23 May
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ALADDIN Director: Guy RitchieStarring: Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Will Smith, Marwan Kenzari, Nasim Pedrad, Navid Negahban Disney has four live action remakes in theaters in 2019 with Aladdin being their second one of the year. It’s a beloved animated classic for my generation, but is it a little too soon to bring it back? Aladdin (Massoud) is considered a “street rat” by many as he’s an orphan who, along with his pet monkey, wander the streets stealing food and live on a rooftop. It’s there in the streets where he meets Princess Jasmine (Scott) who’s in disguise desperately trying to have some down time awayRead More →

16 May
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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM Director: Chad StahelskiStarring: Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Asia Kate, Dillon, Halle Berry, Anjelica Huston, Laurence Fishburne Keanu Reeves’ unstoppable assassin John Wick has marked a career high for the actor. The stakes are even higher and now everyone wants John dead. Chapter 3 picks up within minutes after the ending of Chapter 2 with a $14 million bounty on John’s head. The one hour window for John to be capture ends, and now that price tag goes up even more as he escapes the clutches of the High Table. He’s losing steam and there are eyes onRead More →

14 May
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THE HUSTLE Director: Chris AddisonStarring: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp, Dean Norris Josephine (Hathaway) is a world class con artist based in the French Riviera. She loves to con old rich men who have wronged their women. She’s high class, dressed to the nines, but can play dumb and innocent to lure them in. She meets her match in another con artist, Penny (Wilson), who seems to be following close in her footsteps. Penny is the opposite in her approach to the con game. She’s boisterous, bumbling, and not afraid to make a scene to steer men off her tracks. Josephine believes she canRead More →

14 May
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WINE COUNTRY Director: Amy PoehlerStarring: Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Tina Fey, Jason Schwartzman, Cherry Jones Rebecca (Dratch) is turning fifty but doesn’t want to make a big deal out of it. Her friend, Abby (Poehler), convinces her that a girls trip to wine country in the Napa Valley would make for the perfect getaway. They gather four of their other best friends to head out for the weekend. They all met back in the day as waitresses in a pizza joint in Chicago. They’ve since moved on to different states, careers, and lives and rarely get togetherRead More →

08 May
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EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE Director: Joe BerlingerStarring: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Jim Parson, John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Angela Sarafyan Zac Efron takes his career in a bold turn by starring as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. The film picks up the night he met his girlfriend, Liz (Collins), in a dive bar. He’s charming and a smoother talker and convinces her to spend the night together back at her house. He’s studying law, while she is a single mother with a young baby girl. He appears to be loving and caring, but that happens to be just one side of him. TheRead More →

02 May
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UGLY DOLLS Director: Kelly AsburyStarring: Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton, Nick Jonas, Janelle Monáe, Wanda Sykes, Lizzo, Bebe Rexha, Charli XCX, Lizzo Not every toy that goes through the assembly line comes out perfect to its design. There are some made with the wrong pieces, parts, and shapes attached. Instead of being sent to live with a child, they bypass that tunnel into a land called Uglyville. The attitude there couldn’t be further from the name as all of the misfit dolls in Uglyville are happy, cheery, and living their best life. A little pink doll named Moxy (Clarkson) has bigger ambitions. Every day, she believesRead More →

02 May
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LONG SHOT Director: Jonathan LevineStarring: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, Ravi Patel, O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Bob Odenkirk, Alexander Skarsgård Charlotte Field (Theron) is the current Secretary of State, but has larger ambitions for the Oval Office. She hears first hand that the current President (Odenkirk) will not be seeking a second term. He’s a former TV president, now real President, but wants to try out film acting. Charlotte is about to embark on a national tour to promote a environmental initiative and sees this as her launching pad to a candidacy run. First, she needs to improve her testing scores among her constituents.Read More →

25 April
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AVENGERS: ENDGAME Director: Anthony and Joe RussoStarring: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Brie Larson, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Josh Brolin, Bradley Cooper, Danai Gurira, Don Cheadle, Karen Gillan When we last left our Avengers at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, we saw many of them disappear as dust in the wind. The big bad Thanos (Brolin) got his hands on all six infinity stones, placed them on his gauntlet glove, and snapped his finger. Just like that it changed the course of the Marvel franchise. Avengers: Endgame picks up with the remaining survivors in mourning unable to shakeRead More →

25 April
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HOMECOMING Director: BeyoncéStarring: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Solange, Michelle Williams, Kelly Rowland It’s one thing to go to enjoy a concert and sing along to your favorite artists’ songs. It’s another thing to feel like you’re in the middle of a movement. That’s how it must have felt to be in the audience watching Beyoncé and crew of 200 musicians, dancers, and backup singers take over Coachella in 2018. Homecoming is is a concert documentary directed by Beyoncé of her two performances and is now streaming on Netflix. For the first time, we get to be up front and center to her entire divine performance as wellRead More →

19 April
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TEEN SPIRIT Writer/Director: Max MinghellaStarring: Ellie Fanning, Zlatko Buric, Rebecca Hall Violet (Fanning) is a shy and introverted teenager born of Polish heritage but lives in the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. She loves to sing even if it means doing it in dingy bars behind her disapproving mother’s back. Word spreads through school that auditions will be held in their city for “Teen Spirit” a televised singing competition series looking for the next big pop star. All of the kids audition, but Violet is the one who is picked to go onto the next round. She has the voice, but lacks stageRead More →