It is Summer Blockbuster season! We’ve got a couple big budget action movies, a couple franchise horror, a couple artsy-fartsy types, and a few family movies that aren’t just cash grabs. Looks like a good season!
June 23
Asteroid City
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
Wes Anderson goes full Wes Anderson. I actually got to see this already, and if you see movies as a form of art, as opposed to just entertainment, then you’ll love it as I did.
June 30
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
How many more “Harrison Ford character but he’s OLD now!” movies do you think we’re gonna get? Maybe Patriot Games: Game Over? Air Force One: It’s Putin This Time?
July 7
Insidious: The Red Door
The Lamberts 10 years after the last installment, as Dalton begins college.
This horror franchise, starring Patrick Wilson, first two directed by James Wan, with a release in 2013, is not the same as The Conjuring horror franchise, starring Patrick Wilson, first two directed by James Wan, with a release in 2013. You see, these ones are not based on a real life family.
July 14
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
You can argue that these movies are repetitive, but the M:I franchise is one of our strongest defenders against every big budget action movie just resorting to CGI. We need to make sure we appreciate that.
July 21
Oppenheimer
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Nolan really started to lose his focus of good storytelling with Tenet, and even a little bit with Dunkirk, so I’m really happy to see that he is pulling back from gimmicks, and just telling a good story with his epic style. Sometimes you just need to reset, and go back to basics.
Barbie
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.
There is a Venn Diagram of people who are going to see Barbie and those who will see Oppenheimer, and I’m going to do everything I can to make that Venn Diagram into a circle. I cannot express how equally excited I am for both of these movies.
July 28
Haunted Mansion
A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.
Disney will never stop chasing that Jack Sparrow high, will they? I mean, I won’t say no, but this is a Disney+ watch at best.
August 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Turtle brothers as they work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse made a massive impact on the animation industry five years ago. Some movies, like Puss In Boots: The Last Wish took the right lessons from it. Some movies, like Trolls Band Together did not. This one looks promising, I’m not going to lie.
August 11
Gran Turismo
The ultimate wish fulfilment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver. Based on a true story.
A movie about a video gamer, that basically says “most of you gamers suck at real life, but a couple of you are kinda cool I guess.” This uh, this ain’t it chief.
August 18
Blue Beetle
An alien relic chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the teenager with a suit of armor that’s capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.
DC Movies are at their best when they aren’t trying to fit into a franchise. This falls in a weird place, though. You see, this is technically in the DCEU, following The Flash, but technically The Flash reset the whole franchise anyway. So this is a standalone that is also the 14th film of the DCEU franchise.
August 25
Biography Week
There are three movies in theaters this weekend, and all of them are biographies. One about Ricky Hill, baseball player (The Hill), one about a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France (White Bird), and one about Golda Mier, The Iron Lady of Israel during the Yom Kippur War (Golda). None are very Nerddy, but I’m sure they are fine.
September 1
The Equalizer 3
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends’ protector by taking on the mafia.
Generic Action Thriller!
September 8
Poor Things
The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
I think this movie was meant to come out in the ’40s, and I love it already.
September 15
A Haunting in Venice
In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.
The third movie, following Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. It’s probably on par with those, if that’s your kinda thing.
September 22
Expend4bles
The Expendables will square up against: an arms dealer who commands the might of a massive private army.
Has anyone actually seen these? Do people watch these? I mean, if your goal is to hang out with your old work buddies and make enough money to do it again, then I guess they are succeeding.
The Nerdd 
HI SEAN!!! Love the movie guide. Looking forward to another Insidious because I loved the first one despite the rocky sequels
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Thanks Sarah! You bring honor to House Belmont.
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