At the cinema this summer, you can expect something old, something new, something borrowed and Will Smith blue via nparts
Summer cinema is at best a mixed blessing. On the one hand: Summer blockbusters! On the other, bloated sequels that either have large numbers in their titles or, more often, are hiding them. . Also coming soon: Fast & Furious 8.5 and X-Men 12 and 13. So let’s start by looking at what’s new.
SuperheroesAfter the April 26 debut of Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, you can look forward to another helping of Spider-Man in Far From Home . And more than two years since the last non-comic X-Men movie , this summer delivers two. X-Men: Dark Phoenix features Professor Xavier and friends and is set in 1992, while The New Mutants presents just that.
AnimatedCan Pixar make magic again with Toy Story 4 ? It seems unlikely, but we said that the last time, and were then reduced to tears by Toy Story 3’s closing scene. Less likely to produce sobbing – except perhaps in frustration and anger – is The Angry Birds Movie 2 and The Secret Life of Pets 2 . Untested and therefore possibly brilliant are UglyDolls and Pokémon Detective Pikachu , which puts computer-generated Pokémons in a live-action movie.
Science FictionBrad Pitt travels the solar system looking for his father in James Gray’s Ad Astra , while Ferdia Shaw is on a similar quest in Artemis Fowl . A Swedish take on interstellar travel arrives with Aniara , while Frank Grillo gets caught in a time loop in Boss Level . Meanwhile, Brightburn , about an alien child with an evil streak, straddles the line between science fiction and …
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