In Theaters: May 4, 2018

There are three wide releases this weekend.  Three movies that will certainly fall to Marvel's wrath.

Bad Samaritan

This is actually kind of a neat idea.

In Bad Samaritan, a young small time crook (Robert Sheehan) looks around his rich mark's house (David Tennant) for stuff to steal.  Instead, he finds a tied up young woman in the house, and he has to leave the house before he can help her.  He goes to the police and they find nothing when they search the house.  And now the psycho kidnapper has his sights on the crook.

Bad Samaritan is rated R for violence, language throughout, some drug use and brief nudity.

Overboard

This is the gender-swapped version of the original with Kurt Russel.

Eugenio Derbez (one of my favorite comedic actors) plays a wealthy and selfish man who hires a cleaning lady (Anna Faris) to clean the carpets on his yacht.  He fires her on a whim and throws her equipment over the side of the boat.  The cleaning lady is a single mom putting herself through college who now must find a way to pay for the cleaning equipment as well.

The rich guy falls overboard in the night and is rescued, but he has amnesia.  The cleaning lady goes to the hospital to "claim" him, stating that he is her husband, so she can use him to help pay for the equipment he destroyed.

It actually looks really funny to me.

Overboard is rated PG-13 for suggestive material, partial nudity and some language.

Tully

Not to be confused with "Sully".

Alternative titles include "Diablo Cody Thinks She's Still Relevant".

Screenwriter Diablo Cody made big news, and had her fifteen minutes of fame . . . eleven years ago, when Juno came out.  Ever since then she's had a handful of near misses.  Movies that critics are pretty okay with, but nobody really goes out and sees.  This is just the latest one of those.  It's about a mother who is stuck in a movie that only features the crappy parts of being a mother.

Let me be clear.  I have a lot of faith in the acting ability of Charlize Theron, and her co-star in this movie whose name I forget right now.  It's the chick from The Martian who runs the satellites.  But when independent movies try to take on themes related to how families should operate, they always fail miserably.  Always.

Tully is rated R for language and some sexuality/nudity.

Just go see Infinity War again.  Or see Overboard.

Big Shot Critic