THE FALL GUY CERT 12a (126 mins)
Released Thurs 2 May
Starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer
Directed by David Leitch

If you’re old enough to remember cult 1970s sci-fi series The Six Million Dollar Man, you’ll likely also recall that its star, Lee Majors, followed up his stint as bionic astronaut Steve Austin by playing a stuntman named Colt Seavers in a show titled The Fall Guy. Well, some 43 years after debuting on US television network ABC, the long-running series has now inspired a movie.  

Recent Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling here takes the title role as the working-class hero who has plenty on his plate - tracking down a missing movie star, solving a conspiracy, and trying to win back the love of his life  - and all whilst engaging in the bone-crunching business of body-bruising stuntwork...

Bullet Train and Deadpool 2 director David Leitch is the man at the helm of this hugely entertaining action-comedy. 

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES CERT tbc (145 mins)
Released Thurs 9 May
Starring Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, William H Macy, Dichen Lachman, Owen Teague, Peter Macon
Directed by Wes Ball

More monkey business from the franchise that just keeps on giving! 

It’s over half a century since the original Planet Of The Apes film hit cinema screens, with astronaut Charlton Heston crash-landing on a future Earth ruled by simians and uttering the immortal line “Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”

In the decades which have followed that first film’s release, there have been a further nine movies, a television series and numerous novels and comic books. This latest film is set several generations in the future, in a world in which apes are the dominant species, living harmoniously, and humans have been reduced to existing in the shadows. As a new tyrannical leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past - and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike...   

IF CERT tbc
Released Fri 17 May
Starring Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Cailey Flemming, with the voices of Steve Carell, Maya Rudolph
Directed by John Krasinski  

Post-trauma, Bea finds that she can actually see other people’s imaginary friends (the IFs of the title)... 
...Or rather, she can see the imaginary friends that other people used to have, before they grew up and discarded them. 

And Bea isn’t the only one with the extraordinary superpower either - the fella who lives upstairs (played by Ryan Reynolds) can see them too. 

Blessed - or should that perhaps read cursed - with such a remarkable ability, what’s a girl to do but try to help the rejected IFs find a new purpose in life?... 

Jack Ryan and The Office actor John Krasinski directs and appears in this family-friendly offering, which he also wrote. He’s joined by an all-star cast of both live-action and voice actors. 

“Imaginary friends are adorable and all those things,” Krasinski told Collider, “but they’re also time capsules of your hopes, dreams and ambitions when you were the most fertile of a brain, and it never goes away. I think we’re told that we’re adults, instead of, what if you realise that you never stopped being a kid...”  

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA CERT tbc
Released Fri 24 May
Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Charlee Fraser, Nathan Jones, Tom Burke, Angus Sampson
Directed by George Miller

Planet Of The Apes (see left) and Garfield (see right) aren’t the only film franchises being revived this month...

The first Mad Max movie caused a significant stir way back in 1979, with Mel Gibson starring as a police officer seeking revenge for the biker-gang murder of his wife and child. Three films followed, including 2015’s Fury Road, which went on to win six of its 10 Academy Award nominations.

Mad Max creator George Miller now returns with this all-new and original standalone action adventure that reveals the origins of Imperator Furiosa, a powerhouse character from Fury Road. 

As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. 

Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. 
As the two tyrants battle for dominance, Furiosa must survive numerous trials as she plots a way back home...

THE GARFIELD MOVIE CERT tbc

Released Fri 24 May
With the voices of Chris Pratt, Samuel L Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult
Directed by Mark Dindal

Lasagna-loving indoor cat Garfield is about to have a wild outdoor adventure... 

After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father - scruffy street cat Vic - Garfield and his canine friend Odie find themselves catapulted from their perfectly pampered life into a somewhat more challenging situation - joining Vic in a ‘hilarious, high-stakes heist’...

Garfield started out as a Jim Davis cartoon-strip in the 1970s. He became such a massive hit that he’s since been the star of numerous television series and a couple of live-action/CGI feature films in which Bill Murray voiced the character. Neither movie went down particularly well with the critics. 

Dedicated fans of the fabulous feline will no doubt be hoping that this first-ever theatrically released animated movie fares rather better...

YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA CERT tbc (100 mins)

Released Fri 31 May
Starring Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodina, Jeanette Hain, Ethan Rouse
Directed by Joachim Rønning

Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley here takes on the role of Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

A gold-medal winner at the 1924 Olympics, Gertrude determined to join the roll call of swimmers who had previously swum the 21-mile stretch. 

Designing a two-piece swimsuit and sealing her goggles with candle wax, the 20-year-old New Yorker duly made history on the 6th of August 1926, taking 14 hours and 34 minutes to swim from Cape Gris-Nez in France to Kingsdown in Kent. 

Although her Channel crossing was enthusiastically celebrated at the time, it is now largely forgotten, so this new film will provide some richy deserved publicity for what was a truly magnificent achievement.