1-SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY: Now the Star Wars films are coming out every six months. It's crazy. But I'm a hopeless sucker, still looking forward to this even though The Last Jedi was a disappointment and the worst director in the world, Ron Howard, came on board late to finish this. I did enjoy Howard's last picture, In the Heart of the Sea, so maybe he's become competent later in life. This movie is Han Solo in his twenties. I just can't wait to see Woody Harrelson talk to Chewbaca.
2- HOLMES & WATSON: Will Ferrell is Sherlock Holmes and John C. Reilly is Watson. Ferrell hasn't had a good movie in a long time but this film garners four stars automatically.
3- THE PREDATOR: Shane Black, fresh of his masterpiece, The Nice Guys, is writing and directing a new Predator movie. He was actually in the original, if you remember. And what ever happened to that Robert Rodriguez Predator script? It began on a pirate ship. I'm assuming this will be better.
4- FANTASTIC BEASTS: CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD: I adored the first one but for some reason no one else did. Hmmm. Well this one has Jude Law as a young Dumbledore along with the rest of the usual cast and it takes place in Europe.
5- ISLE OF DOGS: The only Wes Anderson film I didn't like was his only stop-motion animated film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Well this is another stop-motion animated film, but it does look incredible. In Japan, dogs are exiled on an island and a boy goes there to find his pup and then adventures occur. I probably should just skip the film because it'll never be better than the amazingly awesome trailer.
6- THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT: It probably should be illegal for Lars Von Trier to make a serial killer movie. Oh, well. I thought his last picture, the double-part Nymphomaniac, was one of his best. This one has a lame cast (Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman) but, c'mon, it's the world's most sadistic director making a serial killer film. Expect subversion in some form or another, as he always surprises.
7- JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM: Back to the island! Why? The problem with this franchise is that once the park is destroyed they always have to come up with a lame reason to return. Just re-open the park with stupid tourists in every movie, who cares? The only good ones were 1 and 4 when that plot occurred. Well it's the same gang back (Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, some brats)...but this time a volcano is exploding! Eh. Should be fun.
8- EARLY MAN: Aardman Animations is a superior company to Pixar in my opinion. Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and Shaun the Sheep are all hilarious and excellent works of art. This one looks like another winner. It's cavemen meeting the early men of civilization. So it's like if stupid cavemen show up in Russell Crowe's Gladiator. It looks glorious.
9- HALLOWEEN: The director of Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and some of the Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals episodes, is writing/directing a re-make of the Michael Myers Halloween film. What...the...fuck? David Gordon Green has made some serious fare, too, but this just sounds insane. And didn't Rob Zombie just re-make parts 1 and 2? This is either going to be a masterwork or a complete, bore of a misfire.
