May, and where's the weather? The day I'm formatting this article for posting its pouring down outside, perfect weather for being inside a cinema watching a film to take you away to somewhere exotic, even if it is just in your head.
There's certainly a lot to see this month, and a lot to miss, and while I don't list every release in these articles I do try and cover the most marketed films you need to miss, the films you definitely need to see, and some of the films you might not normally hear about, and May has all of them.
We know that Sam Raimi is behind a remake, reboot or re-imagining of the original Evil Dead film that will have a new cast but follow a similar storyline, just scarier, but did you know that there was also as sequel to the series in development?
I started watching the trailer for The Good Doctor starring Orlando Bloom and I have to admit I was starting to turn away immediately, I thought I was about to start watching an episode of the formulaic and contrived Grey's Anatomy. However it's not long before a little thread of something appears and it starts to grow until come the closing stages of the trailer you're hooked.
Now the first thing I need to say is that these roles haven't been cast yet but if they are, or hopefully when they are, it's going to be a stroke of genius as the two actors will be playing to some career strengths and some personal experiences as well as playing off of each other which could provide for some excellent chemistry and on screen banter.
I'm not sure if Dead Shadows sells too much of itself in the trailer but if you forgive a few effects shots as the film is currently in post production, it looks like it might be interesting and might hold people to a frightening horror science fiction story.
There's one of these previews out for The Amazing Spider-Man where you get to see an action sequence from the film followed by the already released trailer, and while these can be good and without too much argument this one certainly is, they can also reveal some potential shortcomings of the film.
Now this is how you resolve a dispute over publishing rights, let the work get released, put the profits aside, and in the meantime argue about the ownership with the eventual winner collecting the spoils, that ensures that there actually are spoils to be had and that the work doesn't just fail and build a barrier for future works.
There are way more sequels and reboots announced than the few I'm mentioning here but these are the ones that I find interesting because they have either been announced before the first film has been released or that they are just some interesting choices, even though we might have heard the rumours.
Here we go again, history repeats itself every time we see news about a Jimi Hendrix film the Hendrix estate comes out and says that they have nothing to do with it and that they can use no music in it and suddenly there goes the film, for what is a biographical film about a musical legend without the music they wrote and played?
There's an announcement about a new film that has appeared online revealing the next project of the director of The Woman in Black and the writer and director of Eden Lake is set to tackle for his next project. The film sounds like it will be a horror thriller and will look to an ancient Scottish myth, the Loch Ness Monster.
This is not only dripping in romanticised goo it's positively drowning in it, but at the same time there's an appeal to the trailer for The Odd Life of Timothy Green that gets you a little like all those wonderful overly romanticised films that just work, you know some of those Disney classics that you might not admit to liking but get a warm glow when you watch.
There are some shocking images and moments in the trailer for Excision as well as some surprising moments of who is actually starring in the film, after all when I first saw the name Traci Lords I didn't realise she'd also be backed by Malcolm McDowell, John Waters, Ray Wise, Roger Burt and led by AnnaLynne McCord, the actress I remember from the opening scene of Transporter 2 but has gone on to bigger and better things since.
The Gangster Squad is the adaptation of the as yet unreleased book by Paul Lieberman that tells the story of the Los Angeles Police Department's fight to get the organised crime gangs out of the city in the forties and fifties, a fight they obviously didn't completely win and still fight to this day, but back then it was rife.
The film has been a long time coming but word is that the Freddie Mercury biographical film is moving forward and that a director has been rumoured to be leading the race to direct the film.
I am excited for each new Ben Affleck film, after all he's delivered some fantastic films so far with Gone Baby Gone, 
