Summer is well on its way and what are we alluded more of in the summer? Free time! Going to the theaters is one of my favorite things to do! This coming summer is full of a ton of highly anticipated films including Marvel and DC films, Disney and Pixar animated features, and franchises such as Indiana Jones. Plus a couple well-known and well-loved directors, Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan.
Here’s all the movies you might want to see this summer!
May
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3
Directed by James Gunn
In Marvel Studios “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
Fast X
Directed by Louis Leterrier
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Directed by Rob Marshall
The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.
June
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Returning to the action and spectacle that first captured moviegoers around the world 14 years ago with the original Transformers, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.
The Blackening
Directed by Time Story
Seven black friends go away for the weekend only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive?
Asteroid City
Directed by Wes Anderson
Asteroid City is a poetic meditation on the meaning of life. It tells the story of a fictional American desert town circa 1955 and its Junior Stargazer convention, which brings together students and parents from across the country for scholarly competition, rest/recreation, comedy, drama, romance, and more.
DC’s The Flash
Directed by Andy Muschietti
Worlds collide in “The Flash” when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for. Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?
Pixar’s Elemental
Directed by Peter Sohn
Follows an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Directed by James Mangold
Famed archaeologist and explorer Indiana Jones returns in a fifth movie.
July
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt returns in an all new seventh installment.
Barbie
Directed by Greta Gerwig
A Barbie doll living in Barbieland is expelled from the world for not being perfect enough, too eccentric and not fitting the usual mold. She goes on an adventure in the real world and by the time she returns to Barbieland to save it, she has gained the realization that perfection comes on the inside, not the outside, and that the key to happiness is belief in oneself.
Oppenheimer
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb.
Disney’s Haunted Mansion
Directed by Justin Simien
A family moves into the name-sake mansion. Lakeith Stanfield plays a widower who once believed in the supernatural but is now a rather lifeless tour guide in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Tiffany Haddish plays a psychic hired to commune with the dead.
August
Blue Beetle
Directed by Angel Manuel Soto
Mexican-American teenager Jaime Reyes discoveres the Blue Beetle scarab on the way home from school. Turns out the scarab provides him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor which can be modified to enhance his speed and strength, as well as to create weapons, wings and shields.