Secret service hero Mike Banning returns in this all-action sequel to Olympus Has Fallen, now in London for the prime minister’s funeral where he must stop a plot to assassinate world leaders in attendance while protecting president Asher from a devastating attack.
Directed by Babak Najafi and starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman among others.
Genre: Action, Thriller
UK Release: 3rd of March US Release: 3rd of March
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Hail, Caesar! (2016)
An all-star cast is assembles for this Coen Brothers golden-age Hollywood comedy revolving around a big Hollywood studio producer’s efforts to find his biggest star after he’s kidnapped under mysterious circumstances.
Directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen and starring George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson and Josh Brolin among others.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
UK Release: 4th of March US Release: 5th of February
Truth (2015)
Journalistic drama chronicling CBS producer Mary Mapes and anchor Dan Rather’s report about president George W. Bush’s questionable military service and the subsequent backlash that cost them their careers.
Directed by James Vanderbilt and starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford and Topher Grace among others.
Genre: Fact-based, Drama
UK Release: 4th of March US Release: 30th of October 2015
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The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016)
The third film in the ‘Divergent’ series sees Tris and our heroes continuing to resist the system that hunts them as they break through beyond the wall into a barren outside world where a mysterious group will protect them.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi
UK Release: 10th of March US Release: 18th of March
11th
Anomalisa (2016)
Charlie Kaufman’s Venice Film Festival prize-winning stop-motion animation comedy/drama about a motivational speaker who has ironically become socially crippled by the mundanity of his own life.
Directed by Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman and starring David Thewlis, Tom Noonan and Jennifer Jason Leigh among others.
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
UK Release: 11th of March US Release: January 2016
The Witch (2016)
A family of puritanical 17th century settlers are terrorized by dark supernatural forces in the woods of rural New England in this stark period horror from production designer turned director Robert Eggers.
Directed by Robert Eggers and starring Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie and Anya Taylor-Joy.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
UK Release: 11th of March US Release: 19th of February
18th
High-Rise (2016)
Dystopian action/drama about an isolated London society in a state-of-the-art high-rise building where a rigid hierarchy and fractured class system descends into decadence and anarchy for the residents, a commentary on class division and the corruptive nature of modern urban living.
Directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller among others.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-fi
UK Release: 18th of March US Release: N/A
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
After being saved from a serious car accident, a young woman finds herself trapped in a secure bunker with her rescuer, but her instinct to escape will expose her to a devastated outside world in this sci-fi mystery that follows from 2008’s monster disaster ‘Cloverfield’.
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr. among others.
Genre: Sci-fi, Mystery, Drama
UK Release: 18th of March US Release: 11th of March
The Boy (2015)
A young American nanny is hired by a rich British family to look after their child only to find that her new care is creepy doll, but not all is as it seems and the dark secrets of the doll and its large manor house are revealed when she fails to stick to a set of strict rules.
Directed by William Brent Bell and starring Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans and Diana Hardcastle among others.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
UK Release: 18th of March US Release: 22nd of January
25th
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
In a world reeling from the discovery of a god-like alien on Earth and its destructive repercussions, Gotham’s Dark Knight turns Kryptonian-hunter in a battle that will blind both caped crusaders to the real danger that has gathered to threaten humanity.
Directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams among others.
Genre: Comic-book, Action, Adventure, Drama
UK Release: 25th of March US Release: 25th of March
Zootopia (2016)
Disney animation studios brings us a world where people never existed, and where anthropomorphic animals walk, talk and live like modern day humans but with many of their animal traits that make for a hilarious combination in this true urban jungle.
Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Jared Bush and starring Idris Elba, Jason Bateman and J.K. Simmons among others.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
UK Release: 25th of March US Release: 4th of March
Disorder (aka Maryland) (2015)
An ex-soldier suffering from PTSD is hired to protect the family of a wealthy businessman, but as he struggles with his emotional state and a developing relationship with his new cares, his condition will determine how to deal with the developing threat only he seems to sense in this French thriller from writer/director Alice Winocour.
Directed by Alice Winocour and starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger and Paul Hamy among others.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
UK Release: 25th of March US Release: N/A
28th
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
The story of unintentional celebrity and cult British popular figure Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, an underdog amateur athlete who was Great Britain’s first ever Olympic Ski-jumper at the 1988 Calgary winter games.
Directed by Dexter Fletcher and starring Taron Egerton, Christopher Walken and Hugh Jackman among others.
Genre: Fact-based, Drama, Sport
UK Release: 28th of March US Release: 26th of February
#TriviaTuesday: A cost-cutting insect-like suit was the early design for the alien hunter in 1987's 'Predator'—unsuccessfully worn by the character's first actor Jean-Claude Van Damme—but it was ditched for a now iconic Stan Winston design at twice the price. Money well spent. pic.twitter.com/pvbTmpgUIB
#TriviaTuesday: ‘Big Kahuna Burger’ is most certainly the fictional fast food of choice in the Tarantinoverse, appearing or referenced in 'Reservoir Dogs', 'From Dusk Till Dawn', 'Death Proof', 'Four Rooms', as well as its starring turn in 1994’s 'Pulp Fiction' of course. pic.twitter.com/k3xVsbDuA6