Movies

Plot: Ghost sailors escape from the Devil's Triangle and are bent on killing Capt. Jack Sparrow.

Cast:  Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Kaya Scodelario, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Orlando Bloom

Rating:  PG-13

Bottom Line:  *1/2

Plot:  Five teenagers become the ultimate superhero team to stop a powerful foe.

Cast:  Dacre Montgomery, RJ Cyler, Naomi Scott, Ludi Lin, Becky G., Elizabeth Banks, Bill Hader, Bryan Cranston

Rating:  PG-13

Bottom Line:  ****

 

Plot:  Desperate to pay the bills, three pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

Studio:  20th Century Fox (2 hr. 17 min.)

Plot:  Wolverine protects Professor X and a young girl, the last mutants on Earth.

Cast:  Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Elizabeth Rodriquez, Eriq La Salle, Elise Neal, Quincy Fouse.

Rating:  R

Bottom Line:  ***

Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow

 

By Samantha Ofole-Prince

Terrence Howard really needs no formal introduction. We all know him as the music mogul, Lucious Lyon, from the hugely successful Fox Network drama “Empire.” An actor with incredible versatility, he’s played several cops, a doctor, a politician and a pimp and has been in over 40 movies since making his scene-stealing big screen debut as Cowboy in the 1995 Hughes brother’s film “Dead Presidents.”  From the womanizing Quentin in Malcolm D. Lee’s indie film, “The Best Man,” a swim coach in “Pride,” to former South African leader Nelson Mandela in “Winnie Mandela,” the Chicago native has had quite a prolific career.  Samantha Ofole-Prince delves into Howard’s film archives to scoop out our six favorites.

Plot:  A couple dives into a series of misadventures when they reignite their relationship.

Cast:  Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Bella Heathcote, Rita Ora, Kim Basinger, Marcia Gay Harden, Ashleigh LaThrop

Rating:  R

Bottom Line: ***

 

Plot:  Two passengers on a 120-year journey to another planet are stuck in space when their hibernation pods wake them 90 years too early.

Cast:  Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne

Rating:   PG-13

Bottom Line:  **