HOPE IS A JOURNEY THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY

IN CINEMAS 28 APRIL

Director Hettie Macdonald / Starring Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Monika Gossmann / Genre Drama

Based on the best-selling book by award-winning author Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend. Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He’s an unremarkable man who has failed at all the important things: being a husband, a father, and a friend. Now, well into his sixties, he’s content to fade quietly into the background of life. But when Harold learns his friend is dying, he’s moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to send her a letter, until he realises a letter is not enough. In that moment Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, some five-hundred miles away in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Surprising himself as much as his wife Maureen, Harold embarks on a walk of hope, determined to travel the length of England to save his friend in this uplifting tale of self-discovery, redemption, and learning to seize the moment. Starring Academy Awardwinner Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.

The Pope’s Exorcist

IN CINEMAS 7 APRIL

Russell Crowe stars as Father Gabriele Amorth in a new horror inspired by the memoirs of a real-life exorcist. Amorth was a legendary Italian priest who performed over one hundred thousand exorcisms for the Vatican.

Little Bear’s Big Trip

IN CINEMAS 7 APRIL

Friends become unlikely heroes in an epic tale of friendship, family, and adventure. When Mic Mac and Oscar find themselves in charge of a baby bear whose delivery by stork did not go to plan, they set out on an epic journey over land and sea to reunite the cub with its parents in this animated adventure for all the family.

Polite Society

IN CINEMAS 28 APRIL

Nida Manzoor’s merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action follows London schoolgirl and martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister from her marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

Allelujah IN CINEMAS 17 MARCH

Director Richard Eyre / Starring Jennifer Saunders, Judi Dench, Russell Tovey, Bally Gill, Derek Jacobi / Genre Drama

Based on the Alan Bennett play and featuring a powerhouse ensemble cast, Allelujah is a warm, humorous, and deeply moving story about surviving old age. When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital faces closure, the hospital decides to fight back. Allelujah celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand.

Big George Foreman

IN CINEMAS 28 APRIL

Director George Tillman Jr / Starring Khris Davis, Forest Whitaker, Sullivan Jones / Genre Biography, Drama, Sport

Fuelled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channels his anger to become an Olympic Gold medallist and World Heavyweight Champion, but a near-death experience takes him from boxing ring to the pulpit. When he sees his community struggling, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title in a film based on the remarkable true story of one of sports' greatest comebacks of all time.

Evil Dead Rise

In Cinemas 21 April

Director Lee Cronin / Starring Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies / Genre Horror

Moving the terrifying action out of the woods and into the city, the wicked new entry in the Evil Dead series tells the twisted tale of two estranged sisters, Alyssa Sutherland’s Ellie and Lily Sullivan’s Beth, whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Sucks To Be Him

Renfield

IN CINEMAS 14 APRIL

Director Chris McKay / Starring Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz / Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Evil doesn’t span eternity without a little help. In this modern monster tale of Dracula’s loyal servant, Nicholas Hoult stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master’s prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there’s a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency. Renfield is directed by Chris McKay from a screenplay by Ryan Ridley, based on an original idea by The Walking Dead and Invincible creator Robert Kirkman. The film co-stars Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, and Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage as Dracula.

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods

IN CINEMAS 17 MARCH

Director David F. Sandberg / Starring Zachary Levi, Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu / Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Bestowed with the powers of the gods, Billy Batson and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult superhero alter egos. But when the Daughters of Atlas, a vengeful trio of ancient gods, arrive on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago, Billy – aka Shazam – and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives, and the fate of their world. Shazam! Fury Of The Gods sees Zachary Levi and Asher Angel return alongside the rest of Billy’s foster family and their respective super-selves for a supercharged sequel that adds Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, and Rachel Zegler to the cast as the Daughters of Atlas.

Rye Lane

In Cinemas 17 March

Director Raine Allen Miller / Starring David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah / Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

From breakout director Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane is a romantic comedy that stars Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson, as Yas and Dom, two twenty-somethings who are both reeling from bad breakups and connect over the course of an eventful day in South London –helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.

