Take a quick look at some of the most anticipated movies coming to theaters this summer!
THE MOVIE SENSATION OF THE YEAR - THE EQUALIZER 2 - TRAILER 2
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the
exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he
loves?
Director:
Antoine FuquaStars:
Country:
USARelease Date:
20 July 2018 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A védelmező 2. See more »Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
Dolby Surround 7.1 | DTS (DTS: X)| Dolby Digital | Dolby Atmos (Dolby Atmos+Vision)| IMAX 6-TrackColor:
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During filming, the crew whimsically referred to it as "The Sequelizer." See more »Soundtracks
Sucker For Pain
Written by Alex da Kid (as Alexander Grant), Lil' Wayne (as Dwayne Carter), Wiz Khalifa (as Cameron Thomaz), Wayne Sermon (as Daniel Sermon), Dan Reynolds (as Daniel Reynolds), Ben McKee (as Benjamin McKee), Daniel Platzman, Logic (as Robert Hall), Ty Dolla $ign (as Tyrone Griffin Jr.), and Sam Harris
Produced by Alex da Kid
Performed by Lil' Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla $ign (as Ty Dolla $ign) (Feat. X Ambassadors)
Lil Wayne appears courtesy of Cash Money Records
Wiz Khalifa appears courtesy of Rostrum Records/Atlantic Recording Corporation
Imagine Dragons appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
Logic appears courtesy of Def Jam Recordings
Ty Dolla $ign appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation
X Ambassadors appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
Written by Alex da Kid (as Alexander Grant), Lil' Wayne (as Dwayne Carter), Wiz Khalifa (as Cameron Thomaz), Wayne Sermon (as Daniel Sermon), Dan Reynolds (as Daniel Reynolds), Ben McKee (as Benjamin McKee), Daniel Platzman, Logic (as Robert Hall), Ty Dolla $ign (as Tyrone Griffin Jr.), and Sam Harris
Produced by Alex da Kid
Performed by Lil' Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla $ign (as Ty Dolla $ign) (Feat. X Ambassadors)
Lil Wayne appears courtesy of Cash Money Records
Wiz Khalifa appears courtesy of Rostrum Records/Atlantic Recording Corporation
Imagine Dragons appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
Logic appears courtesy of Def Jam Recordings
Ty Dolla $ign appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation
X Ambassadors appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
THE MOVIE SENSATION OF THE YEAR - THE EQUALIZER 2 (2018) - TRAILER 1
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the
exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he
loves?
Director:
Antoine FuquaStars:
Country:
USARelease Date:
20 July 2018 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A védelmező 2. See more »Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Sound Mix:
Dolby Surround 7.1 | DTS (DTS: X)| Dolby Digital | Dolby Atmos (Dolby Atmos+Vision)| IMAX 6-TrackColor:
ColorAspect Ratio:
2.39 : 1
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Did You Know?
Trivia
During filming, the crew whimsically referred to it as "The Sequelizer." See more »Soundtracks
Sucker For Pain
Written by Alex da Kid (as Alexander Grant), Lil' Wayne (as Dwayne Carter), Wiz Khalifa (as Cameron Thomaz), Wayne Sermon (as Daniel Sermon), Dan Reynolds (as Daniel Reynolds), Ben McKee (as Benjamin McKee), Daniel Platzman, Logic (as Robert Hall), Ty Dolla $ign (as Tyrone Griffin Jr.), and Sam Harris
Produced by Alex da Kid
Performed by Lil' Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla $ign (as Ty Dolla $ign) (Feat. X Ambassadors)
Lil Wayne appears courtesy of Cash Money Records
Wiz Khalifa appears courtesy of Rostrum Records/Atlantic Recording Corporation
Imagine Dragons appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
Logic appears courtesy of Def Jam Recordings
Ty Dolla $ign appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation
X Ambassadors appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
Written by Alex da Kid (as Alexander Grant), Lil' Wayne (as Dwayne Carter), Wiz Khalifa (as Cameron Thomaz), Wayne Sermon (as Daniel Sermon), Dan Reynolds (as Daniel Reynolds), Ben McKee (as Benjamin McKee), Daniel Platzman, Logic (as Robert Hall), Ty Dolla $ign (as Tyrone Griffin Jr.), and Sam Harris
Produced by Alex da Kid
Performed by Lil' Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla $ign (as Ty Dolla $ign) (Feat. X Ambassadors)
Lil Wayne appears courtesy of Cash Money Records
Wiz Khalifa appears courtesy of Rostrum Records/Atlantic Recording Corporation
Imagine Dragons appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
Logic appears courtesy of Def Jam Recordings
Ty Dolla $ign appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation
X Ambassadors appear courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
THE FINAL TRAILER OF - DEADPOOL 2 (2018)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef
(Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry's
hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of
taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux
capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually
aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the
importance of family, friendship, and flavor - finding a new taste for
adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best
Lover.
