May 2016

THIS MONTH AT THE UK CINEMA

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Hey guys, please don't see these few latest posts and think it's going to become a trend, hopefully from next month onwards I'll be able to commit more time to what I enjoy. These monthly things seem to be getting longer and longer but that's only because I keep finding more movies that I think are worth a watch so I may have change to fortnightly film releases. Anyway, that's for future me to worry about, it's now time to see what is at the cinema over the next during this month, so lets get started...

This month's Movie of the Month is Alice through the Looking Glass. It been over five years since we last saw Alice (Mia Wasikowska) in Disney's Alice in Wonderland and this time she must gather a group of friends to save to save the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), and Underland itself, from the clutches of the evil Time (Sacha Baron Cohen). To do this, she must retrieve a magical sceptre and get the Queen of Hearts (Helena Bonham Carter) back her to rightful throne.

Now we're nearing the summer, the big blockbuster movies are starting to be released. We've already seen Captain America: Civil War and now we know that Alice Through the Looking Glass is coming soon, but those aren't the only big cinema draws this month. 

Also coming out at the end of this month is the ninth film from the X-Men franchise and the third and final film from the current trilogy, X-Men: Apocalypse. Seen as a god by many mutants, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) is an immortal and invincible mutant who wakes to a world that he finds abhorent and so plans to cleanse the world with a team of mutants, headed by Magneto (Michael Fassbender) who see the world in the same way.

Another relatively big film released on friday is Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising. Having survived living next door to a fraternity, Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Rose Byrne) plan to sell their house but with a new sorority, louder and more rebellious than before, moving in next door their plans may have to be stopped so they have only one option, to call upon their previous nemesis, Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron) to help defeat this new enemy.
 

Last weekend saw the release of a string of films as well as Bad Neighbours 2. The first is Florence Foster Jenkins, which tells the life of Florence (Meryl Streep), a New York socialite and famously tone-deaf soprano who attracted much attention throughout her career, but for the wrong reasons. Until now, her husband and manager (Hugh Grant) has protected her from ridicule but when she agrees to sing at Carnegie Hall, there is nothing he can do to protect her this time. 
 

I Saw the Light is another true life tale of another musician. This time, the film recounts the story of legendary country music singer-songwriter, Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston). The story begins at the start of his musical career, but the constant threat of military conscription during World War II made things difficult for his work-life and his marriage to Audrey Sheppard (Elizabeth Olsen) and this eventually started him on a downward spiral until his death in 1953.

 
These Final Hours is an Australian film set in a pre-apocalyptic world. With the world near to total destruction, James (Nathan Phillips) is set to spend his last few hours partying but on his way there he meets Rose (Angourie Rice), a girl who has lost her parents, who forces him to re-think his life and he begins wonders if there is time to right his wrongs and make peace with himself

Today saw the release of The Angry Birds Movie. Based on the ever-popular Angry Birds game. When a group of green pigs arrive on an island of only tropical, flightless birds, Red (Jason Sudeikis) and his friends Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride) begin to suspect something is not right and they set out to investigate.

Our Kind of Traitor is based on the John le Carré novel of the same name in which Bristish couple Perry (Ewan McGregor) and his girlfriend Gail (Naomi Harris) just wanted a holiday in Marrakech but they become caught up in some serious international espionage after they are asked by Dima, a member of the Russian mafia, to pass on his criminal trade secrets to the MI6 in exchange for protection.

Also, WTF is Whiskey Tango Foxtrot all about? Based on the real life story of Kim Baker (Tina Fey), a journalist who signs up to be a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Working with fellow journalist Tanya (Margot Robbie) and freelance photographer Iain (Martin Freeman), she is determined to make a name for herself but along the way she finds the human side to conflict, discovering the similarities and differences of people around the world.

 
Set in 1985, Sing Street sees Dublin teenager Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) joining a new school where he meets Raphina (Lucy Boynton). To try and impress her he offers her to chance to star in his band's new music video, except the only problem is that he doesn't have a band, so he must form one to be known as Sing Street.

Washed-up, divorced businessman Alan Clay (Tom Hanks) heads to Saudi Arabia, in A Hologram for the King, to start a new job and a new life but what he finds is not what he was expecting. Now he must learn to adapt to this new culture and embrace new experiences and in doing so he sees not an empty desert but the chance to do something great.

The beautiful, newly-widowed Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) does not abide by 18th century social etiquette and in Love and Friendship she takes her daughter Frederica (Morffyd Clark) to her in-laws estate in order to play matchmaker for her daughter, as well as for herself. Whilst doing so, she disrupts the peace of the upper-class locals and shows everyone what life can be like when you let go and enjoy yourself.


UK Release Dates

A Hologram for the King                               20 May 2016   TRAILER
Alice Through the Looking Glass                    27 May 2016   TRAILER          
Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising                  06 May 2016   TRAILER     
Florence Foster Jenkins                              06 May 2016   TRAILER
I Saw the Light                                         06 May 2016   TRAILER
Love and Friendship                                    27 May 2016   TRAILER
Our Kind of Traitor                                      13 May 2016   TRAILER
Sing Street                                               20 May 2016   TRAILER
The Angry Birds Movie                                 13 May 2016   TRAILER
These Final Hours                                       06 May 2016   TRAILER
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot                                13 May 2016   TRAILER
X-Men: Apocalypse                                     18 May 2016   TRAILER