A SIMPLE FAVOR, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily’s (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town.
Stephanie is joined by Emily’s husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this stylish thriller filled with twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge.
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Somehow someone settled on the title âSkyscraperâ for this new action film starring Dwayne Johnson. After watching, I think a better title may have been â101 Ways to Best Use Duct Tape.â At no time ever has an action film had its star running around trying to be the hero with almost nothing at his disposal except for this âstrong, cloth-backed, waterproof, pressure sensitive, adhesive, miracle-working cure-all. But writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber does and it sorta works believe it or not. Maybe an even better title would be â101 Uses for Duct Tape-Towering Inferno Dies Hard.â I might sound as if Iâm being a little harsh with the comparisons to earlier films, âThe Towering Infernoâ with Paul Newman and âDie Hardâ with Bruce Willis but I assure you if youâve seen them, youâll do the same. âSkyscraperâ is that predictable. I did enjoy the excitement and taking the journey but as almost anyone who has seen a big budget action thriller will say, the script was hardly original.
Instead of a police officer from New York running around inside a building in L.A. trying to stop German bad guys from making a profitable getaway in a giant high rise where his wife is held hostage, we have Scandinavian bad guys doing almost the same thing. However, our hero is Will Sawyer (Johnson), an ex-FBI agent who is also from America but this time the building is in Hong Kong. There are other similarities, but you get the picture. ‘The Towering Inferno’ references are obvious without my having to mention them, Iâm sure. Oh, I have to mention that the end of âRockyâ is in there, too, but youâll catch that without my having to point it out to you.
After tragedy strikes in his past, Will becomes an independent security consultant working from home. Heâs delighted to get a chance to work in the largest building in the world âThe Pearlâ in Hong Kong, through an old friend who gets him the job. His job is to make sure the building is 100% secure and ready to be insured so that the giant residential section can now be opened to the public. This building is immense, beautiful and boasts all the possible amenities a high-tech building could have and all the updates. The units will sell quickly. Its eccentric builder and owner loves his building so much that he lives in the penthouse. Until his task is done, Will, with family in tow, are the only people presently staying in the building until his job is completed.
Neve Campbell plays his wife, Sarah, whoâs ex-military. She is both mentally and physically strong. Youâll like her, particularly toward the end of the film where she gets to land a good swift kick to an irritatingly absurd character; but their children are not at all realistic. They are way too calm in the âheat of the momentâ so to speak. If Iâm a little kid and Iâm faced with burning to death or falling to my death, Iâm not going to be calmly, statically asking mommy if I was going to die. Iâd be screaming bloody murder!! Maybe you donât want to go too realistic with it but câmon! A little emotion would have been nice to sell SOME panic in SOMEONE!
Villains take over the building and, wanting something from the owner, set it on fire. They will get what they want this way, right? Seeing the chaos at The Pearl and getting set up as the guy who started it, Will must get in to save his family. Not a challenge for Johnson! Nah. He scurries up a construction crane, a blood pressure raising scene, by the way, and gets himself inside. Every movie he makes is live streamed to the public and is being watched by a crowd who has gathered below. Based on what they see, theyâve deemed him someone innocent of charges being thrown about on the news and worthy of getting through this whole mess heâs in, so they cheer his every successful move; each of which is mostly predictable had it not been for one thing⌠that duct tape! Iâd fill you in more but would prefer you discover what heâs doing with it on your own. Itâs better this way. Trust me.
âSkyscraperâ is Dwayne Johnson in an action flick. Awesome! The poster is good and the trailer is good so, weâre all going to go see it. No matter what you hear, despite your best judgment, Rotten Tomatoes rating aside, youâre gonna go see it because⌠why not? It has everything an action film needs. Great CG and visual effect, strong characters that you want to see do well, provocative, albeit somewhat weak, story (despite its glaring references to other pictures) and most importantly, the suspension of disbelief. Youâll lose yourself in the film for a little while and isnât that the whole reason to go see a movie like this? Itâs nothing new but youâll have fun. Go so seeing this one on the big screen this weekend. Itâs the way to go with this type of movie.
‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ is very entertaining family fun with a powerful message that no one can ignore⌠or would even want to.
The third film in the franchise is a bit different than the others and in a positive way. Love is still in the air but weâre not in the Hotel. We are now on a cruise ship which lends the filmmakers plenty of room to offer the audience new sight gags, characters and outlandish situations. Moving from the Hotel allows for interesting and fun events for the characters to attend which works very well as the audience I saw it with went particularly crazy watching this fun animated feature. When youâre on a cruise in real life you have places you stop and get off before you reach your final destination. This happens here, as well, and each time they do or as the characters move from one area of the ship to the next, the tone, music and mood shifts and the children I was watching the movie with couldnât have been more pleased. They were cheering. Iâm betting yours will be, too.
When the movie starts, we see a nemesis of Draculaâs, named Van Helsing (Gaffigan), who, as his father and fatherâs father had done, chases Dracula through the years. Van Helsing never gives up his pursuit until, after watching him give chase for several minutes, he too meets his death. More about that after we see what Dracula is up to now. His daughter, Mavis (Gomez), sees him sulk about the house. Heâs depressed, miserable and showing visible signs of tension and anxiety. She books him a trip on the cruise thinking he just needs to relax, never realizing heâs simply lonely. He lost his wife and wants to find love again.
Youâre now all caught up.
So, off to get on a cruise they go. I have to mention that youâre going to howl at the plane ride they take getting there.
Anyway, on the ship, he meets Ericka (Hahn) who ends up being the granddaughter of the famous Vampire Hunter; not that he knows this. Her ship caters to monsters and is now filled with them. Several monsters, which are based on hysterical stereotypes of humans, are meeting and falling in love, which is what Dracula does the moment he sees her. He feels a Zing (true love) happen, which is supposed to only happen once. Is it a true Zing? He is willing to find out.
However, it doesn’t matter if he Zingâs or not. Love is not in her plans. She wants to fulfill the family legacy and do as her ancestors did. She intends to rid the planet of Dracula and, in fact, all monsters. Though she starts to grow fond of Dracula and his family, she finds the âInstrument of Destructionâ to destroy the population of monsters and is going to use it. When she has it, she does use it; to raise a giant monster who, when under the spell of music, goes bonkers and wipes out everything around. This explains Atlantis and The Bermuda Triangle and⌠âWAIT! She raises a monster that will take out all monsters?!â Okay. A little weak there but it works if you donât think too hard.
I wonât give away the rest accept to let you know that youâll love the Fish Man that’s voiced by Chris Parnell, delight when âGood Vibrations,â âBe Happyâ and the âMacarenaâ are used and strongly appreciate the intentional point revealed in the film which is that you have to be ‘greater than the haters’ because… âweâre all the same.â Go see âHotel Transylvania 3â with the whole family and if you havenât seen the first two yet, check them out, too. I canât imagine this storyline will continue much longer but they managed to keep this sequel riveting, something all of the adults will be particularly fond of. ZING!
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The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE â FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm.
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Advance tickets for Disneyâs âChristopher Robinâ are now available for purchase, and to celebrate, Disney has released a featurette on the legacy of the beloved A.A. Milne characters. The piece features new footage from the upcoming film and interviews with Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell and director Marc Forster, so be sure to check it out and share with your readers. And donât forget to see âChristopher Robinâ when it hits theaters August 3, 2018!
In Disneyâs heartwarming live-action adventure, the young boy who shared countless adventures with his stuffed animal friends in the Hundred Acre Wood has grown up and lost sight of whatâs important in life. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into our world and help Christopher Robin rediscover the joys of family life, the value of friendship and to appreciate the simple pleasure in life once again.
