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

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS - CERT 12a (126 mins)
Released Thurs 5 May
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Elizabeth Olsen, Patrick Stewart, Michael Stuhlbarg, Xochitl Gomez
Directed by Sam Raimi

Benedict Cumberbatch once again re-enters the Marvel Universe to make his sixth appearance as Master of the Mystic Arts Dr Stephen Strange. 

In this latest adventure - and with the help of mystical allies both old and new - the good doctor traverses the mindbending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary... 

The sequel to 2016’s Dr Strange, the movie is the 28th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).   

THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE - CERT tbc (105 mins)
Released Wed 11 May
Starring Earl Cave, Nick Cave, Andrew Dominik, Warren Ellis, Marianne Faithfull  
Directed by Andrew Dominik

Andrew Dominik’s new feature film was shot during the 2021 lockdown and explores the remarkable creative partnership between Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. 

Accompanied by singers and a string quartet, the pair make their way through songs from the albums Ghosteen (2019) and Carnage (2021). They are joined for part of the journey by Mick Jagger’s one-time girlfriend and muse, Marianne Faithfull (complete with oxygen tube following a challenging encounter with Covid-19). 

Dominik’s movie is the companion piece to his 2016 film, One More Time With Feeling.

FIRESTARTER - CERT tbc 
Released Fri 13 May
Starring Zac Efron, Gloria Reuben, Kurtwood Smith, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Michael Greyeyes, Sydney Lemmon    
Directed by Keith Thomas

This new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller follows the story of a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers.

For more than a decade, Charlie’s parents, Andy and Vicky, have been desperately trying to hide their daughter from a secret government agency that wants to harness her gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction.

Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as the youngster grows up, the fire becomes harder and harder to control...
This is the second time King’s 1980 novel has been adapted for the big screen; a 1984 version starred Drew Barrymore, George C Scott, Heather Locklear and Martin Sheen.

THE QUIET GIRL - CERT 12a (95 mins) 
Released Fri 13 May
Starring Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh   
Directed by Colm Bairéad

Based on Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novella, Foster, and already a major award winner - it took the grand prize in the Generation Kplus strand of the Berlin International Film Festival - The Quiet Girl is a complex and delicate coming-of-age drama that explores the subjects of family, neglect and loss through the eyes of its young protagonist.  

When nine-year-old Cáit is sent away from her dysfunctional family to spend the summer with relatives she has never met, she unexpectedly blossoms within their care. But in a home where there are meant to be no secrets, the young girl soon realises that not every subject is readily spoken about... 

THE ROAD DANCE - CERT 15 (116 mins) 
Released Fri 20 May
Starring David Brooks, Felicity Keenan, Hermione Corfield, Morven Christie, Ali Fumiko Whitney, Tom Byrne    
Directed by Richie Adams

Director Richie Adams’ critically acclaimed grim-slice-of-life period drama is a World War One love story based on the book of the same name by author John MacKay. 

Telling a story of triumph over tragedy and the realisation of dreams against all odds, the story unfolds on the remote Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, where the young and beautiful Kirsty dreams of a life in America with a local lad named Murdo, who she’s secretly courting. 

When Murdo and other young men in the rural community are conscripted, the town holds a road dance to bid them farewell. But as the event progresses, something happens to Kirsty that will change her life forever...

TOP GUN: MAVERICK - CERT 12a (131 mins) 
Released Fri 27 May
Starring Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm     
Directed by Joseph Kosinski

It’s certainly been a long time coming, but fans of Top Gun have finally got the sequel they’ve been wanting for the last 36 years. There’s no Kelly McGillis this time, but Val Kilmer does return, as of course does the main man himself, Tom Cruise, as hotshot test pilot and flight instructor Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell. 

After more than 30 years of service, Maverick is where he belongs, determinedly dodging the advancement in rank that would see him grounded. 

When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a special mission, he comes into contact not only with the son of his late friend, Lt Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw, but also with his own deepest fears...

Expect breathtaking flight sequences aplenty.

BOB'S BURGERS: THE MOVIE - CERT tbc (100 mins) 
Released Fri 27 May
With the voices of Stephanie Beatriz, Kristen Schaal, Gary Cole, Zach Galifianakis, Kevin Kline, H Jon Benjamin, Aziz Ansari     
Directed by Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman

When a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob's Burgers - blocking the entrance indefinitely and ruining the Belchers’ plans for a successful summer - Bob and Linda battle to keep the business afloat. 

The kids, meanwhile, do their level best to solve a mystery that could well save the family's restaurant... 
Bob’s Burgers is the big-screen version of the animated TV sitcom of the same title. Debuting on Fox back in 2011, the Emmy-winning show has been named one of the greatest television cartoon series of all time.

MEN - CERT tbc 
Released Fri 23 June
Starring Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Gayle Rankin, Paapa Essiedu     
Directed by Alex Garland

Fresh from her Academy Award nomination for The Lost Daughter, Jessie Buckley stars as a woman named Harper who’s on the run from a personal tragedy. 

Retreating to a holiday house in the beautiful English countryside, in the hope of emotionally healing, she soon realises that someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her... 

This feverish, shape-shifting new horror movie is helmed by visionary English filmmaker Alex Garland, who has previously directed Annihilation and the Bafta-nominated Ex Machina.