While the school holidays start early with a number of titles released for the upcoming Easter weekend, there is still plenty of blockbuster action ahead in April.
Dwayne Johnson is back, while there’s also a big-budget partly Kiwi-shot fantasy to look forward to and probably the biggest Avengers smackdown ever seen on the big-screen. Meanwhile, on a smaller-scale, there’s also Steven Soderbergh’s new iPhone-shot horror Unsane (April 25), Johnny Depp voicing the eponymous Sherlock Gnomes (April 12) and Amy Schumer’s latest comedy I Feel Pretty (April 19)
However, having looked through the entire forward schedule for April, Stuff has come up with this quintet of must-see movies.
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A QUIET PLACE (April 5)
In A Quiet Place, Emily Blunt plays the matriarch of a family forced to live in silence.
After freaking out audiences and wowing critics at the South by Southwest Film Festival earlier this month, husband and wife duo John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s new horror film is now headed our way.
It’s the story of a family of four who must live life in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
A WRINKLE IN TIME (April 12)
Reese Witherspoon plays Mrs Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time.
Central Otago and the Mackenzie Country provided two of the many backdrops needed for this lavish adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 sci-fi novel about a girl who has to travel across time and space in order to rescue her missing scientist father.
The impressive cast includes Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Chris Pine.
RAMPAGE (April 12)
Contrary to popular rumours, Dwayne Johnson is the one trying to PREVENT the Rampage in his new movie.
Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star in this action-adventure inspired by the mega-popular 1980s arcade game.
Weta Digital provide some of the whizzy visuals.
SWEET COUNTRY (April 12)
Sam Neill stars in the new Aussie period drama Sweet Country.
Sixteen years after Dirty Deeds, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown reunite in Warwick Thornton’s already award-winning Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s.
It is the tale of an aged Aboriginal farmhand who is forced to go on the run after a shoots a white man in self-defence.
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (April 25)
The Avengers and others assemble to take on Thanos in Infinity War.
Weta Digital nab another slice of the Marvel pie, bagging some work for this latest mega-blockbuster which brings together just about ever superhero we’ve seen so far.
Everyone from Iron-Man to Groot and Thor to Ant-Man are up against Josh Brolin’s seemingly indestructible purple-menace Thanos.
– Stuff
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