
If the Oscar nominations have stoked your appetite for a trip to the movies, we’ve got a treat for you.
They may not all be deserving of a gold statue, but there’s something in our list for everyone.
Need a good old-fashioned romcom to get you through January? J-Lo can take care of that with Shotgun Wedding.
Do you want to see some Bollywood? Pathaan sees the return of Shan Rukh Kahn in the action thriller.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, a brilliant recounting of artist Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family over the narcotic medication OxyContin, is also an Oscar nominee.
One thing is certain. You won’t be short on options.
Shotgun Wedding

A J-Lo romcom set on a tropical island? This frothy nonsense puts the ageless Ms Lopez as Darcy, above, an unsure bride whose groomzilla boyfriend (Josh Duhamel) is obsessed with planning the ‘ideal wedding’ in a Philippines paradise. The ceremony is disrupted first by Darcy’s ex (Lenny Kravitz) and then by pirates.
This raises enough high-stakes antics involving zip wires, hair extensions, and hitting bandits over the head with stiletto shoes to keep you engaged.
It was co-produced by Lopez and features the ageless icon’s smoking-hot figure. So why not? ‘I just want to ask, is that genetics, or…?’ says White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge as she gazes at those super-toned abs.
15. Out Friday on Prime Video
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

In other hands, this would merely be a portrait of photographer Nan Goldin, despite being nominated for an Oscar and expected to win every major best documentary award. Laura Poitras, on the other hand, has created something far more unsettling.
Poitras’ past work includes the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour, so it’s another David vs Goliath scenario. The film is framed by Goldin’s battle to hold wealthy art patrons, the Sackler family, accountable for the manufacture of OxyContin, the opioid medication to which Goldin became hooked.
However, Poitras’ brilliance lies in the way she connects Goldin’s activism to her mentally ill sister and provides insights into the nexus between art, sexuality, power, pain, and business, as well as society’s silence of problematic women. All of this, plus some very beautiful photographs.
18. Out Friday in cinemas
Pathaan

This fourth instalment of the Hindi spy-action-thriller franchise stars Bollywood sensation Shah Rukh Khan. Hold on to your hats, for he’s an exiled Raw agent summoned from the cold to prevent a terrorist nuclear assault.
12A. Out Friday in cinemas
Plane

If Shotgun Wedding wasn’t enough of a nightmare for the Philippines tourist board, this US action movie stars Gerard Butler as a commercial pilot attempting to defend his passengers from bloodthirsty militia following an emergency landing on a secluded Philippine island.
15. Out Friday in cinemas
Unwelcome

An Irish-UK folk horror film in which an English city couple (Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth, both pictured) move to a rural Irish idyll only to discover deadly goblins hiding in the bottom of their garden.
15. Out Friday in cinemas
The Wandering Earth II

Celebrate Chinese New Year by watching this prequel to one of the most successful non-English language films of all time. Andy Lau co-stars with Wu Jing in a sci-fi blockbuster in which humanity is threatened by the sun’s engulfment of the Earth. Yikes!
12A. Out Friday in cinemas