 âChristopher Robinâ is directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry and Allison Schroeder and a story by Perry based on characters created by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard. The producers are Brigham Taylor and Kristin Burr, with RenĂŠe Wolfe and Jeremy Johns serving as executive producers. The film stars Ewan McGregor as Christopher Robin; Hayley Atwell as his wife Evelyn; Bronte Carmichael as his daughter Madeline; and Mark Gatiss as Keith Winslow, Robinâs boss. The film also features the voices of: Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger; Brad Garrett as Eeyore; Toby Jones as Owl; Nick Mohammed as Piglet; Peter Capaldi as Rabbit; and Sophie Okonedo as Kanga.
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From Amazon Studios comes ‘Life Itself’
Written and Directed By Dan Fogelman
Starring Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Mandy Patinkin, Olivia Cooke, Laia Costa, with Annette Bening and Antonio Banderas
Produced By Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Aaron Ryder
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes in Life Itself. Director and writer Dan Fogelman (âThis Is Usâ) examines the perils and rewards of everyday life in a multigenerational saga featuring an international ensemble including Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Olivia Cooke, Sergio Peris- Mencheta, Laia Costa, Alex Monner and Mandy Patinkin. Set in New York City and Carmona, Spain, Life Itself celebrates the human condition and all of its complications with humor, poignancy and love.
Rated R | 117 minutes
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WONDER PARK tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive.Â
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This action/horror franchise, produced by horror master producer Jason Blum of Blumhouse, was started in June of 2013 with âThe Purge.â We next saw it in appear in July of 2014 with âThe Purge: Anarchy.â Two years later, the third in the series, âThe Purge: Election Yearâ frightened us again. The first film, starring Ethan Hawke, took us to the year 2022 where the Sandin family is struggling to stay alive as masked strangers penetrate the safety of their home. The intruders are threatening to kill them because the Sandins helped someone the intruders had the intention of slaughtering on purge night. Itâs legal to kill for twelve hours during âThe Purgeâ and they have every right to kill this person. This legal murder is the constant in each of the films.
This concept was fresh, and the movie grossed 86 million dollars more than it took to make. The films continue to make more money than what they cost to make. The total budget for the four films has been 35 million and the first three have already brought in 319.8 million. If they continue to be a success, Blumhouse will keep churning them out.
This fourth narrative âThe First Purgeâ is the origin story. Itâs about how it all got started. The writer of all four films, James DeMonaco, came up with a demented idea with this. It’s a bit disconcerting to think that the American people would be fine with their government offering them the chance to murder and theyâd accept it⌠and then actually follow through. This film opening on Independence Day of 2018 seems calculated. This storyline is even more politically motivated than the others. I say this as there is what appears to be a hard to hide direct message to Donald Trump himself. This happens when a woman screams a particular line out to a man who is grabbing her crotch. Iâll let your mind wander as to what that line might be. The poster for the film shows a bright red hat with white stitching to mirror the image of Trumpâs MAGA hats so, the message to the Trump administrations isnât subtle. Donât fear though. It wonât be so in your face that it wonât make sense or make you uncomfortable. Everything in the film will advance the storyline. As I mentioned, the government conceives of a way to off poor minorities without lifting a finger⌠by allowing them to legally do each other in themselves. Watching this in 2018 while living in the United States might make you wiggle in your seat a little more than you might have with the previous films because you can see where this could become our reality. Okay, probably not. Well⌠letâs hope not. The political landscape is crazy right now and the franchise took full advantage of that in every conceivable way.
The old political parties are replaced by the NRA supported âNew Founding Fathers of Americaâ or the NFFA who are very white and want only the rich and the white to survive. They start an experiment of death with a $5,000 monetary incentive for those who stay on Staten Island and participate. The national debt has tripled and with this purge, they will have fewer Americans to cover which means more tax dollars to go into their pockets. Protests erupt with one of the main characters, Nya (Davis), screaming out against incentivizing the murder of black people but the poorer of the community, including her younger brother Isaiah (Wade), knows that the $5,000 theyâre being offered can mean the difference between life and death for the rest of the year. Having a beef with a drugged out lunatic named Skeletor (Paul) heâd like to settle, and without his sistersâ knowledge, Isaiah participates in the purge. However, unable to find Skeletor, he finds a purge party instead.
