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SOLO: A Star Wars Story (2018) Real title: Chewie 😆

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Source Young Han Solo finds adventure when he joins a gang of galactic smugglers, including a 196-year-old Wookie named Chewbacca. Indebted to the gangster Dryden Vos, the crew devises a daring plan to travel to the mining planet Kessel to steal a batch of valuable coaxium. In need of a fast ship, Solo meets Lando Calrissian, the suave owner of the perfect vessel for the dangerous mission -- the Millennium Falcon.  -WWW Screenplay by Jonathan Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan ( George Lucas 's cowriter in Episode 5(The Empire Strikes Back) and 6(Return of the Jedi). He also wrote Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, a video game and The Force Awakens) Directed by Ron Howard Music by John Williams and John Powell A lot of people would agree with me.  This movie should have been called Chewie: A Star Wars story instead.  At any rate, as approved by the great Harrison Ford, Alden Ehrenreich did not disappoint anyway. There is nothing wrong with the screenplay, the acting...

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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It's a good thing that we were really joyfully anticipating this movie or else we would have been greatly disappointed because it was the only movie showing in every cinema of SM City BF Parañaque "When Disney acquired Marvel, the lines became funnier, 'Tati'!" as observed by my eight(8) year old nephew. I agree with him.  The scenes were still violent, but bearable.  I took to heart the parental guidance thing and tried to be alert every time he asked a question.  His dad was on the other side, but he chose to ask me stuff.  He did turn to his dad when he wanted to go... ;-) My nephew loves his parents, most especially his mom, but I'm happy that he also thinks highly of me.  ;-) During the first few minutes, I was lost in space(not the movie's fault, but I was distracted by something ), but after a few minutes, I was into it.  Every scene was exciting...well, maybe not every  scene, but to us, it sure felt like it. Others squirmed bec...

Mortdecai (2015)

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Charismatic British aristocrat and part-time shady art dealer Charlie Mortdecai ( Johnny Depp ) suffers from a constant lack of funds to support his lush lifestyle, so when Alistair Maitland ( Ewan McGregor ), a college friend and officer in MI5, asks him to find a stolen Goya painting, he accepts. But Charlie's not the only one with designs on the painting; an American heiress and a revolutionary want it too, for the artwork is rumored to contain the code to a bank account filled with Nazi gold.- WWW Director: David Koepp Running time: 107 minutes Adapted from: The Mortdecai Trilogy Music composed by: Geoff Zanelli , Mark Ronson Written by:  Starring: Johnny Depp  as Charlie Mortdecai Gwyneth Paltrow  as Johanna Mortdecai Ewan McGregor  as Inspector Martland Olivia Munn  as Georgina Krampf Paul Bettany  as Jock Strapp Jeff Goldblum  as Milton Krampf Junix Inocian as Fang Fat the Chinese Mafia Lord/Businessman/Gambler from Hong Ko...