Every month, we’ll tell you what upcoming movies are screening in cinemas islandwide, and which are the ones that you must watch.
Overview of May’s releases
It’s a good time to be a gamer. Not only is the requisite monthly superhero movie a fantastic one (“X-Men: Apocalypse”), we’ve also got two other films based on popular games, “The Angry Birds Movie” and “Warcraft.” On the Singapore side, we’ve got our first Hollywood horror film starring Adrian Pang, “The Faith of Anna Waters,” and a comedy, “Young and Fabulous.” There’s something to look out for this month for all groups!
Equals
An illustrator named Silas lives in a futuristic utopian society where human emotions have been eradicated. Everyone lives in peace, until a new disease surfaces. Silas becomes an outcast after being infected. His co-worker Nia is also infected but hiding her condition. Together, the two have to escape in order to survive.
It’s got all the ingredients needed to be a good teen dystopia film — a good looking cast, a futuristic world, and a bleak outlook on humanity. The trailer already shows you a world where everything is sterile and follows an Apple aesthetic. But what’s more exciting than the setting is how the film will explore the concepts of emotions and equality. Is it possible to have both at the same time?
The Faith of Anna Waters
Tenacious journalist Jamie Waters travels from Seattle to Singapore to investigate the mysterious suicide of her older sister Anna. Inexplicable events at Anna’s new house and the odd behaviour of her daughter Katie lead Jamie to a string of bizarre suicides involving strange allusions to the Tower of Babel. The supernatural forces arrayed against Jamie intensify when she receives emails from the dead Anna. With the help of her sister’s former husband Sam, Jamie races to solve the mystery of Anna’s death as demonic forces attack Katie and evidence mounts of the Tower of Babel rising once again – in the form of the Internet.
Horror movies usually increase the sense of helplessness and isolation by setting it in a foreign land. But this time, that foreign land is Singapore! While the premise seems pretty simple enough, it’ll be interesting to view the film from a very different perspective — that of a local living in the foreign land shown in the film. Singapore’s depicted with an awful lot of greenery and space, so let’s hope we get to see more heartland aspects of it in “The Faith of Anna Waters.”
X-Men: Apocalypse
Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.
This is the first time we’ll be seeing Apocalypse on the big screen (well, he was in the post-credits scene of “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” but that doesn’t count) and it looks like he’ll be nigh invincible! It’s like another “Captain America: Civil War,” with two opposing groups of super-powered beings battling each other for supremacy. And did you catch that “snikt” at the end of the trailer? Yep, looks like our favourite adamantium clawed mutant will be back!
5 May
Bad Neighbours 2
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco, Chloë Grace Moretz, Carla Gallo,
Before I Wake
Genre: Horror
Stars: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Annabeth Gish, Jacob Tremblay
Finding Mr Right 2: Book of Love (北京遇上西雅图之不二情书)
Genre: Romance
Stars: Tang Wei, Wu Xiu Bo, Liu Zhihong, Paul Chun, Kara Hui
Mother’s Day
Genre: Romantic comedy
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, Shay Mitchell, Britt Robertson
Mon Roi
Genre: Romance
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Louis Garrel
Grace
Genre: Thriller
Stars: Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Napasasi Surawan, Latthgarmon Pinrojnkeerathi, Nutthasit Kotimanuswanich
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Genre: Sports biographical drama
Stars: Kevin de Paula, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Colm Meaney
6 May
Traffic
Genre: Thriller
Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sachin Khedekar
12 May
My New Sassy Girl
Genre: Romantic comedy
Stars: Cha Tae-Hyun, Victoria, Mina Fujii, Bae Seong-Woo, Choi Jin-Ho
The Family Fang
Genre: Family dramedy
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Walken, Maryann Plunkett
I Am Wrath
Genre: Action crime drama
Stars: John Travolta, Christopher Meloni, Amanda Schull, Rebecca De Mornay, Sam Trammell
The Faith of Anna Waters
Genre: Horror
Stars: Elizabeth Rice, Matthew Settle, Adina Herz, Adrian Pang
13 May
Money Monster
Genre: Action thriller
Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe
19 May
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Genre: Biographical drama
Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Kevin McNally
Elvis & Nixon
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Ashley Benson
The Nice Guys
Genre: Crime thriller
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Matt Bomer, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger
X-Men: Apocalypse
Genre: Superhero action adventure
Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, Lucas Till, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Josh Helman, Lana Condor
26 May
Equals
Genre: Science fiction drama
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, Bel Powley
The Angry Birds Movie
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Peter Dinklage
Warcraft: The Beginning
Genre: Fantasy action adventure
Stars: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell, Dominic Cooper
Young & Fabulous (最佳伙扮)
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Gurmit Singh, Henry Thia, Quan Yi Fong, Aloysius Pang, Joshua Tan, Joyce Chu, Jeffrey Xu
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