In Cinemas and Theaters This Month
28 Years Later
Twenty-three real-time years after 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland return to a post-rage-virus world, and yep, everything’s still pretty bad. The trailer absolutely ruled – but will decades of similarly grim zombie-adjacent programming like The Walking Dead and The Last of Us dampen its impact?
In theatres June 20
Elio
Hey, did you know there’s a new Pixar movie coming out? It’s unclear if even Pixar is aware, given how little we’ve heard about it. In any case, it’s about an alien-obsessed kid who gets his wish to be sucked up into a UFO, going on a journey that presumably teaches him to better appreciate his life on Earth.
In theatres June 20
F1: The Movie
Brad Pitt goes vroom as a prematurely retired Formula 1 driver returning to the track to mentor a young prodigy. If that sounds a lot like ‘Top Gun: Maverick with cars’, well, director Joseph Kosinski did that movie, too, and that one turned out pretty well.
In theatres June 27
Hot Milk
Not the most appetising title for a mid-summer release, and the plot ain’t exactly fun in the sun, either: a daughter (Sex Education’s Emma Mackey) and mother (the great Fiona Shaw) travel to the Spanish coast in search of a miracle cure for the latter’s illness. But the arthouse deserves summer movies, too, and debuting director Rebecca Lenkiewicz comes with impeccable credentials as a celebrated playwright.
In theatres June 27
M3GAN 2.0
From the moment she TikTok danced into our social media timelines in early 2023, it was clear there’d be many more homicidal android babysitter movies to come. The sequel looks to take the Terminator 2 route, as everyone’s favourite glammed-up killing machine is resurrected to take on an even greater evil. Maybe they should’ve called it Judgment Slay?
In theatres June 27
Jurassic World Rebirth
Humans are just never going to figure out this dinosaur problem, are we? Well, if the franchise is going to continue, at least it’s getting an injection of fresh star power. Scarlett Johansson is a government agent escorting scientists Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey on a secret mission to a remote island to recover dino DNA. Presumably, things don’t go smoothly.
In theatres July 2
