SING STREET
Directed by: John Carney
Starring: Jack Reynor, Aidan Gillen, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Release Date: 17th March
In Dublin of the 1980s, Conor finds himself sent to a new school – the Christian Brothers’ school on Dublin’s Synge Street – after his family runs into financial trouble. While trying to impress Raphina, Connor tells her he is in a band, and finds himself having to reverse engineer one when she agrees to be in their music video.
TRADERS
Directed by: Rachael Moriarty and Peter Murphy
Starring: Killian Scott, John Bradley, Peter O’Meara, Barry keoghan
Release Date: 11th March
After the company they work for loses €14 billion overnight, Harry (Killian Scott) and Vernon (John Bradley) find themselves unemployed and desperate. Vernon, however, has a plan. Named ‘Trading’ the plan involves two consenting adults cashing in all their belongings then engaging in a winner take all fight to the death. Although Harry becomes all too good at Trading, he soon has people gearing up to take him down.
ZOOTROPOLIS
Directed by: Byron Howard and Rich Moore
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate
Release Date: 25th March
Zootropolis plays with the classical Disney idea of anthropomorphic animals; the film is set in a fantastic world where humans never happened, and animals have designed and built their own cities. The film sees a cunning fox named Nick Wilde team up with a bunny cop called Judy to race against time and solve a missing mammal case.
LONDON HAS FALLEN
Directed by: Babak Najafi
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Charlotte Riley
Release Date: 3rd March
In this sequel to ‘Olympus Has Fallen’, the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world attend the UK Prime Minister’s funeral in London, and the event is one of the most protected to ever take place. Of course, this does not stop the criminals, and when the President of the United States is threatened once more, it is up to Agent Mike Banning to save the day.
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE
Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, Mat Vairo, Cindy Hogan
Release Date: 18th March
After surviving a car accident, Michelle wakes up in a cellar, unable to remember how she got there. Although the owner of the house tells her that they are some of the few survivors of a chemical attack that decimated the earth, Michelle decides to take her chances and try to escape.
THE WITCH
Directed by: Robert Eggers
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger
Release Date: 11th March
In this horror film that terrified audiences at Sundance, and counts Elijah Wood as one of its celebrity fans, a family strikes out on their own to make a life for themselves in 17th century New England. When the family’s newborn son is kidnapped and murdered by a witch who lives in the forest near their home. This is just the start of a terrifying assault on the family by the witch, and something far more sinister.
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz, Theo James, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller
Release Date: 10th March
In the penultimate instalment of the ‘Divergent’ series, Tris and Four finally get to the other side of the fence and discover that the world beyond is nothing like what they expected it to be.
BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Amy Adams
Release Date: 25th March
Fearing what would happen if Superman was left with free reign, Batman takes on the Kryptionian, while the world not only comes to terms with the fact that heroes exist, but the fact that they need one at all. With Batman and Superman occupied with one another, a new threat to Metropolis arises in the form of Lex Luthor.
HIGH-RISE
Directed by: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Elisabeth Moss
Release Date: 18th March
In a dystopian version of the 1970s, Dr Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) moves into a new apartment in a high-rise complex. Laing soon learns that social classes play a large part of life in the building, with the architect of the project, Anthony Royal (Jeremy Irons) living on the 40th floor, his apartment complete with a huge and beautiful garden. When the power goes out on the lower floors of the high rise, order soon breaks down in the building, leading to chaos.
KUNG FU PANDA 3
Directed by: Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh
Starring: Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, J.K. Simmons
Release Date: 11th March
Master Shifu retires and passes the mantle of teacher to Po. While trying to get to grips with his tough new role, Po faces a new threat from the spirit world; spirit warrior and collector Kai.