Director:
David LeitchStars:
Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 May 2018 (Philippines) See more »Also Known As:
Daisy See more »Company Credits
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Black Tom is a mutant who can manipulate, bond with, and project energy
through plant life. He is also capable of issuing concussive blasts with
a wooden object, usually a shillelagh.
TRUTH OR DARE (2018) - FILM REVIEW
Truth or Dare (2018)
Given
the current obsession with reboots, revisits and rehashes, it’s strange
that the Final Destination franchise hasn’t cheated death and been
dragged back to life after five films and $665m in the bank. It’s even
stranger given that its legacy has been haunting lesser pretenders in
the past year from the incompetent shlock of Wish Upon to the snappy, if throwaway, slashery of Happy Death Day. Blumhouse, the phenomenally successful company behind the latter (last year also saw them turn Get Out and Split
into global smashes) is now hoping to milk yet more money from the
death-heavy formula with Truth or Dare, a slick college-set horror.
If the gasps and guffaws during my screening are any indication, it’s
likely Blumhouse will have another crowd-pleasing franchise on its
hands (Happy Death Day 2 is on the way, along with sequels to other
Blumhouse hits like The Purge, Insidious and Unfriended) with a nifty,
if derivative, gimmick that lends itself to multiple sequels. Rather
than a disaster-predicting premonition, this time it’s a cursed game
that finds its way into the lives of a group of college kids, enjoying
their final spring break in Mexico.
They’re led by Olivia (the Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale) who is
a brunette, so is therefore earnest and pure; she spends her time
making YouTube videos to help support Habitat for Humanity. Her best
friend, Markie (The Flash star Violett Beane), is blonde and is
therefore rebellious and spends her time cheating on her boyfriend.
Along with their similarly well-drawn friends, they get dragged into
playing a game of Truth or Dare inside a creepy chapel by a handsome
stranger who reveals to them that he only took them there to save
himself. They pass it off as drunken bluster but when they return to
their normal lives, strange things start happening.
Each friend is visited by a demonic presence that overtakes the body
of someone close to them in order to ask the all-important question. The
rules of the game are simple: you choose truth or you choose dare. If
you decide to skip, you die. It took four writers to come up with this.
After a rushed, entirely unscary opening scene and some rather dry
character-setting dialogue, there are some smartly crafted titles that
showcase the group’s vacation through social media posts alone. It’s
indicative of the film that follows, which sees college students
behaving like college students would, forever texting, snapping and
gramming, one of the film’s more believable touches. Slightly less
believable are the specifics that get the group to play a game in a
clearly haunted hill-top building, an awful decision that’s never
justified as anything other than “something that would happen in a
horror movie”. Along with the deadly game, this dim-witted behavior
follows them back home.
Hackneyed horror tropes persist throughout and so does some
crushingly exposition-heavy dialogue (“Since my dad took his own life,
you’ve been my only family”) but it rattles along at a fair lick, never
resting for too long before another nasty surprise. Even most of the
death scenes feel rushed, highlighting the PG-13 rating that the film
has secured, and one does miss the Grand Guignol extravagance of the
Final Destination franchise. Still, the director, Jeff Wadlow, has a
puppyish eagerness to impress, shock and entertain and as silly as the
film might get, it’s never dull.
It’s a clear sign of the times that as well as battling a
supernatural force, the characters also have “issues” to contend with,
sort of like a shallow genre take on 13 Reasons Why. There’s alcoholism,
bereavement, sexual abuse and dealing with one’s sexuality. Most of it
is admirably handled yet the latter subplot leads to one of the film’s
most regrettable lines – “Your dad didn’t know you’re gay? Your ringtone
is Beyoncé!” – which prompted more groans in the screening than any of
the death scenes.
