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How is it almost May 2022?

Wild, hey?

Here we are, a third of the way through the year and ticking along quite nicely.

To celebrate May’s impending arrival, the BBC compiled a list of 11 of the best films to watch next month.

Finally, we are just weeks from the release of Top Gun: Maverick following delay after delay. Yes, that made the list but we’ve covered it extensively already.

Here are four movies from the list that may have slipped under your radar.

The Innocents:

In this spine-tingling Norwegian chiller from Eskil Vogt (co-writer of the Oscar-nominated The Worst Person in the World), nine-year-old Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum) moves with her autistic big sister Anna (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad) to a high-rise estate beside a forest. She is pleased to meet two resident children, Ben (Sam Ashraf) and Aisha (Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim). But the four new friends start to develop telepathic and telekinetic powers.

The movie has been described by one critic as “the most chilling, deeply unsettling horror film so far this year”.

The film will be released on May 13 in the US and May 20 in the UK.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness:

Marvel’s latest blockbuster has the Sorcerer Supreme (Benedict Cumberbatch) venturing beyond our own universe and into countless other realities, where he and Scarlet Witch/ Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) meet various versions of themselves.

The film’s director, Sam Raimi, is best known for The Evil Dead, and the Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, so who better to put horror and superheroes into one film?

In just two and a half months, the trailer has been viewed more than 49 million times:

The blockbuster hits screens around the world on May 6.

Done with The Crown? You’ll probably enjoy Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts:

Released to coincide with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts is a documentary about the 96-year-old monarch’s 70-year reign..

Allan Hunter at Screen International [says], “It presents a wistful remembrance of seven decades of prime ministers and parades, parties and premieres, portraits painted, garden parties attended, plaques unveiled and trees planted.”

I’m sure it does while glossing over many scandals.

But hey, 70 years is nothing to be scoffed at:

You’re looking at a May 27 release date in the UK.

Let’s finish with a real trip down memory lane based on the cartoons you’d see on SABC back in the day.

Just hearing the words Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers puts the jingle in my head:

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers was a late-80s and early-90s Disney Channel series about two chipmunks who ran their own detective agency. Their speciality: cases “too small” for the police to solve. Considering how lucrative the nostalgia market is, it’s no surprise that the crime-busting chipmunks now have their own feature film on Disney+, 30 years after the series ended.

Chip and Dale are voiced by John Mulaney and Andy Samberg and there are plenty of jokes harking back to the old days to play on that nostalgic element:

They better play the intro song at least once or we riot.

See the full BBC list here.

[source:bbc]