Looking for new movies to see this month? Check out May’s biggest, best and trending movies and catch them in the theater!
May 4
1. Ghost-Danur: I Can See Them
Stars: Ghost-Danur: I Can See Them
Director: Awi Suryadi
Plot: A girl makes a wish on her 8th birthday, which is too have friends. She started laughing and playing on her own, so her mother took her away from her grandmother’s house. After 9 years, Risa and her sister, Riri, went back to the house. Unusual events started happening in the place, the Riri disappeared. Risa will try to save her sister from the evil entity who wants to take her to a different world.
2. Keep Watching
Stars: Bella Thorne, Natalie Martinez, Ioan Gruffudd
Director: Sean Carter
Plot: Imprisoned by intruders, a family is forced to play a game of Kill-or-be-Killed. The game is being streamed live to viewers all over the world who are compelled to keep watching, not knowing if the show is real or not.
3. Unlocked
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Michael Douglas
Director: Michael Apted
Plot: A CIA interrogator was persuaded into a trick that puts London at risk of a biological attack.
4. With Prisoners
Stars: Neo Yau游學修,Kelvin Kwan Chor Yiu關楚耀,Ashina Kwok郭奕芯, Raymond Chiu趙永洪,Kimi Chiu趙詠瑤
Director: Andrew Wong Kwook-Kuen
Pot: Fan, a young gang member is sentenced to 3 months at the juvenile detention center. After 3 days of abuse from the staff inside, he committed suicide. He survived the ordeal and was given a chance to see his grandmother before she dies. Fan got his right to be released in record time by submitting and embracing the guards’ abuse. But he witnessed the mysterious death of his cellmate before his release.
May 10
1. Alien Covenant
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup
Director: Ridley Scott
Plot: The crew of the colony ship covenant which is bound for another planet, discovered an unexplored place. They found out that it is a dark and dangerous world inhabited by monstrous creatures that started to hunt them.
2. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Poppy Delevingne, Annabelle Wallis
Director: Guy Ritchie
Plot: Young Arthur runs with his crew, not knowing his royal lineage until he draws the sword Excalibur from the stone. Arthur is forced to decide when to become involved with his power. He must learn to master the sword and defeat the tyrant Vortigern who killed his parents and stole his crown.
3. Mad World
Stars: 曾志伟、余文乐、金燕玲、方皓玟
Plot: When his father left, a man suffered from bipolar disorder. Since no one will take care of his mother, he was forced to look after her. But because of his mental disorder, he accidentally killed his mother, so he was admitted to a mental hospital. Then his father took him and they lived together.
4. The Mysterious Family
Stars: Ariel Lin, Kara Hui, Jiang Wu, Chen Xiao, Lan Ching-Lung
Plot: Miaomiao’s life became a lifeless backwater. She just wants to live in peace but her family was murdered before her eyes.
May 18
1. 29+1
Stars: Chrissie Chau, Joyce Cheng, BabyJohn Choi, Ben Yeung
Director: Kearen Pang
Plot: 29-year-old Christy is faced with work stress, aging parents and stagnant romance. While the 29-year-old single and unaccomplished but optimistic Joyce pursues her childhood dream. Christy and Joyce are two strangers that form an invisible connection. Then, when Christy moves into Joyce’s apartment, she started to read her journal.
2. The Circle
Stars: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane
Director: James Ponsoldt
Plot: Mae is hired to work for the world’s most powerful tech and social media company. She is encouraged by the company’s founder to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy and her personal freedom. The experiment begins to affect her friends’ and family’s lives.
3. The Shadow Effect
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michael Biehn, Cam Gigandet
Director: Obin Olson, Amariah Olson
Plot: When his violent dreams begin to mix with reality, a man’s life turned upside down.
May 25
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Stars: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin McNally, Geoffrey Rush
Director: Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Plot: Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by Armando Salazar who escaped from the Devil’s Triangle and wants to kill every pirate at sea. Jack must seek the Trident of Poseidon to defeat Salazar.