JoeMama's Movie Reviews

Ant-Man and the Wasp Starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer Directed by Peyton Reed The Story: After Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) gets apprehended in Germany fighting alongside Captain America, he's placed under house arrest, while the FBI continued their search for Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) and Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), since it's Pym's suit that Scott used.  Now estranged, the friends come together again after Scott has a vision of Hope's mother Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), who was lost in the Quantum Realm thirty years ago. Hank and Hope have been working on a bridge that would allow them entry to the Quantum Realm to find Janet, and Hope becomes the new Wasp as she tries to find the pieces to put the bridge together.  Meanwhile, a mysterious villain named Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) also wants access to the Quantum Realm, possessing powers of invisibility and phasing.  Can Scott, Hope, and Hank find Janet in one piece, ...

Uncle Drew Starring Kyrie Irving, Lil Rel Howery, Shaquille O'Neal, Tiffany Haddish Directed by Charles Stone III The Story: Dax (Lil Rey Howery) is a street ball manager who's given up on his dream of being a basketball star after a missed shot made him the laughingstock of the city.  As he's preparing to take his team to the annual Rucker Classic street ball tournament, his team abandons him for his arch rival Mookie (Nick Kroll). Down on his luck and loosing his girlfriend Jess (Tiffany Haddish), Dax turns to street ball legend Uncle Drew (Kyrie Irving) to play in the tournament.  Uncle Drew enlists his old team - Preacher (Chris Webber), Lights (Reggie Miller), Boots (Nate Robinson), and Big Fella (Shaquille O'Neal) to show the youngbloods what the game of basketball really means. The Synopsis: Back in 2004, the auto insurance company Geico released a series of commercials featuring cavemen with the tagline "it's so easy even a caveman can ...

Tag Starring Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress Directed by Jeff Tomsic The Story: Lifelong friends Hoagie (Ed Helms), Bob (Jon Hamm), Chilli (Jake Johnson), Sable (Hannibal Buress), and Jerry (Jeremy Renner) have been playing a game of Tag every May since they were kids.  Jerry has never been tagged, and is planning on retiring from the game having never been tagged, so Hoagie gathers the friends together during Jerry's wedding week in hopes of finally tagging the elusive friend.  What ensues is an adventure of a lifetime for the friends as they face their own mortality, struggling with not wanting to grow up, and the pressures of real life that they try to ignore. The Synopsis: "Tag" is surprisingly an actual true-life story of ten friends who've played the game of tag since they were children, and as adults continue the tradition.  It's heartening to see a group of grown men who are able to just have a child-like mind for a month a...

Sicario Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya Directed by Denis Villeneuve The Story: FBI Agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) works at the Critical Incident Response Group, and follows up on a lead of a missing person.  After their discovery ends in much more than she expected, she finds herself beginning a wild adventure.  She's enlisted by the mysterious Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) to head to Mexico to bring in a drug cartel leader back to America.  Kate begins to feel in over her head, and demands answers from Matt and Alejandro, to no avail.  As the drug war intensifies, Kate learns they plan to use the captured drug leader to flush out an even bigger drug dealer, in hopes of preventing more illegal drugs coming across the border.  Yet, all is not as it seems, and it seems everyone around Kate has ulterior motives that they're not being fully honest about, leaving her confused and un...

Major Theatrical Releases July 2018 Summer is only heating up, and so are the films hitting theaters in July.  From blockbuster action to child-friendly flair, to another Marvel superhero film to unrelenting horror and intriguing independent films, there's no shortage of interesting films to see in July. Here are the major theatrical releases for July 2018. **THERE WILL BE NO SPOILERS,  Also, dates are subject to change** The First Purge July 4 "The Purge" franchise has been a huge hit due mostly to its premise - for twelve hours once a year, all crime - including murder - is legal.  It's supposed to help decrease the population and give the marginalized a way to express their anger, but it turned into a way for the wealthy to take advantage of them.  Now the series goes full circle, centering on the first ever Purge, and how this social experiment was doomed from the start as a ragtag group of individuals band together to...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Isabella Sermon Directed by J.A. Bayona The Story: Three years after dinosaurs wreaked havoc in Jurassic World, the island is set to be destroyed by a now active volcano, leading to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs yet again.  As questions are raised whether or not to rescue them, Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) sides with saving the dinosaurs, and is enlisted by Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) and his young protege Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) to rescue them - including Blue, the last living Velociraptor.  However, catching Blue is no easy task, and Claire manages to convince Blue's old trainer Owen (Chris Pratt) to accompany her to the island to save him. After arriving on the island, Owen and Claire learn that they've been double-crossed, and the dinosaurs are being transported back to the States to be sold as weapons of mass destruction to the highest bidder, and Blue is neede...

Worst2First:  My Top Ten Historically Inaccurate Films When you see the words "based on a true story" at the beginning of a film, that doesn't always mean it's the real true story.  Hollywood loves to take liberties with reality and turn it into something more entertaining for the audiences, and while there's certain moments of truth in these stories, there's also a lot of fictitious facts made to make it more appealing. Here are my personal top ten historically inaccurate films, worst2first... **THERE WILL BE SPOILERS,  SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!** #10 Captain Phillips Based on the true story of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates in 2009, "Captain Phillips" painted the captain in a truly heroic light, in a powerful performance by Tom Hanks.  However, based on crew members' take on the event, the captain was far from heroic.  He had ignored several safety protocols and sailed too close to the coa...