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Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is the most ambitious and expansive story from one of the world’s most celebrated authors. Now the story comes to the big screen starring Idris Elba as Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as Walter O’Dim. The film is being directed by Nikolaj Arcel ("A Royal Affair").
This is one of the biggest movie disappointments ever for me. I have read all the books and have been dying to see it end up on a big screen or a tv screen for what feels like forever. I was thrown off when I first saw the trailers because they didn't make sense in terms of which book they were doing. I kept putting off looking into anything because I didn't want spoilers or anything. It turns out that they did not adapt any of the seven books. Actually they just took bits and pieces from some of them and positioned the story AFTER the whole book series kind of. It was very choppy and rushed and completely wasted the best parts of the movie - which were Idris Elba as the Gunslinger and what could have been McConaughey as the Man In Black. They made the movie more about the kid and through his eyes with no adequate background given to everything else. Basically, they tried to make the movie "down the road" so that you could enjoy it if you read the books but also enjoy it if you hadn't and failed on both fronts. No fan of the book will be a fan of this movie because of how wrong it fells on so many levels and no newbie will be a fan becuase the books end up being like a prerequisite for understanding it.
I would not recommend anyone bother with this movie. It was flawed in so many ways. The show really should have been brought to tv like Game Of Thrones or Westworld. That would be the only way that I could see this whole story being given justice.
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson (Academy Award winner Halle Berry) when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. A relentless, edge-of-your seat chase ensues, where Karla must risk everything to not lose sight of her son.
How was this a full length movie? Better question - how the hell has Halle Berry fallen this far? It wasn't too long ago that she was a top actress in Hollywood, right? Now she is in what should be straight to DVD movie or an extended Criminal Minds episode. This is pretty much a giant waste of time and you have pretty much seen it by watching the commercial.
I wouldn't recommend anyone bother with this. Really don't understand how this was made at all.
In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
This movie was great just like the other ones. It really is amazing how they make the apes seem like such fluid and normal characters. And the fact that they develop the apes over the course of the franchise like they are legit actors is even more impressive. You feel for this apes that you have been watching for three movies now and you get excited about new additions - especially Bad Ape. That one had me laughing out loud so many times during this movie. The only knock I'll make against this movie is that in the grand scheme of things it just felt like a long isolated battle. It didn't feel like another chapter in this progressing story as much as the other two did. It just kind of felt like well let's fight this group of humans now. Not sure if that makes sense or not but it just seemed to be lacking a little bit of a hook that the other movies had. It was also way too long considering what I just said above. Sorry - that was two knocks.
I would still recommend people check this movie out - especially if you are fans of the franchise. It is a very enjoyable watch even if it kind of lacked as much substance as the others.
She’s back! In Annabelle: Creation, several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.
This movie was impressively creepy. It made me wish that I was more into the Conjuring universe because they did a good job of connecting all the movies. There were more than enough scares and tension to make this an entertaining scary movie. It was much better than expected.
I would definitely recommend this movie to people that like scary movies. This was a much better than average one and worth the trip to the movies.
Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become “normal” like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.
The unfortunate thing for this movie is that animated movies have stepped up their game so much with Pixar & Dreamworks pretty much leading the way that adults enjoy them just as much (if not more) than the kids. That being said - we can sometimes lose sight of the general idea that these movies are technically for kids. This movie has been the worst reviewed movie of the year. And it very much was a mess of a movie in every way . . . . . For adults. Thats the part that a lot of these critics shot right past. Kids will most likely love or at the very least enjoy this movie. The parents that take them and will want to go to sleep for the movie. I did for a chunk of it. But just grin and take it for the children, it will be over soon enough and they will be glad they saw it.
The movie was definitely garbage but . . . . I didnt think it was as bad as hyped and the kids still liked it. That's really all that is supposed to matter with this. Adults seeing it without kids? You should hard pass on that!
A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who made his sensational debut in Captain America: Civil War, begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.). Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine – distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man – but when the Vulture (Michael Keaton) emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened.
This was easily the best Spider-Man movie to date. It easily knocked Spider-Man 2 (the one with Doc Ock) out of the top spot. They didn't insult us with the third take on the origin since we have already sat through that twice in the last 15 years pretty much. They picked right up where Captain America: Civil War left off and tied it in to that in a truly hilarious way. Tom Holland is beyond perfectly cast as Peter Parker. Michael Keaton was awesome as the villain. All side characters were given a good amount of development time and have a ton of room to grow as this franchise continues. The writing was funny as hell and combined with the excellent direction made the movie play out so well that in the modern day where spoilers and plot points are given out months in advance this movie actually made me yell out HOLY $HIT twice by catching me off guard along with the rest of the audience. Cannot do justice to how impressive that was to me.
I recommend that everyone check this movie out. I've always been a huge Spidey fan and this met and far exceeded all expectations of it. This again is the best Spidey movie so far and definitely a top 5 - if not top 3 - Marvel movie to date.
