What you may need to know:
1. A self-sufficient loner lives off a small plot of land in a time of starvation. His existence is threatened when two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm.
2. It’s Mad Max in a field up north.
3. This is writer/director Stephen Fingleton’s debut feature. He’s up for a BAFTA. Good for him.
4. Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be Bono.
5. What happened to Mia Goth’s eyebrows?
6. Broadsheet prognosis: We’ve heard good things.
Release Date: February 12.
What you may need to know:
1. “Daddy, what was it like when you were young?”
2. “Well son, I remember when all this was Robert De Niro movies as far as the eye could see. And not turdy ones either. The Godfather II (1974), Raging Bull (1980), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Cape Fear (1991)… the man was unstoppable. Then he started doing comedies, and nothing’s been the same since.
3. “You mean, Midnight Run (1988) somehow opened a Pandora’s Box that led to De Niro strapping on a fake boob and breastfeeding a kid?”
4. “I’m afraid so Son.”
5. “Daddy… I’m sad.”
6. “Me too Son. Me too.”
Release date: January 22
What you may need to know:
1. After crashing her car, a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in a bunker guarded by a caretaker (John Goodman). He says that a nuclear attack has left the outside world uninhabitable, but she begins to have doubts.
2. This trailer came out of nowhere on Friday. It’s either a “blood relative” sequel to Cloverfield…
3. …Or a completely unrelated micro-budget project formerly called “The Cellar” for Paramount’s now defunct Insurge stable.
4. Some reshoots – written by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) – were carried out to link it to Matt Reeves’ found footage disaster movie.
5. Great use of Tommy James & Shondells, though.
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Here be Monsters (Inc.).
Release Date: March 11.
What you may need to know:
1. John Carney’s new flick. A young fella starts up a band to impress a young wan.
2. Can we forget about Once (2007), now?
3. Contrary to popular opinion, it wasn’t all bad back in the eighties. Jazz mags, Toni the exotic dancer, and cheap Doc Martens ’round the back of the Ilac. Good times.
4. Say hello to ADIFF, wave goodbye to JDIFF. Sing Street is the opening film at the newly-named Dublin Film Festival.
5. Still waiting for the Bachelors Walk box set.
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Less About A Boy, more Good Vibrations.
Release Date: March 18.
What you may need to know:
1. Following a bad tip, Kyle Budwell (Jack O’Connell) loses his life savings, and takes financial analyst Lee Gates (Gorgeous George Clooney) hostage on live TV.
2. It’s a Jodie Foster joint. Foster has directed episodes of Orange is the New Black and House of Cards after trying (and failing) to rescue Mel Gibson’s career with The Beaver (2011).
3. My millions are tied up in pork bellies and frozen orange juice, so it’s all good.
4. Although Today with Maura and Dáithí incites some dark thoughts.
5. Broadsheet prognosis: Mo Money Mo Problems.
Release Date: May 27
What you may need to know:
1. Farmer Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) leads an armed rebellion against the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Knight establishes an independent community in Mississippi with wife and former slave Rachel (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw).
2. Must. Not. Mention. McConaissance. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was a mere six years ago.
3. You know those trailers that give too much away? It’s one of those.
4. McConaughey has no fewer than four movies on the slate for 2016. Two are animated, but still. Down boy.
5. Broadsheet prognosis: Alright alright.
Release Date: May 27.
What you may need to know:
1. Paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson) go to London and check out a poltergeist.
2. The Conjuring (2013) grossed $318m worldwide and is up there with The Exorcist and The Sixth Sense as one of the most successful scary movies of all time.
3. Poltergeists were big in the 1970s, like fondue sets and Giant Haystacks. You don’t hear much about them these days.
4. Irish represent, yo. Simon Delaney and Maria Doyle Kennedy both have unspecified roles. “They’ll be eatin’ chips out of our knickers.”
5. @1:18 – lash on a bit of Lionel Richie there, will ya?
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Who ya gonna call?
Release Date: June 17.
What you may need to know:
1. 20 years after the first one, the aliens return to finish what they started. And this time they’ve installed Norton.
2. How did you get over the Christmas? Jeff Goldblum spent his hawking computers. We do love a bit of Goldblum.
3. No Big Willie this time. The Fresh Prince was too expensive.
4. Randy Quaid’s problems go beyond getting himself killed in the first one.
5. What would Trump do? Simple…Build a wall.
6. Broadsheet prognosis: “We come in peace. Now bend over.”
Release Date: June 24.
What you may need to know:
1. It’s a trailer for a trailer. That’s a thing now.
2. Eddie Redmayne is Newt Scamander, a magizoologist with a magical expanding briefcase containing dangerous creatures and their habitats. No hand baggage allowance for him.
3. This is the first of a new trilogy – a sort of Hobbit to the Potterverse’s (Pottersphere’s?) Lord of the Rings.
4. It’s J.K. Rowling’s first screenplay. Harry Potter 5-8 director David Yates returns.
5. Folks do love a bit of Potter.
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Abrakebabra (I wanna reach out and grabya).
Release Date: November 18.
What you may need to know:
1. Lest we forget, there’s another installment of a long-running sci-fi franchise in the pipeline.
2. It looks like incoming director Justin Lin (Fast and Furious) has thrown a curveball and decided to go small.
3. Co-written by Simon Pegg. “What about… MORE SCOTTY?”
4. That might be Idris Elba @0:55.
5. How many times has the Enterprise been destroyed at this stage?
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Star Trek: “Woohoo! Look at meee!” Star Wars: “Yeah, whatever.”
Release Date: July 2016.
