Whose fault is it? San Andreas’
Self/less: This is set in the present, but presents the futuristic notion of a dying man (Ben Kingsley) who transfers his consciousness into the body of Ryan Reynolds. (July 31)
SPIES
Spy:from Paul This Feig well-titled (Bridesmaids)comedy features Melissa McCarthy as a desk-bound CIA analyst who goes into the field. It also features Jason Statham, whom you won’t see in ... (June 5) The Transporter Refueled: Statham leaves the driving (and what acting there is) to Ed Skrein, who must take down a group of human traffickers. (June 19)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: Statham got his start in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Now Ritchie reboots the 1960s TV series, keeping the Cold War setting. (Aug. 14) Mission: Impossible —
Rogue Nation: Also known as M:I-5, this one pits Tom Cruise and his team against a crime syndicate known as, er, The Syndicate. (July 31)
Also: Good Kill (May 15), starring Ethan Hawke as a conflicted drone pilot; Survivor (June 5), with Milla Jovovich on the run from Pierce Brosnan;
Hitman: Agent 47 (Aug. 28), with Rupert Friend playing one of those Bourne-y engineered killers.
COPS AND ROBBERS
Hot Pursuit: Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara star in this romp about an inept cop trying to protect a drug dealer’s widow. (May 8)
Masterminds: An armoured-truck driver pulls off a $17-million heist. With Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson, what could go wrong?
Also: Mr. Holmes (July 24), in which an elderly Sherlock looks back at his life; Crimi
nal (Aug. 21), about a felon who receives the memories of a dead CIA agent; Regression (Aug. 28), in which a father is accused of a crime he can’t remember.
COMEDY
Preggoland: In Jacob Tierney’s latest, Sonja Bennett glows as a woman who fakes pregnancy to fit in with her friends. (May 1)
Inside Out: A Disney/Pixar animated comedy set inside the mind of a little girl who has just moved to a new home with her parents. (June 19)
Trainwreck: Oh no! A commitment-phobe (Amy Schumer) falls for a nice guy (Bill Hader). Judd Apatow directs. (July 17)
Ted 2: More unbearable language from Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane. (June 26)
Also: She’s Funny That
Way (May 1), about a Broadway director who falls for an actress; Welcome to Me (May 22), with Kristen Wiig as a lottery winner who buys her own talk show; Entourage (June 5) brings the HBO series to the big screen; Irrational Man (July 24) is Woody Allen’s latest, about a philosophy professor who falls for a student.
TERROR
San Andreas: What’s scarier than an earthquake? The biggest earthquake Hollywood special effects can dish out! Dwayne Johnson co-stars. (May 29)
Also: Poltergeist (May 22), Insidious: Chapter 3 (June
5) and Sinister 2 (Aug. 21) are pretty much what the titles say.
SPORTS
Southpaw (July 24), with Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxer in the latest from director Antoine Fuqua;
Underdogs (Aug. 14), an animated adventure based on foosball players.
DOCUMENTARIES
Going Clear (May 8) takes down Scientology; Lambert
& Stamp (May 8) is a who’s who of The Who; Banksy
Does New York (May 22) follows the artist in the Big Apple;
Saint Laurent (May 22) chronicles a decade in the life of the fashion designer; Dark
Star (June 5) takes us into H.R. Giger’s world; The Wolf
pack (June 12) is about a family of shut-ins.
MUSIC
Pitch Perfect 2 (May 15) brings more pitch; Magic Mike XXL (July 1) features more magic;
Love & Mercy (June 5) stars Paul Dano as Brian Wilson;
Ricki and the Flash (Aug. 7) has Meryl Streep playing a rock guitarist; Straight Outta
Compton (Aug.14) tells the story of 1980s hip-hop group N.W.A.
AND ALSO ...
Ride (May 1), starring and directed by Helen Hunt; Adult
Beginners (May 8), about a disgraced entrepreneur forced to move in with his sister;
Maggie (May 8), the world’s first family-drama zombie horror; Dancing Arabs (May 15), about a Palestinian in an elite Israeli boarding school; Aloha (May 29), a Cameron Crowe comedy-drama with Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper;
Aloft (June 5), about a mother finding the son she once abandoned; Me and Earl and
the Dying Girl (June 12), a.k.a. love in the time of cancer; Paper Towns (June 12), in which a young man must find his missing crush; Infi
nitely Polar Bear (July 3), with Mark Ruffalo as a manicdepressive dad with two manic-manic daughters; Pan (July 24), Peter Pan’s backstory; The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Aug. 7), in which a teen in the ’70s falls for her mom’s boyfriend; The New Girlfriend (Aug. 21), a French drama from François Ozon; and Grandma (Aug. 21), with Lily Tomlin in the title role.