Solo

Through a series of daring escapades, young Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

All the advance word about this was that it was good but not great.  That turned out to be extremely accurate.  I don't know if it was released too soon after the last Star Wars movie, if it was too difficult to follow Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2 or if the movie just didn't quite hook audiences enough but it just kind of felt like something was missing.  The kid turned out to be pretty good as Han Solo and clearly got better and looked more comfortable as the movie went on.  Donald Glover was perfect as Lando Calrissian and there were some great surprises and shout outs to things from Star Wars past.  It just was missing more of a hook to have you loving every second like you would expect.

I would still recommend peeps checking this out.  It was an enjoyable watch.  It was NOT bad.  It just wasn't great either.

Breaking In

Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.

This could literally be the definition of if you saw the trailer than you saw the movie.  It's literally an expanded version of it and there is nothing that happened in this movie that you either didn't know was going to or didn't feel like you had already seen in the commercial.  It was basically just sit there and watch it play out . . . . .  a little bit longer.  There literally isn't even anything else to say about it.

I would not recomomend anyone bothering with this.  It's not necessarily a bad watch just a really big waste of time because you can watch the two minute trailer and give the same review that I just did.

Deadpool 2

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool joins forces with three mutants -- Bedlam, Shatterstar and Domino -- to protect a boy from the all-powerful Cable.

I was a little bit worried about a sequel to this.  Would they be able to catch the wildly mature and inapporpriate magic from the original or would this be a mailed in sequel?  I was beyond surprised with how fresh and good this was.  Honestly - I think this one was actually funnier than the first one.  The pop culture references and music . . . . . . the knocking other Marvel characters comments . . . . . . the sight gags . . . . . . I laughed pretty much from beginning to end on this one.  The perfect casting continued with Brolin as Cable.  He was a favorite of mine in the comics when I was a kid and I thought he was brought perfectly to the screen.  And the chemistry between Brolin and Reynolds is awesome.

I would absolutely recommend peeps checking this out.  It's an extremely fun watch and will be viewed repeatedly by me no doubt.  

Life Of The Party

When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime and dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college. Unfortunately, Deanna winds up at the same school as her less-than-thrilled daughter. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the outspoken new student soon begins a journey of self-discovery while fully embracing all of the fun, freedom and frat boys that she can handle.

Let me preface my review by saying that I love Melissa McCarthy.  There is something about her that I just find absolutely hilarious.  That being said - even my enjoyment of her was not necessarily enough to carry this movie alone and that really was all that it had.  Outside of her talents and Maya Rudolph providing some funny but sporadic laughs, this movie ends up being just kind of there.  Honestly, it could have been so much funnier than it was.  I'm not saying it's bad because there are some very good laughs but not enough and you feel the movie dragging even though its really not that long.  

I would sort of recommend people checking this out.  It's not a must see by any means.  You could wait and see this due to the not high enough level of laughs contained within it.

Isle Of Dogs

When, by executive decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

This was a very strange movie.  Pretty much all of Paul Anderson's movies are.  They are usually a very acquired taste even with all of the acting talent involved and I tend to not like too many of them.  For some strange reason I was able to enjoy this one.  I don't know if it was the story line or the very clever and entertaining form of animation - but I did kind of like it.  That being said - I really can't just openly recommend this to peeps because it really was a weird movie.

If you like Paul Anderson's quirkiness, I would recommend you check this movie out.  It is a decent and original watch with a lot of really great voice talents being contributed to it.  This is not by any means a mainstream movie offering though.

Overboard

In a splashy new twist, Overboard focuses on Leonardo (EUGENIO DERBEZ), a selfish, spoiled, rich playboy from Mexico's richest family and Kate (ANNA FARIS), a working class single mom of three hired to clean Leonardo's luxury yacht. After unjustly firing Kate and refusing to pay her, Leonardo falls overboard when partying too hard and wakes up on the Oregon coast with amnesia. Kate shows up at the hospital and, to get payback, convinces Leonardo he is her husband and puts him to work - for the first time in his life. At first miserable and inept, Leonardo slowly settles in. Eventually he earns the respect of his new "family" and co-workers. But, with Leonardo's billionaire family hot on their trail and the possibility of his memory returning at any moment, will their new family last or will Leonardo finally put the clues together and leave them for good?

I loved the original Overboard.  That was such a guilty pleasure movie that I used to watch over and over again.  But what made that awesome was the obvious chemistry between Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell.  This movie was massively missing that.  Plus what was funny back then is extremely lame and mailed in now.  The movie definitely had its funny or cutesy moments but not enough.

I wouldn't really recommend peeps checking this out.  It's a not needed and nowhere near good enough remake.

Acrimony

A faithful wife (Taraji P. Henson) tired of standing by her devious husband (Lyriq Bent) is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.

Um . . . . . This was a massively mismarketed movie.  I kept waiting for the movie to turn into what was advertised and it never did.  It ended up kind of getting better towards the end but it was waaaaaaaaay too late for me to care at that point.

Very tired of Taraji being typecast as a version of Cookie from Empire.  I wouldn't recommend anyone suffer through this massively melodramatic and overdone movie.

Avengers: Infinity War

Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet -- the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos plans to use the artifacts to inflict his twisted will on reality. The fate of the planet and existence itself has never been more uncertain as everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment.

WOW!!!  I really would like the Russo Brothers to direct ever comic book movie from this point forward.  These guys are the best in the game and this movie is right up there with The Winter Soldier and Civil War as my favorite Marvel Universe movies.  This one also reaches that crazy level of the first Avengers in terms of having sky high expectations and managing to blow them out of the water and exceed them masterfully.  They managed to juggle all of these characters with awesome humor, excellent action, perfect pacing and introducing Thanos who clearly is the best villain in the Marvel movies to date.  I can't go into too much details because I wouldn't want to spoil anything but all I will say is that they so masterfully kept you on the edge of your seat emotionally and did such a good job with all the different characters interacting with each other.  

I would absolutely recommend everyone checking this out.  It's another shining example of how Marvel's master plan really is the greatest thing not named Star Wars to happen to movie watching fandom.