Tom Grieve

It’s not a full-on festive film, but John Waters’ magnificently filthy Female Trouble does hinge on a Christmas morning gone spectacularly awry.

Rian Johnson (Brick) assembles an all-star cast in this characteristically intelligent whodunit about a famed southern detective who joins forces with local police to investigate a group of eccentric suspects following the murder of a wealthy crime novelist.

Celebrate New Year’s Eve in all-singing, all dancing style at Showroom.

A relentless serial killer is stalking the streets of San Francisco, leaving citizens in a state of panic and baffling the authorities with the ciphers and menacing letters he leaves at the murder scenes.

When Billy Peltzer is given a fascinating new pet for Christmas, he’s warned of three things: don’t expose him to bright light, don’t get him wet and, most importantly, keep him away from food after midnight.

Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson excel as a couple whose once enviable union crumbles under the weight of mounting resentments and divergent needs.

One of director Billy Wilder’s best-loved and most acerbic works.

Martin Scorsese’s epic saga of organised crime in postwar America, The Irishman weaves an engrossing and intricate web of connected events, audaciously cutting back and forth across decades.

Cultureplex play host to a Jordan Peele double bill.

Written and directed by Brian de Palma as a loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera, Phantom of the Paradise stars William Finley as Winslow Leach, a talented songwriter who writes his music for the woman he loves to perform.

One of the most stylish movies of the 1980s, Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo is known for its star-making turn from Richard Gere, Giorgio Armani tailoring and an iconic score by Giorgio Moroder.

Rare Giants illuminate Sheffield’s history with a season of films from cities also built on seven hills.