Director: Justin Lin Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson, Gina Carano, Tyrese Gibson, Sun Kang, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Gal Godot, Elsa Pataky, Luke Evans Certificate: 12A Running Time: 130 minutes Release Date: May 17 “Okay Lamborghini mercy/your chick, she so thirsty/I’m in that two-seat lambo with your girl/she tryna jerk [...]

Director: Jay Bulger Cast: Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Lars Ulrich, Neal Peart Running Time: 93 mins Release Date: May 17 Certificate: N/A Jay Bulger is a documentarian, journalist, music video director and rock fan. Discovering via a court report from South Africa that Ginger Baker was still alive and kicking, he set out [...]

Director: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Carey Mulligan Rating: 12A Run Time: 143 minutes Release: May 16 With all the glitz and glamour of a furtive greed-hog, Luhrmann’s whining rendition of The Great Gatsby dives whimpering into the shallow end of the adaptive scale. Carving his name childishly into [...]

Director: J.J. Abrams Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve Running Time: 132 minutes Release Date: May 9 Certificate: 12A 3D: Worth it From Game of Thrones themed stag nights to Minecraft LAN parties, nerd culture is now so entrenched in the everyday that it’s hard to separate it. To that [...]

Director: Jeff Nichols Cast: Matthew McConnaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard Certificate: 12A Running Time: 130 minutes Release Date: May 10 We need to talk about Matthew. This career turnaround. Where in the name of God did it come from? Was it turning forty and accepting [...]

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Cast: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Sissy Spacek Running Time: 95 minutes Certificate: 15A Release Date: May 10th Released some five months after it quietly died in America, and smuggled out while Star Trek and Iron Man 3 are taking up all of our attention, the signs were not good for [...]

Director: Dror Moreh Cast: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri, Carmi Gillon, Avi Dichter, Yuval Diskin Certificate: TBC Running Time: 101 minutes Release Date: May 3rd If you didn’t know already, war is a pretty dirty game. Collateral damage, justifiable cause and and other such terms routinely roll off the tongues of those in power [...]

Director: Niels Arden Oplev Cast: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Hooper, Terrence Howard Running Time: 118 mins Release Date: May 3 Cert: 15A Colin Farrell is determined to right a few wrongs in this modern-day thriller that aims for an artsy feel, but offers little apart from some mild entertainment here and there. New York [...]

Director: Pedro Almodóvar Cast: Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo Running Time: 90 minutes Certificate: PG Release Date: May 3rd In Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film—his twentieth—a passenger plane leaves Toledo for Mexico. Shortly after take-off a terrifying truth emerges. There’s a problem with the plane’s landing gear. It can’t land. Instead it circles above Toledo [...]

Director: Kieron J Walsh Starring: Nichola Burley, Charlene McKenna, Martin McCann Certificate: 15A Running time: 82 mins Release date: April 26 There is little left to chance in Kieron J Walsh’s JUMP, an intersecting-storylines drama based on the stage play of the same name by Lisa McGee. It’s New Year’s Eve in Derry and twenty-something [...]

Director: Shane Black Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Ty Simpkins Running Time: 130 minutes Release Date: April 25th Certificate: 12A 3D: Worth it From the moment Richard Pryor stepped foot the set of Superman III, the entire institution of comic book threequels has been cursed. Spider-Man 3, Batman [...]

Director: Gus Van Sant Cast: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook Running Time: 106 minutes Certificate: 15A Release: April 19 “Message” films are something of a rarity in modern cinema. When you consider films like The China Syndrome, Erin Brockovich or, to a lesser extent, Michael Clayton, the key factor is that they [...]

Director: Susanne Brier Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind, Sebastian Jessen Running Time: 116 minutes Rating: 15A Release: April 19 It would be wonderful to say that there is an awful lot going on in this film. That, between the compromised melodrama and dislocated flow, there exists a serene void where numbness finds [...]

Director: Fede Alvarez Cast:Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore Release Date: April 17 Running Time: 92 mins Certificate: 18 In a 1988 interview with a young Johnathan Ross, Sam Raimi, still weathering the storm of The Evil Dead series’ success and controversy, expressed regret over his infamous tree rape scene, [...]