Strays

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

Why should kids get all the talking-dog movies?! In this outrageous adult comedy, Will Ferrell (Barbie) voices Reggie, a Border terrier abandoned by his vindictive owner, who teams up with a group of street dogs – Bug (Jamie Foxx, Horrible Bosses), Maggie (Isla Fisher, Wedding Crashers) and Hunter (Randall Park, Always Be My Maybe) – to avenge his mistreatment. There are scrapes galore as the mutts embark on their quest (if you’re sentimental about rabbits, get ready to cover your eyes) and bond over the challenges they face. The kind of film that never met a genitalia-based joke it didn’t like, this is crude and raucous yet big-hearted.

The Lesson

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

Aspiring author Liam (Daryl McCormack, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande) thinks his dreams have come true when he scores a job tutoring the son of revered novelist JM Sinclair (Richard E Grant, Saltburn). But the lessons he provides are not the only things being learned as Liam gets uncomfortably close to the family. There’s more than a hint of the Oscar-winning Parasite in this smart and unsettling British thriller, with a screenplay by teacher-turned-comedian-turned-scriptwriter Alex MacKeith and directed with style by Alice Troughton (Boat Story) in her feature debut.

The Starling Girl

Available from Sunday 28 April in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Jem (Eliza Scanlen, Little Women) is a teenage girl growing up in a strict religious community. When she discovers a love of music and dance, she begins to chafe at her parents’ repressive rules and embarks on a risky journey – but as she tries to keep her own secrets, others emerge that shock her, and she starts to see a way out. Absorbing and atmospheric, this is a compelling coming-of-age tale from first-time writer/director Laurel Parmet.

The Equalizer 3

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

The Equalizer 2 was the first sequel Denzel Washington had ever made, and it turns out he still wasn’t finished equalizing! After seeing off a cadre of hoodlums in Sicily, an injured Robert McCall (Washington) is cared for by a small community on the Amalfi Coast. When he discovers they’re being intimidated by the local criminals known as the Camorra, McCall realises it’s time to take matters into his own hands again… It’s explosive vigilante action all the way in this stylish thriller from Antoine Fuqua, who directed Washington to an Oscar in Training Day.

Out Of Darkness

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

A group of Stone Age humans reaches the shores of a new land: it’s a raw and desolate landscape, but they hope it will provide a new home. To find safety, they strike out across the wasteland towards the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, they realise they are not alone… This tense, unusual and visually striking horror movie is the feature debut of British TV director Andrew Cumming (Payback, River City).

Monolith

Available from Sunday 5 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Looing for a film to mess with your head? Try this mindbending, low-budget Australian sci-fi drama. A disgraced journalist (Lily Sullivan) tries to rebuild her life and career with a podcast about a conspiracy theory focusing on strange black bricks, whose appearances have been reported by several people. But her investigation leads her in circles, and she’s forced to confront her own role in the bricks’ story. A creepy and gripping tale.

Force Of Nature: The Dry 2

Available from Friday 10 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

In the sequel to the tense Aussie thriller from 2020, Eric Bana (Dirty John) returns as federal agent Aaron Falk with a new case to investigate. After he interviews Alice Russell (Anna Torv, The Newsreader) about a possible money-laundering scheme, she goes missing during a hike – a turn of events that gives Falk unwelcome flashbacks to his own past – and her companions all have very different ideas about what happened. Another cleverly plotted, moody mystery, like a Nordic noir transplanted Down Under, this is another gripping instalment in the series based on Jane Harper’s novels. 

The Blackening

Available from Friday 17 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

In the subversive tradition of Scream comes comedy horrorThe Blackening, from writers Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip) and Dewayne Perkins (who also stars) and director Tim Story (Ride Along). A group of Black people find themselves in a creepy cabin in the woods and have to escape not only from the masked psycho toying with them but also from every race-based cliché of every slasher film ever made. It all revolves around a macabre board game called The Blackening, which forces them to confront the ultimate question: who is the most Black? It’s smart, unfiltered, bloody and very, very funny.

Blue Beetle

Available from Friday 24 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 12

It’s fair to say Blue Beetle isn’t among the best-known DC comic-book heroes – but that doesn’t stop this action flick from being rollicking good fun. Jaime (Xolo Maridueña) gets more than he bargained for when his boss’s daughter entrusts him with an artefact called the Scarab, which turns out to be a sentient weapon that fuses with its host’s body and turns them into a superhero. Of course! Before Jaime knows it, he’s caught up in an age-old conflict involving mystical powers, an entity known as Khaji-Dia and his employer, the mysterious Kord Industries. Hugely entertaining fare.

The Exorcist: Believer

Available from Friday 31 May in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 15

Widower Victor (Leslie Odom Jr, One Night In Miami) is beside himself when his daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) goes missing – but when she returns, things aren’t much better as a distressing chain of events is set in motion. Desperate, he recruits Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn, reprising her role from The Exorcist) who, though estranged from her formerly bedevilled daughter, has become an expert in demonic possession. Will a grim exorcism save their souls, or will it simply tear the family apart? You’ll be gripped by this disturbing sequel – and keep your eyes peeled for the original Exorcist possessee, Linda Blair.

Want to know what you might’ve missed in previous months on Sky Cinema? Catch up on these premieres below...

Sky Cinema movie premieres: April 2024

• One Day As A Lion
• 10 Lives
• Rumble Through The Dark
• Megamind Vs The Doom Syndicate
• Oppenheimer
• Sumotherhood
• Spoiler Alert
• BlackBerry
• Relax, I’m From The Future
• Miranda’s Victim

Sky Cinema movie premieres: March 2024

• Ferrari
• Mavka: The Forest Song
• L’Immensità
• The Beekeeper
• The Canterville Ghost
• Breaking
• The Flash
• Jules
• Golda
• Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Sky Cinema movie premieres: February 2024

• Insidious: The Red Door
• The Bricklayer
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
• Hypnotic
• 57 Seconds
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Dangerous Waters
• Dashcam
• Asteroid City
• Knights Of The Zodiac
• Desperation Road
• Red Right Hand

Sky Cinema movie premieres: January 2024

• Arthur’s Whisky
• Fast X
• Little Bone Lodge
• The Secret Kingdom
• One More Shot
• Book Club: The Next Chapter
• A Tiger’s Journey
• No Hard Feelings
• King of Killers
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
• Jesus Revolution
• Soft & Quiet

Sky Cinema movie premieres: December 2023

• Genie
• A Thousand And One
• The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan
• Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts
• May December
• The Machine
• Elf
• Monster Trucks
• Dance First
• Shazam! Fury Of The Gods
• Mummies
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
• Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
• Allelujah
• Silent Night
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Polite Society
• Sisu

Sky Cinema movie premieres: November 2023

• Magic Mike’s Last Dance
• Section 8
• The Last Rifleman
• Big George Foreman
• She Came To Me
• Palm Trees And Power Lines
• Little Dixie
• Renfield
• Love Again
• The 12 Days Of Christmas Eve
• Violent Night
• Beau Is Afraid

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