russell Crowe glowering at the Emperor, but it does have Paul Mescal (All Of Us Strangers) donning the leather and stepping into the arena, fighting all manner of vicious creatures as he searches for revenge and redemption. It’s an ambitious epic from Scott, beautifully shot in some incredible locations, co-starring Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen (reprising her role from the first film) and Stranger Things’s Joseph Quinn.

Available from Saturday 28 June in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Josh (Ben Foster, Hell Or High Water) and Rachel (Cobie Smulders, Avengers Endgame) think they’ve found their dream home, but their domestic idyll is disturbed by several fatal car crashes in front of the house. Rachel is worried, but Ben’s concern starts to become an obsession. As his mind begins to spiral, is he putting the family in danger? A tense and disturbingly relatable thriller with an intense central performance from Foster.

Available from Sunday 29 June in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 12

Lenore (Mia Kaplan) is a teenage girl who loves to create beautiful, colourful clothes, but a shortage in the confidence department means no one knows about her talent. That’s until she meets new classmate Kayla (Jemima Yevu), who persuades her that the world needs to see her designs. Lenore’s journey from wallflower to potential fashionista is a warm-hearted and funny ride, with support from comedy stalwarts Rainn Wilson (The Office) and Missi Pyle (Captain Fantastic) as Lenore’s parents.

Available from Friday 4 July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

This historical epic brings the world the story of folk hero William Tell, who most of us know as the guy who shot an apple off his son’s head, but who is revered in Switzerland as the country’s founding father. In the 14th century, Tell (Claes Bang, The Outlaws) reluctantly agrees to help a farmer accused of murdering an Austrian nobleman, but as his eyes are opened to the reality of Swiss oppression, he is drawn into the fight for freedom. And yes, there’s an incident with an apple… Ben Kingsley, Rafe Spall and Ellie Bamber co-star in an exciting, Braveheart-esque drama.

Available from Saturday 5 July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 18

There are some pretty interesting things happening in the horror genre at the moment, and the critically acclaimed psychological thriller Strange Darling is definitely one of them. Two strangers meet for a one-night stand that descends into cruelty and violence when one is revealed to be a vicious serial killer. The narrative flashes back and forth and nothing is what it seems, so be prepared to have the rug pulled at any point… Willa Fitzgerald (Reacher), Kyle Gallner (Smile) and Ed Begley Jr (Young Sheldon) star.

Available from Sunday 6 July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Dom (Nick Kroll, Don’t Worry Darling) and Cole (Andrew Rannells, Another Simple Favour), a couple about to adopt a newborn baby, see their holiday in Italy as a chance to reconnect before embarking on parenthood. It’s all going well until an impulsive decision puts them in the middle of nowhere with no transport, no language skills and a situation that quickly turns extremely ugly. A dark and bloody comedy that’s not for the faint-hearted, I Don’t Understand You was co-written and co-directed by real-life married couple David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano and hopefully not based on true events from their marriage.

Available from Friday 11 July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert PG

With the trailer for sequel Wicked: For Good now out, it’s time to catch up on the first film, a huge hit adapted from the stage phenomenon. Young witches Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo, Harriet) and Glinda (pop superstar Ariana Grande) meet at university in the Land of Oz and become fast friends as they work to discover their true power. Until, that is, an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard (Jeff Goldblum, KAOS) sends their lives in very different directions. Erivo and Grande have incredible chemistry in the lead roles of this gorgeous musical, and you’d need a heart of stone not to be moved by the soaring “Defying Gravity”.

Available in July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 12

Journalist and recovering alcoholic Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult, Mad Max: Fury Road) is called up for jury service in an emotive case concerning a man charged with killing his girlfriend. The defendant denies it, and as the evidence unfolds, Justin realises that the events leading up to the woman’s death seem familiar. Can he trust his memory? Clint Eastwood’s 40th film as a director is typically absorbing, with stand-out performances from Hoult, Toni Collette (Knives Out) as the prosecuting lawyer and JK Simmons (Whiplash) as a former homicide detective and fellow juror.

