Movies Opening This Weekend – July 21st, 2017 [videos]

Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Clive Owen, Catherine Deneuve, Jada Pinkett Smith, One Direction’s Harry Styles, John Turturro and Edie Falco are all on the silver screen this weekend. In one of the more interesting sci-fi films of the year, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets contemplate’s life on other planets, but not in a way we might normally think.

There’s a female ‘Hangover’ this weekend, featuring Tinsel Town’s brightest stars, Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, and Jada Pinkett Smith are worth seeing, but it’s definitely not a family film. A few of our Hollywood favs, John Turturro, Finn Wittrock, and Edie Falco star in a mid-90s comedy about the odd family dynamic of love and betrayal.

Our pick of the week is a semi-autobiographical rendition of one of Britain’s greatest military defeats called ‘Dunkirk’ that is very entertaining.

Enjoy the movies this weekend, we always do!

The Midwife (2017)
(NR) 117 min – Drama
Director: Martin Provost
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire

A man’s mistress reaches out to his daughter, causing emotional distress and providing real life drama the daughter was not prepared for while she serves the community as a midwife. [watch trailer]

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
(PG-13) 137 min – Action
Director: Luc Besson
Stars: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Elizabeth Debicki

Alpha is the exciting metropolis home to all mankind in the future, and the setting for a battle royal for universal power. [watch trailer]

Girls Trip (2017) (2017)
(R) 122 min – Comedy
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Stars: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish

Four lifelong friends decide they need to blow off steam with a lecherous trip to New Orleans during the annual Essence Festival. Be forewarned, this film is as raunchy as Hangover, told from a woman’s point of view. The girls have so much fun the movies, we’re unable to share the preview – not surprisingly!

Dunkirk (2017)
(PG-13) 106 min – History/War
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles

Allied soldiers and British regulars face certain death in the battle of Dunkirk, one of Britain’s greatest defeats during World War II. [watch trailer]

Landline (2017)
(R) 93 min – Comedy
Director: Gillian Robespierre
Stars: Jenny Slate, John Turturro, Finn Wittrock, Edie Falco

A teenager living with her sister and mom and dad in the mid-90s realize that daddy is in the midst of a torrid affair. What follows is a storyline of humor and adult situations that will make you wonder how this family will service the deceit and infidelity. [watch trailer]

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