There are comedies (Bad Neighbours 2 and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot); animated family-favourites (Angry Birds and Robinson Crusoe); biopics (I Saw the Light and Florence Foster Jenkins) and CGI filled IMAX blockbusters (X-Men: Apocalypse, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and Warcraft). Then there's the sort-of sequel to Dazed and Confused from acclaimed director Richard Linklater, Everybody Wants Some!!, a college comedy that has been met with multitudes of 5* reviews but left me cold as it reminded me of everything I detested about university...
Also of note is Patrick Stewart's villainous turn in violent drama Green Room; Jodie Foster's latest thriller featuring veterans George Clooney and Julia Roberts alongside 2014 golden-boy and up and coming star Jack O'Connell, Money Monster; Terrence Malick's bizarre-looking drama with an astonishing cast Knight of Cups; Jane Austen period drama Love and Friendship; and John le Carré espionage thriller Our Kind of Traitor.
While there might not be as many films opening this month as there have been previously this year, I think it's safe to say there'll be something for everyone!
All films below are released in cinemas in May in the U.K.: some may have already opened abroad so if you're outside the U.K. then do check your local cinemas for film times and release dates.
BAD NEIGHBOURS 2
Friday 6th May 2016
"After a sorority moves in next door, which is even more debaucherous than the fraternity before it, Mac and Kelly have to ask for help from their former enemy, Teddy."
EVOLUTION
Friday 6th May 2016
"The only residents of young Nicholas's seaside town are women and boys. When he sees a dead body in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?"
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
Friday 6th May 2016
"The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice."
I SAW THE LIGHT
Friday 6th May 2016
"The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life."
KNIGHT OF CUPS
Friday 6th May 2016
"A writer indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas has to offer undertakes a search for love and self via a series of adventures with six different women."
ROBINSON CRUSOE
Friday 6th May 2016
"On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot lives with his quirky animal friends in paradise. However, Tuesday can't stop dreaming about discovering the world. After a violent storm, Tuesday and his friends wake up to find a strange creature on the beach: Robinson Crusoe."
ANGRY BIRDS
Friday 13th May 2016
"Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to."
THE DARKNESS
Friday 13th May 2016
A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
Friday 13th May 2016
"A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood."
GREEN ROOM
Friday 13th May 2016
"After witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads."
MUSTANG
Friday 13th May 2016
"When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged."
OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
Friday 13th May 2016
"A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust."
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
Friday 13th May 2016
"A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan."
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Wednesday 18th May 2016
"With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan."
CHICKEN
Friday 20th May 2016
"Richard, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, Polly, needs to keep moving."
DEPARTURE
Friday 20th May 2016
"An otherwise nuclear family unravels in the South of France."
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
Friday 20th May 2016
"A failed American businessman looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch."
SING STREET
Friday 20th May 2016
"A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes."
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Friday 27th May 2016
"Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter."
THE DAUGHTER
Friday 27th May 2016
"The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before."
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
Friday 27th May 2016
"Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally."
MON ROI
Friday 27th May 2016
"Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious skiing accident. Dependent of medical staff and painkillers, she takes the time to remember the tumultuous love story she lived with Georgio."
MONEY MONSTER
Friday 27th May 2016
"Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio."
THE PRICE OF DESIRE
Friday 27th May 2016
"The Price of Desire tells the controversial story of how Le Corbusier effaced and defaced Eileen Gray's moral right to be recognized as the author of her work and as one of the most forceful and influential inspirations of a century of modern architecture and design."
THE TRUST
Friday 27th May 2016
"A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault."
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
Monday 30th May 2016
"The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat."
WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING
Monday 30th May 2016
"The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home."
As far as I'm concerned, I'm most excited to see Money Monster. I was hoping to see I Saw the Light, Our Kind of Traitor, Green Room, and Knight of Cups, but they were in my local cinemas for less than a week and at odd times... Sometimes living in the middle of nowhere isn't all it's cracked up to be!
What are you looking forward to this month? Are you more interested in Bad Neighbours 2 or Florence Foster Jenkins? Do let me know in the comments below!
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