Truth or Dare? Trick question, you're (brain) dead.
GUESS THE QUOTE
"Slider, you stink."
We know it's early, but we're gonna give out some early year end awards.
The Rider - the best movie you considered watching the most times, but chose to binge The Office reruns instead.
Isle of Dogs - the best movie to incite very heated debated at coffee shops about whether this is Wes Anderson's best movie.
Rampage - the best on screen duo since Charles Grodin and Beethoven.
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RAMPAGE
AKA
"your mindset every time you get stuck in traffic"
PG-13 / 1 hr 55 mins
Action / Warner Bros.
WHAT'S THE DEAL
The Rock with buildings being destroyed by massive animals.
Is it based on that 80's arcade where animals beat on buildings? Yes it is.
How the hell did this get greenlight? Come on, you know how.
What's the story? It doesn't matter. It's The Rock - with buildings being destroyed by. massive. animals.
Yes, it it does. Fiiiine...
....animals get hit with chemicals, get humongified and angrified, destroy cities. The Rock tries to save George the gorilla, who is his pal, while stopping other animals (wolf! alligator!) and humans who made this happen.
But what's The Rock's character's backstory, I really want to empath....? Nope! Nuh uh, that's it, your cut off.
REVIEWS
Come on, what do you expect?
If not much beyond killin two hours on shit blowin up and bad action one liners, you'll be satisfied.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 46%
(56 reviews @ publish)
ARE WE GONNA GO?
Give us some quarters instead.
.....?
Ya know, to go play the actual game.
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TRUTH OR DARE
AKA
"can we get a third option Bob?"
PG-13 / 1 hr 40 mins
Horror / Universal
WHAT'S THE DEAL
The horror movie that looks a lot worse in comparison to last week's A Quiet Place.
Whereas A Quiet Place was fresh, this is decidedly not.
Think Final Destination, but with more cheaply made death scenes.
The hook here is that if you don't play the game, you die. Or if you choose truth and lie, you die. But it seems even if you do play, you die.
In summation, lot's of dying.
REVIEWS
Not so much feeling it.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 26%
(31 Reviews @ publish)
ARE WE GONNA GO?
Only if you dare us to*
*that's not the truth.
See what we did there?
Oh shit....
ISLE OF DOGS
AKA
"postal worker hell"
PG-13 / 1 hr 41 mins
Animation-Drama-Comedy / Fox Searchlight
WHAT'S THE DEAL
The new Wes Anderson movie.
Are you a fan?
If yes, you're gonna love this one.
If no, you probably won't be converted. Then again, it does star dogs... albeit animated ones.
It's Anderson's second stop motion attempt - this time taking on a boy who, 20 years in the future in Japan, tries to save his dog, with help from other dogs, from sequestration on an island of trash where all dogs have been banished.
Twee to the max stacked with typical very well known cast.
NOTE: already playing in NY/LA and other bigger cities
REVIEWS
Big fans.
Up there with Grand Budapest Hotel as Anderson's best apparently.
But for what it's worth there are, a few, strong naysayers out there.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%
(207!! Reviews @ publish)
ARE WE GONNA GO?
Ahhww, ahhww, ahhwwwooooooo
That's heck yeah in dog.
INDIE SPOTLIGHT
THE RIDER
AKA
"that movie NPR won't shut up about"
R / 1 hr 44 mins
Drama / Sony Pictures Classics
WHAT'S THE DEAL
It's that movie you're hearing (going to hear) about a bunch that uses non-actors to tell a semi fictional story based on those non-actors' lives.
And it's set in South Dakota on a Native American reservation. Seriously, could a movie be more fit for the NPR audience?
The lead is a competitive horse rider who (in real life too) has an accident that nearly kills him and restricts him from riding again.
He has to manage and understand the massive shift in his world and identity.
REVIEWS
Huge huge fans.
Seems to be the favorite movie of the year, so far, for many.
Focusing on the affecting story and realness felt by using real people and a true story.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98%
(47 Reviews @ publish)
ARE WE GONNA GO?
Really want to.
If not in theaters, def at home.
LAST WEEKEND'S TOP MOVIES
(Weekend / Domestic Total - $ = Millions)
1) A Quiet Place ($50.1 ) NEW
Noises bring scary monsters
96% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
2) Ready Player One ($24.6 / $96)
Spielberg directs VR world nostalgiafest
76% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
3) Blockers ($20.6) NEW
Parents try & stop daughters' sex lives
82% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
4) Black Panther ($8.7 / $665)
A super, hero, movie
97% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
5) Tyler Perry's Acrimony ($8.4 / $32)
Woman scorning does not end well for man
25% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
6) I Can Only Imagine ($7.8 / $69)
Faith based / based on pop christian song
67% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
7) Chappaquiddick ($5.8 ) NEW
Story of Ted Kennedy and car accident
78% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
8) Sherlock Gnomes ($5.4 / $34)
Gnumber two in animated now franchise
19% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
9) Pacific Rim Uprising ($4.8 / $55)
Big Robots v Big Monsters Part 2
46% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
10) Isle of Dogs ($4.6 / $12)
New Wes Anderson / stop motion
93% RT - Trailer - Showtimes
I FEEL PRETTY
Amy Schumer gets bopped on the head and gains all the confidence in the world.
And the world comes with it.
SUPER TROOPERS 2
Meow we're talking.
Get your liter of cola and enjoy more (evil?) shenanigans.
TRAFFIK
Paula Patton & Omar Epps B movie home invasion thriller.
Yup, bought sums it up.
BEAST
May 11, 2018
A girl living a restricted life meets a guy who makes her feel alive, but maaaay have made some other girls not so alive (i.e. dead). Intense.
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SOLO:
A STAR WARS STORY
May 25, 2018
Full trailer for the Han Solo movie. Gets a biiiit more into the plot, but still fairly light in details.
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AMERICAN ANIMALS
June 1, 2018
Based on a true story where four friends (kids basically) try and steal a very valuable book. More dramatic than funny (at least in the trailer).
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THE MEG
May 18, 2018
As in the megalodon. The really really big shark that (luckily) no longer exists - except it does. And Jason Statham is here to save us.
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JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN
October 12, 2018
The not James Bond is back... to messin stuff up. And yet still saving the day.
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THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
TBD
20 years in the making, Terry Gilliam's life dream is apparently finished. And boy is it weird.