My 5 hot picks

Summary: Disney's Moana is not your average princess movie. Instead of finding a love interest, a teenage girl finds herself in this Disney featured film. With the help of a Demi-God, Maui, Moana is determined to save her people and island by restoring the heart of a God. They sail across the sea, using the ancient way finding, and end up running into enemies who want the heart for their own power. Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and finds herself along the way.

Starring: Alui'i Cravalho & Dwayne Johnson

Rotten tomatoes rates it a 96/100

Summary: Just how far are you willing to go to make money? In this 2013 thriller/horror movie, a young woman, Iris, is struggling with her brother's chemo bills. Desperate to get the money, she agrees to a billionaire's, Shepard, . She finds herself with 6 other , in Shepard's mansion, who unknowingly greed to his offer. To get the money, Shepard forces them to play a sadistic game of Would you rather. The dilemmas become worse and worse.

Starring: Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs, Sasha Grey & John Heard

Summary: In this Disney remake of the 1991's classic old as time tale,Beauty and the Beast, a smart and sweet outcast village girl, Belle, takes her father's place as prisoner in a cursed beast's castle for stealing a rose. Befriending the Beast's enchanted staff, Belle learns to see beyound the Beast's appearance. Belle's father, Maurice, needs help rescuing her daughter. Gaston, the village hero and madly in "love" with Belle, takes on the challenge, only to leave Maurice dead, convincing the other villagers that Maurice is completly mad. When Belle is set free, she tries to persuade the other that the Beast isn't as he seems. Outraged for Belle's admiration for the Beast, Gaston is determined to kill the Beast.

Starring: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans & Josh Gad

Summary: In the Underworld movie series, , the Vampires and Lycans have been on an ongoing war. When the Lycan's take a certain interest in a immortal, Michael, Selene, a trained killer for the vampire clan, tries to protect Michael and find out why they are so intrigued in him. Trying to save him is nearly impossible because of a Lycan leader, Lucian, who bit Michael and is now a Lycan. Selene later bites him to save him, and now he is a Hybrid. Their journey starts there. It is only the begining for Selene and Michael.

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhonda Mitra, Theo James, India Eisly, Lara Pulver & Tobias Menzies

Summary: Wade (Ryan Reynolds) is not a bad guy, but not so much of a good guy either. A mercenary who later has all sorts of cancer finds help in a scientist by the name of Ajax (Ed Skrein), who tortures and disforms him. The experiment gives Wade extrodinary healing powers and a sarcastic sense of humor. With the help of 2 X-Men members, he hunts to find the man that ruined his life.

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Ed Skrein, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand & T.J. Miller

5 NOTS

Nick Morton is a soldier of fortune who plunders ancient sites for timeless artifacts and sells them to the highest bidder. When Nick and his partner come under attack in the Middle East, the ensuing battle accidentally unearths Ahmanet, a betrayed Egyptian princess who was entombed under the desert for thousands of years. With her powers constantly evolving, Morton must now stop the resurrected monster as she embarks on a furious rampage through the streets of London.

Starring: Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Anabelle Wallis & Russel Crow.

Why it sucks: The original mummy series was such a block buster. The known movie series ended when it was suppose to. Why bring it back up, and with a whole other cast? I know it is years later and a new "mummy", but come one. The franchise shouldn't have continued. The new movie itself was a flop in the box office.

Hidden inside a smartphone, the bustling city of Textopolis is home to all emojis. Each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, an exuberant emoji with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his best friend Hi-5 and a notorious code breaker called Jailbreak. During their travels through the other apps, the three emojis discover a great danger that could threaten their phone's very existence.

Starring: T.J. Miller, James Corden, Tony Leondis & Patrick Stewart.

A movie about emojis. . . need I say more?

Young Greg Heffley is looking forward to a long summer of just hanging out, but his mother throws a monkey wrench into his plans when she forces the entire family to take a road trip for a relative's birthday celebration. His eyes soon light up after he realizes that the excursion is his ticket to a gaming convention to meet YouTube sensation Mac Digby. Greg's imagination then kicks into overdrive as he sneakily hatches a scheme to attend the expo and gain some much-deserved fame.

Starring: Jason Drucker & Owen Asztalos.

Why it sucks: First off, it is not the original cast from previous Diary of a Wimpy Kid. #NotMyRodrick has been all over social media. Original cast is very important to devoted "fans". It is not as funny, or exciting, as the previous ones.

NOT SUITABLE FOR KIDS

When college senior Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him.

Starring: Dakota Johnson & Jamie Dornan.

Why it sucks: The "sexual" movie doesn't really fit the term. It isn't innocent, but it isn't all that graphic either. It's a few steps lower from it. It is cringe-worthy at best. Yet there is still one more book besdies Fifty Shades Darker. . .

A young American named Greta (Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny for an 8-year-old boy in a remote English village. To her surprise, Greta learns that the child of her new employers is a life-size doll. They care for the doll as if it was human, which helps the couple to cope with the death of their own son 20 years earlier. When Greta violates a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring her worst fears to life, leading her to believe that the doll is alive..

Starring: Lauren Cohen, James Russell, Rupert Evans & Jett Kylne.

Why it sucks: The ending was really bad, nothing was scary about the movie at all. The ending shows the adult controlling the doll and scaring the parents, which results in them killing themselves. It had nothing to do with the "scary doll".