ONSCREEN | BIG SCREEN | MOVIE RELEASES | APRIL '18

ONSCREEN
Mar 25, 2018
6 min read

THERE'S A WHOLE 26 DAYS OF APRIL TO GET THROUGH BEFORE THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR HITS THE THEATERS ON APRIL 27. SO LETS CHECK OUT WHAT ELSE APRIL HAS TO OFFERS BEFORE "MARVEL MANIA" HITS AND APRIL BECOMES "AVENGERS APRIL".

THIS MONTHS BIG SCREENS OFFERINGS (UK RELEASE DATES)...

A QUIET PLACE

STARING | John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds

PLOT SUMMARY | A supernatural horror film set on a farm where a family has been terrorized by a ghostly being for some time.

LOVE, SIMON

TAGLINE | Dear Moviegoers, Please form a line at concessions. It doesn't have to be straight. Love, Simon

STARING | Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Tony Hale, Tony Hale

PLOT SUMMARY | Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing. Directed by Greg Berlanti ("Dawson's Creek," "Brothers & Sisters"), written by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger ("This is Us"), and based on Becky Albertalli's acclaimed novel, "Love, Simon" is a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love.

THOROUGHBREDS

APRIL 06 2018 | DRAMA, THRILLER | 15 | UNIVERSAL PICTURES / NEW LINE | DIRECTOR + SCREENWRITERS Cory Finley

TAGLINE | GOOD BREEDING GONE BAD.

STARING | Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks, Francie Swift, Kaili Vernoff

PLOT SUMMARY | Childhood friends Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Amanda (Olivia Cooke) reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart. Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class teenager, with a fancy boarding school on her transcript and a coveted internship on her resume; Amanda has developed a sharp wit and her own particular attitude, but all in the process of becoming a social outcast.Though they initially seem completely at odds, the pair bond over Lily’s contempt for her oppressive stepfather, Mark, and as their friendship grows, they begin to bring out one another’s most destructive tendencies. Their ambitions lead them to hire a local hustler, Tim (Anton Yelchin), and take matters into their own hands to set their lives straight.

WONDERSTRUCK

STARING | Millicent Simmonds, Julianne Moore, Cory Michael Smith, James Urbaniak, Damian Young, Patrick Murney

PLOT SUMMARY | In the film based on Brian Selznick's critically-acclaimed novel, Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry.

I KILL GIANTS

STARING | Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Madison Wolfe, Sydney Wade

PLOT SUMMARY | "I Kill Giants" tells the story of a young misfit girl named Barbara (Wolfe) battling both real and imaginary monsters in her life. Joe Kelly, who wrote the award winning graphic novel he created with illustrator Ken Niimura, has also written the screenplay adaptation. Saldana will play school psychologist Mrs. Mollé, who plays a key role by helping Barbara face both internal and external threats, forming an inspiring bond with her in the process.

GHOST STORIES

TAGLINE | THE BRAIN SEES WHAT IT WANTS TO SEE.

STARING | Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther, Nicholas Burns, Andy Nyman, Jill Halfpenny, Paul Whitehouse

PLOT SUMMARY | Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology, arch-skeptic, the one-man 'belief buster' – has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the 'original' TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must meet. Cameron, it seems, is still very much alive. And he needs Goodman to find a rational explanation for three stories that have shaken Cameron to his core. As Goodman investigates, he meets three haunted people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last.

RAMPAGE

TAGLINE | BIG MEETS BIGGER

STARING | Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Will Yun Lee, Malin Akerman, Marley Shelton, Joe Manganiello, Naomie Harris

PLOT SUMMARY | Primatologist Davis Okoye (Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry transforms this gentle ape into a raging monster. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered alpha predators. As these newly created monsters tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

TRUTH OR DARE

STARING | Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Nolan Gerard Funk, Hayden Szeto, and Sophia Taylor Ali

PLOT SUMMARY | A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone -- or something -- begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.

THE TITAN

DIGITAL RELEASE | NETFLIX

TAGLINE | EVOLVE OR DIE.

STARING | Sam Worthington (The Shack, Avatar), Taylor Schilling (Orange is the New Black, Take Me), Tom Wilkinson (Selma, John Adams) and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, The Fate of the Furious).

PLOT SUMMARY | In the near future, a military family uproot their lives so they can participate in a ground-breaking experiment to accelerate man’s genetic evolution. The goal? To relocate humanity to another planet and avoid extinction.

WILDLING

TAGLINE | DISCOVER YOUR TRUE NATURE

STARING | Bel Powley, Brad Dourif, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Liv Tyler

PLOT SUMMARY | Anna spends her entire childhood in a single room under the care of a mysterious man she only knows as Daddy. He makes her fear the "Outside" by telling her of the Wildling, a creature with sharp teeth and claws who roams about eating little children. At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Cooper, but her greatest ordeal is yet to come...

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

STARING | Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Mackie, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Sebastian Stan, Don Cheadle, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Pom Klementieff, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Sean Gunn, Tom Holland, Paul Rudd, Josh Brolin

PLOT SUMMARY | As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.