https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6CjYagpHe4

What you may need to know

1. Finally! A sequel to the Citizen Kane of male stripper movies.

2. Steven Soderbergh, who did the first Mike, remains retired from directing features. That said, he shot and edited this one.

3. No McConaughey this time out, unfortunately. We still think he got his Oscar for the wrong movie.

3.  @1’05 – Andie McDowell! Cue inspired tweet.

4. @1’33 – Childish Gambino, too!

5.  Forget Jupiter Ascending (2015): Channing Tatum is using his movie star credit purposefully. He’s in the new Coen Brothers and Tarantino movies. Then he’s joining the X-Men.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: What’s wrong with being sexy?

Release date: July 3

What you may need to know.

1. We must admit. We’re pretty stoked about Fury Road [in most cinemas next week]

2. What better way to warm up than with a double-bill of the first two Mad Max films? [At selected cinemas this week]

3. We do love that ’70s Warner Brothers logo.

4. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) is notable by its absence from this weekend’s big screen presentation.

5. Yes, Mel Gibson was originally going to be in Fury Road.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: The concept of classic Max on the big screen is too good to resist.

Release Date: Cinemas across Ireland THIS WEEKEND.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdyaD2h4epY

What you may need to know:

1. Immortal witch hunter Kaulder (Vin Diesel) battles an uprising of witches in New York City.

2. A schedule conflict for this forced director Breck Eisner to drop out of Jaden Smith’s future masterpiece, The Karate Kid II (2016). Out of the frying pan…

3. You know nothing, Vin Diesel.

4. Due largely to the phenomenal success of the Fast and Furious franchise, Diesel’s aggregated box office takings currently stand at a staggering $4.5 BILLION. Cha-ching.

5. After some time off, Michael Caine returns to doing literally anything for money.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Utter pants, in all fairness.

Release Date: November 6.

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

What you may need to know:

1. The story of the Krays – the twin brothers who controlled organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s.

2. A double dose of Tom Hardy. Steady ladies.

3. Was he paid twice?

4. The Kray story was already done back in 1990, but that required the skills of two members of Spandau Ballet. And Billie Whitelaw. Morrissey loved it.

5. Tom’s been a very busy boy. He has five movies on the slate for 2015, including Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and The Revenant (2015), Alejandro González Iñárritu’s follow-up to Birdman (2014).

6. Hardy’s Elton John biopic supposedly started filming last year, but it still doesn’t have a release date or a director. I smell trouble.

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Malcovich? Malcovich.

Release Date: September 11.

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

What you may need to know.

1. Okay, so a new Woody Allen movie is a hit and miss proposition these days; we’d make a case for recent works like Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008), Midnight In Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013)

2. This one stars Joaquin Phoenix, on a roll since he returned in The Master (2012). The most interesting actor in American cinema right now? We think so.

3. That said, we wish somebody would finally release The Immigrant (2013) round these parts.

4. Also: Parker Posey. Always a pleasure.

5. 50 years ago, Woody earned a crust doing this.

6. Prognosis: It’s okay, Woody movies always have terrible trailers.

Release Date: Summer

What you may need to know:

1. A Visit to Nana and Pop-Pop’s turns weird.

2. Found footage? Heavens, how original.

3. After four stinkers in a row, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan badly needs a win.

4. In terms of having it and blowing it, Shyamalan (do doo do do doo) could give the Wachowskis a run for their money.

5. The Happening (2008) is down there with Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003). It’s hypnotically dreadful.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: I bet the mother has something to do with it.

Release Date: September 11.

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

What you may need to know:

1. Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), South Boston’s most infamous criminal turns FBI informant. Biopic directed by Scott Cooper.

2. Worst. Masterchef. Ever.

3. Contact lenses? Very Fields of the Nephilim circa 1990. Someone’s been to Asha.

4. “Funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?” If Joe Pesci wasn’t retired, he could have pulled this off in his sleep.

5. Looks like a step up from Mortdecai (2015). Mind you, what isn’t?

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Whatever. I’m still processing that Star Wars Trailer.

Release Date: September 25.

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

What you may need to know

1. Marvel have a movie out today (Age Of Ultron) that’s going to make a billion dollars. Here’s their other movie this summer.

2. You’ve probably heard about the troubled production history.

3. Joss Whedon fears Marvel may have made an error.

4. Paul Rudd tends to turn up in the strangest places.

5. Who’s the baddie? Corey Stoll, from House Of Cards, Homeland and The Strain. You may not recognise him without his terrible rug.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Better than the first trailer, although you can’t but worry about a movie where they appear to spend the whole time apologising for how silly it is.

Release Date: July

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pom9vBwmpdY

What you may need to know.

1. Steve Coogan has been trying to break the US for years. He’ll get there eventually. It’s all about TV over there these days.

2. When the movie roles he wanted weren’t coming, he wrote one for himself, and got an Oscar nomination – for screenplay.

3. Happyish was originally supposed to star Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who had already shot the pilot before he died.

4. Once In A Lifetime? Seriously?

5. Partridge aside, he’s never better than when playing himself.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: This feels like a mid-naughties life-crisis movie, possibly starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore.

Release date: April 26 (Showtime)

What you may need to know:

1. Certain factions begin to consider Superman (Henry Cavill) as a threat to mankind in the aftermath of the city-destroying events of Man of Steel (2013). Enter the Batman (Ben Affleck).

2. Affleck does look mighty impressive in the Batsuit, and the voice is a huge improvement on Christian Bale’s risible Batvoice. Lest we forget – he was da bomb in Phantoms (1998).

3. With Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Cyborg in the mix with Jessie Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor, I predict some cluttered Spider-Man 3 (2007) style shenanigans.

4. Also… Zack Snyder. Let’s face facts – Man of Steel (2013) was an unholy mess of exposition, climaxing with a blue blur throwing a grey blur through buildings for the best part of an hour.

5. And no John Williams? Huge mistake.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Holy green screen crapfest, Batman.

Release Date: March 25, 2016

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)