Rating: Empty

 

Cast: Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons, Charlotte Hope and Ingrid Bisu

 

Director: Corin Hardy

 

Writers: Gary Dauberman and James Wan

 

Producers: Peter Safran and James Wan

 

Music by: Abel Korzeniowski

 

Rated: R for terror, violence, and disturbing/bloody images

 

Release Date: 09/07/18

 

Favorite Character: Valak

 

Tagline: Witness the Darkest Chapter

 

Quote: “What’s the opposite of a miracle, Father?”- Frenchie

 

Fun Facts: Despite the fifth film in the Conjuring franchise, the film was actually the first film in the Conjuring universe (it sets in 1952).

 

Taissa Farmiga, the actress who plays Sister Irene, turned out to be a younger sister of actress Vera Farmiga, who appeared as Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring 1 and 2.

 

The movie was not allowed to be filmed in actual churches in Romania, so the church scenes you see are really made from scratch.

 

Joseph Bishara usually composes music in the Conjuring films, but not this one.

 

Summary: In 1952, A priest and the nun are sent to investigate the death of the other nun and things really take a creepy turn.

 

The Review: The jumpscares really don’t seem to connect to the lame plot even though they kept the film the darkest in the franchise as they promised.

 

Rating: Half-Full

 

Cast: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen and Sterling K. Brown

 

Director: Shane Black

 

Writers: Shane Black and Fred Dekker

 

Based on: Characters by Jim Thomas and John Thomas

 

Producer: John Davis

 

Music by: Henry Jackman

 

Rated: R for strong bloody violence, language throughout and crude sexual references

 

Release Date: 09/14/18

 

Tagline: The hunt has evolved

 

Quote: “That’s not a predator, that’s a sports hunter. A predator kills its prey to survive. What you’re describing is more like a bass fisherman.”- Casey Bracket

 

Fun Facts: Arnold Schwarzenegger was offered to return as Dutch but he turned it down.

 

The high school in the film was named after Lawrence Gordon, the producer of the original Predator film.

 

Summary: The human hunters comes to Earth after a boy accidently triggers them and the only people who can stop them are ex-soldiers and a biologist.

 

The Review: Not bad for the franchise but I am sorry to say, the climax is a total mess.

 

Rating: Full

 

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Jim Cummings, and Brad Garrett

 

Director: Marc Foster

 

Writers: Greg Brooker, Tom McCarthy, Alex Ross Perry, Allison Schroeder and Mark Steven Johnson

 

Based on: Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard

 

Producers: Kristin Burr and Brigham Taylor

 

Music by: Jon Brion and Geoff Zanelli

 

Rated: PG for some action

 

Release Date: 08/03/18

 

Tagline: Sooner or later, your past catches up to you.

 

Quote: “Doing nothing often leads to the very best kind of something.”- Winnie-the-Pooh

 

Fun Facts: Disney songwriter Richard M. Sherman can be seen in the mid-credits scene, singing and playing the piano at the beach.

 

Several of Christopher Robin’s co-workers were named after the original voice actors for the Winnie-the-Pooh characters from the 60’s.

 

Brad Garrett actually had voiced Eeyore before.

 

Roo is voiced by a girl.

 

Summary: Now a grown man, Christopher Robin was discovered by Pooh, who, with the help of his friends, must teach him about the joy of life.

 

The Review: This ‘What if the character grows up’ film is fun, and I repeat, FUN for the whole family.

 

Rating: Empty

 

Cast: Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Charlie Wright and Owen Asztalos

 

Director: David Bowers

 

Writers: David Bowers and Jeff Kinney

 

Based on: the book by Jeff Kinney

 

Producers: Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson

 

Music by: Edward Shearmur

 

Rated: PG for some rude humor

 

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Favorite Character: Frank Heffley

 

Tagline: A wimp will rise

 

Quote: “You want me to read. I’m reading text! What’s the difference?”- Greg Heffley

 

Fun Facts: Many fans dislike the recasting especially Rodrick, which spawns the meme #notmyrodrick (a parody of #notmypresident).