When they picked Staten Island as a launching point, the behavioral scientist or âThe Architectâ of it all, named Dr. Updale (Tomei), is certain that the people living in the boroughs would willingly partake. Since everyone was offered more money the more they engaged, she is more than surprised when the strong bonds of the community prove her wrong. With almost only Skeletor being the exception, people are not only not active but theyâre dancing. This isnât good for the government and turns out not to be too good for Dr. Updale either. When the residents show that the experiment wasnât a success, itâs time for the government to make it look like it was by any means necessary so they send in their own people to fix the problem.
Through the night, we meet several more strong characters, chief among them, Dmitri (Noel) a drug kingpin who ends up losing his crew, not to âpurgersâ but to gunmen for hire. The love of his life, Nya, is in danger and heâs out to rescue her and several others. When he does, there are powerful scenes that symbolize race relations in America. White supremacists and members of the KKK move floor to floor of the public housing project building Nya is holed up in, executing everything that moves. The lighting and camera work in this particular scene is the most entertaining of the film and will have you riveted.
There are several reasons to see this. If youâre a fan of the genre or of what Blumhouse Productions offers, you wonât be disappointed. The clear message to ‘never give up’ that is reiterated in several scenes and by almost everyone the government has taken for granted, should be witnessed. FYI, itâs stated at the end that itâs over but then someone says, âFor now.â You know what that means so if you’ve seen one, you might want to just keep going and seeing this on the Fourth of July? Why not?!Â
Focus Features will release Anonymous Contentâs BOY ERASED on November 2, 2018 (limited), moving off of September 28, and Participant Mediaâs ON THE BASIS OF SEX on December 25, 2018 (limited), moving off of November 9, both in North America. Â
About BOY ERASED:
Academy AwardÂŽÂ nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea) stars alongside Academy AwardÂŽÂ winners Nicole Kidman (âBig Little Liesâ, The Hours) and Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) in Anonymous Contentâs BOY ERASED. Joel Edgerton (The Gift, Loving) directs, writes, produces and co-stars in the emotional coming-of-age and coming out drama about a young manâs journey to self-acceptance. Â
BOY ERASEDtells the story of Jared (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his parents (Kidman and Crowe) at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a conversion therapy program â or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.  Boy Erased is the true story of one young manâs struggle to find himself while being forced to question every aspect of his identity.Â
Edgerton produces alongside Anonymous Contentâs Kerry Kohansky-Roberts and Steve Golin, an Academy Award-winning producer of Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight. Troye Sivan, Xavier Dolan, Cherry Jones, Michael âFleaâ Balzary, Joe Alwyn, Emily Hinkler, Jesse LaTourette, David Joseph Craig, ThĂŠodore Pellerin, Madelyn Cline, and Britton Sear co-star. BOY ERASED will be released by Focus Features.
About ON THE BASIS OF SEX
Academy AwardÂŽÂ nominee Felicity Jones stars in ON THE BASIS OF SEX, the inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburgâs 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
For ON THE BASIS OF SEX, Jones is joined by co-stars Armie Hammer as Marty Ginsburg, Justin Theroux, Academy AwardÂŽÂ winner Kathy Bates, Academy AwardÂŽÂ nominee Sam Waterston, Jack Reynor, and Cailee Spaeny. Mimi Leder (Deep Impact, âThe Leftoversâ) directs with Robert Cort producing a screenplay written by Daniel Stiepleman. ON THE BASIS OF SEXwill be released by Focus Features.
(L-r) JESSICA CHASTAIN as Beverly, JAMES McAVOY as Bill, ISAIAH MUSTAFA as Mike, JAY RYAN as Ben, JAMES RANSONE as Eddie, BILL HADER as Richie and ANDY BEAN as Stanley in New Line Cinemaâs horror thriller “IT CHAPTER TWO,â a Warner Bros. Pictures release.  Photo by Brooke Palmer