With the remaining characters forced to turn detective in order to
find the origin of the curse, the film starts feeling less like The Ring
and more like Scooby-Doo. But Hale is a committed lead and it all
builds to an audaciously nutty climax. There’s something oddly charming
about the film’s dogged, goofy attempt to earnestly write the rules of a
franchise that will clearly be haunting cinemas, or sleepovers, for
years to come. Truth: it’s watchable trash. Dare: bring back Final
Destination instead.
A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns
deadly when someone -- or something -- begins to punish those who tell a
lie or refuse the dare.
Director:
Jeff WadlowStars:
Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
9 May 2018 (Philippines) See more »Also Known As:
Verdad o reto See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$18,667,855, 15 April 2018, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$19,670,455, 16 April 2018Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$22,270,455, 16 April 2018Company Credits
Production Co:
4K TRAILER SHOW - JURASSIC WORLD - NEW TRAILER #3 AND TRAILER COMPILATION
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to
life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs
from this extinction-level event.
Director:
J.A. BayonaStars:
Four years after the Jurassic World theme park was closed down, Owen and
Claire return to Isla Nubar to save the dinosaurs when they learn that a
once dormant volcano on the island is active and is threatening to
extinguish all life there. Along the way, Owen sets out to find Blue,
his lead raptor, and discovers a conspiracy that could disrupt the
natural order of the entire planet. Life has found a way, again.
Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
6 June 2018 (Philippines) See more »Also Known As:
Jurassic Park 5 See more »Company Credits
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2.39 : 1Did You Know?
Trivia
Carnotaurus was originally supposed to be in Jurassic Park III
(2001) at the river bank when they find the satellite phone in the
spinosaurus dung, but they ultimately replaced it with ceratosaurus
FIRST LOOK REVIEW - AVENGER: INFINITY WAR (2018) - IN CINEMAS ARPIL 25, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Infinity War is a superhero epic that brings together
characters from just about every Marvel movie made so far. When
evil intergalactic ruler Thanos (Josh Brolin)
starts seeking the six Infinity Stones, artifacts of extraordinary
power, the Avengers must band together with old and new allies to defeat
him in their most difficult challenge yet. Because it features so many
superheroes from so many films (not just The Avengers and The Avengers: Age of Ultron, but also Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Doctor Strange),
you'll want to be familiar with those characters and stories before you
see this movie. Like all of the previous Marvel superhero movies, it's
safe to expect lots of action violence, as well as some language and
romance. But teens and mature tweens who've kept up with the rest of the
MCU films won't want to miss this one.
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to
sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his
blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Stars:
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world
from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has
emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic
infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of
unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of
reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this
moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more
uncertain.
Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
25 April 2018 (Philippines) See more »Also Known As:
Avengers: Cuoc Chien Vo Cuc See more »Filming Locations:
Pinewood Atlanta Studios, 461 Sandy Creek Road, Fayetteville, Georgia, USA See more »Company Credits
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IMAX 6-Track | Dolby Surround 7.1 | 12-Track Digital Sound (IMAX 12 track)| Dolby Digital | Dolby Atmos | Sonics-DDP | DTS (DTS: X)| Auro 11.1Color:
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2.39 : 1Did You Know?
Trivia
Hugh Jackman expressed interest to appear in an Avengers film, but he
said he would only reprise his character, Wolverine, if he appeared in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In December 2017, however, Jackman
officially stated he would not be reprising the role and he would love
to see someone else play the character. Logan (2017) was Jackman's last
film as Wolverine.
A MONSTER MONKEY ROCKS THE SCREEN - RAMPAGE (2018) - FILM REVIEW
Rampage (2018)
Dwayne Johnson
finally gets a star to match his size if not charisma in the sometimes
gloriously ludicrous “Rampage,” a movie based on a hit arcade game that
was literally just larger-than-life monsters bashing buildings. If
you’re thinking, “Wow, that seems like a flimsy premise from which to
adapt a feature film,” you’re not entirely wrong. Directed by “San Andreas” helmer Brad Peyton,
this CGI blockbuster is often a defiantly stupid movie, most
comfortable with what it’s trying to accomplish when giant monsters are
destroying half of downtown Chicago or leaping on moving helicopters.
