Overboard (2018)

Rating: Full

Cast: Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria and John Hannah

Director: Rob Greenberg

Writers: Leslie Dixon, Bob Fisher and Rob Greenberg

Based on: the 1987 film

Producers: Eugenio Derbez, Bob Fisher and Benjamin Odell

Music by: Lyle Workman

Rated: PG-13 for suggestive material, partial nudity and some language

Release Date: 05/04/18

Favorite Character: Kate Sullivan

Tagline: A riches to rags story. If only he could remember it.

Quote: “Can you get me a prettier nurse?”- Leonardo Montenegro

Fun Fact: The two main characters Leonardo and Kate is the same name as the two main actors from Titanic.

Summary: A single mom gets revenge on a spoiled playboy after he gets amnesia, by convincing him that she’s her wife.

The Review: The gender swap remake seems like a WTF moment, but this gender swap works pretty well.

Paul, Apostle of Christ

Rating: Full

Cast: Jim Caviezel, Oliver Martinez, James Faulkner, Joanne Whalley and John Lynch

Director: Andrew Hyatt

Writers: T. J. Berden and Andrew Hyatt

Producers: T. J. Berden and David Zelon

Music by: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

Rated: PG-13 for some violent content and disturbing images

Release Date: 03/23/18

Favorite Character: Luke 

Tagline: Where sin abounds…Grace abounds more

Quote: “Love is the Only Way.”- Paul

Fun Fact: Jim Caviezel, the actor who played Luke in the film, had portrayed Jesus Christ in ‘The Passion of the Christ.’

Summary: A Christian seeks wisdom from Paul the Apostle before his execution while the Christian communities hides from the christian haters.

The Review: A film that gives you faith and wisdom, in a ‘Game of Thrones meet Gladiator’ way.

Rocketman

Rating: Overflowing

Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard

Director: Dexter Fletcher

Writer: Lee Hall

Producers: Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid and Matthew Vaughn

Music by: Matthew Margeson

Rated: R for language throughout, some drug use and sexual content

Release Date: 05/30/19

Favorite Character: Elton John

Tagline: Based on a true fantasy

Quote: “People don’t pay to see Reg Dwight! They pay to see ELTON JOHN!”- Elton John

Fun Facts: Taron Egerton sang an Elton John song from 2016’s animated film ‘Sing’ and he also co-starred with the singer in ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle.’

The film was going to be rated PG-13, but Elton John said he did not have a PG-13 life.

Tom Hardy was attached to play Elton John.

Taron Egerton really did SING in the film.

Summary: Rocketman tells a story of Sir Elton John in musical style.

The Review: Move over Freddy Mercury! A new hollywood music biopic is hanging loose with an extraordinary performance by Egerton as the legend (and just in time for Prime Month).

Brightburn

Brightburn

Rating: Full

Cast: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, Meredith Hagner, Gregory Alan Williams, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agree, Becky Wahlstrom and Christian Finlayson

Director: David Yarovesky

Writers: Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn

Producers: James Gunn and Kenneth Huang

Music by: Timothy Williams

Rated: R for horror violence/bloody images and language

Release Date: 05/24/19

Favorite Character: Noah McNichol

Tagline: He’s not here to save the world.

Quote: “He may look like us. He’s not like us.”- Kyle Breyer

Fun Fact: The film may have connected to James Gunn’s 2010’s comedy ‘Super’ starring Rainn Wilson.

Summary: A couple raises an alien with superpowers, but he may be more evil than they think.

The Review: If you are a huge fan of superheroes and horror genres, well, here you go.

Detective Pikachu

Rating: Half-Full

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Suki Waterhouse, Omar Chaparro, Chris Geere, Ken Watanabe and Bill Nighy

Director: Rob Letterman

Writers: Derek Connolly, Dan Hernandez, Rob Letterman, Nicole Perlman and Benji Samit

Based on: Detective Pikachu

Producers: Cale Boyter, Hidenaga Katakami, Don McGowan and Mary Parent

Music by: Henry Jackman

Rated: PG for action/peril, some rude and suggestive humor, and thematic elements

Release Date: 05/10/19

Favorite Character: Pikachu

Tagline: N/A

Quote: “I just invited someone to my apartment. I never do this, I’m not that type of Pokemon.

Fun Facts: The gangster movie playing on TV is a movie-within-a-movie ‘Angels with Filthy Souls’ from Home Alone.

Youtube trolled the viewers by saying it’s a full movie leaked on Youtube but it’s actually an hour and 45 minutes of Pikachu dancing nonstop.

There is a petition for havinG Danny Devito to voice Pikachu.

This is the highest rated video game adaptation film on Rotten Tomatoes.

Summary: A 21 year old finds a Pokemon who he believes can find his missing father.

The Review: Unless you are a Pokemon fan, you will find this a ‘another cliche detective film’ only to be filled with magnificent creatures.