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Avengers: Infinity War Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, and Josh Brolin Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo Worldwide Release Date: April 27th, 2018 My First Viewing: April 26th, 2018 image credit: movieposter.com **Note** This is a NON-SPOILER review. Coming off the massive success of Black Panther earlier this year, Marvel gives us the gift of Avengers: Infinity War, starring, in some capacity, just about everyone who has been a hero in the MCU, plus Josh Brolin as the uber-villain Thanos. It is directed by the Russo Brothers, who bring their style of action and humor from the last two installments of the Captain America franchise.  Thanos (Brolin) is on the search for the Infinity Stones, which if he gets all six in the Gauntlet, he can wipe out half of the universe's existence in the snap of a finger. He feels that this is the natural order of things, and by eliminating people, he can better society long-term. In his way, in some capacity, are the newly

Rampage Starring: Dwayne Johnson and Naomie Harris Directed by Brad Peyton US Release Date: April 13th, 2018 My First Viewing: April 16th, 2018 image credit: movieposter.com Dwayne Johnson's action-adventure-video game-blow 'em up resume grows with Rampage, co-starring Naomie Harris, Malin Ackerman, and Jeffery Dean Morgan.  Johnson stars as Davis Okoye, primatologist by day, and a sad loner by night. Davis' best friend is George, and albino gorilla Davis saved from poachers. At the San Diego Zoo, Davis has taught George how to communicate using sign language, as well as fist-bumping, flipping the bird, and the two-handed finger-in-fist sex gesture. When a growth hormone crashes at three different sites across the country, George finds one and grows to exponential size, causing havoc. Davis teams up with an ex-geneticist (Harris) and a cowboy government agent (Morgan) to get George under control before he and two other monster animals destroy Chicago. This film

Blockers Starring: John Cena and Leslie Mann Directed By Kay Cannon US Release Date: April 6th, 2018 My First Viewing: April 4th, 2018 John Cena, Leslie Mann, and Ike Barinholtz are on a mission to stop their teenage daughters from going through with their planned prom night sex pact in Blockers, directed by Kay Cannon (in her directorial debut).  Julie, Kayla, and Sam (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Gideon Aldon) have been best friends since the first day of elementary school. Now they are ending high school and decide that on prom night that they want to lose their virginity. When Julie's mom Lisa (Mann) finds Julie's emoji-filled text live stream on her laptop, Kayla's father Mitchell (Cena), and Lisa try and decipher the codes until the text #sexpact2018 pops up on the screen. While Lisa and Mitchell want to do what they can to stop it, Sam's father Hunter (Barinholtz) doesn't want to interfere. From there it's a race against time to ru

A Quiet Place Starring: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Co-Written and Directed by John Krasinski US Release Date: April 6th, 2018 My First Viewing: April 2nd, 2018 John Krasinski and Emily Blunt try to protect their family from an unknown entity in A Quiet Place, a title that not only perfectly describes the film, but also your theater-going experience while watching it as well.  Taking place in the not-too-distant future in Little Falls, New York, an alien race only known as the Dark Angels live in hiding. If you make a sound, they find you and kill you. Evelyn and Lee Abbott (Blunt and Krasinski) live on a farm with their two children Regan and Marcus (Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe), to do whatever they can to stay alive. When one night they stoke the ire of the Angels by accident, it's a race against time to use what they can to defeat the Angels.  Being a married couple with young children in real life, you can tell the both Krasinski and Blunt bring a sense of r

Isle of Dogs Voiced By: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Greta Gerwig, and many, many, MANY others Co-Written and Directed by Wes Anderson US Release Date: March 23rd, 2018 My First Viewing: March 31st, 2018 Wes Anderson goes back to animation for the first time since 2009's Fantastic Mr. Fox with his first feature film since 2014's Grand Budapest Hotel  with Isle of Dogs.  Set in a not-to-distant future in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki, Mayor Kobayashi of the cat-loving Kobayashi tribe has ruled dogs to be excommunicated to Trash Island due to Snout Fever. The first dog sent to Trash Island is the security dog of his adopted son and ward Atari. Flash forward to Trash Island being overrun with dogs, where a group of five the rule the roost (voiced by Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, and Jeff Goldblum). Atari makes his way to Trash Island VIA a stolen plane, and, with the help of the pack of five, look for his lost dog Spots (Liev Schrei