Spotlight On Movies From superheroes and spies, to fairy-tales and feathers, May’s a non-stop cinema curtain call!
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller After their last battle the Avengers become divided as Captain America seeks to keep them free from political influence while defending the human race. This causes a rift between him and Iron Man who (surprisingly) wants political accountability for their actions. Will the Avengers overcome, or will civil war fracture them forever?
Adventure, Family, Fantasy When Wonderland is faced with a new enemy and our eccentric Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is in danger, Alice must enter the looking glass and step back in time, working with old friends to save him.
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi Awakening after thousands of years, Apocalypse, the world’s first mutant, threatens to destroy mankind and create a new world order. It’s up to Professor X and his team of young mutants to stop their greatest enemy yet, before it’s too late.
Stars: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Oscar Isaac
QH Fun Fact: Forever iconicized as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Alice Through The Looking Glass was Alan Rickman’s last film before he passed away in January 2016. He lends his voice to the mushroom-loving Blue Caterpillar.
QH Fun Fact: This will be Hugh Jackman’s eighth portrayal of Wolverine in the X-Men franchise, marking a new record for the most times a comic-book character has been portrayed by the same actor on-screen – talk about commitment!
Stars: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson QH Fun Fact: Actor Daniel Brühl (who plays super-villain Baron Zemo), recently joked about the movie’s epic scope, saying its budget was so huge 20 films could have been made!
SNOWDEN
Biography, Drama, Thriller Based on the tell-all book by Luke Harding, The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man, the film tells the compelling true story of CIA employee Edward Snowden who leaked thousands of classified documents to the press.
Animation, Action, Comedy It’s the app that revolutionized all others, but ever wondered why those birds are so angry? When a peaceful island of flightless birds is visited by a strange cohort of green baddies, it’s up to Red, Chuck and Bomb to figure out what they’re up to.
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Nicolas Cage
Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Peter Dinklage, Bill Hader
QH Fun Fact: Shailene Woodley was offered the lead female role of Lindsay Mills, Snowden’s longterm partner, on her 23rd birthday. Not a bad present we think!
QH Fun Fact: Since 2009, Angry Birds has been downloaded over one billion times worldwide, making the smartphone game the first cultural phenomenon of its kind!
ANGRY BIRDS
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