Coming & Current Unreviewed Movies

Second Act

• Official site

Open: December 21, 2018 (wide release)

The Mule

Open: December 14, 2018 (wide release)

Director/Star: Clint Eastwood with Bradley Cooper / inspired by a true story

Instant Family

currently showing nationwide—3,376 U.S. theaters

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Octavia Spencer

Mary Poppins Returns

Open: December 19, 2018 (wide)

Aquaman

Open: December 21, 2018 (wide)

Bumblebee

Open: December 21, 2018 (wide release)

Welcome to Marwen

Open: December 21, 2018 (wide release)

Holmes and Watson

• Official site

Open: December 25, 2018 (wide)

Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures—Director: Etan Cohen / Starring: Will Ferrell (Holmes), Ralph Fiennes (Moriarty), John C. Reilly (Watson), Hugh Laurie (Mycroft), Rebecca Hall (Dr. Grace Hart)

A humorous take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

Vice

Open: December 25, 2018 (wide release)

Escape Room

Open: January 4, 2019

Eli

Open: January 4, 2019 (wide release)

Paramount Pictures Corporation—Starring: Kelly Reilly, Lili Taylor, Sadie Sink, Max Martini, Charlie Shotwell, Jared Bankens / Director: Ciarán Foy (Ciaran Foy)

The story centers on a young boy named Eli who is undergoing treatment for a rare auto-immune disorder at a secluded clinic. He discovers that the place he’s living isn't as safe as he thought, but rather a haunted prison with no way out.

Replicas

Open: January 11, 2019 (wide release)

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures—Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, etc. / Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff

A neuroscientist (Keanu Reeves) becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident, going up against the government, the police and the laws of science.

A Dog's Way Home

Open: January 11, 2019 (wide)

The Upside

Open: January 11, 2019 (wide release)

Glass

Open: January 18, 2019 (wide release)

The Kid Who Would be King

Open: January 25, 2019 (wide release)

Serenity

Open: January 25, 2019 (wide release)

Miss Bala

“Who would you become to save your family?”

Open: February 1, 2019 (wide release)

Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures—Starring: Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie / Director: Catherine Hardwicke—“Thirteen” (2003), “Twilight” (2008), “Red Riding Hood” (2011)

Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.

Based on the Spanish-language film by Gerardo Naranjo of the same name.

Jacob's Ladder

Open: February 1, 2019 (wide release)

LD Entertainment—Starring: Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, Joseph Sikora, Guy Burnet, Karla Souza, Nicole Beharie / Director: David M. Rosenthal—“The Perfect Guy” (2015)

After returning home war, a veteran struggles to maintain his sanity. This is a remake of the 1990 thriller by director Adrian Lyne starring Tim Robbins. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “the producers are looking to make something more akin to an homage and not mimic the original. The plan is to contemporize the story with new situations and characters but still maintain a story that examines issues and poses existential questions.”

“They come in pieces”

• Official site

Open: February 8, 2019 (wide release)

Warner Bros. Pictures—Starring: Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Channing Tatum, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, Alison Brie, Stephanie Beatriz, Tiffany Haddish / Director: Mike Mitchell

The much-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, global box office phenomenon that started it all, “The LEGO® Movie 2: The Second Part” reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.

The battle to defeat them and restore harmony to the LEGO universe will take Emmet, Lucy, Batman and their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds, including a strange galaxy where everything is a musical. It will test their courage, creativity and Master Building skills, and reveal just how special they really are.

Reprising their starring roles from the first film are Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Lucy (aka Wyldstyle), Will Arnett as LEGO BatmanTM, Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, and Alison Brie as Unikitty. They are joined by Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, and Arturo Castro as, respectively, new characters Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi, Sweet Mayhem and Ice Cream Cone.

“Meet Nels Coxman. Citizen of the year.”

