Summertime is here and it’s time to take a trip (to the movies). You think you want to be outside? With some of the titles we’ve highlighted below, you’ll probably end up boxed inside that theatre like a turtle’s pecker. We recommend a sprinkling of vitamin-D drops on the popcorn, at the very least.

The Tentpole 10

Me Before You  

Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin are the beautiful young things with pretty life problems in this adaptation of the Jojo Moyes tearjerker. (June 3)

Warcraft  

Moon director Duncan Jones is behind the camera for this long-awaited adaptation of the game that swallowed a generation. Early word from some of the more distant lands of Azeroth (Indonesia, Egypt, the Valley of Mark Kermode) is surprisingly positive. (June 10)

The BFG

If you weren’t already planning to see Steven Spielberg’s (Vancouver-shot) adaptation of the Roald Dahl favourite, and we told you it starred Mark Rylance, would it help? (July 1)

The Purge: Election Year

A senator who opposes state-sanctioned violence is double-crossed by the government in this metaphor for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. (July 1)

The Legend of Tarzan

A newly civilized Lord of the Apes (Alexander Skarsgård) heads back to the jungle, which makes very good sense if you’ve been paying any attention to London’s real-estate market. (July 1)

Ghostbusters

It’s like the best joke in the original (“This man has no dick”) took root and grew into this decisively no-dick remake. Starring Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, and Kate McKinnon, like you didn’t already know. (July 15)

Star Trek Beyond

Capt. Kirk and company find themselves stranded on a distant planet, more familiar to us as Squamish. (July 22)

Jason Bourne

Matt Damon returns to the role, Jason Bourne remembers who he “truly is”, audiences try to forget Aaron Cross. (July 29)

Suicide Squad

Sad Ben Affleck is still lumbering around the expanded DC Universe in the batsuit, but this time he’s joined by Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinne and Jared Leto’s Joker. (August 5)

Ben-Hur

Jack Huston steps into Charlton Heston’s sandals and maybe even Gore Vidal’s queer subtext in this remake of the Hollywood classic. (August 19)

Weirdo freaky culty movies!

The Conjuring 2 

More ghostbusting, minus the laughs, when Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson investigate some paranormal activity in London. (June 10)

Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

This gripping doc about a trio of friends trying to finish a life-long remake of the Steven Spielberg classic is way better than any of the sequels. (June 17)

The Neon Demon

Elle Fanning decisively leaves innocence behind in the latest and, hopefully, gaudiest offering from master provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn. (June 24)

The Shallows

It’s Blake Lively versus great white shark versus waning audience interest. Still, the premise here—she’s alone and stranded less than 200 metres from shore—is pretty tight. (June 29)

Swiss Army Man

As a loudly farting corpse, Daniel Radcliffe finally scores a role worthy of his talents in this indie mindfuck. (July 1)

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in his Own Words  

There’s almost everything you wanted to know about Moon Unit’s dad in this crisp, 90-minute clip job (July 8)

Lights Out 

Producer James Wan continues his campaign to become the new William Castle with this chiller about an entity that only appears when the lights—you guessed it—are out.  (July 22)

Don’t Breathe

Like a much nastier Wait Until Dark, three thieves are outmatched by their blind victim. Director Fede Alvarez’s surprisingly good Evil Dead remake means high expectations for this one. (August 26)

Get your yuks out

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 

The Lonely Island boys had us at the title of this music biz spoof, but do you believe we’ll keep on believing for a full 90 minutes? (June 3)

Central Intelligence 

Mammoth Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and miniature Kevin Hart  try to share the same frame in Hollywood’s latest love-letter to spook-work (June 17)

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

After a quarter-century of vodka-fuelled bad behaviour, Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) finally and smearily hit the big screen. (July 22)

Sausage Party

Seth Rogen waves his 3-D wiener in your face in this dirty-filthy-nasty Pixar spoof. Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, and James Franco inevitably costar. (August 12)

War Dogs

Hangover director Todd Phillips sends two naive arms dealers into Afghanistan in the shape of Miles Teller and shapelier Jonah Hill. Based on a true story, tragically. (August 19)

A touch of class

Maggie’s Plan

Writer-director Rebecca Miller plunks Ethan Hawke, Greta Gerwig, and Julianne Moore in a wildly entertaining and very New York–y pas de trois. (June 10)

Tempest Storm  

The legendary burlesque queen (and former girlfriend of Elvis) reveals all in this tender and painfully honest doc. (June 18)

The Daughter

Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, and Fringe star Anna Torv star in this much-touted Aussie update of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck. (June 24)

Free State of Jones

Matthew McConaughey plays the Confederate army deserter Newton Knight, who founded a mixed-race community in Mississippi. (June 24)

Titans of the Ice Age 3D

Sabre-toothed cats, mammoths, and prehistoric humans compete for your attention in the latest CG spectacle to hit IMAX. (July 1)

The Innocents 

Anne Fontaine (Gemma Bovary) directs the war-era tale of a Red Cross nurse who uncovers seven pregnant nuns at a Polish convent recently ransacked by the Russian army. (July 15)

Café Society

A reteamed Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart are among the big names (Steve Carell, Blake Lively) looking the other way in Woody Allen’s latest. (July 22)

Our Little Sister

The story of three abandoned siblings who discover a fourth sister has drawn comparisons to the work of Japanese master Yasujirō Ozu. (July 22)

Angry Indian Goddesses

An impromptu bachelorette party leads to some wild nights in Goa in this barn-burning indie from India. (August 5)

Equity 

If The Big Short whet your appetite (and Money Monster didn’t dampen it), here’s a female-centric take on Wall Street crimes and misdemeanors. (August 12)

Gleason 

In 2011, New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS; this doc began as a video diary for his newly born son. (August 12)

The Infiltrator

Bryan Cranston plays the other side of the fence as the customs agent who penetrated and busted Pablo Escobar’s money-laundering operation. (August 19)

Arthouse essentials

Brian De Palma retrospective

Following the career-spanning doc De Palma (to be released June 17), the Vancity Theatre has programmed a July-long blowout of the American filmmaker’s biggest, best, and most notorious work.

Monochrome Mondays

Billed as “black & white film in the colour era”, this summerlong series of double features includes 35mm presentations of The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, and Veronika Voss. Begins at the Vancity Theatre on June 27.

Noir and more noir

Samuel Fuller’s Underworld USA is among the less worn titles in a July-August series running at the Cinematheque, although a “psychedelic noir” sidebar (Point Blank, anyone?) should add some vivid colour.

Cuba Now + Then

I Am Cuba and Memories of Underdevelopment are among the better-known titles in this two-day celebration of America’s hardiest Cold War nemesis, at the Vancity Theatre starting July 22.

Jaws/The Conversation/Apocalypse Now

The Cinematheque probably couldn’t have programmed three better films to show off its new Dolby 7.1 sound system. Dates to be announced.