Champions IN CINEMAS 10 MARCH

Director Bobby Farrelly / Starring Woody Harrelson, Ernie Hudson, Kaitlin Olson, Matt Cook / Genre Comedy, Drama, Sport

Woody Harrelson stars in the hilarious and heartwarming story of a minorleague basketball coach, Marcus Aldridge, who, after a series of losses and missteps, is fired and ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. Initially uninterested and unenthused, Marcus soon realises that, despite his doubts and demons, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.

80 For Brady

IN CINEMAS 24 MARCH

Director Kyle Marvin / Starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field, Tom Brady / Genre Comedy, Sport

80 For Brady is inspired by the true story of four best friends living life to the fullest when they take a wild trip to the 2017 Super Bowl LI to see their hero Tom Brady play. Starring Academy Award-nominee Lily Tomlin, Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda, Academy Award-winner Rita Moreno, and Academy Award-winner Sally Field, with seven-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, who also serves as producer.

WHO NEEDS HEROES?

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

IN CINEMAS 31 MARCH

Directors John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein / Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Hugh Grant / Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant all star in this epic, hilarious, actionpacked fantasy adventure that brings the rich world and playful spirit of Hasbro’s legendary table-top roleplaying game, the iconic Dungeons & Dragons, to the big screen.

Growing Pains

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

IN CINEMAS 19 MAY

Director Kelly Fremon Craig / Starring Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Elle Graham, Benny Safdie, Kathy Bates, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Isol Young / Genre Comedy, Drama

For over fifty years, Judy Blume’s classic, groundbreaking novel has impacted generations with its timeless coming of age story, insightful humour, and candid exploration of life’s biggest questions. In the big-screen adaptation, eleven-yearold Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, who’s also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her grandmother, who isn’t happy they moved away.

IN CINEMAS MARCH

Ready yourself for a spellbinding cinematic spectacle set in a fantastical medieval world where heroes come in all shapes and sizes, but don’t always wear capes.

WORDS JIM ROBERTS

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

In Cinemas 31 March

Directors John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein / Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant / Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Bringing beloved D&D fantasies from game board to the big screen, the film tells the tale of Edgin the Bard, a charming rogue, master planner, and occasional lute player – played by Chris Pine – who assembles a ragtag group of fellow misfits for a heist of epic proportions.

The party of thieves he picks includes Michelle Rodriguez’ Holga, Regé-Jean Page’s Xenk, and Justice Smith’s Simon – Barbarian, Paladin, and Sorcerer respectively. Sophia Lillis’ Doric, a shapeshifting Druid, also makes the cut, and they’re very glad to have her Owlbear on their side. Unfortunately, in the process of retrieving a powerful lost relic from the clutches of evil, they help the wrong person steal the wrong thing and unleash a far greater peril onto the Forgotten Realms.

To make things right, they must face dragons, red and black alike; deal with Hugh Grant’s enigmatic Forge, who can’t be trusted as far as he’s thrown; and fight powerful, villainous Red Wizards, who seek deadly revenge.

With a wicked tongue-and-cheek comedic tone, the film promises to be lots of fun, too, whether through the terrific camaraderie our party share or the assortment of weird and wonderful mythical beings they meet on their adventure.

In an expansive world where the only limit is your imagination, each character begins their own individual, often hilarious campaign to explore the Forgotten Realms and discover the hero within. Can there be honour among these thieves?

Find out in this fresh and fun adventure full of laugh-out-loud scenarios, epic encounters, and unforgettable moments that will appeal to all and must be seen on the biggest screen possible.

All Creatures Great ‘n’ Small

Directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein conjure a film that appeals to both die-hard D&D fans and those who’ve never rolled a die in anger. Previous knowledge isn’t required, but a little know-how won’t hurt…so as you assemble your party for this comic fantasy adventure, we’ll give you a quick guide to some of the monsters and magical creatures you’ll encounter.

Dragons

A fantasy adventure staple. Here, different coloured dragons have unique traits of their own, though the risk of game over is high with them all.

Mimic

Amorphous predators adept at hiding in plain sight as chairs, chests, and other common objects ready to attack unsuspecting parties. Nothing in this world can be trusted.