Open: February 8, 2019 (wide release)

Summit Entertainment, a division of Lionsgate Films—Starring: Liam Neeson, Emmy Rossum, Laura Dern, William Forsythe / Director: Hans Petter Moland

A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. Neeson plays a well-liked snowplow driver in a Colorado ski town named Nel, whose son is murdered. To get revenge, Nel uses his special set of skills (he owns a plow, after all) to take out the local drug cartel and its kingpin who are responsible, ultimately sparking a turf war between a Native American mafia and a yuppie gangster called The Viking. Liam Neeson plays an ordinary man driven to extraordinary lengths, a hero in the mold of Clint Eastwood in ‘Unforgiven’ or Bruce Willis in ‘Die Hard.’

This movie is based on the 2014 Norwegian film “In Order of Disappearance.”

“She can hear men’s thoughts. Let the games begin.”

Open: February 8, 2019 (wide release)

Paramount Pictures Corporation—Starring: Taraji P. Henson (Ali Davis), Wendi McLendon-Covey, Pete Davidson, Max Greenfield, Kellan Lutz, Shaquille O'Neal / Director: Nancy Meyers and Adam Shankman

A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents in her profession, but gains an unexpected edge over them when she develops the ability to hear their thoughts.

Ali Davis is a successful sports agent who’s constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When Ali is passed up for a well-deserved promotion, she questions what more she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world, until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts. With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest to the test.

The Prodigy

“There's something wrong with Miles”

Open: February 8, 2019 (wide release)

Orion Pictures—Starring: Taylor Schilling, Brittany Allen, Colm Feore, Jackson Robert Scott

Sarah, who was a mother to a child named Miles, is concerned about her young son’s disturbing behavior and seeks the help of a therapist. She begins to believe that something supernatural may be affecting him.

Isn't It Romantic

Open: February 13, 2019 (wide release)

New Line Cinema, division of Warner Bros. Pictures—Starring: Rebel Wilson, Priyanka Chopra, Liam Hemsworth, Betty Gilpi, Adam Devine / Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson

A cynical young woman (Rebel Wilson) disenchanted with love mysteriously finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy. Natalie wakes up one day to discover that she is self aware of her existence in a rom-com and tries to escape every cliche, and she goes from sidekick to center stage.

Fighting with My Family

“Based on a true story / A comedy about a family that fights a little differently”

Open: February 14, 2019

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)—Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Kim Matula, Florence Pugh, Stephen Merchant / Director: Stephen Merchant

A former wrestler and his family makes a living performing at small venues around the country, while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.

The film is inspired by the Channel 4 British documentary ‘The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family’ and tells the story of reformed gangster and former wrestler Ricky, his wife Julia, daughter Saraya and son Zak who make a living performing in tiny venues across the country. Ricky and Julia want a better life for their children and when brother and sister get the chance to audition for WWE, it seems the family dream is coming true and all their troubles will be solved. However, Saraya and Zak are about to learn that becoming a WWE Superstar demands more than they ever imagined possible as athletes and siblings. Wrestling has always kept this family together—but now it could tear them apart.

• Official site

Open: February 14, 2019

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation—Director: Robert Rodriguez / Producers: James Cameron and Jon Landau / Starring: Rosa Salazar (Alita), Jennifer Connelly, Michelle Rodriguez, Christoph Waltz, Eiza González, Jackie Earl Haley, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, etc.

An action-packed story of one young woman's journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world.

From visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY), comes ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment. When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past – she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she’s grown to love.

Set in the 26th century, the rebuilt Alita, remembering only her training in a deadly martial art, becomes a hunter-warrior, tracking down and eliminating vicious criminals. Within the context of an epic action-adventure, the film aims to explore a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and finding love.

The movie is based on the Japanese manga and graphic novel Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro.

Happy Death Day 2U

“Death makes a killer comeback”

Open: February 14, 2019 (wide release)

Universal Pictures—Starring: Jessica Rothe, Ruby Modine, Israel Broussard, Suraj Sharma

Sequel to the 2017 film “Happy Death Day”

Two years after the events of the first film, Tree Gelbman re-enters the time loop to determine why she was entered into it in the first place. Not only that, but she must face a revenge-seeking Lori who has been resurrected by the power of the time loop.

