When Simon (Jason Bateman) and his wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall) move into their new house, it doesn’t take long before they run into Gordon (Joel Edgerton, who also wrote and directed the movie), a guy Simon knew back in high school. He’s a bit of an odd character, but it’s hard to pin down why exactly. But you don’t get a lot of time to think about it, because things get increasingly odd after that. Why does Gordon leave those wrapped gifts at the door? How many chance encounters can you have with one person before you start to wonder if they really are accidental?

The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie, opens with a stagecoach making its way through a snowy landscape, trying to outrun a blizzard that is closing in on them. Inside of it sits bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). When they get flagged down by a mysterious man who asks if they have room for one more, Ruth is skeptical because… well, Domergue is worth a lot of money and the mystery man turns out to be Major Marquis Warren, a former Union soldier turned bounty hunter (played by Samuel L Jackson).