It Came from Annabelle's Dark Tower

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.