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Movies by Month - May 2014

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click here for films with release dates still to be announced (TBA)

2014: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, 2013: Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec,

Note: movie release dates change considerably, which means that some films may be released several days or weeks before or after the date in the original announcements.

Movie reviews are linked to month-by-month entries and in the movie reviews index. When we receive posters, trailers, credits or official site details we put those up on info pages awaiting review.


Due for release 1 th
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Young and Beautiful (Jeune & jolie)

A 17-year-old French girl takes up prostitution after a disappointing introduction to sex.


Due for release 1 th
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Heaven Is for Real

A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.


Due for release 1 th
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Sabotage

Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house. Gone straight to DVD in Australia.


Due for release 1 th
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Fading Gigolo

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.


Due for release 1 th
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52 Tuesdays

16 year old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.


Due for release 8 th
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Chef

Chef Carl Casper finds out about Twitter the hard way when he accidentally starts a public flame war with an influential food critic. Out of a job and with a damaged reputation he takes his ex-wife's advice and opens a food truck, which he, his young son, and a friend/sous chef takes on a road trip from Miami to LA.


Due for release 8 th
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Bad Neighbours

Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne lead the cast of Bad Neighbours, a comedy about a young couple who are forced to live next to a fraternity house after the birth of their newborn baby.
Bad Neighbours is directed by Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek).


Due for release 8 th
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Healing

At the tail end of a 16-year sentence, an inmate is sent to a low-security, pre-release prison with a special program that pairs men with injured game birds.


Due for release 8 th
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Seduced and Abandoned

Alec Baldwin and filmmaker James Toback are on a mission: to remake Bernardo Bertolucci's legendary 1972 film Last Tango in Paris by setting it in Iraq in the mid-2000s. Hobnobbing their way around Cannes, the wisecracking duo meet up with a who's who of the film industry. Opens May 8 - exclusive to Nova.


Due for release 8 th

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A Castle in Italy

A family is forced to sell their Italian home.


Due for release 15 th
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Godzilla (2014)

The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.


Due for release 15 th
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The Zero Theorem

From Terry Gilliam, the visionary director of Twelve Monkeys and Brazil, comes this imaginative, sci-fi epic. Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz stars as a reclusive computer genius working on an impossible task: discovering the purpose of human existence. Co-starring Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton. Opens May 15 - exclusive to Nova.


Due for release 22 th
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Ida

A young Polish girl, about to become a Catholic nun after being raised in an orphanage, discovers that she was once a Jewish girl named Ida.


Due for release 22 th
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X-Men: Days of Future Past

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. (source: IMDB)


Due for release 22 th
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The Babadook

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. (source: IMDB)


Due for release 22 th
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My Sweet Pepperland

The latest work from legend of Kurdish cinema, Hiner Saleem. Playful and provocative, it's also a warm, witty lampooning of the John Wayne western from a corner of the whole where the Wild West still exists. Opens May 22 - exclusive to Nova.


Due for release 29 th
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A Million Ways to Die in the West

After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.


Due for release 29 th
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Under the Skin

An alien seductress preys upon hitchhikers in Scotland.


Due for release 29 th
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Maleficent

A vindictive fairy is driven to curse an infant princess only to realize the child may be the only one who can restore peace. (source: IMDB)


Due for release 29 th
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The Trip to Italy

Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri. (source: IMDB)

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