Half the year has passed and we’ve seen some excellent film releases, some very watchable ones, and some stinkers – here are the seven best as of June 2018.
To paraphrase Josh Brolin’s character Matt Graver in Sicario: Day of the Soldado – “20 years ago, the biggest export for Mexican Cartels through the US border was cocaine, and today? People.”.
The stakes are higher, the punches are harder and there’s more to lose than ever before in the first trailer for Creed II starring Michael B. Jordan.
Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin talk about the secret underworld of cartels and provide more details on the plot of Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
Ideal Home is a lighthearted comedy about a bickering couple who suddenly find themselves thrust into parenthood, that comfortably finds a home somewhere in the feel-good realm of 2006’s Little Miss Sunshine.
Chilean director Sebastián Lelio offers a forbidden love story set within the insular context of an Orthodox Jewish community in his first English-language feature, Disobedience.
John and Ella Spencer sally forth on an impromptu geriatric road trip bound for ‘The Ernest Hemingway Home’ in Key West, Florida (between Miami and Cuba), in their RV named The Leisure Seeker.
Domhnall Gleeson leads Lenny Abrahamson’s follow-up to Frank (2014) and Room (2015), with the psychological period horror film The Little Stranger.
Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley star in the historical drama Operation Finale, a film about the hunt for Nazi lieutenant Adolf Eichmann.
Around the time of the release of The Grey, Liam Neeson was at the peak of an action movie phase thanks to the unexpected hit that was Taken (2009), which saw him take on a slew of tough guy roles normally reserved for actors 20-30 years his junior.
Damien Chazelle’s next film chronicles the events leading up to the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, and the first man to set foot on the moon, famed astronaut Neil Armstrong.
Claire Foy takes on the role of Lisbeth Salander from Rooney Mara and Fede Alvarez takes over directing duties from David Fincher in this sequel to 2011’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The first trailer for Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born has just dropped, giving us our first look at Cooper’s take on the classic.
Check out the highly anticipated trailer for renowned director Steve McQueen’s latest, Widows, featuring an outstanding ensemble cast.
Gringo is reminiscent of the early Tarantino and Coen-brothers films that dominated the mid-90’s. Sadly, director Nash Edgerton lacks the skill and finesse to bring the multiple plots and double-crossing characters together with the same style.
The Leisure Seeker is a charming comedy featuring two of the all-time Hollywood greats in Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, about a couple in their twilight year’s adventurous road-trip.
