In Theaters: April 26, 2019

Okay so I've missed a few.  Two weeks ago was my birthday, you'll give me that.  I spent it on an awesome day trip with an awesome girl instead (which was totally sweet).  Last week . . . just lazy.  And today?  I'm ditching you again.  Avengers: Endgame comes out tomorrow and I still have movies to watch to be ready for this.  Is it maybe the biggest movie event of my lifetime?  Yes.  So I'll blog about it later if it is.  Get over it.  Man, life has been busy.  Honestly, I'm not even that excited about Endgame because I'm not thinking about it all that much.  Crazy, right?  I didn't used to be this busy.  But things happen, man!  Things happen.  I guess I am excited about it because I've been watching every single MCU movie to prepare.  I'm not normal.  Whatever.  I have two to go.  Thank you for reading.  I'll see you on the other side.

Avengers: Endgame is rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and some language.

      Big Shot Critic

In Theaters: April 5, 2019

There are two releases to talk about today.

Shazam!

The DCEU is pretty much a thing of the past now.  DC films will not be interconnected going forward.  At least that's what they're saying.  It kinda goes without saying that it wasn't working out the way they hoped.  They've been saying for years now that Ben Affleck is out as Batman, and now they're even saying that Henry Cavill might be out as Superman.  Except for Aquaman and Wonder Woman, it's been a big mess.

In any case, here we have Shazam!  It's meant to be much more comedic and light than the previous DC films, and it looks like it's gonna work really well.  I'm excited for this one.

Shazam! is about a kid who is chosen by an alien to receive special powers.  He's a good kid and that's why he's chosen.  He remains a normal kid until he says the word "Shazam!" and he becomes the man you see in the poster.  He has super strength and other things, I'm not super sure.

Shazam! is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action, language, and suggestive material.

The Best of Enemies

I've always wondered why Taraji P. Henson goes by that name.  Is it so we don't confuse her with all those other Taraji Hensons?

Okay, so I've always struggled with Taraji P. Henson.  She is always cast as the black woman with a huge chip on her shoulder, and I have trouble with those sorts of characters.  Mostly because she always plays them with such anger.

Sam Rockwell, on the other hand, I do like.  Because he's a white man, obviously.  No, actually I like him because he's always fun to watch and his characters are less angry than Taraji's.

The Best of Enemies is based on a true story about a town somewhere in the U.S. where the black school was burned to the ground.  So in the meantime, while it was being rebuilt, the black kids needed a school to go to, but a lot of the white folks didn't want them going to the white school.  The town formed a council with these two main characters as co-chairs.  She was an activist, you might say (hard to use the word "activist" here.  She was just fighting for rights her kids already had), and he was the president of the local chapter of the KKK.  True story.  Both were selected because both represent each other's side very well and fairly aggressively.

The Best of Enemies is rated PG-13 for thematic material, racial epithets, some violence and a suggestive reference.

      Big Shot Critic

P.S. That post I talked about last week, the one that is forthcoming?  It's still forthcoming.  It's just forthcoming a little longer than I thought.