MAY '18 DVD + BLURAY RELEASES | HOMESCREEN | ONSCREEN
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MAY / 01
🇺🇸12 STRONG, 2018
DRAMA / WAR | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧MAY 21 2018 | WARNER BROS.
DIRECTOR Nicolai Fuglsig
STARING Margot Robbie / Daisy Ridley / Domhnall Gleeson
PLOT | Set in the harrowing days following 9/11, a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince Northern Alliance General Dostum (Navid Negahban) to join forces with them to fight their common adversary: the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies.
🇺🇸PETER RABBIT, 2018
ANIMATION / FAMILY | PG | 🇬🇧JULY 23 2018 | COLUMBIA PICTURES
DIRECTOR Will Gluck
STARING Chris Hemsworth / Michael Shannon / Michael Pena / Trevante Rhodes
PLOT | Peter Rabbit (James Corden voice), the mischievous and adventurous hero who has captivated generations of readers, now takes on the starring role of his own irreverent, contemporary comedy with attitude. In the film, Peter's feud with Mr. McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson) escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door (Rose Byrne).
🇺🇸WINCHESTER, 2018
HORROR | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧MAY 28 2018 | LIONSGATE
DIRECTOR Michael Spierig / Peter Spierig
STARING Helen Mirren / Jason Clarke
PLOT | After the sudden death of her family, firearms heiress Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren) becomes convinced that she's haunted by the souls of those killed by guns. Winchester then decides to build an enormous mansion that's designed to keep the evil spirits at bay. When skeptical psychiatrist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) visits the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he soon discovers that her obsession may not be so far-fetched after all.
🇺🇸IN THE FADE, 2017
CRIME / DRAMA / FOREIGN | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧AUGUST 20 2018 | MAGNOLIA
DIRECTOR Fatih Akin
STARING Diane Kruger
PLOT | Katja's (Diane Kruger) life falls apart in the blink of an eye when two neo-Nazis kill her husband and 6-year-old son in a bomb attack. Her quest for justice soon pushes her to the edge as the two suspects stand trial for murder.
🇺🇸 ALL I WISH, 2017
DRAMA / COMEDY | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧 N/A | PALADIN |
DIRECTOR Susan Walter
STARING Sharon Stone / Tony Goldwyn / Famke Janssen / Ellen Burstyn
PLOT | Senna Berges (Sharon Stone), a clothing designer, is desperate to find her soulmate. Despite the constant attempts to pursue her passion for fashion design, Senna follows a path of irresponsible behavior, changing jobs and having occasional relationships with younger men. Everything seems to be out of control for Senna until her 46th birthday party where she meets Adam (Tony Goldwyn).
MAY / 07
🇬🇧THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN,2017
WESTERN | 15 / RATED-R | 🇺🇸US RELEASE FEBRUARY 13 2018 | A24
DIRECTOR Jared Moshe
STARING Bill Pllman / Peter Fonda
PLOT | When cowboy Lefty Brown (Bill Pullman) witnesses the murder of his longtime partner - the newly-elected Senator Edward Johnson (Peter Fonda) - he strikes out to find the killers and avenge his friend's gruesome death. Tracking the outlaws across the vast and desolate Montana plains, Lefty recruits a young gunslinger, Jeremiah (Diego Josef), and an old friend, a hard-drinking U.S. Marshall (Tommy Flanagan), to help deliver the men to justice.
🇬🇧ACTS OF VENGEANCE, 2017
ACTION / DRAMA | 15 / RATED-R | 🇺🇸US RELEASE NOVEMBER 28 2018 SABAN FILMS
DIRECTOR Iassac Florentine
STARING Bill Pllman / Peter Fonda
PLOT | A fast-talking lawyer (Antonio Banderas) transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.
MAY / 08
🇺🇸FIFTY SHADES FREED,2018
ROMANCE | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧JUNE 18 2018 | UNIVERSAL
DIRECTOR James Foley
STARING Dakota Johnson / Jamie Dornan
PLOT | Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian (Jamie Dornan) and Ana (Dakota Johnson) fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.
MAY / 14
🇬🇧THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, 2017
BIOGRAPHY / DRAMA / MUSICAL | PG | 🇺🇸APRIL 10 2018 | FOX
DIRECTOR Michael Gracey
STARING Hugh Jackman / Zac Efron / Michelle Williams / Rebecca Ferguson
PLOT | The story of American showman P. T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman), founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
🇬🇧 MOLLY’S GAME, 2017
BIOGRAPHY / CRIME / DRAMA | PG | 🇺🇸APRIL 10 2018 | STX ENTERTAINMENT |
DIRECTOR Aaron Sorkin
STARING Jessica Chastain / Idris Elba / Kevin Costner
PLOT | The true story of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a beautiful, young, Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons.