Run the Race

• Official site

Open: February 22, 2019

Roadside Attractions—“I Can Only Imagine” / Executive Producer: Tim Tebow (NY Mets baseball player and former NFL quarterback) / Writer/Director: Chris Dowling—“Where Hope Grows” (2014), “Priceless” (2016—Writer) / Starring: Frances Fisher, Mario Van Peebles, Tanner Stine, Evan Hofer, Mykelti Williamson, Kelsey Reinhardt, Kristoffer Polaha, Eddie George / Producers: Ken Carpenter, Jake McEntire, Darren Moorman

Won 2nd place for “Best Feature Film,” Christian Worldview Film Festival (2018)

In RUN THE RACE, two desperate brothers sacrifice today for a better tomorrow.

Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers’ ticket out of town.

When a devastating injury puts Zach—and his dreams—on the sidelines, David laces up his track cleats to salvage their future and point Zach toward hope.

Against the backdrop of high school football and track, two brothers in a small Southern town face escalating problems with two different world views, straining—but ultimately strengthening—the bonds of brotherhood.

RUN THE RACE shows what’s possible when you run to—instead of from—the overwhelming love of God.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

“The friendship of a lifetime”

• Official site

Open: February 22, 2019

Universal Pictures—Producer: DreamWorks Animation / Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig / Director: Dean DeBlois

After becoming the chief of Berk, Hiccup has fulfilled his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, while the sudden discovery of a wild, elusive mate lures Toothless away. When danger threatens their village and tests Hiccup's reign as chief, Hiccup and Toothless are forced to leave the only home they know. As they travel to a hidden world thought to only exist in myth, both dragon and rider will fight together to the very end to protect everything they love. Both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

• Official site

Open: February 22, 2019 (wide release)

Paramount Pictures Corporation—Starring: Blake Lively, Jude Law / Director: Reed Morano

After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adopting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

Based on the novel of the same name by Mark Burnell

Open: February 22, 2019 (wide release)

Universal Pictures—Producer: Amblin Entertainment / Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince / Director: Floria Sigismondi

A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents.The two orphans are convinced that the old country mansion they live in is haunted by a ghost. The young woman finds that the children are not quite what they seem, and that she might be losing them to evil spirits with a secret tie to their past. The story is a modern take on Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw.

Open: March 1, 2019 (wide release)

Lionsgate—Director: Doug Liman—“Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) / Starring: Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, David Oyelowo, Nick Jonas, Cynthia Erivo

In the near future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) has been brought up to believe that a viral germ has killed all women in a colony world and unleashed The Noise, the special ability to read people's and animals' minds—a visual, background jabber that literally portrays each man’s thoughts and feelings for all to see—in a stream of images, words, and sounds. Later, he comes upon a patch of silence and soon discovers the source of the silence and the last thing he ever expected: a mysterious woman named Viola Eade (Daisy Ridley). On the run, they learn more about the true history of the New World.

Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral

“Good grief.”

Open: March 1, 2019 (wide release)

Lionsgate—Starring: Courtney Burrell, Tyler Perry, Patrice Lovely / Director: Tyler Perry

A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unsavory family secrets.

Open: March 8, 2019 (wide release)

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures—Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Jude Law, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening, Mckenna Grace Lee Pace

Set in 1995, the story follows Carol Danvers, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as she turns into one of the galaxy's mightiest heroes and joins Starforce, an elite Kree military team, before returning home with new questions about her past and identity when the Earth is caught in the center of an galactic conflict between two alien worlds.

Wonder Park

“Go on the ride ”

• Official site

Open: March 15, 2019 (wide release)

Paramount Pictures Corporation—Starring: Brianna Denski (June), Jennifer Garner, Matthew Broderick, Mila Kunis, Jeffrey Tambor, Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong, John Oliver / Director: Dylan Brown

WONDER PARK tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive.

