Out May 7
Clouds of Sils Maria
(Switzerland/France/Germany, drama)
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz
What's it about?At the peak of her acting career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous years ago. Back then, she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who drives her boss Helena to suicide, but now she is being asked to take on the role of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant Valentine to rehearse in a remote region of the Alps.
Ex Machina
(UK, drama/sci-fi)
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac
What's it about?A young coder at the world’s largest internet company wins a competition to spend a week with the reclusive CEO at his private mountain estate. There, he finds that he has to take part in a strange experiment in which he must interact with the world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. But her emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated and deceptive than the two men could have imagined.
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The Rewrite
(USA, comedy/romance)
Director: Marc Lawrence
Starring: Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, J.K. Simmons
What's it about?An arrogant Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a small town college on the East Coast. There, after offending his colleagues and indulging in inappropriate behaviour with one of his students, he finds himself being inspired by them and falls for a single mom taking his classes.
Pitch Perfect 2
(USA, comedy)
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld
What's it about?Following their fall from grace due to Fat Amy's wardrobe malfunction during a performance in front of the US President, the Barden Bellas try to regain their status by entering an international competition that no American team has ever won and showing that 'Girls Run the World'.
Out May 14
Mad Max: Fury Road
(Australia/USA, action/adventure/thriller)
Director: George Miller
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
What's it about?In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the desert, Max is determined to stay alone after the loss of his wife and child. However, he soon accepts to team up with a woman, Imperator Furiosa, who is on the run from tyrant Immortan Joe. She needs Max to safely cross the desert and escape Immortan Joe, from whom she stole his most precious belongings: five young women, which were kept as objects to breed the next generation.
When Marnie Was There
(Japan, animation/drama)
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Starring: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
What's it about?A young tomboy, Anna, is sent to a little town by the sea after suffering from asthma attacks. There, she strikes an unlikely friendship with Marnie, a mysterious young girl with flowing blonde hair. However, it slowly appears that despite being complete opposites, the two girls might have closer ties than expected.
A Royal Night Out
(UK, drama/romance/thriller)
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Jack Reynor
What's it about?On Victory in Europe Day in May 1945, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are exceptionally allowed to go out to join the celebrations. It is the last time Elizabeth will be able to go outside incognito like regular girls of her age before fulfilling her royal destiny. The princesses are determined to make the most of the night, which will be full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.
Out May 21
Poltergeist
(USA, horror)
Director: Gil Kenan
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie Dewitt, Jared Harris
What's it about?In this remake of the 1982 Tobe Hooper movie, a regular American family who have just bought a new home in the suburbs, realise that the house is haunted. When evil spirits capture their youngest daughter, they will have to fight to save her life, with the help of the star host of a cable TV show Haunted House Cleaners and his ex-wife, a parapsychologist.
Wild Tales
(Argentina, comedy/drama)
Director: Damián Szifron
Starring: Rita Cortese, Ricardo Darín, Liliana Ackerman
What's it about?Six independent stories, whose characters find themselves facing a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, and crossing the divide between civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they lose control. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Academy Awards.
Spy
(USA, comedy)
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne
What's it about?Susan Cooper is a CIA analyst, who works behind the scenes to assist agents on the most dangerous missions. However, she craves experience on the field, and when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global crisis.
Woman in Gold
(UK, drama)
Director: Simon Curtis
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes
What's it about?The true story of Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, who takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork that was seized from her family by the Nazis during WWII, in particular the portrait by Gustav Klimt of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, her aunt. With the help of a young lawyer, she will fight to reclaim what she believes rightfully belongs to her family and confront the past.
Out May 28
San Andreas
(USA, action/adventure/drama)
Director: Brad Peyton
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino
What's it about?In this disaster movie partly shot in Queensland, the San Andreas fault triggers a devastating magnitude 9 earthquake in California. A search and rescue helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their only daughter. As they embark on this deadly journey, they are soon faced with the extent of the catastrophe, which is even worse than they thought.
Partisan
(Australia, drama/thriller)
Director: Ariel Kleiman
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Nigel Barber, Jeremy Chabriel
What's it about?Young Alexander is like any other kid: playful, curious and naive. He also happens to have been raised by his father Gregori to be a trained assassin. Growing up in an isolated compound, he only perceives the world through his father's eyes, but as Alexander begins to think for himself, creeping fears take shape and Gregori’s idyllic world unravels.
Tomorrowland
(USA, adventure/mystery/sci-fi)
Director: Brad Bird
Starring: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie
What's it about?A disillusioned genius inventor teams up with a bright, science-loving teenager on a dangerous mission to an mysterious place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland." What they must do there will affect the world forever.
