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Summer's Big Screen Review FRIDAY, MAY 17 2019 | SERVING CHICAGO’S LEGAL COMMUNITY FOR 164 YEARS | CHICAGOLAWBULLETIN.COM VOLUME 165, NO. 97 Summer’s big screen action: Make your plans accordingly The “Avengers: Endgame” reptile. Monster-scale com - Awkwafina in her first dramatic blockbuster kicked off the puter effects. role plays a young woman who 2019 summer season with a “Ma” : Octavia Spencer plays goes back to China to visit her seismic $2.34 billion box office against type as a creepy crone dying grandmother. Directed bang. who lets teens party in her by Lulu Wang. Bring tissues. Here are synopses of other home – until she goes Kathy “The Lion King” : Live action major movie openings: Bates “Misery” on them. remake of Disney favorite, “Rocketman” : Elton John directed by Jon Favreau. The May musical biopic hopes to rival knockout cast includes Donald “John Wick: Chapter 3 — the popularity of last year’s Glover as Simba, Beyonce as Parabellum”: Assassin John “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Nala, Seth Rogan and Billy Wick (Keanu Reeves), with a REBECCA L. FORD Eichner as the Timon and bounty on his head, must slay June Pumbaa, Alfre Woodard as his way through a hoard of hit - “Late Night” : A “Devil Wears Simba’s mom Sarabi, Chiwetel men. Gorgeously rendered Prada”-style story in which TV REBECCA L. FORD is counsel at Ejiofor as Scar, John Oliver as graphic gore. writer played by Mindy Kaling Scharf Banks Marmor LLC, and Zazu, Keegan Michael Key as a “The Sun is Also a Star”: is charged with making Emma concentrates her practice on Hyena and James Earl Jones as Based on a YA National Book Thompson’s character, her complex litigation, compliance, Mustafa. Award finalist, Yara Shahidi late-night talk show host boss, board governance and “Once Upon a Time in Hol - (“Black-ish”) and Charles “likable.” specialized employment issues. lywood” : A much-anticipated Melton (“Riverdale”) play “Men in Black: Interna - She is the former executive vice Quentin Tarantino black com - star-crossed lovers from immi - tional” : Tessa Thompson and president for litigation and edy, starring Leonardo grant families on the verge of Chris Hemsworth (Valkyrie intellectual property at MGM. DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. Old deportation. It’s a tour-of-N.Y. and Thor in another universe) She can be reached at Hollywood loses its inno - cross-cultural romance that take the baton from Will Smith [email protected]. cence, circa 1969. humanizes the immigration and Tommy Lee Jones, don - struggle. ning dark Ray-Bans to zap American man flails against the August “Aladdin”: Disney anima - extraterrestrials. tide of San Francisco gentrifi - “Good Boys” : A tween ver - tion remade as live-action. “Shaft” : Richard Roundtree, cation to reclaim childhood sion of “Superbad.” Genie Will Smith material - Samuel L. Jackson and Jesse T. home built by his grandfather. “The Kitchen” : A comedy izes in a puff of blue-faced Usher (“Survivor’s Remorse”) starring Melissa McCarthy, Elis - smoke. join as three generations of July abeth Moss and Tiffany Had - “Booksmart”: High-achiev - John Shafts. Shut your mouth. “Spider-Man: Far From dish as 1970s housewives who ing high school girls make up “Toy Story 4” : Road trippin’ Home” : Opening for the take on the mob. for lost fun by going on a ben - sentimentalists Buzz and Fourth-of-July weekend, Peter “Fast & Furious Presents: der the night before gradua - Woody reunite with Bo Peep Parker jumps the pond, taking Hobbs & Shaw” : A “Fast and tion. and make new friends. Philo - a class trip to Europe. Bad Furious” spin-off starring “Godzilla: King of the Mon - sophical rescue caper for the guys abroad. Youthful super - Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, sters” : Mothra, Rodan and Hasbro set. hero gets no summer vacation Jason Statham and Idris Elba. King Gidorah co-star with Kyle “The Last Black Man in after “Endgame.” Evil Elba is a cyber-enhanced Chandler and a familiar giant San Francisco” : An African “The Farewell” : Comedian “black superman.” Copyright © 2019 Law Bulletin Media. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from Law Bulletin Media..
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