Summer is flying by, so be sure to take ‘a meeting’ with your family in the cool surroundings of your neighborhood movie theater this weekend. Hollywood deliverers the goods again this week. The whole family will love the latest animated film, while Ghostbusters returns some 30 years later with a new mission and cast.
Sports fans will enjoy ‘Undrafted,’ a film about an intramural baseball game that turns into the biggest game of the player’s lives. Bryan Cranston continues to remind us just how talented he is in a move about the murderous drug king Pablo Escobar, and the latest Woody Allen movie set in the early days of Hollywood, keep the dream alive for our search for fame and fortune.
Enjoy the movies this weekend – I always do!
The Infiltrator (2016)
(R) Biography | Crime
Director: Brad Furman
Stars: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan
Pablo Escobar was the most ruthless, and murdering human being on the planet. In an autobiographical effort, ‘The Infiltrator’ is the story of a U.S. Customs Agent who stumbles across a money laundering scheme that nearly gets them killed. Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston should get an Oscar nomination for his work in this riveting film. [watch trailer
Equals (2015)
(PG-13) 101 min – Romance
Director: Drake Doremus
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Vernetta Lopez, Scott Lawrence
In a script set many years from present day on earth, a couple falls in love during an epidemic, only to discover love is an emotion that doesn’t live in a vacuum. [watch trailer
Phantom Boy (2015)
(NR) 84 min – Animation
Directors: Jean-Loup Felicioli | Alain Gagnol
Stars: Edouard Baer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Audrey Tautou, Jackie Berroyer
In one of the most adventurous animated movies of the year, a gifted young man and a disabled vet join forces to go after the mob. PS – this is a French foreign film that will not look like any animated film you’ve ever seen. [watch trailer]
Ghostbusters (2016)
(PG-13) 116 min – Action
Director: Paul Feig
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones
We’ve waited 40 years to continue the Ghostbuster saga, and director Paul Feig and stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones do not disappoint. If there is only one movie to see this summer, this is surely the one. [watch trailer]
Undrafted (2016)
(NR) Drama
Director: Joseph Mazzello
Stars: Tyler Hoechlin, Chace Crawford, Joseph Mazzello, Duke Davis Roberts
You never know when fate shows its hand, unusually in the most average day. A group of ball players in the middle of a game that seems to have no real significance, realize it is now the most important nine innings of the player’s lives. This is the sports script that rounds the bases of the unusual. [watch trailer]
Café Society (2016)
(PG-13) 96 min – Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Steve Carell, Sheryl Lee, Todd Weeks, Paul Schackman
If films by Woody Allen are your cup of tea, then his latest comedy will not disappoint. The backdrop is Brooklyn 1930s; a man chases a woman whose uncle is a Hollywood agent to the city of angles, discovering that the sun, beach, make believe, and tinsel town glitter was made for him.[watch trailer]
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