Check out what's showing at cinemas across the region this month...

SCREAM VI - CERT tbc 
Released Fri 10 March
Starring Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

“It doesn’t feel like ‘part six’; it feels like you’re watching this big, huge, fresh reinvention. I love, love, love, love it!...” 
So says Kevin Williamson, the writer of the original Scream movie, who is executive producing this latest installment of the hugely successful horror franchise. “I’ve watched the movie with a big smile on my face,” Kevin told SyFy Wire. “I think it’s everything and more... The movie feels new, it feels fresh, it feels like a new movie.” 
A direct follow-up to last year’s Scream, which took place over two decades after the infamous Woodsboro killings, Part Six sees the four survivors of the Ghostface murders heading for New York City - only to find themselves in a fight for their lives when a new killer embarks on a bloody rampage...

CREED III - CERT tbc 
Released Fri 3 March
Starring Jonathan Majors, Michael B Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Wood Harris, Florian Munteanu
Directed by Michael B Jordan

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan) has been thriving in both his career and family life. 
When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian (Jonathan Majors), resurfaces after doing time in jail, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. But the face-off that follows between the two former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line, and in Damian face up to a fighter who has nothing to lose... 
This latest installment in the successful sports drama franchise sees Jordan making his directorial debut.

65 - CERT tbc 
Released Fri 10 March
Starring Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King 
Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

Adam Driver takes the lead role in a film that really could go either way at the box office - making Tyrannosaurus Rex-sized profits or quickly establishing itself as an early contender for ‘flop of the year’. 
After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth - 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at a rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures.

ALLELUJAH - CERT 12a (99 mins) 
Released Fri 17 March
Starring Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, David Bradley, Russell Tovey, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench 
Directed by Richard Eyre

Now here’s a film that will hopefully warm the cockles for cinema-goers who love a good British movie. 
With the screenplay by Heidi Thomas, who’s best known for her writing contribution across all 12 series of BBC television’s Call The Midwife, Allelujah is based on Alan Bennett’s play of the same name and boasts an all-star cast. 
A warm and humorous story about surviving old age, the film’s action takes place in a small Yorkshire hospital, the geriatric ward of which is threatened with closure. Until, that is, the local community decides to fight back...

PEARL - CERT 15 (102 mins) 
Released Fri 17 March
Starring Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro
Directed by Ti West

Filmmaker Ti West here makes a swift return with a prequel movie to his 2022 slasher pic, X. Set some 60 years before the events of the first film - which saw a group of young filmmakers fall foul of murderous elderly couple Pearl & Howard on a rural Texas property - the film focuses on how Pearl became a killer. 
The movie premiered last autumn at the Venice International Film Festival, and in common with X, scored a major hit with the critics. 
Legendary Goodfellas and Taxi Driver director Martin Scorsese was also impressed. He hailed it “a wild, mesmerising, deeply - and I mean deeply - disturbing 102 minutes”, revealing that it left him “enthralled, then disturbed, then so unsettled that I had trouble getting to sleep”. Praise indeed.

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS - CERT 12a (130 mins) 
Released Fri 17 March
Starring Zachary Levi, Helen Mirren, Meagan Good, Grace Caroline Currey, Lucy Liu, Adam Brody 
Directed by David F. Sandberg

It’s fair to say that in the US comic-book giants’ ongoing battle for cinematic supremacy, Marvel has pretty much had DC in a long-term headlock. But it’s not been all bad news for the latter. Among a handful of superhero success stories was 2019’s Shazam!, telling the story of how young Billy Batson became ‘the world’s mightiest mortal’. It’s not surprising, therefore, that four years later there is a much-anticipated sequel offering, with fans of the character crossing fingers that Fury Of The Gods is every bit as funny, inventive and engaging as the first film. Zachary Levi again dons the spandex, this time finding himself pitted against the Daughters of Atlas, one of whom is played by Helen Mirren, making her DC Extended Universe debut. 

A GOOD PERSON - CERT 15 (129 mins) 
Released Fri 24 March
Starring Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Celeste O’Connor, Molly Shannon, Chinaza Uche
Directed by Zach Braff

Allison seemingly has it all: wonderful fiance; blossoming career; supportive family and friends. But then a fatal car accident involving her soon-to-be-sister-in-law shatters her world and catapults her into a downward spiral of addiction and unresolved grief. 
The road back is a hard one - but when she forms an unlikely friendship with her would-be-father-in-law, Allison begins to see an unexpected light at the end of a very dark tunnel...

MUMMIES - CERT tbc
Released Fri 31 March
With the voices of Sean Bean, Joe Thomas, Eleanor Tomlinson, Hugh Bonneville, Celia Imrie
Directed by Juan Jesús García Galocha

Juan Jesús García Galocha’s feature directorial debut follows the adventures of three mummies - a princess, a former charioteer and his younger brother - who live in a secret underground city, hidden in ancient Egypt. 
Through a series of unfortunate events, the mummies end up in present-day London. There, they embark on a ‘wacky and hilarious’ quest for an old ring, belonging to the royal family, which was stolen by the ambitious archaeologist Lord Carnaby.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES - CERT tbc
Released Fri 31 March
Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant
Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein

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 fall foul of the wrong people... 
The playful spirit of Dungeons & Dragons, the much-loved and long-established roleplaying game from which the film takes its main title, is very much alive and well in this action-packed adventure. 
“It’s Game Of Thrones mixed with a little Princess Bride and just a smidge of Holy Grail,” lead actor Chris Pine told Collider. “It’s a lot of fun. It’s got a lot of thrills. It’s poppy, it’s ’80s heartfelt, there’s a bit of Goonies in there... 
“We had a great cast and we had a good time making it. And that’s all you can ask for.”
Released Fri 31 March