Cast: Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser
Director: Kelsey Mann
Rating: PG
Synopsis: Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone. Maya Hawke lends her voice to Anxiety, alongside Amy Poehler as the voice of Joy. The voice cast also includes Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser, Kensington Tallman, Lilimar, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green, Grace Lu and Yvette Nicole Brown. Directed by Kelsey Mann and produced by Mark Nielsen with a screenplay by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein, “Inside Out 2” features a score by Andrea Datzman.
Reviews
There was a moment when my heart broke, and had therapy-like breakthrough all at once.
Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Sofía Vergara, Joey King, Miranda Cosgrove
Director: Chris Renaud
Rating: PG
Synopsis: In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4.
Reviews
Despicable Me 4 is not a remarkably bad film, nor does it really jump the shark from what’s come before — but it does threaten to collapse under a critical mass of deja vu.
Cast: Will Smith, Jerry Bruckheimer, Chad Oman, Doug Belgrad
Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Rating: M
Synopsis: This year, the world’s favourite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your seat action and outrageous comedy but this time with a twist: Miami’s finest are now on the run.
Reviews
Jeff Nichols adapts photographer Danny Lyon’s late-60s biker gang adventure, with stellar performances from Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy.
It’s less like a prequel, and more of a sidestep in the Quiet Place universe, what the TV program Fear the Walking Dead was to the show off which it spun.
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Ray Romano, Jim Rash, Anna Garcia, Noah Robbins, Christian Clemenson, Colin Woodell
Director: Greg Berlanti
Rating: M
Synopsis: Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, FLY ME TO THE MOON is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up and the countdown truly begins…
Reviews
A rocket’s red glare gives proof to Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum’s screen chemistry.
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen, Brianna Hildebrand, Shioli Kutsuna
Director: Shawn Levy
Rating: MA 15+
Synopsis: After facing some professional setbacks while going through a midlife crisis, Wade Wilson (Reynolds) decides to officially retire Deadpool and becomes a used car salesman. But when his friends, family, and the whole world are at stake, Deadpool decides to bring his katanas out of retirement. He recruits an unwilling and wary Wolverine (Jackman) to not only fight for their survival, but ultimately, their legacy.
Reviews
We have reached the edge of common sense. Cinematic art is rendered meaningless in this desert. It used to be that the soulless Hollywood machine churned its projects with at least some respect for its creators and the audience. Not everything was great; much of it was horrendous. But it had, at least, the appearance of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It tried to usher from us a feeling. It used to be cinema, sort of.
The team of Deadpool and Wolverine is also lacklustre. I know the two of them are huge in the comics and even in the films we know this has been teased, and yes it’s cool to see them together, and while there are fun moments it’s not really the focus here.
Cast: Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Director: Julia von Heinz
Rating: M
Synopsis: An american journalist Ruth who travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his trauma and sabotages the trip creating unintentionally funny situations.
Reviews
Wonky-toned story follows Dunham as a journalist visiting Poland, and Fry as her cuddly European dad, both trying to get to grips with family history.
Cast: Mackenzie Fearnley, Shabana Azeez, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Harley Wilson
Director: Jim Weir, Jack Clark
Rating: MA 15+
Synopsis: A bride-to-be is invited to her fiancé’s bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details of their relationship are exposed, the night takes a feral turn.
Reviews
Shabana Azeez and Mackenzie Fearnley are good as the husband and wife to be but this horror film feels indecisive and stretches too long.
Synopsis: IT ENDS WITH US, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the compelling story of Lily Bloom (Blake Lively), a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni) sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall deeply in love, Lily begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents’ relationship. When Lily’s first love, Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar), suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with Ryle is upended, and Lily realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future. Directed by Justin Baldoni and produced by Alex Saks, Jamey Heath, and Christy Hall. The film stars Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Amy Morton and Brandon Sklenar, from a screenplay by Christy Hall, based on the book by Colleen Hoover.
Synopsis: The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. The film stars Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”), David Jonsson (“Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy”), Archie Renaux (“Shadow and Bone”), Isabela Merced (“The Last of Us”), Spike Fearn (“Aftersun”), Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (“Evil Dead,” “Don’t Breathe”) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (“Don’t Breathe 2”) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. “Alien: Romulus” is produced by Ridley Scott (“Napoleon”), who directed the original “Alien” and produced and directed the series’ entries “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” Michael Pruss (“Boston Strangler”), and Walter Hill (“Alien”), with Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (“Charlie’s Angels”), Brent O’Connor (“Bullet Train”), and Tom Moran (“Unstoppable”) serving as executive producers.
