Lily-Rose Depp and Harley Quinn Smith star as teenage yoga enthusiasts in Harley’s dad Kevin Smith’s horror-comedy Yoga Hosers. Lily-Rose’s dad Johnny Depp also features as a manhunter who teams up with the young women to battle an ancient evil. Yes, Jason Mewes fans, Jason Mewes is in it.

Date night alert #1: Southside With You chronicles the charming first date between a future president and his future wife, and yes it’s sappy, but it’s also smart. The New Yorker’s Richard Brody had conniptions, praising the film as “a fully realized, intricately imagined, warmhearted, sharp-witted, and perceptive drama, one that sticks close to its protagonists while resonating quietly but grandly with the sweep of a historical epic”. <sigh>

Date night alert #2: Greg Mottola helms spy-comedy Keeping up with the Joneses, in which married couple Isla Fisher and Zac Galifianakis spy on their hot new neighbors Gal Gadot and Jon Hamm, who turn out to be actual spies. Lol. (You know what? Here’s a great date night list.)

The Girl on the Train is the latest in the literary genre of thrillers with “girl” in the title. Emily Blunt does the honors as “drunk girl” Rachel in Tate Taylor’s adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ hit novel.

The Kong: Skull Island trailer unveiled at ComicCon last month shows Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson and John Goodman on Skull Island in what looks like a 1970s time setting. That’s a pretty classy cast; hopefully they’ll stick around for the inevitable cross-over with Godzilla as part of a long-rumored monster movieverse.

“A moviegoing experience this execrable—this soul-searchingly unpleasant, this watch-checkingly dull, this corporate-restructuringly ill-conceived—practically implores you to assign blame, as I imagine somebody in a position of authority over the people responsible for making the film will… There was a time, I’m fairly certain, when going to the movies was something you did to feel good for two hours rather disconsolate and woebegone—when movies aspired to the condition of joy and bliss and high spirits rather than… faux-punk misery and lurid special effects and a whole lot of noise. But that’s the effect Suicide Squad has. It’s such a profoundly bad time at the movies that you can’t remember if you ever had a good time at them before, or whether you’re likely to have a good time at them again. Here’s hoping.” —Calum Marsh

“I went into this film expecting, quite honestly, a dog-shit film that I absolutely hated. What I was not expecting was a film I fall in love with and love as much as Snyder’s DC films. The critics were wrong, all of Letterboxd is wrong, and most of the audience is wrong. This film is a work of art, so unique and so interesting… I must truly seem like a DC fan boy, but trust me, I’m not. I’ve never read a comic from them (I’ve read a few Marvel ones). I truly didn’t believe Ayer could pull off a DC movie that got my attention as much as a Snyder but oh boy has he pulled it off. … A marvelous film that everyone can enjoy, I’m not sure why it’s getting so much hate but hey I adored BvS when no-one else did.” —Mathew Proctor

“Because superheroes respond to ‘emergency’ situations and operate within a non-legal or extra-legal capacity to inflict sovereign violence on the enemy (the enemy itself prone to slippage e.g. bin Laden, Hussein), they serve as the perfect analogy for global politics in our world, which for 15 years has been in a permanent State of Emergency… This brings us to the figure of Batman who Frank Miller outed as a fascist in The Dark Knight Returns as well as the sole cause of the Joker’s existence (a weirdly prescient analogy for the War on Terror). The Dark Knight is descended directly from this Miller-ish scepticism of Batman’s usefulness, with Alfred and Lucius saying throughout “yeah it’s kind of your fault for declaring a ‘with us or against us’ crisis situation”, and the film existing as a series of decision-moments in which this debate can play out. Before long, however, Nolan weighs in and closes it off. The “it’s your fault”s become “somebody had to do it”s and “things get worse before they get better”s, and Nolan contrives a situation in which Batman has to turn surveillance in on the citizens of Gotham in order to save them, which of course he does… My issue with Nolan is not his worldview (though I despise it) however, but his films themselves, maybe as exemplified by The Dark Knight. I genuinely cannot see what people get from his films, and I cannot see what interest he has in making them either. He does not seem interested in humans or emotions, which is fine, but he does not seem interested in the sensorial experiences that films can provide either.” —Max Coombes

“Chinatown is like a fine whiskey poured straight out of an aged oak barrel. It’s not too peaty, it’s not too fruity, and it rolls around your palette with a smoothness that only comes with age. It’s like a bunch of old newspaper clippings arranged in a way that reveals a fascinating tale from the past; a story that’s comprised of deliberately confusing tip-offs and multifaceted characters who always lie before telling the truth. While the droughty landscapes crack under the heat of the sun, Chinatown reveals the many unpleasantries that the filthy rich attempt to conceal whenever they have the chance. While the characters may act like upstanding citizens on the surface, it isn’t long before the behind-closed-doors affairs of the most elite in society begin to spill out like the gallons of water wasted for the sake of political gain.” —Alice Bishop

A sweet little list to mark the observation that every effing movie is influenced by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen.

Sally Jane reclaims the SJW tag and brings the noise with this list of 101 essential films for Social Justice Warriors.

Could movie goo really be any other color? This is a gloriously vivid list of films with neon green fluid in ’em. Need a slime recipe? Here are some details about the ectoplasmic ooze in Ghostbusters II.

New to Letterboxd and wondering who to follow? Struggling to keep track of your favorite reviewers? Feel free to pilfer Matthew’s idea and create an ongoing list of reviews by your fave Letterboxd members.

This list celebrates films that are so goddamned stylish, substance is almost meaningless.

Calling all bros, Haydn has created the perfect list: Bro-wave. “Movies by bros… for bros.” It’s a glorious list of films that examine the relationships and friendships of men. Contributions are welcome and “you don’t need to beefcake or even 100% masc to be a bro. You can be a camp bro, a trans bro, a fem bro, or just a bro bro. Bros look out for bros, bro.” Word, brother.

Ellie got her hair cut ridiculously short recently, which got her thinking about all of those movie scenes where a woman (or occasionally a man) gets her hair hacked off by someone who is either themselves or definitely not a professional. She welcomes suggestions.

Wondering lately whether Rachel McAdams had ever been cast in a romance movie where she provides emotional support to a white man who can time travel? Luckily, Jas has the answer.

Finally, a genius list of films grouped around one concept: what an ending!