Four lifelong friends who travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival and rediscover their sisterhoods and wild sides – enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
Wow!!! I never saw this one coming. This movie was by far the funniest movie of the summer. Like nothing else was even close. I can't tell you how many times this movie had me crying from laughing. All of the characters delivered on one level or another but the unknown actress playing Dena stole the show. She was beyond hysterical. The only thing I can compare it to was Catherine Hahn in Bad Moms. She literally stole every scene she was in and its the type of character that would normally get stale as the movie went on but not at all. Even the running time of two hours for this movie should have been a major red flag. Even the attempt to get dramatic at times that normally ruins comedies didn't ruin this one. This was A LOT of laughs. Definitely rated R laughs but so many of them.
I would absolutely recommend people checking this movie out. Again - easily the funniest movie of the summer.
A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.
Wow! This was the best use of music I've ever seen in a movie. The music was like the best character honestly. It was so woven into the dialogue and pretty much every scene. On top of that some awesome acting from all the tough guy/girl criminals and this was a very enjoyable, edgy ride. At a time of year where it's usually nothing but over the top effects sequels or retreads and zero originality - this was a very enjoyable break from the norm.
I would definitely recommend people check this out. The writing, acting, directing and editing were all top notch and made this a great watch.
After Scott (Will Ferrell) and Kate (Amy Poehler) Johansen lose their daughter Alex’s college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank (Jason Mantzoukas), they decide to start an illegal casino in the basement of his house.
This was pretty disappointing. I wasn't really expecting much but had small hopes because of the short running time and that it was a R rated comedy. But those hopes were not realized and I only laughed out loud once at a classic Will Ferrel random drunk scene. The rest was pretty much what you saw in the trailer.
I wouldn't recommend anyone bother with this movie. It's a pretty big waste of time and money.
In the latest thriller from the director of Annabelle, 17-year-old Clare Shannon (Joey King) is barely surviving the hell that is high school, along with her friends Meredith (Sydney Park) and June (Shannon Purser). So when her dad (Ryan Phillippe) gifts her an old music box with an inscription that promises to grant the owner's wishes, she thinks there is nothing to lose. Clare makes her first wish and, to her surprise, it comes true. Before long, she finally has it all: money, popularity and her dream boy. Everything seems perfect - until the people closest to her begin dying in gruesome and twisted ways. Now, with blood on her hands, Clare has to get rid of the box, before it costs her and everyone she loves the ultimate price.
This movie was beyond formula. If you see the trailer you have pretty much seen the movie. That being said - it was still kind of enjoyable. It was like a Final Destination kind of twist with the way that they teased the deaths to come and the story was told quickly and easily enough that it didn't drag and get boring like a lot of recent horror movies like this.
I would kind of recommend peeps checking this out. It's a pretty decent watch even though you know every little thing that is going to happen from beginning to end.
The Beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
What a snoozer. It was advertised as this creepy build up kind of movie but the payoff was beyond weak. And honestly, the build up to it was nothing that you had not seen in the trailer. Honestly, I felt like I had seen the entire movie already just by watching the commercial. This is just another log on the fire of Sophia Coppola being so loved by critics and me not understanding why whatsoever.
I would not recommend anyone waste their time checking this out. There really is no reason this was made or no point for you to take the 90 minutes to watch it.
Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazer (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea – notably Jack. Jack’s only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Benton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifull small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has never faced.
This is a blatant attempt at trying to pull a Fast & Furious with the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise. They are trying to go back to the storytelling and action that made it a success in the first place and they are bringing back characters that had previously left it to try and revive it. It kind of works. I mean this one is definitely better than the 4th one and is kind of on par with the 2nd and 3rd entries but its still nowhere near the original. It's just kind of more of the same. It's not like Fast Five was in bringing that franchise to a whole other level. It's just more of another entry that sets up yet another one.
I would kind of recommend people checking this out. It's a decent watch if you like the Pirates movies but not a must see by any means.
Sometimes things are not always what they seem, especially in the small suburban town where the Carpenter family lives. Single suburban mother Susan Carpenter (Naomi Watts) works as a waitress at a diner, alongside feisty family friend Sheila (Sarah Silverman). Her younger son Peter (Jacob Tremblay) is a playful 8-year-old. Taking care of everyone and everything in his own unique way is Susan’s older son Henry (Jaeden Lieberher), age 12, whose creativity is without limits. Protector to his adoring younger brother and tireless supporter of his often self-doubting mother – and, through investments, of the family as a whole – Henry blazes through the days like a comet. Susan discovers that the family next door, which includes Henry’s kind classmate, 12-year-old Christina (Maddie Ziegler), has a dangerous secret – and that Henry has devised a surprising plan to help. As his brainstormed rescue plan for Christina takes shape in thrilling ways, Susan finds herself at the center of it.
Wow! This movie is the dictionary definition of being all over the place. This was like three very different movies in one. They should have picked what type of movie they wanted it to be and gone with that. The kid actors were great. Honestly - so was the mom. But the story was something that the great acting simply could not solve.
I doubt anyone will be seeing this regardless since it came out very strangely in summer and will be buried, but nobody really should bother anyway. It was an unfortunate disappointment because with proper direction this could have been a really good movie.
