Are you looking forward to a monumental year of movies? Need to catch up on all the latest trailers? We've got them for you right here, including fresh glimpses of some family-friendly gems.
Kung Fu Panda 4 (released March 28th)
The world's most unlikely martial arts master is back for his fourth round of high-kicking animated adventure. Jack Black's endearing panda Po may have discovered the Way (spiritually speaking), but how well does he truly know himself?
To find out, he embarks on a sweeping journey beyond the kingdom where he encounters Viola Davis' new villain Chameleon. True to her name, she can transform into anything she wants – cue the re-appearance of Po's dreaded nemesis Tail Lung (Ian McShane) the snow leopard, who gave our hero the run-around in the very first movie.
That should get the Kung Fu Panda nostalgics on board, and the animated visuals look as gorgeous as ever. We don't get to see much of The Furious Five in this new trailer but there are brand new characters featuring voiced by Awkwafina and recent Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan.
All in all, plenty of reasons to celebrate Po's ongoing journey toward kung fu mastery. Check out the trailer below.
IF (released May 24th)
John Krasinski scared up a storm with his two A Quiet Place movies. For his latest project IF, Krasinski adopts a family-friendly groove – in fact, he's said to have devised the movie specifically for his kids. Don't go expecting ferocious, sound-sensitive aliens in this one. Instead, you can expect a sweet-natured adventure about what happens when we bid farewell to our imaginary childhood friends.
That's what the title refers to: I (imaginary) F (Friends). The cast is anchored by Ryan Reynolds as the hapless dad who teams up with his daughter to unlock the magical world of the IFs, who are centrally embodied by Steve Carell's endearing purple monster. And because the concept of IFs is so vast, these invisible pals can take on a host of spectacular, and often amusing, guises.
While Reynolds brings the on-screen star power the voice cast is something to behold. Steve Carell is joined by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Sam Rockwell and Awkwafina. The movie appears to be channelling the sentimental spirit of past masters like Steven Spielberg, so can Krasinski put his stamp on the family market in the same way he did with the horror movie?
Civil War (UK release date TBC)
Author-turned-filmmaker Alex Garland is renowned for his conceptually engrossing movies. He wrote the script for Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and then won acclaim for his directorial debut Ex Machina, a chamber-piece thriller that probed the notion of consciousness within artificial intelligence.
Garland's adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's ecological sci-fi horror novel Annihilation was similarly provocative and last year's allegorical chiller Men left us with imagery that we still can't scrub from our brains. Garland's latest, Civil War, is by far his most expansive and ambitious project to date, a study of an imploding American society from within.
The director reunites with distributors A24, themselves no slouches when it comes to stimulating horror/thriller fare (The Witch; Hereditary et al), to paint a vivid battle for survival. Kirsten Dunst plays a dedicated photographer who is capturing the unfolding chaos while the cast also includes Wagner Moura, Jesse Plemons, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Nick Offerman.
This is set to be Garland's first IMAX movie, so expect the jaw-dropping devastation to resonate with even greater clarity and immersion.
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