Scroll on for Media Mole's round-up of the major releases due out at the UK and Ireland box office in the coming days.
People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan
Released: Wednesday, August 18
Genre: Comedy
Certificate: 15
Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
Director: Jack Clough
Cast: Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp, Asim Chaudhry, Hugo Chegwin
Plot: The Kurupt FM gang travel to Japan, where they discover that one of their tracks is being used on a local gameshow.
Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins
Released: Wednesday, August 18
Genre: Action
Certificate: 12A
Runtime: 2 hours 1 minute
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Henry Golding, Andrew Koji, Ursula Corbero, Samara Weaving, Haruka Abe, Takehiro Hira, Iko Uwais
Plot: The origin story of Snake Eyes and how he went on to become the masked agent GI Joe.
Conni and the Cat
Released: Friday, August 20
Genre: Animation
Certificate: U
Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
Director: Ansgar Niebuhr
Cast: Mia Ciscon, Noella Brennan, Zac Ciscon
Plot: Young Conni sets off on a big adventure with her two best friends - unaware that her cheeky cat Mau has stowed away for the ride!
Censor
Released: Friday, August 20
Genre: Horror
Certificate: 15
Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
Director: Prano Bailey-Bond
Cast: Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley
Plot: In 1985, a woman working as a film censor comes across a horror movie that has a striking resemblance to her own sister's disappearance.
Reminiscence
Released: Friday, August 20
Genre: Thriller
Certificate: 12A
Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
Director: Lisa Joy
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, Cliff Curtis, Marina de Tavira, Daniel Wu
Plot: Set in the near future, a private investigator of the mind helps his clients access their past memories - but he gets drawn into a dangerous conspiracy when one of his clients disappears.
The Night House
Released: Friday, August 20
Genre: Horrow
Certificate: 15
Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
Director: David Bruckner
Cast: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Plot: A woman is left alone in the house her late husband built for her - but at night, she starts experiencing ghostly visions.
Neil Wilkes
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