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Detective Pikachu

Rejoice, nerds: it's the first live action-ish Pokémon movie!

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National Theatre Encore: All My Sons

Sally Field and Bill Pullman star in a revival of Arthur Miller's tragedy

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Thunder Road + Director Q&A

Award-winning, low-budget tragicomedy about a Texas cop having a mental breakdown

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

Preview of a documentary telling the extraordinary story of the turn-of-the-millennium hit

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The Ponds + Swimming talks and exhibition

Gentle documentary about the bathing ponds of Hampstead Heath and the people who use them

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New Film Releases: May 10-16 2019

Detective Pikachu (released in 2D and 3D, obviously) is this week’s big release. If you find yourself able to contain your excitement at the prospect of the first live-action Pokémon flick, other new films include High Life, Claire Denis’s foray into science fiction with RPatz; The Hustle, a gender-swap remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; and the vintage Aretha Franklin performance Amazing Grace, which she fought tooth and nail to suppress while she was alive.

We also have another impressive selection of event cinema, director/star Q&As and one-off screenings – plus the conclusion of the Watershed’s comprehensive Hirokazu Kore-eda season and the start of the Everyman’s Music Film Festival.

Follow the links below for more info, trailers and screening times, and go here for our comprehensive film listings.

New Releases

Film / Comedy

Detective Pikachu

Rejoice, nerds: it's the first live action-ish Pokémon movie!

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Film / Comedy

The Hustle

Gender-swap remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson

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Film / Science Fiction

High Life

Claire Denis fires Robert Pattinson into space in her first science fiction feature

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Film / Thriller

The Corrupted

Sam Clafin and Timothy Spall star in a Brit crime thriller

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Film / Documentary

Amazing Grace

Long-unreleased 1972 Aretha Franklin concert film, of which the late singer disapproved

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Film / Art House

Madeline’s Madeline

Reality and performance collide in writer-director Josephine Decker's indie arthouse head-scratcher

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Film / Comedy

Detective Pikachu 3D

Rejoice, nerds: it's the first live action-ish Pokémon movie!

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Film / Comedy

Destination Wedding

Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder star in yet another of those wedding-themed romcoms

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Film / Animation

Strike

British stop-motion animation about a mole who wants to be a footballer

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Event Cinema

Film / Event Cinema

National Theatre Encore: All My Sons

Sally Field and Bill Pullman star in a revival of Arthur Miller's tragedy

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Film / Documentary

Seaside Cinema: Against the Tides + Q&A with Beth French

Documentary about a woman who set out to complete the world's most extreme swimming challenge

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Film / Comedy

Thunder Road + Director Q&A

Award-winning, low-budget tragicomedy about a Texas cop having a mental breakdown

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Film / Ballet

Royal Ballet: Triple Bill

Two recent works and one world premiere from leading contemporary choreographers

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Film / Documentary

The Ponds + Swimming talks and exhibition

Gentle documentary about the bathing ponds of Hampstead Heath and the people who use them

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Film / Event Cinema

Metropolitan Opera Live: Dialogues des Carmélites

A revival of the John Dexter production of Poulenc’s tale of faith and martyrdom

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Film / Documentary

Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

New documentary exploring the singer's life and work over five decades

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Previews and One-Off Screenings

Film / Action

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

Pooch-loving hitman Keanu Reeves returns for an action threequel

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Film / Drama

Beyond the River

True-life sports drama about a multiracial duo who undertake a gruelling canoe marathon

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Film / Documentary

A Deal with the Universe

An autobiographical transgender pregnancy documentary

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Film / Drama

The Godfather

The first part of Coppola's gangster trilogy makes a welcome return to the big screen

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Film / Art House

Solaris

Tarkovsky's 1972 science fiction epic

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Film / Action

The Big Gundown

Lee Van Cleef's rarely screened spaghetti western follow-up to For a Few Dollars More

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Hirokazu Kore-eda season

Film / Art House

Nobody Knows

Hirokazu Kore-eda's child abandonment drama, based on a true story

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Film / Art House

Our Little Sister

Hirokazu Kore-eda's unhurried and perceptive family drama

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Film / Art House

Shoplifters

Hirokazu Kore-eda's superbly crafted portrait of a Tokyo underclass family

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Everyman Music Film Festival

Film / Documentary

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Preview of a documentary telling the extraordinary story of the turn-of-the-millennium hit

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Film / Documentary

Reeps One Presents: We Speak Music Live & Q&A

Six short docs about "the unstudied and emerging areas of voice and communication beyond speaking"

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Still Going Strong

Film / Action

Avengers: Endgame

Fourth film in Marvel's money-spinning superhero pile-up franchise

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Film / Comedy

Eighth Grade

Bo Burnham updates the teen anxiety flick for the vlogging era

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Film / Comedy

Long Shot

Seth Rogan and Charlize Theron star in a male wish-fulfilment romcom

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Film / Horror

The Curse of La Llorona

Blubbin' spook menaces social worker and nippers in this sixth Conjuring Universe horror

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Film / Drama

Tolkien

Disney-distributed formative years biopic of Mr. Lord of the Rings

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Film / Art House

Woman At War

Quirky Icelandic drama about an eco-activist waging a one-woman campaign against an aluminium plant

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Film / Family

Dumbo

Big-eared heffalump is latest recipient of Disney live-action treatment in Tim Burton makeover

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Film / Animation

Wonder Park

Family animation about a little girl who dreams up a fantastical amusement park

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Film / Drama

Red Joan

Judi Dench plays an old biddy who's charged with treason in Trevor Nunn's fact-based drama

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Film / Action

Captain Marvel

Brie Larson gets to wear the costume in Marvel's very first female-driven superhero movie

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Film / Action

Shazam!

DC flick about a kid who transforms himself into an adult superhero

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Film / Drama

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Zac Efron stars in a biopic of serial killer Ted Bundy

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Film / Comedy

A Dog’s Journey

The third mutt flick to be adapted from books by pooch-fiction king W. Bruce Cameron

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Film / Animation

Missing Link

An explorer tracks down a mythical beast in the fifth film from stop-motion animation studio Laika

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Film / Science Fiction

Blade Runner – The Final Cut

Ridley Scott's definitive version of his classic sci fi returns to the big screen

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Film / Horror

Summer Courtyard Cinema Club: Interview with the Vampire

Neil Jordan's adaptation of Anne Rice's gothic vampire yarn

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Film / Event Cinema

Cables & Cameras: The Conversation

An all-day feast of screenings, talks and workshops for BAME filmmakers

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Film / Art House

Sunset + director Q&A

László Nemes follows Son of Saul with an atmospheric Hungarian mystery drama, set in 1913

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Film / Documentary

Freedom Fields + director Q&A

Documentary following a Libyan women's football team over five tumultuous years

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Film / Comedy

Diamantino

An enjoyably bizarre queer sci-fi fantasy with lashings of Brexit satire

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Film / Drama

Full Metal Jacket

Kubrick's cracking 1987 'nam flick with shouty drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey

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Film / Comedy

Mid90s + live hip hop jam and skate exhibition

Jonah Hill's directorial debut: a coming-of-age drama set in - you guessed it - the mid-90s

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Film / Drama

Adventure Cinema: Bohemian Rhapsody

Outdoor screening of the ever-popular, Oscar-winning Queen flick

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