May has another huge set of blockbusters coming to our screens, with not only a Marvel movie but a Mission Impossible potential finale hitting our big screens. Alongside that, it’s the return of the spooky series that took over the 2000s, Final Destination, as well as a walk down The Salt Path with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. If you are in the mood for something a little lighter however, the long-awaited live-action reboot of Lilo and Stich will be released later in the month on May 21.
Here are my top picks for this month’s cinema releases… you should go and see them now before it’s too late to watch them on the big screens.
Thunderbolts (May 1)
Thunderbolts are go! More ‘anti’ than ‘super’ heroes, Marve’s edgy squad are the disgraced dregs of the MCU roster, only spurred into action against the villainous void because the Avengers have gone AWOL. But after riding shotgun with Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian and the gang, you’ll laugh yourself to tears and never want to go back to being a goodie-goodie again.
Final Destination Bloodlines (May 14)
The Grim Reaper returns. The shrouded catalogue of death gave us some of horror’s most inventive kills in the era-defining Final Destination movies of the 2000s, and a full 14 years after the last installment. Final Destination Bloodlines features a twist on the familiar setup – this time, Death hunts down an entire dynasty due to its matriarch escaping his bony clutches a half-century earlier.
Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning (May 21)
This is the latest, greatest – and potentially last, if we’re taking that title literally – instalment of the series that raised the bar for action cinema into orbit. “Every choice has led to this,” says Tom Cruise of a movie that promises to bundle up all the loose threads of lore. It’d be a good call to see this movie at ODEON or IMAX.
Lilo and Stich (May 21)
Crash-landing on Earth with his creators in hot pursuit, and bunking with Maia Kealoha’s Hawaiian kid and her uptight older sister, this alien/koala/dog hybriddefines the meaning of the word carnage.. Fortunately, you don’t have to clean up after Stich, so you’ll snigger through every last shred of wanton destruction in Disney’s long-awaited live0action reboot.
The Salt Path (May 30)
Based on Raynor Winn’s 2018 autobiographical travel book, which details the 650-mile coastal walk she took with her chronically ill husband after the pair were bankrupted by a rotten investment, this is an acclaimed adaptation from director Marianne Elliott. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs play the down-but-not-out couple, and you’ll walk alongside them through storms, trials and stand-offs with angry locals during their path to redemption.