🇬🇧ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, 2017
BIOGRAPHY / DRAMA / MYSTERY | 15 / RATED R | 🇺🇸APRIL 10 2018 | TRISTAR | DIRECTOR Ridley Scott
STARING Mark Wahlberg / Kevin Spacey / Michelle Williams
PLOT | After a young John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) is kidnapped by an organized crime regime, his devoted mother, Gail (Michelle Williams), desperately attempts to convince his wealthy grandfather, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (Kevin Spacey) to pay the ransom. When he refuses, Gail allies herself with Getty's business manager and former CIA operative Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg) to set her son free and convince Getty to change his mind before it's too late.
🇬🇧 THE SQUARE, 2017
COMEDY / DRAMA | 15 / RATED R | 🇺🇸JANUARY 30 2018 | Mangolia |
DIRECTOR Ruben Ostlund
STARING Elisabeth Moss / Dominic West
PLOT | In the aftermath of the abolition of the Monarchy of Sweden, the Stockholm Palace has been converted into an art museum. Christian (Claes Bang) is a curator at the museum, who finds his progressive world view shaken when his mobile phone is stolen. While managing a space set to show a new installation piece, he finds a public relations company to promote the installation, creating a great deal of chaos.
MAY / 15
🇺🇸BLACK PANTHER, 2018
ACTION / SCI-FI / COMIC | PG-13 | 🇬🇧JUNE 11 2018 | BUENA VISTA
DIRECTOR Ryan Coogler
STARING Chadwick Boseman / Michael B. Jordan / Lupita Nyong’o / Danai Gurira / Martin Freeman / Daniel Kaluuya / Letitia Wright
PLOT | After the death of his father, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T'Challa's mettle as king -- and as Black Panther -- gets tested when he's drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people.
🇺🇸SAMSON, 2018
ACTION / DRAMA | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧JULY 2018 | PURE FLIX
DIRECTOR Bruce Macdonald / Gabriel Sabloff
STARING Taylor James / Jackson Rathbone / Billy Zane / Caitlin Leahy / Rutger Hauer / Lindsay Wagner
PLOT | When his youthful ambition leads to a tragic marriage, Samson (Taylor James) embarks on a quest for vengeance that brings him into direct conflict with the Philistine army. As his brother mounts a tribal rebellion, Samson's relationship with a Philistine seductress and his final surrender to God will help turn imprisonment into a final victory.
🇺🇸SUBMERGENCE, 2017
ROMANCE / THRILLER | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧 SEPTEMBER 2018 | SAMUEL GOLDWYN
DIRECTOR Wim Wenders
STARING Alicia Vikander / James McAvoy
PLOT | Clinging to life in a cell in Africa, James (James McAvoy) is brutally interrogated by jihadis. Worlds away, Danielle (Alicia Vikander) prepares to descend into the Arctic Sea. Facing life-or-death ordeals, they must rely on their deep emotional connection.
🇺🇸 THE FORGIVEN, 2017
THRILLER | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧 FEBRUARY 2018 | SABAN FILMS
DIRECTOR Roland Joffe
STARING Forest Whitaker / Eric Bana
PLOT | During his life sentence in post-apartheid South Africa, brutal murderer Piet Blomfield (Eric Bana) seeks redemption through meetings with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Forest Whitaker).
MAY / 21
🇬🇧COCO, 2017
ANIMATION | PG | 🇺🇸FEBRUARY 27 2018 |
BUENA VISTA
DIRECTOR Lee Unkrich / Adrian Molina
STARING Anthony Gonzalez / Benjamin Bratt / Gael Garcia Bernal
PLOT | Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael García Bernal), and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
🇬🇧THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI, 2017
DRAMA / COMEDY | 15 / RATED R | 🇺🇸FEBRUARY 27 2018 | FOX SEARCHLIGHT
DIRECTOR Martin McDonagh
STARING Woody Harrelson / Sam Rockwell / Abbie Cornish / Peter Dinklage / John Hawkes
PLOT | After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, commissioning three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
🇬🇧THE POST, 2017
BIOGRAPHY / HISTORICAL / DRAMA | PG-13 | 🇺🇸APRIL 17 2018 | FOX |
DIRECTOR Steven Spielberg
STARING Tom Hanks / Meryl Streep / Sarah Paulson
PLOT | Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) is the first female publisher of a major American newspaper -- The Washington Post. With help from editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), Graham races to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spans three decades and four U.S. presidents.
🇬🇧INSIDIOUS:
THE LAST KEY, 2018
HORROR | 15 / RATED R | 🇺🇸APRIL 03 2018 | UNIVERSAL
DIRECTOR Adam Robitel
STARING Lin Shaye / Leigh Whannell / Angus Sampson / Spencer Locke / Kirk Acevedo / Bruce Davison
PLOT | Parapsychologist Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
🇬🇧THE COMMUTER, 2018
ACTION / THRILLER | 15 / RATED R | 🇺🇸APRIL 27 2018 | LIONSGATE
DIRECTOR Jaume Collet-Serra
STARING Liam Neeson / Vera Farmiga
PLOT | An insurance salesman, Michael (Liam Neeson), on his daily commute home, which quickly becomes anything but routine. After being contacted by a mysterious stranger, Michael is forced to uncover the identity of a hidden passenger on his train before the last stop. As he works against the clock to solve the puzzle, he realizes a deadly plan is unfolding and is unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy.
