‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ next film in Marvel franchise to hit the big screen
It seems a new film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe is released with regularity these days, and this weekend will see the release of the latest, “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
Based on the Marvel Comics characters Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Hope van Dyne/Wasp, the movie is the twentieth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is directed by Peyton Reed.
The sequel to 2015’s “Ant-Man,” the film follows heroes with the ability to shrink.
In the aftermath of “Captain America: Civil War,” Scott Lang (Paul Rudd, “I Love You, Man” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”) grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father.
As he struggles to rebalance his home life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he’s confronted by Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly, “The Hobbit” and “The Hurtlocker”) and Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) with an urgent new mission.
Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside The Wasp as the team works together to uncover secrets from their past.
Not surprisingly, as all of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are wildly popular, the film’s user rating, after more than 11,000 individuals weighed in, is 99 percent.
The film was scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on June 29, but was rescheduled in November 2017 to August 3, in order to avoid competition with the 2018 FIFA World Cup, according to Wikipedia.
The film does not have a rating.
Other films to be released to the big screen this week include:
n “Sorry To Bother You,” starring LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer and Terry Crews, and directed by Boots Riley. In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, which propels him into a macabre universe of “powercalling” that leads to material glory. But the upswing in Cassius’ career raises serious red flags with his girlfriend Detroit, a performance artist and minimum-wage striver who’s secretly part of a Banksy-style activist collective.
The film is rated R for pervasive language, some strong sexual content, graphic nudity, and drug use.
n “Bleeding Steel,” starring Jackie Chan, Show Lo, NaNa OuYang and Erica Xia-Hou, and directed by Leo Zhang, is a drama reminiscent of ’80s techno-sci-fi thrillers. Lin is a police inspector in modern Hong Kong. While tracking down a deranged, mecha-enhanced villain, he discovers that a geneticist’s lost bio-chemical invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter. With the help of a young hacker, Lin connects the dots between the device that haunts his daughter, his enemy’s sinister army, and a strange cultural phenomenon called “Bleeding Steel.”
This film is rated R for violence and some language.
n “Whitney,” directed by Kevin Macdonald, is a documentary on Whitney Houston, the singer who broke more music industry records than any other female singer in history. She also starred in several blockbuster movies before her brilliant career gave way to erratic behavior, scandals and death at age 48. The documentary feature Whitney is an intimate, unflinching portrait of Houston and her family that probes beyond familiar tabloid headlines and sheds new light on the spellbinding trajectory of Houston’s life. The film tells her story by using never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive demo recordings, rare performances, audio archives and original interviews with the people who knew her best.
This film is not rated.