If you love a great spy thriller, then coming to see Black Bag should be high on your list of priorities. Showing now at Cineworld, the latest release from Steven Soderbergh packs in everything you could possibly want from a movie: an engrossing story, edge-of-your-seat suspense and plot twists aplenty. The film stars Michael Fassbender as intelligence officer George Woodhouse, who’s ordered to investigate the leak of a top-secret software program. As if that wasn’t a difficult enough assignment, his job becomes even more complicated when one of the five suspects turns out to be his own wife, Kathryn (played by Cate Blanchett).
Critics have been raving about Black Bag, with Rolling Stone’s David Fear describing the movie as a “sexy, suspenseful and flat-out sensational riff on love and espionage” and Wall Street Journal’s Kyle Smith calling it an “electric, fast-paced thriller that amounts to one climactic scene piled atop another”. And we reckon you’ll love it, too – to buy your tickets for this awesome new movie, scroll to the bottom of the page.
Black Bag isn’t the only great thriller showing at Cineworld this spring. Here are five other suspense-packed films coming to a cinema near you in the next couple of months…
Y2K (from 21 March)
Spring is shaping up to be the season of Rachel Zegler. Not only is the West Side Story actress starring in new musical blockbuster Disney’s Snow White (also opening at Cineworld on 21 March), but she’s also appearing in comedy thriller Y2K. Set in 1999, Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut centres around a group of high-school friends who throw a party to welcome in the new millennium. Everything’s going fine until the clock strikes midnight, when all hell breaks loose… Kind of a cross between a slasher movie and an apocalyptic horror flick, Y2K promises to be great entertainment.
A Working Man (from 28 March)
Gun battles, fist fights, explosive set pieces… These are all things we’ve come to expect from a Jason Statham film, and A Working Man doesn’t disappoint. Directed by David Ayer (Fury, Suicide Squad, The Beekeeper) – and with a screenplay co-written by Sylvester Stallone – this new thriller sees the action icon playing a peaceful construction worker whose skills as a former Royal Marine are called upon when his boss’s teenage daughter is kidnapped by human traffickers. Like Taken but with an English accent, A Working Man will have you gripped from start to finish.
Restless (from 4 April)
Following our recent Unlimited Screening of the new British thriller Restless, members were full of praise for it, describing Jed Hart’s movie in such gushing terms as “thrilling”, “intense” and “edge-of-the-seat stuff”. It revolves around a lonely care-home worker (played by Lyndsey Marshal) whose banal suburban life is suddenly shattered by the arrival of a new, anti-social neighbour (Aston McAuley). While we won’t give away the entire plot, let’s just say that there’s only so many times that you can poke a hornet’s nest before you get stung…
The Amateur (from 11 April)
The second adaptation of Robert Littell’s 1981 novel, The Amateur is a fast-paced vigilante thriller in which Bohemian Rhapsody actor Rami Malek plays a CIA cryptographer who embarks on a revenge mission after his wife is killed in a terrorist attack. Only the second cinema release directed by James Hawes (the first being 2023’s One Life), and also starring screen legend Laurence Fishburne, this tense cat-and-mouse caper should offer visceral thrills galore on the big screen.
The Surfer (from 9 May)
“Don’t live here, don’t surf here” is the stern warning sounded to Nicolas Cage’s veteran boarder when he takes his teenage son to a beach he once called home. Will he back down under pressure from the increasingly deranged locals, or will he stick to his principles and stand his ground? Director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium, Nocebo) poses that very question in hotly anticipated psychological thriller The Surfer, described by First Showing as “a paranoid tale of hysteria and craziness”. With Cage delivering one of his career-best performances, this is one not to be missed.
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