🇬🇧12 STRONG, 2018 | 🇺🇸MAY 01 2018 [SEE FOR DETAILS]
MAY / 22
🇺🇸RED SPARROW, 2018
THRILLER | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧SEPTEMBER 07 2018 | FOX
DIRECTOR Francis Lawrence
STARING Jennifer Lawrence / Joel Edgerton / Matthias Schoenaerts
PLOT | Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Egorova emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, Dominika meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
🇺🇸GAME NIGHT, 2018
ACTION / COMEDY / MYSTERY | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧JULY 02 2018
WARNER BROS.
DIRECTOR John Francis Daley / Jonathan Goldstein
STARING Rachel McAdams / Jason Bateman
PLOT | Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie's (Rachel McAdams) weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be.
🇺🇸I KILL GIANTS, 2017
FAMILY / FANTASY | N/A | 🇬🇧JULY 02 2018 | RLJE FILMS
DIRECTOR Anders Walter
STARING Zoe Saldana / Imogen Poots / Jennifer Ehle
PLOT | An oddball girl named Barbara Thorson regularly brings a Norse warhammer to her middle school, and has a detailed imaginary life in which she is a skilled giant killer. However, her flights of fantasy might be an attempt to cope with troubles at home.
🇺🇸THE 15:17 TO PARIS, 2018
BIOGRAPHY / DRAMA / THRILLER | PG-13 | 🇬🇧APRIL 04 2018
WARNER BROS.
DIRECTOR Clint Eastwood
STARING Jenna Fischer / Judy Greer
PLOT | In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris, an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends' lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.
🇺🇸EARLY MAN, 2018
ANIMATION | PG | 🇬🇧MAY 28 2018 | LIONSGATE
DIRECTOR Nick Park
STARING Tom Hiddleston / Maisie Williams / Eddie Redmayne / Timothy Spall
PLOT | A plucky cave man named Dug, his sidekick Hognob and the rest of their tribe face a grave threat to their simple existence. Lord Nooth plans to take over their land and transform it into a giant mine, forcing Dug and his clan to dig for precious metals. Not ready to go down without a fight, Dug and Hognob must unite their people in an epic quest to defeat a mighty enemy -- the Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 WONDERSTRUCK, 2017
DRAMA | PG | 🇬🇧JULY 30 2018 | ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
DIRECTOR Todd Haynes
STARING Oakes Fegley / Julianne Moore / Michelle Williams / Millicent Simmonds
PLOT | Ben (Oakes Fegley) and Rose (Millicent Simmonds) are children from two different eras who secretly wish that their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he's never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue and Rose reads an enticing headline, they both set out on epic quests to find what they're missing.
🇺🇸THE PARTY, 2017
DRAMA / COMEDY | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧 FEBRUARY 19 2018 | ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS | DIRECTOR Sally Potter
STARING Patricia Clarkson / Bruno Ganz / Cherry Jones / Emily Mortimer / Cillian Murphy / Kristin Scott Thomas / Timothy Spall
PLOT | Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been appointed to a key ministerial position in the shadow cabinet – the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) plan to celebrate this with a few close friends. As the guests arrive at their home in London the party takes an unexpected turn when Bill suddenly makes some explosive revelations that take everyone present by surprise. Love, friendships and political convictions are soon called into question in this hilarious comedy of tragic proportions.
MAY / 28
🇬🇧MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE,2018
TEEN / ACTION / SCI-FI | PG-13 | 🇺🇸APRIL 24 2018 | FOX
DIRECTOR Wes Ball
STARING Dylan OBrien / Ki Hong Lee / Kaya Scodelario
PLOT | Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) leads some escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions that the Gladers have been asking since they arrived in the maze.
🇬🇧DOWNSIZING, 2017
DRAMA / COMEDY / SCI-FI | 15 / RATED R | 🇺🇸MARCH 20 2018 | PARAMOUNT
DIRECTOR Alexander Payne
STARING Matt Damon / Kristen Wiig
PLOT | When scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall as a solution to overpopulation, Paul (Matt Damon) and his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives in order to get small and move to a new downsized community — a choice that triggers life-changing adventures.
🇬🇧 WINCHESTER, 2018 | 🇺🇸MAY 01 2018
🇬🇧 EARLY MAN, 2018 | 🇺🇸MAY 22 2018
MAY / 29
🇺🇸 ANNIHILATION, 2018
ACTION / ADVENTURE / FANTASY / SCI-FI | 15 / RATED R | 🇬🇧 JULY 2018 | FOX |
DIRECTOR Alex Garland
STARING Tessa Thompson / Natalie Portman / Jennifer Jason Leigh / Oscar Isaac / Gina Rodriguez
PLOT | A group of soldiers enters an environmental disaster zone and only one soldier (Oscar Isaac) comes back out alive, though he is grievously injured. In an attempt to save his life, his wife Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist, volunteers for another expedition into the zone to figure out what happened to him.
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