Movie Review: "Cold Pursuit" (2019)

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Movie: "Cold Pursuit"

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Year: 2019
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes

After his son is murdered, a snowplow driver goes on a quest for revenge against the people responsible for his son's death.

Movie Review: "Long Shot" (2019)

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Movie: "Long Shot"

Director: Jonathan Levine
Year: 2019
Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes

Idealistic journalist Fred Flarsky gets a job as a speechwriter for Secretary of State and future presidential candidate Charlotte Field, who also happens to be his childhood crush. As the two spend more time together, they begin an unlikely relationship that many in her inner circle fear will hurt her chances to win the presidency.

Movie Review: "Missing Link" (2019)

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Movie: "Missing Link"

Director: Chris Butler
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes

Sir Lionel Frost goes on a quest to find the mythical Sasquatch to win a bet and to be accepted into the adventurers club. When he meets the legendary creature, he makes a deal with it. He will help this missing link get to his relatives in the Himalayas in exchange for proof of their existence.

Movie Review: "Pet Sematary" (2019)

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Movie: "Pet Semetary"

Director:  Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer
Year: 2019
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes

A doctor from Boston moves his family to rural Maine and takes a job at a university health center so he can spend more time with his kids. When tragedy strikes, he resorts to desperate measures to make things right but winds up making things far worse than he could have imagined.

Movie Review: "Shazam!" (2019)

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Movie: "Shazam!"

Director: David F. Sandberg
Year: 2019
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes

An ancient wizard chooses a teenage foster kid as his worthy champion, giving him superpowers to keep the seven deadly sins from wreaking havoc on earth.

Movie Review: "Dumbo" (2019)

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Movie: "Dumbo"

Director: Tim Burton
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 52 minutes

A little flying elephant once made fun of for the size of his ears becomes the main attraction at a circus, raising him to new heights. Everyone is about to discover that fame comes with a price.

Movie Review: "Us" (2019)

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Movie: "Us"

Director: Jordan Peele
Year: 2019
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 56 minutes

A family on vacation near Santa Cruz are attacked by their doppelgangers who look to forever sever their unseen connection.

Movie Review: "Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase" (2019)

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Movie: "Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase"

Director: Katt Shea
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

Amateur sleuth Nancy Drew investigates a haunting of the old Twin Elms house and uncovers a bigger conspiracy that is much more dangerous than ghosts.

Movie Review: "Wonder Park" (2019)

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Movie: "Wonder Park"

Director: Apparently no one?
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes

A young girl named June uses her imagination to create a splendiferous amusement park. When she enters a stressful time in her life, a "darkness" looms over the park and begins destroying it. Now, she must find a way to fight this "darkness" and restore the park to its former glory.

Movie Review: "Apollo 11" (2019)

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Movie: "Apollo 11"

Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Year: 2019
Rating: G
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes

An up-close and in-depth look at the Apollo 11 mission to the moon from launch to landing to return to earth.

Movie Review: "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" (2019)

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Movie: "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World"

Director: Dean DeBlois
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 44 minutes

When Berk starts to become overcrowded and Toothless becomes the target of a dragon hunter, Hiccup decides to move the village and hopes to find and settle in the mythical Hidden Kingdom his father always talked about when he was little.

Movie Review: "Captain Marvel" (2019)

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Movie: "Captain Marvel"

Director: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Year: 2019
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes

A Kree warrior known as Vers chases an alien race of shapeshifters called Skrulls to C-53, AKA earth. Once there, she begins to uncover the truth about a hidden past she didn't know she had.

Movie Review: "Alita: Battle Angel" (2019)

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Movie: "Alita: Battle Angel"

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Year: 2019
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes

A cyborg with a living human brain is found in a scrapyard and brought back to full functionality by Dr. Ido. He calls her Alita and treats her like a daughter, though her desire to rediscover her past leads her down a treacherous path full of dangerous people.

Movie Review: "Isn't It Romantic" (2019)

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Movie: "Isn't It Romantic"

Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Year: 2019
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour, 28 minutes

A woman who hates romantic comedies is knocked unconscious during a mugging and wakes up in her worst nightmare: the unrealistic, perfect world of a PG-13 romantic comedy.

Movie Review: "What Men Want" (2019)

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Movie: "What Men Want"

Director: Adam Shankman
Year: 2019
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 57 minutes

After getting passed over for a promotion, a female sports agent named Ali wishes she could know exactly what men want. After a visit from a psychic, a night of heavy drinking, and a bump on the head, she wakes up with the ability to hear the thoughts of all men.

Movie Review: "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" (2019)

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Movie: "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part"

Director: Mike Mitchell
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 46 minutes

Emmet must go on a quest to save his friends, who have been abducted and taken to the dreaded Systar system.

Movie Review: "The Upside" (2019)

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Movie: "The Upside"

Director: Neil Burger
Year: 2019
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes

An ex-con is given a job as a caregiver for a wealthy quadriplegic man despite being the least qualified candidate. From there, the two men bond and become a positive influence in each other's lives.

Movie Review: "The Kid Who Would Be King" (2019)

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Movie: "The Kid Who Would Be King"

Director: Joe Cornish
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Running Time: 2 hours, 0 minutes

One evening while fleeing his school bullies, a young boy named Alex discovers a sword embedded in stone at a construction site. He pulls the sword, which happens to be the legendary Excalibur, out of its encasement and takes it home. After being visited by Merlin, he learns he must unite his friends and his foes to face off against the danger that awaits them all: the evil sorceress Morgana.

Movie Review: "Glass" (2019)

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Movie: "Glass"

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Year: 2019
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes

When 'The Horde' and David Dunn are apprehended by authorities, they are placed in a mental hospital where Mr. Glass is also being held. While at the hospital, psychiatrist Dr. Ellie Staple tries to convince the three of them that they are suffering from delusions and that they don't really have powers. Mr. Glass may be concocting a plan to prove otherwise.

Movie Review: "Vice" (2018)

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Movie: "Vice"

Director: Adam McKay
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes

The story of Vice President Dick Cheney's rise to and maneuvering for political power in Washington.