Top 20 June Movies & TV

Prometheus (1 June)

Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron

A long time before the original Alien movie, on a planet far, far away, wide-eyed archaeologist Rapace, robot Fassbender, Captain Idris Elba and the crew of the Prometheus search for the origin of mankind. Hands up who thinks it’ll end well?

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Ill Manors (6 June)

Directed by: Ben Drew
Starring: Mem Ferda, Natalie Press, Riz Ahmed

As Ben Drew's (AKA Plan B) same-named hit snarls out of radios at the moment, here's the film to back it up: Drew's pet project is a crime drama of six interlinked narratives about under-privileged urban life. Hard-hitting, in every sense.

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Casa De Mi Padre (8 June)

Directed by: Matt Piedmont
Starring: Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna

Broad Spanish-language spoof of Mexican westerns and melodramas, with Ferrell and Luna as the Alvarez brothers; scheming to save their father's ranch, and winding up in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.

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Cosmopolis (15 June)

Directed by: David Cronenberg
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand

Serious about shrugging off the teen idol, moony vamp image, Pattinson signs on for a characteristically vivid and disturbing Cronenberg odyssey, as a billionaire asset manager whose stretch-limo ride for a haircut takes a few unexpected turns.

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Fast Girls (15 June)

Directed by: Regan Hall
Starring: Rupert Graves, Bradley James, Noel Clarke

In very timely fashion comes this Brit flick about the British female 4x100m relay team, who must overcome clashes of personality, class and internal rivalry in the pursuit of group glory. Altogether now: the heat is on, the time is right...

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Rock Of Ages (15 June)

Directed by: Adam Shankman
Starring: Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise

Late 80s soft metal proved a smash hit basis for the Broadway/ West End musical, and this cinematic adaptation of the sing-along cheeserama has drawn big, big names like Cruise, Brand, Catherine Zeta Jones, Tobey Maguire... Let's rock!

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (20 June)

Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper

What the history books often fail to mention, of course, is that vampires killed the 16th US President's mother, fuelling his mission to eliminate them. Directed from a $70m budget by the visionary who made supernatural actioner Night Watch.

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Killer Joe (29 June)

Directed by: William Friedkin
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple

Exorcist director Friedkin assembles a strong cast, including Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and McConaughey (continuing his fine run of form from The Lincoln Lawyer) - the latter a quiet killer hired by Hirsch to off his evil mother.

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A Monster In Paris (4 June)

Directed by: Bibo Bergeron
Starring: Mathieu Chedid, Vanessa Paradis, Gad Elmaleh

Shark Tale director Bergeron and producer Luc Besson present this 3D CGI-animation set in Paris, 1910, and centered on a monster who lives in a garden and his love for a beautiful, young singer.

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The Muppets (5 June)

Directed by: James Bobin

Starring: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper

It's been a long wait (punctuated by most of us with annual festive viewings of Muppet Christmas Carol, of course), but after 13 years, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, the frog and all the other Muppets return to save their old theatre from destruction.

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Sherlock Holmes – Game of Shadows (12 June)

Directed by: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris

Loosely inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Final Problem, Holmes and Watson pit wits against their most feared opponent, Moriarty, and Ritchie's distinctive, actiony direction really hits its stride.

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The Descendants (18 June)

Directed by: Alexander Payne

Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller

Sideways director Alexander Payne serves up a comedy drama that’s been nominated for 5 Golden Globe Awards, with George Clooney as a Hawaiian land-owner struggling to reconnect with his young daughters after tragedy strikes.

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Brothers & Sisters (1 June)

Created by: Jon Robin Baitz
Starring: Calista Flockhart, Rob Lowe, Sally Field

If you fancy sinking into a long, soapy family drama, we've got all five seasons of Brothers and Sisters to stream. It's Emmy and Golden Globe-winning, and centred on the lives and loves of the Walker clan. Most of whom are very good-looking.

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Escape To Victory (1 June)

Directed by: John Huston
Starring: Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pelé

What’s more weird? Stallone, Pele, Caine and a load of the Ipswich football team as Allied POWs playing the German national side in Nazi-occupied Paris, or that the legendary John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) directed it? Either way – enjoy!

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Get Smart (1 June)

Directed by: Peter Segal
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin

Hugely popular the last time we ran this on LOVEFiLM Instant, Carell leads this update of 60s TV spy spoof as the hapless Maxwell Smart, CONTROL's Agent 86, battling the forces of KAOS. Hathaway is the far more competent Agent 99.

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Cell 211 (9 June)

Directed by: Daniel Monzón

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Spanish action thriller about a high-security prison overtaken by rioting inmates, and the young prison guard (Ammann) who’s trapped inside, and must pretend to be a convict to survive. Especially when befriended by the riot leader (Tosar).

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The Guard (16 June)

Directed by: John Michael McDonagh

Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong

John Michael (brother of In Bruges director Martin) McDonagh directs Cheadle as an uptight FBI agent who’s forced to team up with grumpy Irish cop Gleeson when international drug traffickers pitch up in Gleeson’s small west Ireland town.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (30 June)

Directed by: Tomas Alfredson

Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy

Although pipped to the Oscar post, Oldman is near career-best in author John Le Carre's famous Cold War thriller, as espionage veteran George Smiley - forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within the echelons of MI6.

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