July is the reason I love the movies. The choices this month are pretty great for most of the month, including really good sequels, some high risk/reward choices and the current summer blockbuster king returning to the big screen…
SPIDER MAN: HOMECOMING
The Good: The cast is very winning especially our new Spiderman Tom Holland, and teenage Spiderman has the best stories.
The Bad: The director has never handled a studio film, plus there are 6(!) credited screenplay writers.
Prediction:
This should be closer to Ant-Man for Marvel, small but decent enough.
A GHOST STORY
The Good: A24 is involved, and David Lowery makes really interesting stories including last year’s Pete’s Dragon remake.
The Bad: Will the movie’s use of Casey Affleck be Manchester By the Sea level sad that no one will see it?
Prediction:
Even though Manchester was really depressing it was still really good, and so too will this one be.
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
The Good: The crew from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is back, plus they replaced neutered Gary Oldman with psycho Woody Harrelson: fair trade.
The Bad: Like Dawn, this one could favor action over allegory and loose what made the original film so special.
Prediction:
The unlikely franchise reboot strikes again, going 3/3. My gut says this one is likely to be the best one.
DUNKIRK
The Good: Christopher Nolan, that gigantic titan, directing a WWII movie starring Tom Hardy and Kenneth Branagh? Really hard to hate this one.
The Bad: Nolan’s last two movies were minor misfires, does the trend continue?
Prediction:
We’ll see if Nolan can recapture his magic; I’m curious how he is going to tell a war story myself.
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
The Good: A wacky French comic book paired with French Luc Besson, who directed the wacky Fifth Element.
The Bad: The plot looks convoluted and Carla Delevigne has shown limited to zero ability to be a good actress.
Prediction:
This will certainly look cool, but I’m smelling at best a cult classic and at worst crappier Gods of Egypt.
GIRLS TRIP
The Good: OnThe cast is mostly funny, and the director and writer are involved in the most recent Barbershop, Legally Blonde, and 10 Things I Hate About You.
The Bad: Will the writers let the talented cast loose, or will this be too pratfall and cliche heavy?
Prediction:
Talent wins the day, and the in front of and behind the screen ensembles give me lots of optimism.
THE EMOJI MOVIE
The Good: It should look pretty and have funny animations?
The Bad: An awful premise, with an untested writer/director from the studio most famous for the crap Smurf movies.
Prediction:
Studio Head: “Kids like emoji’s right? Let’s make a movie about that!” No kid spends an hour and a half looking at emoji’s dude/dudette.
ATOMIC BLONDE
The Good: A nice genre inversion, with James McAvoy the “2nd fiddle” and Charlize Theron the badass agent.
The Bad: I’m glad a former stuntman is directing this movie, but he’s untested, and the writer does movies where no one speaks much.
Prediction:
In my opinion, Charlize Theron is the most talented actress in Hollywood (she can do anything in any genre). A stuntman director will at least mean the kills should be super cool. Hope abounds.
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER
The Good: Al Gore knows his stuff; we’ll see how much progress we have made since the first one took the nation by storm.
The Bad: How well can the documentary encompass the issue to make it understandable for a mainstream audience?
Prediction:
I feel like this thing has to speak too much about the current administration, which limits the scope and therefore effectiveness of the issue of manmade climate change.
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