All the Movies to Watch This April
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick was originally just a surprisingly solid action film about a guy killing everyone that had anything to do with his deceased dog.
This goofy premise has expanded into an entire mythos of a mega rich assassin elite that all hang out in the “Continental Hotel”, a kind of DMZ where spilling blood on its property renders you “excommunicado”, or “absolutely f**ked” in non-assassin parlayance.
After the final events of Chapter 2, that’s where chapter 3 directly picks up. Every assassin is after Wick and it’s gonna be a blood bath. That’s ok. John likes baths.
Ian McShane and Keanu Reeves make their return, this time joined by Jerome Flynn and Halle Berry, who by the way got her part in Chapter 3 in the most John Wick way possible. She approached director Chad Stahelski about being in the next installment before there was even a script. He told EW “She said, ‘I don’t care.’ I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t even know if there’s a female [part].’ She goes, ‘I don’t care, I want to be in it, let’s party.’”
In cinemas May 16.
Godzilla: King of Monsters
It’s time for the Monsterverse to expand even more with a big version of pretty much everything crawling out from under the ground to duke it out. Godzilla is as close to a saviour as we’re going to get, so we’ll forgive a couple thousand stomped on people for some sweet CGI fights between him and a moth.
In cinemas May 30
The Hummingbird Project
A slow boil drama/thriller which is all fiction, but apes around like it’s one of those Moneyball true stories. Imagine how exciting it would be to watch a movie about high frequency trading and building a low latency internet connection. Didn’t really sell it there. Don’t go expecting Wolf Of Wall Street.
In cinemas May 23
Aladdin
Obligatory “take your girlfriend” movie. It’s a whole new world and Disney took a good hard look at its animated features and asked themselves “What’s really aged about our films? Just the 3D? Great, let’s do lots of that then.” Yes, it’s a merciless cash grab via nostalgia, but there’s all the singing and questionable uses of Will Smith you’ve ever wanted. The big blue guy isn’t half as bad as the internet thought he’d be.
In cinemas May 23
