ON SCREEN
Anna Souroullas takes a look at the latest blockbusters, ready-to-stream films, Netflix exclusives and DVD releases
Transformers: The Last Knight
Release Date: 16th June
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci and Laura Haddock
Certificate: 12A
Originally released in 2017, Transformers: The Last Knight is the fifth instalment of the Transformer series soon to become available to be streamed on Prime Video. Optimus Prime is gone. A deadly threat from earth’s history reappears and a war between transformers and humans commences. An improbable alliance arises from the chaos in search of the key to saving the world. Will this unlikely group come out on top in this race against time?
Awake
Release Date: 9th June
Director: Aleksandr Chernyaev
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, William Forsythe, Francesca Eastwood, Mailk Yoba, James Austin Kerr and Kaye Brownlee-France
Certificate: 15
Originally released in 2019, Awake will soon be available to stream on Netflix. This is a crime thriller designed to get you thinking. Following a car accident, John Doe awakes in his hospital bed with amnesia. With no recollection of his identity, a corpse found in his car and a serial killer wreaking havoc, he escapes the confines of the hospital, to search for answers in the hope of proving his innocence. Is John Doe our killer or an innocent caught in the crossfire in the pursuit of bringing a killer to justice?
Flashback
Release Date: 8th June
Director: Christopher MacBride
Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Maika Monroe and Amanda Brugel
Certificate: 15
Originally named The Education of Fredrick Fitzell, this mystery thriller follows Fred a man approaching his thirties in the middle of an existential crisis. An unexpected encounter with a long-forgotten individual from his youth leaves Fred spiralling into his past. As he plunges into the daunting depths of his juvenile memories to ascertain the truth, past, present and future begin to converge. Which life will he choose?