It’s the narrative tissue in between that allows the movie magic to
falter every now and then. However, when Johnson is doing that movie
action star thing he does so well and giant animals are going
enormous-mano-a-enormous-mano, there’s undeniably goofy fun to be had.
You just have to be patient during the downtime.
“Rampage” opens by establishing its ridiculous tone early. A
scientist on a space station is struggling to save some genetically
engineered samples from, well, a mutated super-rat. The station is on
fire, and everyone else appears dead, but she’s ordered to save the
science. Yes, “Rampage” opens with a super space rat aboard an on-fire
spaceship hurtling to Earth. It’s certainly a tone setter.
The samples plummet to Earth, and land in three locations. One
happens to hit ground in a San Diego Wildlife Sanctuary managed by Davis
Okoye (Johnson). Davis’ favorite beast is a giant albino gorilla named
George, and the clever animal happens upon one of the genetic samples.
Before you know it, George is growing at a never-before-seen rate,
accompanied by increased aggression and insatiable hunger. He kills a
bear, escapes, and, well, lots of things go boom. That’s why you come to
a movie like “Rampage”—to see and hear things go boom.
A
critical caveat seems appropriate here: I dig giant monster movies. I
still awe at the 1933 “King Kong,” a movie that I consider among the
most important ever made. I even dug Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake, as well as recent iterations of the King of the Monsters both in Gareth Edwards’ 2014 American version (“Godzilla”) and Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi’s 2016 Japanese version (“Shin Godzilla”).
There’s something about the spectacle of movies like “King Kong” and
“Godzilla” that’s singularly cinematic—it’s not something that other
forms like theatre, TV, or fiction can do in quite the same way. Add
this appreciation for big creatures slamming into buildings with my
belief that Dwayne Johnson is one of the few current working actors we
can legitimately call a ‘movie star’ and “Rampage” should be a slam
dunk. I even played the arcade game!
So, why isn’t it a slam
dunk? Sure, there are times when “Rampage” gives viewers exactly what
they were hoping for when they opened their wallets or whipped out their
MoviePass. No one can really accuse this movie of not delivering on
what was in the trailers (although one could argue the whole
movie is in those trailers). So why isn't it the "King Kong Meets the
Rock" it could have been? First, the film seriously muddles its vague
attempts at emotional undercurrents. Davis mentions early on that he
likes the company of animals more than people, but to say he has no
actual character would be an understatement (George is actually more
developed). And Naomie Harris’
eventual sidekick Kate has an emotional back story that’s designed to
make her more accessible but really just falls flat—a scene between the
two when they share their pasts, including when Davis found George and
saved him from poachers, is embarrassingly mishandled.
But nothing sinks the film more than Jake Lacy and Malin Akerman’s
villains, the nefarious siblings who run the evil company doing evil
science things and making evil big animals and more evil stuff. They
sometimes sound like they were written as over-the-top
caricatures—Lacy’s Brett actually says, “There’s a reason we were doing
these experiments in space!”—but the characters/performances are so
bland that the movie sags every time they show up. More fun are Joe Manganiello’s soldier of fortune and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s
‘OGA’ (Other Government Agency) Officer. Morgan delivers every line
with a cocked neck and Southern side-eye that hints he knows how goofy
this whole thing truly is, or at least should be.
Morgan’s
having fun, for sure, and Johnson is charismatic, but Peyton too often
struggles to convey that "big monster movie" sense of excitement
cinematically. Even when “Rampage” gets to the fireworks, it feels like
it’s too often going through the motions. There are just enough
“big” beats—a giant wolf leaping at a mid-air helicopter, George using
tanks like toys on Michigan Avenue, all the animals climbing the
will-always-be-known-as-to-me Sears Tower—to keep fans engaged, but
monster movies should do more than just keep you engaged. They should
wow. They should fascinate. They should strike the imagination in such a
way that they allow things like cheesy dialogue and thin characters to
not only be critically dismissible but downright preferable. “Rampage”
never quite gets to that point where you can consistently ignore the
things it does wrong, and that can be deadly for a movie about animals
the size of apartment buildings. It’s a tonal balance that “Rampage”
only sometimes hits. Maybe they’ll perfect it in time for “Dig Dug.”
