May premieres on Sky Cinema

In need of otherworldly entertainment this spring? Then look no further than the return of everyone’s favourite green-haired ghost in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, while children and grown-ups alike can go on the adventure of a lifetime with The Wild Robot.

Elsewhere, Daisy Ridley is saving the day in action-packed thriller Cleaner, Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri contemplate the meaning of life in Omni Loop, and the scares are neverending in a double dose of horror with Speak No Evil and The Damned – plus more great premieres on Sky Cinema this month.

And if you’ve been too busy over the past few months to keep up with all the new premieres on Sky Cinema, scroll down to see our round-up of all the latest titles available in On Demand.

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Read on to find out what’s new on Sky Cinema this coming month.

Available from Friday 25 April in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Film-maker M Night Shyamalan is the master of modern psychological horror – The Sixth Sense, Split, Knock At The Cabin – and his latest proved another big hit with audiences. Josh Hartnett (Oppenheimer) stars as Cooper, who’s accompanying his daughter to a pop concert when he notices something strange about the security arrangements. It transpires the authorities are on hand to entrap a serial killer known as The Butcher. And this is not good news for Cooper. A tense cat-and-mouse game ensues in this dark and unsettling thriller.

Available from Saturday 26 April in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Ben (Jason Schwartzman, Moonrise Kingdom) is a cantor at his local temple but he’s finding it harder and harder to connect with his work, under pressure from his rabbi, congregation and family. Adrift and depressed, he’s searching for purpose when his former music teacher Carla (Carol Kane, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) re-enters his life as an adult bat mitzvah student. A warm and witty comedy that explores the complexities of belief, the power of music and the unlikely places we find connections.

Available from Sunday 27 April in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15 

Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games) gives a powerful performance as an expert surgeon who falls from grace in this medical thriller inspired by Carl Shuker’s novel. When Elizabeth Taylor (Banks) decides to allow her young colleague to take charge of a delicate surgery with catastrophic consequences, the fallout makes for tense viewing as the film explores workplace misogny and the weight that our actions can have.

Available from Friday 2 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Who are you going to call when extremists hijack an energy gala to send an anarchic message to the world? Daisy Ridley, of course! The Star Wars star is Joey Locke – a former soldier turned window cleaner who happens to be at work when the hostile activists carry out their plan to expose the company’s environmental exploitation through mass murder. At least, they would if Joey wasn’t there to spoil their plans… Clive Owen (Closer), Taz Skylar (Boiling Point), Ray Fearon (The Feud) and Rufus Jones (W1A) co-star.

Available from Saturday 3 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Five days. Multiple time loops. One all-consuming black hole. That’s the premise behind Bernardo Britto’s sci-fi drama that follows the final days of quantum physics expert Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker, RED). When Zoya is told she only has one week left to live, she travels back in time to enlist the services of gifted student Paula (Ayo Edebiri, The Bear) to help save her life. What follows is a heartfelt exploration of the meaning of life as Zoya tries to change her fate and become the person she always wanted to. 

Available from Sunday 4 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

If you loved the likes of Midsommar and The Wicker Man, you’ll love Thordur Palsson’s haunting folk horror, which has a 91% Rotten Tomatoes rating. Odessa Young (Assassination Nation) is a 19th-century widow who manages a remote Arctic fishing outpost. One fateful day, she’s forced to make a choice between ensuring that her crew doesn’t starve through the harsh winter or saving the survivors of a nearby shipwreck. What follows is a series of strange occurrences that’ll chill you to the bone. Don’t watch this one alone…

Available from Friday 9 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15 

A dream holiday quickly becomes a nightmare for the Dalton family in this twisty psychological thriller. After the Daltons meet a charming British family who invite them to stay at their beautiful countryside estate, a series of unnerving events reveal the deadly nature of their visit. James McAvoy (Atonement) gives a chilling performance as darkly calculating host Paddy.

Available in May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert U

Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther) voices a plucky robot that’s stranded on an uninhabited island in this acclaimed animation based on Peter Brown’s bestselling children’s novel. Adapted by Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders, the film tells the epic adventure of ROZZUM Unit 7134, known as “Roz”, who learns to adapt to her harsh surroundings and build relationships with the animals that call the island home. Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu and Heartstopper’s Kit Connor also feature.

Available in May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 12

The juice is loose… The sequel to Tim Burton’s 1980s cult classic is set more than three decades after the event of the first film, and it’s like no time has passed for Lydia (Winona Ryder, Stranger Things) as she finds herself still haunted by Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton, who also played Batman in Burton’s movies about the Caped Crusader). However, when her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega, Wednesday) enters the afterlife, she has no choice but to team up with the mischievous demon. Mayhem soon follows.

Available in May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 12

When 11-year-old Mildred’s mother falls into a coma, her life is turned upside down with the arrival of her estranged father, magician Strawn Wise (Elijiah Wood, The Lord Of The Rings movies). To help them bond Strawn takes Mildred on an arduous camping trip, involving a quest to find the legendary Canterbury panther for a large cash reward. Instead, they end up finding a lot more than they bargained for.

Available in May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

It was one of the darkest corruption cases in the history of the New York City Police Department. Now, you can relive the true story of the “mobster cops” that reigned over the New York City in this thrilling crime drama inspired by the lives of former detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito. Set across three decades, it’s an action-packed cat-and-mouse chase between the dirty cops working for the city’s biggest crime bosses and those trying to bring them to justice. David Arquette (Scream), Kevin Connolly (Entourage) and Jeremy Luke (Sully) star.

• Despicable Me 4

• Cuckoo

• My Penguin Friend

• Transformers One

• Greedy People

• Touch

• Smile 2

• Twisters

• The Parenting

• Maxxxine

• Black Dog

• Harold And The Purple Crayon

• Blood For Dust

• The Good Half

• Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

• AfrAId

• Skincare

• It Ends With Us

• The Wasp

• Noah’s Ark

• Sneaks

• Babes

• I’ll Be Right There

• I Saw The TV Glow

• Chuck Chuck Baby

• The Bikeriders

• Turn Me On

• Fox & Hare Save The Forest

• The Garfield Movie

• The Line

• A Place Called Silence

• Rob Peace

• The Watched

• Thelma

• Fight Or Flight

• The Fall Guy

• The Convert

• The 4.30 Movie

• Get Away

• Slingshot

• Twilight Of Warriors: Walled In

• Bad Boys: Ride Or Die

• Kill

• Parachute

• The Killer

• Timestalker

• The Last Stop In Yuma County

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

• The American Society Of Magical Negroes

• Wonka

• Sweethearts

• A Sudden Case Of Christmas

• The Night Before Christmas In Wonderland

• Abigail

• Coup!

• Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

• Kung Fu Panda 4

• A Quiet Place: Day One

• ISS

• Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point

• Superklaus

• Lee

• Ordinary Angels

• Sasquatch Sunset

• The Holdovers

• There’s Something In The Barn

• Journey To Bethlehem

• Dune: Part Two

• Widow Clicquot

• Tarot

• IF

• Girl You Know It’s True

• Thanksgiving

• Monkey Man

• Absolution

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