Summer has officially arrived…and so have the best blockbusters of the summer in my opinion. This June slate is pretty weak compared to past years: there’s no can’t miss movie in this bunch, and not even any honorable mentions…that’s how bad this particular month is looking.
Here’s the Top 10 movies released in June 2019, for whatever it’s worth…
This isn’t just your run of the mill Zombie movie. It’s a zombie movie that (this is true) opened the Cannes film festival. How is that possible? Well, it’s not every day the great Jim Jarmusch directs a zombie movie…
Yes, this is the third Annabelle movie. And yes, this is a spinoff from the Conjuring universe’s doll. However, the last Annabelle movie was pretty good, and Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are actually in this one, meaning they’re lending their credibility to the story.
After the merger of 20th Century Fox and Disney, X-Men can now appear in Marvel Movies! So consider this the last hurrah for this batch of X-Men, using Sophie Turner’s Game of Thrones star power to retell the Dark Phoenix Saga.
Samuel L. Jackson screaming obscenities at dumb people is one of those guttural pleasures only the movies can provide. Shaft merges multiple generations of the character into 1 film, plus the film has a vintage style that we don’t see in movies too often.
In what can only be described as her own fan fiction, Mindy Kaling writes this fun comedy about Emma Thompson’s late night host who needs Kaling to come in and help reinvigorate the TV show. I’d go see this for the Thompson/Kaling pairing alone.
Of the sleeping franchises, Men In Black’s world feels deep enough to warrant a reboot. Replacing young Will Smith and old Tommy Lee Jones will be hard, but Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth were pretty stellar in Thor: Ragnarok, so there’s a real chance this one could be hella fun.
Netflix’s lone entry in June’s Top 10 is a movie about a security guard discovering a kid in a poor community in Chicago is also a great music creator. It looks like your classic underdog story surrounded by a mismatched buddy comedy in a fresh new way.
This is the little movie I’m most excited for. A24 rarely releases a bad film, and the early buzz on this movie is great, plus the story looks like a complicated look at race and gentrification in the US, a sure fire way to tell a story that means something.
The fun of this movie is it’s can’t miss enjoyable premise: what if the Beatles never existed, except for 1 guy who knows all of their songs? Worst case scenario this movie is just a Beatles sing along. Best case? A fantasy tale that will warm every heart.
Toy Story 3 is my 3rd favorite movie of ALL TIME. So, naturally, I’m DREADING this film doesn’t screw up the magic of that film. I have hopes the Pixar creatives won’t let that happen, and that they tap into what made #3 so special.