Open: March 15, 2019 (wide release)

Universal Pictures—Director: Jordan Peele / Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Anna Diop, Kara Hayward, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Described as a “social horror-thriller”

Open: March 22, 2019 (wide release)

Lionsgate—Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Claire Forlani, Parminder Nagra, Moises Arias

A pair of teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.

Open: March 22, 2019 (wide release)

Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures—Starring: Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Shue, Stephen Graham

During World War II, an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by Commander Ernest Krause (Tom Hanks), cross the treacherous North Atlantic while being hotly pursued by wolf packs of German U-boats.

This film is based on The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester.

Open: March 22, 2019 (wide release)

Aviron Picture s—Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Clive Owen, Rosamund Pike, Common, Ana de Armas / Director: Andrea Di Stefano

An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.

Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman), a reformed criminal and former special operations soldier, is working undercover for crooked FBI handlers to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step toward freedom, Koslow must return to the one place he’s fought so hard to leave, Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens to identify him as a mole.

Based on the Swedish novel by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom

Open: March 22, 2019 (wide release)

Annapurna Pictures—Starring: Cate Blanchett (Bernadette Fox), Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne / Director: Richard Linklater

Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) hates people, she hates leaving the house, and more than anything, she hates the other parents at her daughter's school. After her anxiety-ridden mother disappears, 15-year-old Bee does everything she can to find out where she is and what really happened to her, discovering her troubled past in the process.

This film is based on the novel by Maria Semple.

Open: March 29, 2019 (wide release)

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures—Director: Tim Burton / Starring: Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Alan Arkin

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

The film uses a mix of CGI and live action and adds a family story that parallels Dumbo’s journey.

Captive State

“This is no longer our planet. Ten years ago, they took our planet. Today, we take it back.”

Open: March 29, 2019 (wide release)

Focus Features—Produced by DreamWorks / Director: Rupert Wyatt—“Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “The Gambler” (2014) / Starring: Madeline Brewer, John Goodman, Vera Farmiga, Alan Ruck, Kevin J. O'Connor

Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, ‘Captive State’ explores the lives on both sides of the conflict—the collaborators and dissidents.

“Meet Mr. Link / Things are about to get hairy”

Open: April 12, 2019

Annapurna Pictures—Brand: Laika / Starring voices of: Hugh Jackman (Sir Lionel Frost), Zoe Saldana, Timothy Olyphant, Emma Thompson, Zach Galifianakis, Stephen Fry / Director: Chris Butler—“Kubo and the Two Strings” (2016)—writer, “ParaNorman” (2012)

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel’s last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on traveling to America's Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature. A living remnant of Man's primitive ancestry. The Missing Link.

Open: May 3, 2019

Open: May 10, 2019

Warner Bros. Pictures—Producer: Legendary Entertainment / Director: Rob Letterman—“Gulliver's Travels” (2010), “Monsters vs. Aliens” (2009), “Shark Tale” (2004), “Goosebumps” / Starring: Ryan Reynolds (voice), Suki Waterhouse, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Justice Smith, Ken Watanabe

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (pokemon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.

Open: May 15, 2019

Lionsgate—When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.

Arctic Dogs

Open: November 1, 2019 (wide release)

Entertainment Studios—Starring: Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin, Anjelica Huston, John Cleese, James Franco, Omar Sy / Director: Aaron Woodley—“Spark: A Space Tail” (2016)

Swifty the Arctic fox works in the mail room of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog (the Arctic's star husky couriers). To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a package to a mysterious location. He stumbles upon a secret fortress where he comes face to face with Otto Von Walrus, a blubbery evil genius who walks around on mechanical legs and commands a loyal army of oddly polite puffin henchmen. Swifty soon discovers Von Walrus' plan to melt the polar ice caps and flood the world in order to reign supreme. Now, Swifty has to enlist the help of his friends: PB, a concerned polar bear, Lemmy, a scatterbrained albatross, Bertha and Leopold, two conspiracy theorist otters and Jade, a worldly fox. This ragtag group of Arctic misfits has to band together to stop Von Walrus' sinister plans and save the day