5 Exciting Movies Coming Out This May

Oh May Gosh!

This Month's 5 Must-See Movies.

British rockstars, smug serial killers, and Pikachu like we've never seen before. These 5 movies will take your May to the next level! Do you have what it takes to catch 'em all? 😉

He wants to be the very best, like no Pikachu ever was. To sleuth for clues is his real test, to find Pops is his cause!

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

 In Theatres May 10th

10-year-old Vicky would LOSE her precocious little mind over the opportunity to watch a live action crime solving Pikachu scamper across a movie theatre screen. From ages 9 to 13 I was a card-collecting, cartoon-watching, gameboy-playing Pokénerd megafan obsessed with collecting Eevees and training my Venusaur to slay my younger sister’s Charizard. Pokémon was the rainbow sprinkles scattered on the vanilla ice cream of my life.

King of raunchy comedy Ryan Reynolds voices Pikachu-- the smack-talking, coffee-addicted, baseball hat-wearing super sleuth and titular hero in Pokémon Detective Pikachu. When esteemed P.I. Harry goes missing the chatty electricity generating mouse teams up with Harry’s disenchanted son, Tim Goodman (Justice Smith, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom). The twenty-something once-aspiring Pokémon trainer and Pikachu hit the bustling, Pokémon filled, neon-bright streets of Ryme City to track down Harry’s whereabouts.

The promised snappy plot and impressive CGI is a squeeworthy sugar high of excitement for any degree of Pokénerd. From the high-def and hyper-realistic fluffy (Eevee!), furry (Jigglypuff!), and scaley (Bulbasaur!) rendering of all our favorite battling pocket monsters, to Pikachu’s witty banter, to the gym battle teased in the trailer (CHARI-FREAKIN’-ZARD people!!!) Pokémon Detective Pikachu is giving me all the nostalgia feels!

Blood smeared on a cello doesn't bode well for, um, anyone. 

The Perfection

Streaming on Netflix May 24th

Get Out star Allison Williams is back to getting all murdery in Netflix’s The Perfection. When gifted cellist Charlotte (Williams) befriends Lizzie (Logan Browning, Dear White People), another talented musician, she sets off a mind-bogglingly gruesome chain of events that neither will come out of unscathed. Lizzie, the rising star of Charlotte’s former music academy is tormented by nightmarish visions and is suddenly plagued by skin-crawling supernatural assaults.

The trailer of director Richard Shephard’s first feature-length horror film is violently grotesque with gag-worthy shots of worms squirming beneath the skin, pale meat being cleaved by knives, and a shrieking Lizzie hurling up hundreds of wriggling bugs. A piercingly shrill and sharp score stabs terror into the already sinister sequence. Considering the short and refreshingly unspoilery trailer and Netflix’s tight-lipped approach to promoting The Perfection, it looks like we’ll be in for an unpredictable wild ride. With William’s brand of sweetly smiling psycho driving The Perfection can we expect anything less?!  

How could the sun ever go down on him?! 

Rocketman

In Theatres May 31st

Goodbye yellow brick road, hello Elton John! When I first heard Elton’s vocals pouring out of my mom’s minivan car radio as a young child I pictured him as a hybrid of Ben Affleck and the red flannel wearing lumberjack on Brawny Paper Towels. Imagine my surprise when I learned he was short, squat, and wore more rhinestones, glitter, and feathers than my sister’s entire dress up collection. Definitely not a lumberjack.

Cut forward to almost 20 years later and a slew of epic trailers that are so euphoric, dazzling and thrilling that I could scream. Yes, England’s flamboyant, gap-toothed, piano prodigy, ‘70s icon, and my favorite singer growing up, is getting his own music biopic. Rocketman follows the glitter (Elton’s rise to fame), grime (his struggles with depression, booze, and drugs) and gayness (🙌🏻) of Elton's early years. The Bodyguard headliner Richard Madden, one-time King In The North (welp), stars alongside Taron Egerton's (Kingsman: The Secret Service) Elton as the Brit’s music manager slash lover John Reid.*

Egerton is electric in the trailers-- He’s a whirling dervish of passion and emotions, he’s slaying it in Elton’s glamrock stage wear, and his resemblance to the man himself is UNREAL. Rocketman looks like a brilliant follow up to last year’s Bohemian Rhapsody as it looks like!!! Bonus: we don't have to wait a long long time to see it!

For murderinos this movie might just take the cake.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile

Now Streaming on Netflix

The Ted Bundy Tapes and true crime podcasts were just the beginning.

In this upcoming biopic, Zac Efron (The Greatest Showman) plays the disarmingly handsome and charming serial killer, Ted Bundy. A staple Murderino topic, sociopathic Bundy went on a brutal five year killing spree, sadistically and violently murdering over 30 women. He escaped prison twice, arrogantly represented himself in court, and was eventually fried to a crisp in the electric chair in 1989.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile takes place during the height of the media firestorm in the 1970s and hones in on the perspective of Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins, To The Bone) Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, and later on, the one insisted on his guilt while still dating the creep.   

Kloepfer’s closeness with Bundy (they dated for over seven years!) means her point of view, as one of Bundy’s sole survivors, flips the script as we know it. After all, as Bundy himself said in one of his chilling Conversations With a Killer monologues, “Murderers do not come out in the dark with long teeth and saliva dripping off their chin...People don’t realize that there are potential killers among them.”   

Suspiria 

Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Director Luca Guadagnino’s (Call Me By Your Name) Suspiria revolves around a nightmarish German dancing troupe led by the icy and ethereal Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton, Doctor Strange) and its newest dancer, an American ballerina, Susie (Dakota Johnson, How to Be Single). 

Forget jump scares, abandoned creaky cabins in the woods, and flickering lights. Instead, there’s a quiet sort of madness that seeps out from the film trailers. The dance performance we get a glimpse of features the women mostly nude and draped in crimson red threads cascading down their bodies as they twist, twirl, and contort themselves into a frantic whirlwind of arms and legs in an almost hypnotic passion. 

Suspiria’s exquisite but unsettling trailers promise a decadently filmed, psychologically twisted art house horror that’s so elegant it’s nearly mesmerizing. Mia Goth (A Cure For Wellness) and Chloë Grace Moretz (The Miseducation of Cameron Post) also star, along with professionally trained dancers Olivia Ancona, Sara Sguotti, Anne-Lise Brevers, and Halla Thordardottir.

From giphy. 

So friends what are you most psyched for this month?!

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