VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
FANTASY/ACTION
PLOT: A visual epic adventure.
This movie is hard
to describe but it is a beautiful looking film.
Major Valerian (Dane DeHann, Chronicle, and Amazing Spiderman 2) and his
partner Sergeant Laureline (Cara Delevinge, Suicide Squad) are agents who get
involved with a perfect planet that may or not be extinct. It is based on comic books in France in the
70s. DeHann doesn’t look like the hero
type for the film and Delevinge is always tough. They are like two teenagers in
space suits instead of talented operatives.
Singer Rihianna is great as Bubble, an artist who is really fantasy
stripper. Commander (Clive Owen, Shoot
‘Em Up) is interesting but his hi-tech robots are even better! It is lovely but empty. If you can wait for video-wait.
IT: CHAPTER ONE
HORROR
PLOT: An evil being shaped like a clown comes to a
town every 27 years in Derry, Maine.
Stephen King wrote
this novel in 1986 and was turned into a scary mini-series in 1990. Mini-series
was popular at that time but a horror mini-series was very rare. Now they have made a movie about Pennywise,
(Bill Skarsgard) the Dancing Clown. The
movie and the mini-series still don’t tell the entire story of this thing
called IT. If you are very interested
read the book. Skarsgard’s Pennywise is
CREEPY! His wicked presence is felt
through the movie. He doesn’t talk much
but what he does to scary the kids is just awful. The seven kids are very brave, funny and a
few curse a lot. It has made much money
so that means sequel and in the sequel they are adults.
DETROIT
CRIME DRAMA
PLOT: The true story of a hotel incident in 1967 in
Detroit where cops killed black men.
Detroit in 1967
was a tense place to be if you were black.
Curfew at nine black folks scared of cops. The movie is very hard to sit through for you
see mostly white racist police humiliating black men and women. The acting is very good. Oscar winner
Kathryn Bigelow can’t get a break. She
won the Oscar for directing The Hurt Locker but even winning the award it still
didn’t make any money and this movie didn’t either. Whites are tired of being the bad guys and
black people are tired of being victims.
The film is worth watching for after 50 years to some there is little
change.
THE DARK TOWER
ACTION/SCI-FI/WESTERN
PLOT: Young man draws people
from other worlds.
The
film is based on the popular books from popular horror author Stephen
King. Jake(Tom Tyler) draws people from
other worlds and family and friends thinks he is mentally ill. He comes to realize there is another world
besides the one he lives in and Walter a.k.a. Man in Black (Mathew McConaughey)
is after him for he can destroy the dark tower in that world and he can take
over our universe. The only person that
can stop him is Roland a.k.a. Gunslinger (Idris Elba) who can load his guns as
fast as he can shoot them. The movie
could have easily been an episode of Dr. Who.
The action is great. I believe
the books are much better than the movie.
The back story of the film is more interesting, it was suppose to be a
movie then a limited (mini-series) then back to a film. I believe it would have been a better mini-series
on Netflix.
ANNABELLE: CREATION
HORROR
PLOT: The origin of the doll
Annabelle.
The film tells the story of how the doll
became evil. It is sloooow but when it
does start to move it does move! It
makes sense to the fans that saw Annabelle.
A doll maker loses their daughter in an accident and he designs the doll
in her imagine but supernatural lurks in their scary house. Many things don’t make a lot of logic but if
you like these kinds of movies go. Stay
for the post credit for it shows the “creepy nun.”
HITMAN’S BODYGUARD
ACTION/COMEDY
PLOT: A top bodyguard has to
protect an assassin so a dictator will go to prison.
OMG!! The concept is crazy and the cast is
great. It stars Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool)
who has to protect Samuel L. Jackson (who is in every other movie) a
hitman. The action sequences are amazing-almost
cartoonish but fun. Jackson and Reynolds
curse a lot and they each have many flashbacks about their lives. The lovely Salma Hayek is Jackson’s wife and
Elodie Yung (Gods of Egypt, Electra in Daredevil) is Reynolds girlfriend.