January
A Man Called Otto
directed by: Marc Forster
Starring: Tom Hanks, Rachel
Keller, Manual Garcia-Rulfo
Old grumpy widower Otto is
forced to reevaluate his ways when a new family moves into the neighbourhood.
Empire of Light
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Starring: Olivia Colman,
Michael Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones
A drama about the power of
human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the
early 1980s.
Directed by: Damien
Chazelle
Starring Brad Pitt, Margot
Robbie, Samara Weaving, Jean Smart
A tale of outsized ambition
and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters
during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early
The Fablemans
Directed by: Steven
Spielberg
Starring: Michelle
Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Seth Rogen
Spielberg’s latest uses a
fictional family to tell the story of his life.
February
The Whale
Directed by: Darren
Aronofsky
Starring: Brendan Fraser,
Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton
A reclusive English teacher
attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Puss in Boots: The Last
Wish
Directed by:
Starring: Antonio Banderas,
Salma Hayek,
After all his adventures
and burning through eight lives, Puss in Boots sets out on an epic crusade to
find a mythical Last Wish, to restore his nine lives.
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Directed by: Steven
Soderbergh
Starring: Channing Tatum,
Salma Hayek
The final in the Magic Mike
trilogy sees Tatum’s
Ant Man and The Wasp:
Quantumania
Directed by: Peyton Reed
Starring: Paul Rudd,
Evangeline Lilly, Jonathon Majors, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bill
Murray
Marvel’s first film of
Phase 5 sees the eponymous pair travel into the quantum universe and coming
face-to-face with supervillain Kang (Majors)
March
Creed III
Directed by: Michael B
Jordan
Starring: Michael B Jordan,
Jonathon Majors, Tessa Thompson
Michael B Jordan makes his
directorial debut with the third film from the Rocky spin-off and sees Adonis
meeting an old friend and boxer Damian Anderson (Majors), but things turn sour
and they take their beef into the ring.
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Directed by: Scott Beck,
Brian Woods
Starring: Adam Driver
Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman
An astronaut crash lands on
a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Directed by: David F
Sandberg
Starring: Zachary Levi,
Helen Mirren, Lucy Lui, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Adam Brody, Megan
Good, Djimon Hounsou
In this sequel to 2019’s
Shazam, the whole Shazam step family must learn to work together to defeat the
daughters of
John Wick: Chapter 4
Directed by:
Starring: Keane Reeves,
Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada
John is at war with pretty
much everyone and Donnie Yen will kick his arse!!!
Stahelski hinted in an interview
that we may not have a “happy ending” to chapter 4.
The Super Mario Bros.
Movie
Directed by: Aaron Horvath,
Michael Jelenic
Starring: Chris Pratt, Anya
Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Seth Rogen, Charlie Day
Big screen adaptation of
the much-beloved Italian plumber, who lands in the Mushroom Kingdom and meets
Luigi (Day), Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) and Princess Peach (Taylor-Joy) and must
battle Bowser and Donkey Kong.
April
Dungeons & Dragons:
Honour Among Thieves
Directed by: John Francis
Daley, Jonathon Goldstein
Starring: Chris Pine, Hugh
Grant,-Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez
An all-star cast tries to
reboot the franchise will see Pine as a charming thief with his band of
unlikely adventurers embarking on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things
go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Evil Dead Rise
Directed by: Lee Cronin
Starring: Alyssa
Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies
This HBO Max feature was
shelved and will now release in cinemas. Moving the action out of the woods and
into the city, "Evil Dead Rise" tells a twisted tale of two estranged
sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, 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.
May
Guardians of the Galaxy
3
Directed by: James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe
Saldana, Plom Klementieff, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Will
Poulter, Elizabeth Debicki
Still reeling from the loss
of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their
own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
This will see Will Poulter as Adam Warlock who was teased at the end of the
last Guardians.
Fast X
Directed by: Justin Lin
Starring: Vin Diesel,
Michelle Rodriguez, Terese Gibson, Sung Kang, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ludacris
Vin Diesel and his team of
numpties, spaff off to super cars and spies. The same old bollocks, repackaged
and sold off as something new.
The Little Mermaid
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Starring:
Disney’s live-action remake
of their 1989 hit animation.
June
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Directed by: Joakim Dos
Starring: Shameik Moore,
Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Issa Rae, Jake Johnson, Daniel Kaluuya
Miles is back in the sequel
to one of the greatest animated features ever made will push the limit for the
genre; with each Spider-Verse having its own animated style.
Transformers: Rise of
the Beasts
Directed by: Steven Caple
Jr.
Starring: Ron Pearlman,
Anthony Ramos, Peter Cullen, Dominique Fiahback
This film takes the
franchise back to the 90’s and is based on the Beast Wars storyline.
The Flash
Directed by: Andy
Muschietti
Starring: Ezra Miller, Ben
Affleck, Sasha Calle, Billy Crudup, Michael Keaton
DC are getting on-board
with the whole multi-verse thing with The Flash and will see Keaton don the
cape once again. This film is rumoured to follow the Flashpoint storyline.
Directed by: James Mangold
Starring: Harrison Ford,
Mads Mikkelsen, Antonio Banderas, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Toby Jones, Boyd
Holbrook
The man with the hat is
back and this time he’s bringing the Nazi’s.
James Mangold is a superb
director, so fingers crossed for the next instalment.
