Weekly Cinema Pack: New US & UK Releases – 28 August 2026
A spoiler-free guide to two major new cinema releases arriving for the final August bank-holiday weekend.
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Trailer Drop — Wild Horse Nine (2026): Official Trailer
Martin McDonagh sends John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell to Easter Island in Searchlight’s Wild Horse Nine.
Trailer Drop — Ali G: Who Iz I? (2026): Official Trailer 1
Sacha Baron Cohen brings Ali G back for a new mockumentary comedy, Ali G: Who Iz I?, in Official Trailer 1.
Trailer Drop — Avengers Endgame Encore (2026): Official Trailer 1
Avengers Endgame: Encore returns the Infinity Saga finale to cinemas in a special theatrical engagement this September.
Trailer Drop — Brothers (2026): Official Trailer
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play fictionalised versions of themselves in Apple TV’s family-secret comedy Brothers.
Trailer Drop — Finding Emily (2026): Official Trailer 1
Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn lead Finding Emily, Alicia MacDonald’s campus-set romantic comedy, in the official Trailer 1.
DOCTOR WHO IS IN HIATUS: Should the TARDIS Stay Parked Until 2028 — and Return Bigger, Bolder and Completely Reinvented?
Doctor Who has entered an undefined television hiatus. Could the 65th anniversary in 2028 be its chance to return bolder, stranger and truly reinvented?
Trailer Drop — The Ark: Season 3 (2026): Official Trailer
The official trailer for The Ark Season 3 finds the Ark One crew split between the next stage of its space journey and a fragile new home.
Trailer Drop — The Librarians: The Next Chapter S2 (2026): Official Trailer
The official trailer for The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 2 sets its time-lost team against fresh magical threats.
Weekly Cinema Pack: New US & UK Releases – 21 August 2026
A spoiler-free guide to six standout US and UK films arriving in cinemas on Friday 21 August 2026.
Trailer Drop — Whalefall (2026): Official Trailer 2
Whalefall Official Trailer 2 reveals a new look at Jay Gardiner’s desperate one-hour escape from inside a sperm whale.
Entertainment News and Casting Round-up: 20 August 2026
An FX reunion, Netflix breakthrough and five verified sci-fi, fantasy and horror developments lead this week’s screen round-up.
Doctor Who Is Everywhere Except Television — and That Is the Problem
Doctor Who delivered books, audio and interactive fiction this week, but the television series remains missing from its own expanding universe.
Trailer Drop — Fall 2: Deadpoint (2026): Official Trailer 2
Fall 2: Deadpoint Official Trailer 2 raises the stakes as two friends confront a lethal new climb in Thailand.
Mutiny (2026): Jason Statham’s Cargo-Ship Thriller Opens This Friday
Jason Statham heads to the high seas in Mutiny, Jean-François Richet’s action thriller opening in UK and US cinemas on 21 August.