Universal Pictures & Blumhouse Productions provide us with the 2018’s first new release, Insidious: The Last Key. The fourth film in the franchise finds Adam Robitel taking on directing duties this time around, while franchise veteran Leigh Whanell returns to handle the script.
Shrinking and finding yourself are the centerpiece for director Alexander Payne’s Downsizing.
The acapella singing group known as the “Barden Bellas” return for one last hurrah in director Trish Sie’s Pitch Perfect 3, from Universal Pictures & Gold Circle Films.
Nostalgia, family fun and laugh out loud moments all play a part in Columbia Pictures and Sony Entertainment’s Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle from director Jake Kasdan. Picking up a few moments after the original film, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle begins in 1996, when young Alex, Vreeeke receives the gift of a board game from his father. Magically, overnight the game turns itself into a video game cartridge, and after his curiosity gets the better of him, Alex tries the game out and disappears.
As The Disaster Artist opens up, we hear from various celebrities giving recollections about the now cult classic known as The Room. A24 Pictures & New Line Cinema present the hilarious black comedy, The Disaster Artist. Director James Franco brings, the real-life story of writer/director Tommy Wiseau, the man behind what is often referred to as “The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies,” The Room, is brought to life, chronicling the odd film’s troubled development and eventual cult success.
Better Watch Out is now available to stream on Amazon. From Storm Vision Entertainment and director Chris Peckover, Better Watch Out tells the story of Luke (Levi Miller) a twelve-year-old looking forward to spending the night with his babysitter Ashley (Olivia Dejonge) while his parents Robert (Patrick Warburton) and Deandra (Virginia Madsen) attend an office Christmas party.
Disney-Pixar’s “Coco” can best be described as heartwarming and thought provoking. Directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, the film tells the story of twelve-year-old Miguel Rivera, whose family despises music. After having seen “Coco”, I became fascinated with the Rivera family’s thoughts on music, as well as how the Land of the Dead was depicted.
Chadwick Boseman continues to succeed playing legendary Black Americans, with his latest role as Thurgood Marshall in Marshall from Open Road Films and director Reginald Hudlin. Avoiding the birth to death angle that other biopics in the past have taken, Marshall finds Thurgood already a superstar attorney for the NAACP. Marshall has the task of defending a black chauffeur, Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown) accused of rape by his white employer’s wife, Eleanor Struning (Kate Hudson) in Connecticut.
After spending the last few years doing voice-over work and doing films in his native China, Jackie Chan returns to the screen in STX Entertainment, The Foreigner, based on the novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leather. Directed by Martin Campbell, The Foreigner finds Chan in the role of Ngoc Minh Quan, a former Navy SEAL turned London restaurateur who looks for revenge after his daughter is killed in a bombing. Quan’s central nemesis Liam Hennessey (the always reliable Pierce Bronson) is a former IRA member turned British government official who may know more than he leads on.
Following Spilt & Get Out, Universal Pictures & Blumhosue productions continue their successful 2017 horror run with their latest release Happy Death Day. Tree Gellban (Jessica Rothe) is your typical college sorority girl experiencing the highs & lows of college life. As Happy Death Day opens up, Tree wakes up in the dorm room of Carter (Israel Broussard) who she instantly blows off, despite Carter’s good nature. Later that night, which happens to be her birthday, Tree is murdered by an unseen assailant. The next day, Tree wakes up and begins to relive the same day of her murder with both of its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity.