Available in July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

This action-packed movie provides an origin story for one of the most popular characters in the Spider-Man comic universe. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Train) stars as Sergei, aka Kraven, a vigilante with animalistic attributes who hunts down criminals. When his brother Dimitri (Fred Hechinger, Gladiator II) gets caught up in a kidnapping plot, Kraven realises he must confront the man who put them on the road to a life in the underworld: their father, Nikolai (an outsized performance from Russell Crowe). Fast-paced and satisfyingly fight-heavy, it’s a superhero film with a difference.

Available in July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

We guarantee you’ve not seen anything like Rumours before. There’s a global crisis, and the G7 leaders gather in Germany to formulate their reaction to it – a noncommittal provisional statement. But in a surreal twist, matters escalate sooner than they expected. Faced with a real challenge, as 2,000-year-old embalmed bodies rise from the soil to do unspeakable things, it becomes clear that they are spectacularly incompetent… Cate Blanchett (Tár) stars as the German Chancellor, with Charles Dance (The Day Of The Jackal) as the US President and Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock At The Cabin) as the British PM, in this entirely unique comedy/horror/thriller/sci-fi/disaster epic.

Available in July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

When struggling seamstress Barbara (Eve Connolly, Vikings) happens across a drug deal gone wrong, she has a choice. Drive away, alert the authorities, or use her sewing skills to stage an elaborate shoot-out scenario and abscond with a briefcase of cash? The narrative diverges as we see the consequences of each option in this inventive black comedy from writer/director Freddy Macdonald, expanding on his 2019 short film. The cast includes Ron Cook (Hot Fuzz), K Callan (Knives Out) and, appropriately enough, Sliding Doors’ Paul Lynch.

Available in July in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Michael Cera spent a fair while playing goofy young men who weren’t sure they were ready to grow up – Superbad, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World – but here he’s the adult in the situation as Glenn, who’s talked into an impromptu road trip by his capricious friend Rickey (Michael Angarano, Oppenheimer). Although he’s reluctant to leave his pregnant wife Rosie (Kristen Stewart, Spencer), she thinks it’ll actually be a healthy break for the stressed father-to-be. What starts as a series of frustrations for Glenn turns into an eye-opening, life-affirming journey in this charming comedy.

• A Nice Indian Boy

• Venom: The Last Dance

• Your Monster

• Exhibiting Forgiveness

• Anora

• Luckiest Man In America

• Home Delivery

• Joker: Folie À Deux

• Piece By Piece

• Salem’s Lot

• Cleaner

• Omni Loop

• The Damned

• Speak No Evil

• Mob Cops

• Rebellious

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

• Bookworm

• Poison

• The Wild Robot

• A Different Man

• Escape From The 21st Century

• Old Guy

• The Front Room

• Despicable Me 4

• Cuckoo

• My Penguin Friend

• Transformers One

• Greedy People

• Touch

• Smile 2

• Twisters

• The Parenting

• Trap

• Between The Temples

• A Mistake

• Maxxxine

• Black Dog

• Harold And The Purple Crayon

• Blood For Dust

• The Good Half

• Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

• AfrAId

• Skincare

• It Ends With Us

• The Wasp

• Noah’s Ark

• Sneaks

• Babes

• I’ll Be Right There

• I Saw The TV Glow

• Chuck Chuck Baby

• The Bikeriders

• Turn Me On

• Fox & Hare Save The Forest

• The Garfield Movie

• The Line

• A Place Called Silence

• Rob Peace

• The Watched

• Thelma

• Fight Or Flight

• The Fall Guy

• The Convert

• The 4.30 Movie

• Get Away

• Slingshot

• Twilight Of Warriors: Walled In

• Bad Boys: Ride Or Die

• Kill

• Parachute

• The Killer

• Timestalker

• The Last Stop In Yuma County

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

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