 

Tom Everett Scott once worked with the former Frank Heffley, Steve Zahn in ‘That Thing You Do!’

 

The film uses the plot elements from several Wimpy Kid books.

 

There happened to be a recast because the original Wimpy kid Actor, Zachary Gordon was all growned up, so it was decided that the easiest thing to do was to get the new cast.

 

Summary: While the Heffley family takes a road trip to Meemaw’s house for her 90^th birthday party, Greg Heffley schemes to get to the video game convention, which goes hilariously wrong.

 

The Review: I can guarantee you, You’ll be in for one long boring trip (unless of course you’re the fan of the books, then you’ll find this appreciable).

 

 

 

 

 

Rating: Full

 

Cast: Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Chloe Grace Moretz, Dave Franco and Ike Barinholtz

 

Director: Nicholas Stoller

 

Writers: Evan Goldberg, Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O’Brian, Seth Rogen and Nick Stoller

 

Producers: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen and James Weaver

 

Music by: Michael Andrews

 

Rated: R for crude sexual content including brief graphic nudity, language throughout, drug use and teen partying

 

Release Date: 05/20/16

 

Favorite Character: Teddy Sanders

 

Tagline: Parenthood vs sisterhood

 

Quote: “I am a human woman. I needed to watch that.”- Beth

 

Fun Facts: There is a reference of Rose Byrne’s other film, ‘Insidious’ She said to her daughter “Do you see things that I don’t?”

 

Awkwafina, the actress who plays one of the sorority members, wears a shirt that saids, wait for it, ‘Awkwafina.’

 

One of the posters is a parody to Captain America: Civil War.

 

Rose Byrne was actually pregnant during filming.

 

Summary: Finding out that the sorority next door is even rowdier than the fraternity, a couple must get their former enemy on their side to shut the sorority down.

 

The Review: This sequel is kind of tamer than the first one, but it is still one hell of the party.

 

 

 

Rating: Half-Full

 

Cast: Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto, Sophia Taylor Ali, Landon Liboiron, Nolan Gerard Funk, Sam Lerner, Aurora Perrineau, Tom Choi and Joe Ochman

 

Director: Jeff Wadlow

 

Writers: Jillian Jacobs, Michael Reisz, Chris Roach, and Jeff Wadlow

 

Producer: Jason Blum

 

Music by: Matthew Margeson

 

Rated: PG-13 for violence and disturbing content, alcohol abuse, some sexuality language and thematic material

 

Release Date: 04/13/18

 

Favorite Character: Markie Cameron

 

Tagline: The producer of Happy Death Day and Get Out invites you to play

 

Quote: “We’re not playing the game. It’s playing us.”- Penelope Amari

 

Fun Facts: The evil grin in the film is called ‘a William Dafoe’ grin.

 

The Mission in Rosarito, Mexico does not exist.

 

The iPhone shots in Mexico was really taken by the cast.

 

Second film from Blumhouse to be released on Friday the 13^th (after Happy Death Day).

 

Summary: A harmless game of Truth or Dare turned sinister when a mysterious force begins to kill the players who tell the lie, refuses the dare or refuses to play at all.

 

The Review: It is quite a twist to a classic slumber party game, but it didn’t save the film from having to many clichés.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rating: Full

 

Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Johannes Haukur Johannesson and Natassia Malthe

 

Director: Albert Hughes

 

Writers: Albert Hughes and Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt

 

Producers: Albert Hughes and Andrew Rona

 

Music by: Joseph S. DeBeasi

 

Rated: PG-13 for some intense peril

 

Release Date: 08/17/18

 

Favorite Character: Keda

 

Tagline: Leaders are born from survival

 

Quote: “Raise your head and your eyes will follow.”- Tau

 

Fun Facts: The film doesn’t have ‘no animals were harmed in the making of this film” tag in the end credits because the four bison were really slaughtered for hide.

