‘U.S.’, ‘CAPTAIN MARVEL’ AND OTHER ‘HOLLY-HITS’ STORM THEATRES IN MARCH
Joseph Omoniyi
It seems we are going to witness a lot of long-awaited Hollywood movies march in to the theatres in the third month of the year, among which are ‘Captain Marvel’ and ‘ U.S.’.
Check out the top 25 movies to anticipate this month:
A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL
A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unsavory family secrets.
GRETA
A young woman befriends a lonely widow who’s harboring a dark and deadly agenda towards her.
SAINT JUDY
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood, and how she single-handedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women’s lives.
CLIMAX
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
THE WEDDING GUEST
A story centered on a mysterious British Muslim man (Dev Patel) on his journey across Pakistan and India.
TRANSIT
When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband: The very man he’s impersonating.
CAPTAIN MARVEL
Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.
GLORIA BELL
A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.
APOLLO 11
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.
THE KID
The story of a young boy who witnesses Billy the Kid’s encounter with Sheriff Pat Garrett.
WONDER PARK
The story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive.
FIVE FEET APART
A pair of teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.
THE MUSTANG
The story of Roman Coleman, a violent convict who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs.
CAPTIVE STATE
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, it explores the lives on both sides of the conflict: The collaborators and dissidents.
THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
THE AFTERMATH
Following World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.
U.S.
A family’s serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begin to terrorize them.
HOTEL MUMBAI
The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.
DUMBO
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
THE BEACH BUM
A rebellious stoner named Moondog (Matthew McConaughey) lives life by his own rules.
SHAZAM
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s case, by shouting out one word – “SHAZAM!” – this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam.
PET SEMATARY
Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie “Pet Sematary” located nearby. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems.
THE BEST OF ENEMIES
Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
PETERLOO
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
TEEN SPIRIT
Violet is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.