Ex-cop jailed for life for attack on wife, two kids which was like 'something out of a horror movie'.
Summer Movie Release Schedule 2. HOUNDS OF LOVE It’s not a tribute to the Kate Bush album of the same title, but an Australian thriller about a young woman (Ashleigh Cummings) who’s abducted by a serial- killer couple (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry). The news media in Perth have noted similarities between the plot and a real- life case.
Photo. Djimon Hounsou, left, and Charlie Hunnam, foreground, in “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.”Credit. Daniel Smith/Warner Bros. An irreverent Charlie Hunnam plays the title role; Jude Law is the pretender to Arthur’s rightful throne.
THE LAST SHAMAN A suicidal man ventures into the Amazon in search of a shaman he thinks will heal him. He also tries the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca. Documentary filmmakers follow along. Photo. Demi. Theo Rossi plays his ex- convict brother; Eva Longoria and Melissa Benoist (“Supergirl”) also star.
MERI PYAARI BINDU Has Bollywood ever made a musical about mixtape nostalgia? A writer’s- blocked author (Ayushmann Khurrana) finds his muse after listening to an old cassette. PARIS CAN WAIT Does anyone in the Coppola family not make films? Eleanor Coppola (the wife of Francis Ford Coppola) has directed before — she was one of the filmmakers behind the documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” which went behind the scenes of “Apocalypse Now.” But this is her first fiction feature, which she also wrote. Diane Lane, playing the wife of a Hollywood producer (Alec Baldwin), finds herself rejuvenated by a car trip across France. Photo. Amy Schumer, left, and Goldie Hawn in “Snatched.”Credit.
Justina Mintz/2. 0th Century Fox SNATCHED Pairing Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer in the same comedy is one of those brilliant comic ideas that just needed to happen. They play a bickering mother and daughter who bond after being kidnapped on a tropical vacation. The screenwriter Katie Dippold (“The Heat”) supplied the banter; Jonathan Levine (“5. STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE The work of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig has inspired many movies (including “Letter From an Unknown Woman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel”). So maybe it was inevitable that he would get a biopic of his own.
This film, by Maria Schrader, focuses on the years 1. Zweig (Josef Hader) lived in exile overseas. TRACKTOWN In case you thought world- class athletes were insufficiently talented, Alexi Pappas, an American- born runner who represented Greece at the 2. Olympics, wrote and stars in this story of a long- distance runner who falls for a boy at the bakery while she is sidelined with an injury. She also directs, with Jeremy Teicher.
URBAN HYMN Taking the riots that swept Britain in 2. Letitia Wright) who is coaxed out of her shell by a social worker (Shirley Henderson) at her group home and encouraged to fulfill her talent for singing. Michael Caton- Jones (“Rob Roy”) directs. THE WALL In Iraq, two American soldiers (Aaron Taylor- Johnson and John Cena) are trapped by an Iraqi sniper. Behind a crumbling wall, Mr. Taylor- Johnson maintains radio contact with the man who almost — almost — has him in his sights. We’ll soon find out whether Doug Liman, the director of “The Bourne Identity” and “Edge of Tomorrow,” is capable of drawing out suspense on a tighter scale.
Photo. Noa Koler in “The Wedding Plan.”Credit. Roadside Attractions THE WEDDING PLAN The ultra- Orthodox filmmaker Rama Burshtein made one of the more intriguing recent splashes on the festival circuit with “Fill the Void” (2. Jewish take on Jane Austen themes. In “The Wedding Plan,” called “Through the Wall” at festivals, a 3.
Noa Koler) pre- emptively plans a wedding, giving herself a three- week deadline to find a husband. WHISKY GALORE! In this remake of Alexander Mackendrick’s 1. Ealing Studios comedy, the wartime residents of a Scottish island that has run out of whisky face off with the commander (Eddie Izzard) of a ship that’s run aground, which happens to be carrying 5. May 1. 9Photo. From left, Jill, Vera and Thomas Sung in “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.”Credit. Sean Lyness/PBS ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) follows the legal travails of Abacus Federal Savings Bank, a pillar of the immigrant community in Chinatown, that was charged in 2. Bloodthirsty anamorphic- melon- headed aliens!
Katherine Waterston in a very strange hairdo! Ridley Scott again revisits the franchise that may be his most lasting legacy, with an entry set sometime after the events in “Prometheus” (2.
Alien” (1. 97. 9). Along with Ms. Waterston, Billy Crudup, Amy Seimetz, Demi. Although this 1. 97. Trine Dyrholm and Ulrich Thomsen play a couple who decide to start their own group- living arrangement. DEVIL’S DOMAIN You’ve seen movies about Faustian bargains, but have you seen one about a girl (Madi Vodane) who makes a pact with the Devil (Linda Bella) to get revenge on her high school cyberbullies? DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL The wimpy kid grew up, so Hollywood found a new one.
In the fourth film based on Jeff Kinney’s popular books, Greg (now Jason Ian Drucker) goes on a family road trip. Alicia Silverstone and Tom Everett Scott, also on their first outings in the Wimpy- verse, play his parents. EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING Housebound for life because of a compromised immune system, an 1. Amandla Stenberg) falls for the boy (Nick Robinson) who moves in next door in this adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s best- selling young- adult novel. FIGHT FOR SPACE Looking back over the history of the United States space program, this documentary advocates for its vigorous future. Download Dvd Movie Furious 7 (2015) here. The interviewees include the Apollo 1.
Jim Lovell, and the astrophysicist Neil de. Grasse Tyson, who seems to violate the laws of science by being everywhere at all times.
HELL ON EARTH: THE FALL OF SYRIA AND THE RISE OF ISIS Directing jointly, the author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger and his frequent producing collaborator Nick Quested (“Restrepo”) examine the origins of the Islamic State, with a particular emphasis on the civil war in Syria — an exceedingly timely topic. ICAROS: A VISION Leonor Caraballo, who directed this movie with Matteo Norzi but died from cancer before it was complete, is said to have based it on her own experiences. It follows an American (Ana Cecilia Stieglitz) in the Peruvian Amazon as she seeks shamanic healing for an illness.
LEGION OF BROTHERS Members of two United States Special Forces teams that were among the earliest American troops sent into Afghanistan in 2. PAINT IT BLACK Alia Shawkat plays a Los Angeles woman who, after her boyfriend’s death, becomes enmeshed in a toxic, codependent relationship with the man’s mother (Janet Mc. Teer). The actress Amber Tamblyn makes her directing debut, working from the novel by Janet Fitch (“White Oleander”). THE SURVIVALIST A standout at the 2. Tribeca Film Festival, Stephen Fingleton’s debut feature is a terse portrait of life in a postapocalyptic wood.
Martin Mc. Cann is the title character, who lives alone and fends off all comers until two women (Mia Goth and Olwen Fou. Doctorow story that appeared in The New Yorker. Bryan Cranston stars as a man who, on impulse, leaves his family and moves into the attic of his garage.
Jennifer Garner plays his wife. THE WOMAN WHO LEFT Ten years ago, the Filipino director Lav Diaz was a forbidding figure, even among extreme cinephiles. At film festivals they would ask one another in hushed tones whether they really planned to see his nine- hour “Death in the Land of Encantos.” Lately, Mr. Diaz seems to have widened his appeal, earning acclaim for his Dostoyevsky- inspired “Norte, the End of History” and for this new drama, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2. At nearly four hours, it is also one of Mr. Diaz’s shortest films.
May 2. 4Photo. The ballerina Wendy Whelan in “Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan.”Credit. Got The Shot Films RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN Heavy on ballet performances, this documentary focuses on Ms. Whelan, a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet until 2.