{"id":677818,"date":"2026-07-07T03:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:46:20","slug":"5-best-films-to-look-out-for-this-month-including-the-odyssey-and-most-essential-documentary-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677818\/","title":{"rendered":"5 best films to look out for this month, including The Odyssey and most essential documentary of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July is a stacked month in the world of film, thanks to several acclaimed comedies and a brand new blockbuster from box office master Christopher Nolan<\/a>, which looks set to be his biggest movie yet.<\/p>\n

The next few weeks offer up a variety of genres for those wishing to venture to the cinema \u2013 from big-budget releases to smaller indie fare \u2013 but films don\u2019t come more important than Life Support<\/a>, a groundbreaking new documentary about doctors who have been working on the frontlines in Gaza<\/a> since October 2023.<\/p>\n

Footage presented in Daniele Rugo\u2019s film will chill you to the bone, as the cameras follow medics dealing with dwindling supplies, which are being denied entry to bombed-out hospitals, all while dealing with a constant flow of casualties.<\/p>\n

\"'Life‘Life Support’ is a must-watch documentary (Pressure Cooker Arts)<\/p>\n

Life Support is a challenging must-watch produced by actors Susan Sarandon and Melissa Barrera, musician Paul Weller, and Oscar-nominated and Bafta-winning filmmakers Farah Nabulsi and Asif Kapadia. The film is released on 10 July.<\/p>\n

Arriving on 17 July is Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey<\/a>, which needs no introduction, but here\u2019s one anyway: it\u2019s the filmmaker\u2019s first movie since the Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer was released in 2023, and it\u2019s an adaptation of Homer\u2019s Greek epic starring Matt Damon as Odysseus. <\/p>\n

It boasts one of the biggest ensemble casts of the year \u2013 Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Lupita N\u2019yongo and an apparently scene-stealing Samantha Morton \u2013\u00a0and is the director\u2019s first film to be shot entirely in IMAX.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Holland in \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 (Universal Pictures)<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks after The Odyssey<\/a>, Holland and Zendaya will be swinging onto screens once again for a fourth Spider-Man film, titled Brand New Day. <\/p>\n

The sequel is set in the immediate aftermath 2021\u2019s Spider-Man: No Way Home and will have the task of setting things in motion ahead of forthcoming blockbuster Avengers: Doomsday, which will be released in December.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also Canadian cult comedy Nirvanna: The Band \u2013 The Show \u2013 The Movie<\/a> and Olivia Wilde\u2019s The Invite. Both, which put forward their own unique brand of humour, received rapturous responses in the US upon their respective festival premieres. <\/p>\n

Find a rundown of all the films to look out for in July in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}