Movies Opening in Cinemas On May 13
Every Tuesday Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Money Monster, The Darkness, Love & Friendship, The Lobster, High-Rise, Last Days in the Desert, Search Party, Dheepan, Kill Zone 2, Sunset Song and What We Become.
Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.
Opening in Cinemas This Week:
Money Monster (2016)
98 minutes – Crime, Drama, Thriller
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Director: Jodie Foster
Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West
The Darkness (2016)
92 minutes – Horror, Thriller
A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation, haunted by an ancient supernatural entity they unknowingly awakened and engages them in a fight for their survival.
Director: Greg McLean
Stars: Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, David Mazouz, Lucy Fry
Love & Friendship (2016)
92 minutes – Drama, Romance
Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica — and herself too, naturally.
Director: Whit Stillman
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell
The Lobster (2015)
118 minutes – Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman
High-Rise (2015)
119 minutes – Drama
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Director: Ben Wheatley
Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans
Our Review – limited release in US –International Release Dates
Last Days in the Desert (2015)
98 minutes – Adventure, Drama, History
An imagined chapter from Jesus’ forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis.
Director: Rodrigo García
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ciarán Hinds, Tye Sheridan, Ayelet Zurer
limited release in US – International Release Dates
Search Party (2014)
93 minutes – Comedy
A pair of friends embark on a mission to reunite their pal with the woman he was going to marry.
Director: Scot Armstrong
Stars: Adam Pally, T.J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Shannon Woodward
Dheepan (2015)
115 minutes – Crime, Drama
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers
Kill Zone 2 (2015)
120 minutes – Action, Crime, Thriller
Undercover cop Kit (Wu Jing) becomes a junkie in order to catch Mr Hung (Louis Koo), the mastermind behind a crime syndicate. When the operation goes sour and Kit blows his cover, his supervisor and uncle Wah (Simon Yam) decides to terminate the operation.
Director: Pou-Soi Cheang
Stars: Tony Jaa, Jing Wu, Simon Yam, Jin Zhang
Sunset Song (2015)
135 minutes – Drama
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Agyness Deyn, Mark Bonnar, Peter Mullan, Ron Donachie
What We Become (2015)
85 minutes – Horror, Thriller
A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.
Director: Bo Mikkelsen
Stars: Mille Dinesen, Troels Lyby, Marie Hammer Boda, Ole Dupont
Which of these will you be seeing? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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