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

28 YEARS LATER CERT 15 (126 mins)
Released Fri 20 June
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Alfie Williams, Jack O’Connell, Emma Laird 
Directed by Danny Boyle

The huge success of 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later ensured that a third film in the post-apocalyptic horror series was always a possibility... And now, here it is - 18 years after its predecessor! 

Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle reunites with Oscar-nominated writer Alex Garland to present this ‘terrifying new “auteur horror” story’. 

It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory. Although  an enforced quarantine remains ruthlessly enforced, some people have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission to the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well...  

FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA CERT 15 (125 mins)
Released Sat 7 June
Starring Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Anjelica Huston, Norman Reedus
Directed by Len Wiseman

Why put a successful franchise down, just because you’ve (seemingly) killed off its main character?
And the John Wick franchise is certainly a successful one - its four films have earned a collective gross of more than $1billion worldwide.

This latest installment takes place between the events of John Wick chapters three and four and is significantly different from its predecessors. Instead of all eyes being on Keanu Reeves’ titular assassin - who, it would seem, met his end in the previous film - they are instead focused on the character of Eve Macarro, a feisty ballerina who, training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma, is determined to exact revenge for her father's death.

“She lost her father at a young age, and she doesn't really know what happened,” explained Keanu Reeves at Brazil’s CCXP a couple of years back, while promoting John Wick Chapter 4. “[She only knows] that someone came into the house and killed her father, who had a tattoo. And as we know, in John Wick, if you have a tattoo, something's going on.” 

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON CERT PG (116 mins)
Released Fri 13 June
Starring Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James
Directed by Dean DeBois

British author Cressida Cowell’s much-loved book series first found its way onto cinema screens - courtesy of DreamWorks Animation - in 2010. The movie earned pretty much universal acclaim, so not surprisingly, a sequel was made. Then another. 

Now, three-time Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Dean DeBlois, the creative visionary behind the trilogy, is helming this live-action reimagining of the film that launched the franchise.

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart. The overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast, he defies centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. As an ancient threat emerges, the two new pals find themselves needing to navigate the delicate path toward peace, in the process redefining what it means to be a hero and a leader... 

ELIO CERT PG (90 mins)
Released Fri 20 June
With the voices of Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, Brad Garrett, Jameela Jamil, Shirley Henderson
Directed by Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi

For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers... 
In Elio - Disney and Pixar’s all-new cosmic misadventure - the universe calls back! 
A space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession, 11-year-old Elio Solis is beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organisation comprising representatives from galaxies far and wide. 
Mistakenly identified as Earth’s leader, he soon finds himself not only forming new alliances with eccentric alien lifeforms, but also needing to navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions... 

The stakes are surprisingly high for this latest animated offering from Pixar, with the studio having experienced more than a few cinematic stumbles in recent years. 

F1 CERT tbc
Released Wed 25 June
Starring Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles
Directed by Joseph Kosinski

Lewis Hamilton's production company, Dawn Apollo Films, is a co-producer of this highly anticipated new movie from the creatives behind Top Gun: Maverick. 

The film sees Brad Pitt starring as a former driver who makes a return to Formula 1 for the struggling Apex Grand Prix (APXGP), a fictional team on the grid. 

The feature has been shot during actual Grand Prix weekends - and according to its producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton has played a key role in ensuring the film is as realistic as possible. “The most important thing is that you tell a great story and an emotional story,”

Bruckheimer told Deadline. “That’s always the priority. But going back to the first conversations with Lewis, he said that there has yet to be a film that really captures what it’s like to be in a Formula 1 car. So that’s been a goal - to put the audience in one of these incredible machines.”

M3GAN 2.0 CERT PG (90 mins)
Released Fri 27 June
Starring Violet McGraw, Alison Williams, Jemaine Clement, Ivanna Sakhno, Brian Jordan Alvarez and the voice of Jenna Davis
Directed by Gerard Johnstone

A sequel movie about artificially intelligent killer doll M3GAN (pronounced Megan) was inevitable, such was the success of the original sci-fi horror film a couple of years back. 

In the time since M3GAN went rogue and embarked on a murderous rampage, its creator, Gemma, has become an advocate for government oversight of AI. But a new threat lurks; a defence contractor has created a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, the ultimate infiltration spy. Problem is, as Amelia’s self-awareness increases, it becomes less and less interested in taking orders. 

Hoping to stop the new creation in its tracks, Gemma decides to resurrect M3GAN - not only making it stronger and faster than before, but even more lethal...