July
Directed by: Christopher
McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving
Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Plom Klementieff, Shea
Wigham, Esai Morales
Tom’s Ethan Hunt is back
and they’ve gone full tilt boogie; bringing so much to the fold they’ve split
the film into two parts.
Not much of the story has
been divulged but the trailer shows promise.
Oppenheimer
Directed by: Christopher
Nolan
Starring: Cillian Murphy,
Nolan is back in a film
that looks into the life of the man who created the atomic bomb. Nolan pushes
the limits of cinema and this promises to be his boldest project to date.
The Marvels
Directed by: Nia DaCosta
Starring: Brie Larson,
Teyonah Parris, Iman, Vellani, Samuel L Jackson
The sequel to Captain
Matvel will see Carol Danvers join forces with Ms Marvel. Plot unknown at the
time of writing.
Barbie
Directed by: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Margot Robbie,
Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Emma Mackey, Kate McKinnon
Mattel’s Barbie will get
her own film where she get banished from Barbieland and has to cope in the real
world.
August
Blue Beetle
Directed by: Angel Manoel
Soto
Starring: Xolo Maridūena,
Susan Sarandon, Harvey Guillen
DC Blue Beetle will see the
first Mexican lead film which sees a young teenager finds an alien beetle that
gives him superpowers and armour.
Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Directed by: Jeff Rowe,
Kyle Spears
Starring: Seth Rogen,
Shanon Brown Jr
CG feature based on the
sewer dwelling superhero turtles.
Gran Turismo
Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
Starring:
Follows the life of a
teenager who became a professional racing driver through playing PlayStation’s
Gran Tourismo
September
The Nun 2
Directed by: Michael Chaves
Starring: Bonnie Aarons,
Anna Popplewell, Taissa Farmiga
Sequel to 2018’s horror The
Nun
The Equalizer 3
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel
Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman
Third instalment of Fuqua’s
The Equalizer; currently no details on plot.
A Haunting in
Directed by: Kenneth
Branagh
Starring: Michelle Yeoh,
Kelly Reilly, Kenneth Branagh
In post-World War II
Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a
seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former
detective to once again uncover the killer.
The Expendables 4
Directed by: Scott Waugh
Starring: Jason Statham, 50
Cent, Megan Fox, Lungdren, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais
The band of elites have to
take down an arms dealer and his private army.
October
Kraven the Hunter
Directed by: J C Chandor
Starring: Aaron
Taylor-Johnson, Russel Crowe, Christopher Abbot
Spider-Man villain, Kraven
is out to prove he is the worlds greatest hunter in this antihero story from
Sony. No word if Spidey will make an appearance yet.
The Exorcist
directed by: David Gordon
Green
Starring: Leslie Odom Jr,
Ellen Burstyn, Ann Dowd
The first in a trilogy that
will lead on from the 1973 film.
True Love
Directed by: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Amat Chadhar-Patel,
Gemma Chan, Allison Janney
Plot details unknown at
this time
November
Dune: Part 2
Directed by: Denis
Villeneuve
Starring: Timothée
Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Fergusson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Stellan
Skarsgård,
Part 2 of DV’s interpretation
of the sci fi novel. The first film was huge; the cast has been steadily
increasing and the whole second chapter promises to be bigger and grander.
The Hunger Games: The
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Directed by: Francis
Lawrence
Starring: Rachel Zegler,
Hunter Schafer, Tom Blyth
A prequel to the Hunger
Games trilogy, the story follows Coriolanus Snow as a youngster, involved with
his creation of the games.
December
Wonka
Directed by: Paul King
Starring: Timothée
Chalamet, Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Roman Atkinson, Keegan-Michael Key
King, director of the
Paddington films, brings us an original story of Willy Wonka, as he meets the
Oompa-Loompas.
The Colour Purple
Directed: Blitz Bazawule
Starring: Danielle Brooks,
Based on the novel and the
musical stage play of that novel set in early 1900’s Southern states at a time
of high poverty, a southern woman struggles to find her identity after
suffering at ten hands of her abusive father.
And, To Be Confitmed…
Distant
Directed by: Josh Gordon,
Will Speck
Starring: Anthony Ramos,
Naomi Scott, Zachary Quinto
It follows an asteroid
miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the
harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only
other survivor.
Ghostbuster: Afterlife
sequel
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Starring: McKenna Grace,
Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard
Follow-up to 2021’s
Ghostbusters Afterlife. No plot details at the time of writing.
Scream 6
Directed by:Matt
Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Starring: Melissa Berrera,
Jenna Ortega, Mason Gooding,Hayden Panettiere, Courtney Cox, Samara Weaving
Direct sequel to the 2022
reboot of the horror franchise that changed the genre. This film will take up
where the last film ended and continue with those that survived.
Directed by: Martin
Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio
A biopic of the 32nd
president of
Directed by: Michael
Sarnosk
Starring: Lupita Nyong’o,
Joseph Quinn
Prequel/ spin-off from
Fingernails
Directed by: Christos Nikou
Starring: Jessie Buckley,
Rox Ahmed
Anna (Buckley) increasingly
suspects that her relationship with her longtime partner may not actually be
the real thing. In an attempt to improve things, she secretly embarks on a new
assignment working at a mysterious institute designed to incite and test the
presence of romantic love in increasingly desperate couples.
Directed by: Richard
Bakewell
Starring: Kylee Levien,
Ashton Solecki, Dee Wallace
During the 1980s the
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