Screen ScenE

Superintelligence

Starring: Melissa McCarthy, James Corden

Director: Ben Falcone In McCarthy’s fourth collaboration with her husband, Falcone, she plays the eminently average Carol Peters, who becomes the unwitting subject of an experiment run by an artificial intelligence trying to determine the fate of humanity.

Luxor

Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Michael Landes, Shirin Redha Director: Zeina Durra

A British aid worker dealing with PTSD from her work in a Syrian war zone returns to the ancient city of Luxor, where she lived 20 years previously, while she decides whether to take on another stressful assignment and reconnects with her former lover.

Fatman

Starring: Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins Director:

Eshom Nelms Chris Chringle lives with his wife Ruth in Alaska. Every year he provides children around the world with presents, but his business is suffering as kids get more and more badly behaved, until one of them hires a hitman to kill Chris because he’s unhappy with his present.

The Night Clerk

Starring: Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas, Helen Hunt

Director: Michael Cristofer Bart, who has Asperger’s syndrome, works in a hotel as a night clerk. He has placed hidden cameras in one of the rooms, and imitates the guests in the hope of overcoming his social awkwardness. He witnesses a murder.

The Croods: A New Age

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone

Director: Joel Crawford

The prehistoric Crood family return to the big screen. They discover a safe, idyllic location to live, but must also adapt to their new neighbors, the slightly moreevolved Bettermans.