Super-Duper Short Film Reviews: Summer Edition

Blockbusters

Godzilla (opens May 15)
Yay: Kaiju, Bryan Cranston
Nay: Whitewashing, cultural appropriation

X-Men: Days of Future Past (opens May 22)
Yay: Great cast, including our BFFs Jennifer Lawrence, Ellen Page and Peter Dinklage
Nay: Just a tad formulaic

Edge of Tomorrow (opens Jun 5)
Yay: Emily Blunt
Nay: Tom Cruise

A Million Ways to Die in the West (opens Jun 12)
Yay: Seth MacFarlane and Neil Patrick Harris’s bro de force!
Nay: See above

Transformers: Age of Extinction (opens Jun 26)
Yay: Robots in disguise
Nay: Michael Bay, explosions

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (opens Jul 10)
Yay: Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) directs
Nay: Eighth film in the franchise

Hercules (opens Jul 24)
Yay: The Rock
Nay: Awful hair and makeup job


Indie

Fading Gigolo (opens May 15)
Yay: Woody Allen stars
Nay: Not a Woody Allen movie

The Canyons (opens May 22)
Yay: Bret Easton Ellis, Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Paul Schrader
Nay: It’s terrible

Chef (opens Jun 5)
Yay: Showed at SXSW, food trucks
Nay: It’s an Avengers reunion

Under the Skin (opens Jun 12)
Yay: Scarlett Johansson as alien succubus
Nay: It’s only fiction

Tammy (opens Jul 5)
Yay: Woman writes, produces and stars in her own movie
Nay: Too much Melissa McCarthy

Jupiter Ascending (opens Jul 17)
Yay: The Wachowskis, Mila Kunis as a royal janitor
Nay: Channing Tatum an unconvincing werewolf

22 Jump Street (opens Jul 24)
Yay: Sequel to 21 Jump Street
Nay: Can’t be as good as 21 Jump Street