Gelatinous Cube

A semi-transparent monster provides the perfect cover for all sorts of schemes, but be sure you don’t linger – their ooze digests organic matter!

Displacer Beast

Fantastic cat-like beasts, but you’ll have little chance of spotting one due to their remarkable powers of spatial illusion. Their name derives from their unique ability to displace light and appear somewhere they are not.

Owlbear

Part-owl, part-bear, this feathered weapon of mass destruction is among the most feared predators in all of the Forgotten Realms.

Earth All Along!

WORDS ROBB SHEPPARD

IN CINEMAS 10 MARCH

Directors Scott Beck, Bryan Woods

65 /

Starring Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt / Genre Sci-Fi, Thriller

After crashlanding on an uncharted planet and losing all but one of his human cargo, Adam Driver’s spaceman, Mills, strives to survive on a strangely familiar planet. He soon founds out the hard way that this isn’t an alien world, but a prehistoric Earth that makes Jurassic Park look like a playground.

65 is born from the brains of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers of smash-hit sci-fi horror A Quiet Place, so you can count on some serious jump scares and the sort of tension you can cut with a T-Rex tooth. 65 is also produced by Sam Raimi, of The Evil Dead and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness fame, a cinema legend who knows horror like the back of his hand.

It’s sure to be a blast to see Adam Driver go back to a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away as the Star Wars saga’s star now faces prehistoric predators on a more familiar patch. Starring alongside him as the only other survivor from the wreckage is Ariana Greenblatt, who previously played young Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War, and her performance looks set to catapult the young star into the stratosphere. Get ready as past and future collide in a sci-fi spectacle millions of years in the making.

Planet Of The Apes

The 1968 sci-fi classic delivers the “this is Earth” plottwist like a punch to the gut, just when astronaut George Taylor thought he had the upper hand over those damn, dirty apes.

Doctor Who

Long before David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa, The Trial Of A Time Lord saw Colin Baker’s Doctor facing punishment lightyears from home. He quickly discovers that he’s on Earth, but the planet has been shunted across the galaxy.

After Earth

Spaceboys Will and Jaden Smith crash on a dangerous planet, only to discover that it’s Earth, one-thousand years after being abandoned by humanity. Unusually, M. Night Shyamalan favoured spectacle over secrecy, revealing the twist in the trailer, but not lessening its impact onscreen.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.3

IN CINEMAS 5 MAY

Director James Gunn / Starring Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldaña, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Will Poulter / Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Star-Lord, Rocket, Drax, Groot, Nebula, and Mantis are back, but everything is about to change for Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy.

The third volume of their spacebased misadventures shakes-up the established line-up we’ve grown to love and also marks director James Gunn’s final film before he skirts off to head up all things DC. How or why the team will disband remains a mystery, but we do know that the stakes have been exponentially raised as Peter Quill searches the stars for his lost love Gamora and Rocket’s past comes back to haunt him.

The disparate headspace of the team is undoubtedly not helped by the emergence of The High Evolutionary, a different type of villain whose genetic experimentation is questionable to say the least. Quill and crew must complete one last mission in order to try and prevent his grand masterplan, all whilst fending off artificially-bred warrior Adam Warlock, played by MCU newcomer Will Poulter.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 features more characters than ever, is even greater in scope, and will test the strength of the team like never before. As such, it’ll be well worth getting hooked on the feeling generated by this current roster of galactic oddballs for one thrilling final time.

featuring:

Cosmo The Spacedog

Borat 2’s breakout star Maria Bakalova lends her voice to bring the beloved comic character to the big screen. Though already introduced in the Guardians’ Holiday Special, Vol. 3 will mark the psychokinetic canine’s first full appearance after cameos in the MCU.

Adam Warlock

Another fan-favourite from the comics debuts as Adam Warlock, an almighty golden warrior created by the Sovereign and teased at the end of the of Vol. 2, enters the cosmic chaos and is sure to be a good foil for the Guardians.

The High Evolutionary

Portrayed by Chukwudi Iwuji, evolutionary scientist and Rocket Raccoon’s creator, the High Evolutionary, arrives in Vol. 3 with intentions of enhancing all living beings into one, singular “special race.”