Deadpool 2 and Solo: A Star Wars Story are just some of the blockbusters lined up in
May 2018 to try and knock the spectacular Avengers: Infinity War off its perch
But what other movies and shows should you be watching on the big screen and also on
the small screen?
Welcome my fellow explorers to Final Frontier, these are the sci-fi movies and shows that
will blow you away in May 2018
From Andrew Niccol, the director of Gattaca comes a new sci-fi movie: Anon
It’s set in a future where surveillance is ubiquitous and reaches its tendrils into
every facet of people’s lives so that everyone’s lives are fully transparent, traceable and
recorded by the authorities
This results in a world where what little criminal activity there is almost certainly
gets punished
But in trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Detective Sal Freiland, played by
Clive Owen, encounters a mysterious young woman known only as the Girl (played by Amanda
Seyfried), who has no identity, no history and is essentially invisible to the authorities
Anon hits Netflix on Fri 4 May
After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef searches to regain
his spice for life… as well as a flux capacitor
He must battle ninjas, the yakuza and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys
the world to earn the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best Lover
OK, so that’s not really the plot but if you loved 2016’s Deadpool (and who didn’t?)
then you won’t want to miss the return of the spandex-clad hero
Deadpool director Tim Miller was originally eyed to direct this sequel but left the project
over creative differences with Ryan Reynolds.
But judging from the trailers Deadpool 2 still retains that spark that made the original
such a breath of fresh air
Releasing on Netflix on the same day is the Martin Freeman starrer, Cargo
The film looks to give a different take on the zombie genre and follows a father’s
journey as he tries to protect his daughter in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies
This thriller comes with great credentials as it comes from the producers of horror hit
The Babadook
And it looks to be another hit for Netflix who hold the worldwide rights
Shot in 2016, the apocalyptic thriller Future World follows a young boy as he searches a
desert wasteland for a rumoured cure for his dying mother (played by Lucy Liu)
Along the way he gets mixed up with a warlord (played by James Franco, who also co-directed),
his robot Ash, and a druglord played by Milla Jovovich
Future World will be released in selected theatres only and on iTunes and Amazon
And the biggest release of the month is of course Solo: A Star Wars Story
Set around a decade prior to the events of A New Hope, this is the long-awaited standalone
spinoff, which follows Han Solo on his adventures within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld
Solo has been a production plagued with problems having seen the original co-directors Phil
Lord and Chris Miller fired after completing three-quarters of principal photography
Hopefully, the steady hands of Ron Howard will have righted the ship and we get the
rip-roaring adventure that one of the most iconic characters in cinema deserves.
On the small screen, we have a great new show that looks like it may be the next big genre-related
original import hit for Netflix
It’s the end of the world, again, as The Rain picks up six years after a deadly virus
has wiped out most of the world’s population
Critics are raving about the show so get set to ready, steady, binge when it launches on
Fri 4 May
Also, well worth checking out is 12 Monkeys, which returns for its third season
This show is criminally underrated, and if you haven’t watched then and you really
need to do yourself a favour and start bingeing to catch up
The excellent third season is loaded with twists and reveals
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