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Some months I never step in a movie theater and other months I pretty much live there. There are three movies I'm dying to see in May (Captain America: Civil War, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and X-Men: Apocalypse). It's a take-all-my-money situation. I also NEED A Court of Mist and Fury this instant. Luckily, it comes out tomorrow.

MOVIES

Captain America: Civil War

In Captain America: Civil War, one year after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, an act regulating superhuman activity fractures the Avengers into opposing factions. Tthe United Nations is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish an international governing body to monitor and police the rapidly growing superhuman population. The team is divided over the act: Tony Stark supports oversight because he feels responsible for creating Ultron, while Steve Rogers has lost faith in the government because HYDRA manipulated S.H.I.E.L.D. since its foundation. {Watch the trailer} This looks amazing! Can't wait to see it! (May 6)

Love & Friendship

Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica (Morfydd Clark) -- and herself too, naturally. {Watch the trailer} I've actually never read Lady Susan, which I'd like to change before watching this film, which looks wonderful. (May 13)

The Angry Birds Movie

Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to. Voiced by Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess, and Jason Sudeikis. {Watch the trailer} I never played the game, but I'm always up for seeing hilarious kids movies. (May 20)

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the whimsical world of Underland (this time through a Looking Glass) to find The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) in a horrible state, with that she must save her friends from Time, a creature part-clock, borrow the Chronosphere, which The Red Queen (Helena Bonham-Carter) wants also, and change the course of Underland's fate to save The Hatter. {Watch the trailer} Yay! I love these movies! Tim Burton's movies are so wonderfully weird. (May 27)

X-Men: Apocalypse

Since ancient times, the first and most powerful mutant known as "Apocalypse" has been worshipped as a god. But when Apocalypse awakens from a hibernation of thousands of years, he is disgusted to find out what the world has come to and decides to destroy humanity and build a better world. Now, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) and Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) lead a team of young X-Men to face Apocalypse and defeat him. {Watch the trailer} I love the X-Men movies since I've been watching them since I was a kid, so I'll definitely be seeing this. (May 27)

Other movies coming out:

Dark Horse (May 6)
Phantom of the Theatre (May 6)
Amerigeddon (May 13)
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (May 13)
High-Rise (May 13)
Money Monster (May 13)
Art Bastard (May 20)
Manhattan Night (May 20)
The Nice Guys (May 20)
The Ones Below (May 27)
Princess Shaw (May 27)

BOOKS & MUSIC

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas -- Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court--but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. (May 3)
The Hidden Oracle (Trials of Apollo #1) by Rick Riordan -- How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor. (May 3)
Even If The Sky Falls by Mia Garcia -- One midsummer night. Two strangers. Three rules: No real names. No baggage. No phones. A whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about discovering what it means to feel alive in the face of one of life’s greatest dangers: love. (May 10)
Everland by Wendy Spinale -- A dark take on Peter Pan. London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived are children, among them Gwen Darling and her siblings. They spend their nights scavenging and their days avoiding the ruthless Marauders. Unsure if the virus has spread past England's borders but desperate to leave, Captain Hook hunts for a cure, which he thinks can be found in one of the survivors. (May 10)
Cures For Heartbreak by Margo Rabb -- Less than two weeks after fifteen-year-old Mia Pearlman’s mother is diagnosed with cancer, she dies, leaving Mia, her older sister, and their father to face this unfathomable loss. As Mia struggles to navigate her grief, she’s also forced to examine the truth about her parents’ rocky marriage, her unexpected feelings for a guy with leukemia, and the nagging health phobias that plague her on a daily basis. (May 24)
Please Don't Tell by Laura Tims -- Joy killed Adam Gordon for what he did to her sister, Grace. At least, that’s what she thinks happened. Now Adam can’t hurt anyone ever again, and her sister can be free from the boy who harmed her. But someone else knows what Joy did, and they’re going to out her as a cold-blooded killer if she doesn’t expose the scandalous secrets bubbling just below the surface of her mundane town. (May 24)
The Last Wave (The 5th Wave #3) by Rick Yancey -- Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves or saving what makes us human. (May 24)