 

The film doesn’t have English at all, instead, it is an unknown language with English subs.

 

The breed of the dog in the film is called a Czechoslovakian wolfdog.

 

Like many films, Alpha was filmed in Canada.

 

Summary: In the prehistoric times, the hunt goes wrong, causing the boy to be separated from his family and must befriend the wolf in order to get home.

 

The Review: Alpha is beautifully filmed and a great way to demonstrate a boy and his dog.

 

 

 

 

 

Rating: Half-Full

 

Cast: Jason Statham, LI Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao and Cliff Curtis

 

Director: Jon Turteltaub

 

Writers: Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber

 

Based on: Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten

 

Producers: Belle Avery, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Colin Wilson

 

Music by: Harry Gregson-Williams

 

Rated: PG-13 for action/peril, bloody images and some language

 

Release Date: 08/10/18

 

Favorite Character: Jonas Taylor

 

Tagline: Pleased to eat you.

 

Quote: “Don’t you guys ever watch Shark Week?”- Jack Morris

Fun Facts: In the film, Jones starts swimming and singing ‘Just keep swimming’ which is a famous quote from Dory from the 2003 Pixar film ‘Finding Nemo.’

 

Ruby Rose almost drowned on set.

 

The song in the end credits is the Thai version of ‘Mickey.’

 

A fast-paced version of the theme from Jaws can be heard when the shark attacked the plastic cage.

 

Summary: When the 70-foot shark attacks, Jonas Taylor must stop it before it becomes the next terrorist of the sea.

 

The Review: It sure has some entertaining bites, but The Meg looked like it just got ripped out of the schedule on the Syfy Channel.

 

Rating: Full

 

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Danial Wu, Dominic West, Walton Goggins and Kristin Scott Thomas

 

Director: Roar Uthaug

 

Writers: Evan Daugherty, Geneva Robinson-Dwort and Alastair Siddons

 

Based on: Tomb Raider by Crystal Dynamics

 

Producer: Graham King

 

Music by: Junkie XL

 

Rated: PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, and for some language

 

Release Date: 03/16/18

 

Favorite Character: Lara Croft

 

Tagline: unknown

 

Quote: “Death is not an adventure.”- Lu Ren

 

Fun Facts: Alicia Vikander actually worked out a lot to prepare for the role.

 

Alicia Vikander grew up with the Tomb Raider video games.

 

The film is loosely based on the 2013 Tom Raider video game.

 

Until Rampage, the film is the highest rated video game adaption on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

Summary: Years after her father went missing, his daughter puts her skills to the test when she locates the island where her father was last seen.

 

The Review: The story may not have matched the video game, but Alicia Vikander is a total kickass video game character.

 

Rating: Half-Full

 

Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Tony Jones, Ted Levine, B. D. Wong, Isabella Sermon, Geraldine Chaplin, and Jeff Goldblum

 

Director: J. A. Bayona

 

Writers: Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow

 

Based on: the characters by Michael Crichton

 

Producers: Belen Atienza, Patrick Crowley and Frank Marshall

 

Music by: Michael Giacchino

 

Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril

 

Release Date: 06/22/18

 

Favorite Character: Owen Grady

 

Tagline: The Park is Gone

 

Quote: “If I don’t make it back… remember that you’re the one that made me come here.”- Owen Grady

 

Fun Facts: A roller coaster was built for the gyrosphere cliff diving scene.

 

This is the first Jurassic park film with a post credit scene.

 

The film’s tagline, “Life Finds a Way,” is Ian Malcolm’s quote from Jurassic Park.

 

Approximately 2,500 girls were auditioned for the role of Maisie Lockwood.

 

Summary: Owen, Clarie and their team must save the dinosaurs before Isle Nublar blows up, wiping out the dinosaurs.

 

The Review: Great dinosaurs as usual, but it is still losing its juice of the franchise.