These Are The Best New Films To Watch
There’s a lot happening in the world of cinema right now, with rom-coms back on the scene, biopics in the pipeline and our favourite A-list stars producing some of their best work.
For those of you who love fun blockbusters, you can get stuck into Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt[profile-link]’s stuntman comedy The Fall Guy, or if you love romcoms [profile-link]Anne Hathaway’s The Idea of You. For something a bit more “out there”, Kristen Stewart[profile-link]’s thriller Love Lies Bleeding also finally releases in May. Here’s the best stuff to treat yourself to and plan ahead for:
The Fall Guy
Two stars of last year’s Barbenheimer phenomenon unite for The Fall Guy: [profile-link]Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt play a stunt man-director duo trying to ensure their new movie goes smoothly. Colt Seavers (Gosling) is one of the stunt world’s most successful names, until a serious injury onset puts him out of commission, and causing him to spurn the industry entirely. When Jody (Blunt), a camera operator given control of her directorial debut comes calling, Colt is reluctant to come back into the film fold. The production faces issues when the leading man, Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), vanishes, and Colt and Jody try to move past the fact they used to date each other. The fun action-comedy has gotten good press from critics and is a perfect fun blockbuster.
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The Idea of You
Anne Hathaway is back in the rom-com genre in The Idea of You, an Amazon Original that’s currently on a limited cinema release here in the UK. Hathaway plays a single mother and art gallery owner, Solène, whose big 40th is nearing and is looking for a new start in life. Attending a Coachella concert with her daughter Izzy (Ella Rubin), Solène bumps into Hayes Campbell (Red, White & Royal Blue star Nicholas Galitzine), the frontman of super popular boy band August Moon. The two have a spark of attraction, though Sòlene is unsure about the age difference, and they meet again when Hayes becomes interested in her art gallery. Will their blooming romance last, despite their own doubts?
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Love Lies Bleeding
One of the year’s best films so far, Love Lies Bleeding focuses on another blossoming relationship, between Lou (Kristen Stewart) and Jackie (Katy O’Brien) Lou is a manager at a gym somewhere in 80s New Mexico, and is not exactly thrilled with her job: bored of dealing with customers, tired of cleaning clogged toilets and preferring to just be left alone. This monotony is broken out of the blue when she notices a new visitor at the gym, bodybuilder Jackie, who she’s immediately attracted to. The pair start talking and soon become intimate, with Jackie preparing to enter a bodybuilding competition in Vegas. But complications arising from Lou’s father’s crime business and an escalating spree of murders mean their lives will change forever. It’s a stylish fast paced thriller that is definitely one if you love shock moments and arresting performances.
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Hoard
If you want something a bit more indie this month, then you can check out Hoard, a film exploring trauma and the bond between mother and daughter. It’s set in the 80s and 90s, and features Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn and Great Expectations actress Hayley Squires. It’s focused on Maria (Saura Lightfoot Leon), a teen girl who’s living in foster care after being separated from her mother some years before. Her mum, Cynthia (Squires) had become an obsessive hoarder trying to constantly scavenge and collect everything she possibly can and store it in her house, which she believes is for her daughter’s benefit. This way of living during her formative years has had a lasting impact on Maria into her teen years, and the film follows how it affects her modern-day relationships.
Release date: 17.05.24
Mad Max Saga Furiosa
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, one of last decade’s most acclaimed films and which made Charlize Theron’s steely-eyed Imperator Furiosa an action heroine icon. Anya Taylor-Joy plays this younger version of the character, years before she met Max, having been kidnapped from her community by a ruthless warlord. In this harsh post-apocalyptic world, Furiosa must learn to survive and attempt to escape her captivity. This won’t be easy, with the warlord Dementus (played by Chris Hemsworth) keen to keep her as his property, and you can expect a lot of thrilling, exhilarating action that’ll keep you gripped the whole way. Tom Burke (War & Peace), Lachy Hulme (Three Thousand Years of Longing) and Charlee Fraser (Anyone But You) also star.
Release date: 24.05.24
Young Woman And The Sea
Star Wars star Daisy Ridley leads this biopic story about American swimmer Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel in the mid-1920s. Billed as an “extraordinary true story”, it has a similar concept to last year’s Oscar-nominated Nyad. Ridley plays Gertrude, who had steadily trained and endured hardships to compete in the 1924 Olympics and snagging a gold medal. But then she decides that she wants to try the even harder feet of swimming 21 miles of sea from England to France, without the modern technology available to today’s endurance athletes. Also in the cast are Tilda Cobham-Hervey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Stephen Graham (Boiling Point), Christopher Eccleston (True Detective Night Country).
Release: 31.05.24