New August Movies To Catch Up After Your Holidays

August was a month of a wacky sequel of Suicide Squad and a Netflix made Beckett, which opened the comeback of the 74th Locarno Film Festival at the Piazza Grande. If you haven't seen them, you belong to a majority of those who prefer summer getaways with places where a cinema theatre is nothing more than an unnecessary building blocking a seafront view. But with the summer sneaking away, there's a chance you'll be more tempted to end up your evening with a pleasant entertainment for your eyes and your mind. And here we go with a reminder of what you might have missed this month:

DRAMA

ANNETTE

Plot Synopsis: A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a 2 year old daughter with a surprising gift.

JOHN AND THE HOLE

Plot Synopsis: A coming-of-age psychological thriller that plays out the unsettling reality of a kid who holds his family captive in a hole in the ground.

SWAN SONG

Plot Synopsis: A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair.

RESPECT

Plot Synopsis: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, this movie is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.

CODA

Plot Synopsis: As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

THE EAST

Plot Synopsis: A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad.

FLAG DAY

Plot Synopsis: A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.

WILDLAND

Plot Synopsis: Ida moves in with her aunt and cousins after the tragic death of her mother in a car accident. The home is filled with love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life.

TOGETHER

Plot Synopsis: A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the COVID-19 lockdown.

ACTION

THE SUICIDE SQUAD

Plot Synopsis: Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

FREE GUY

Plot Synopsis: A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.

BECKETT

Plot Synopsis: Following a tragic car accident in Greece, an American tourist finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life.

THE PROTÉGÉ

Plot Synopsis: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody, Anna is the world's most skilled contract killer. However, when Moody is brutally killed, she vows revenge for the man who taught her everything she knows.

REMINISCENCE

Plot Synopsis: Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case becomes an obsession after she disappears and he fights to learn the truth about her.

SWEET GIRL

Plot Synopsis: A devastated husband vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

THE COLONY

Plot Synopsis: Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace.

HORROR

DON'T BREATHE 2

Plot Synopsis: The sequel is set in the years following the initial deadly home invasion, where Norman Nordstrom lives in quiet solace until his past sins catch up to him

DEMONIC

Plot Synopsis: A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.

THE NIGHT HOUSE

Plot Synopsis: A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

CANDYMAN

Plot Synopsis: A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.

COMEDY

NAKED SINGULARITY

Plot Synopsis: An idealistic young New York City public defender burned out by the system, on the brink of disbarment, and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him decides to rob a multi-million drug deal of one of his clients.