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VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS Director: Luc Besson Screenplay: Luc Besson Based on the comic book by Pierre Christin & Jean-Claude Mézières Starring: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne. Clive Owen, Rianna, Herbie Hancock, Ethan Hawke, Sam Spruell, Rutger Hauer Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and action, suggestive material and brief language Running Time: 2 hour 13 minutes ** out of ***** Photo: STX Entertainment In Luc Besson's new film, Sergeant Laureline and Majo

WISH UPON Director: John R. Leonetti Written by Barbara Marshall Starring: Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee, Shannon Purser, Sydney Park, Sherilyn Fenn, Mitchell Slaggert Rated PG-13 for violent and disturbing images, thematic elements and language Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes ** out of ***** Photo: Orion Pictures/Broad Green Pictures Clare Shannon (Joey King) soon discovers seemingly simple wishes can be deadly in WISH UPON. The saying goes "imitation is the since

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Director: Jon Watts Screenplay: Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley and Jon Watts & Christopher Ford and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers Screen Story: Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley Starring: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Laura Harrier, Jacob Batalon, Zendaya, Jon Favreau, Robert Downey, Jr. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some language and brief suggestive comments Running Time: 2 hour 13 minutes **** out of ***** Photo

A GHOST STORY Director: David Lowery Screenplay: David Lowery Starring: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Liz Cardenas Franke, Barlow Jacobs Rated R for brief language and a disturbing image. Running Time: 1 hour 32 minutes **** out of ***** Photo: A24 A bereft widow doesn't realize that her late husband has come home in David Lowery's A GHOST STORY. The afterlife. What do we really know about it? What exactly happens to us when our time comes? On one end of the spe

LONE WOLF McQUADE Director: Steve Carver Screenplay: B.J. Nelson Story: H. Kaye Dyal and B.J. Nelson Starring: Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Robert Beltran, L.Q. Jones, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Dana Kimmell Rated PG Running Time: 1 hour 47 minutes Released: April 15, 1983 ***1/2 out of ***** Photo: Orion Pictures Texas Ranger J.J. McQuade confronts arms and drug dealer Rawley Wilkes in the modern-day western LONE WOLF McQUADE. Texas ranger J.J. McQuade (Chuck Nor

THE BEGUILED (2017) Director: Sofia Coppola Screenplay: Sofia Coppola Starring: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, Addison Riecke, Emma Howard Rated R for some sexuality Running Time: 1 hour 33 minutes ***1/2 out of ***** Photo: Focus Features The women at a girls' school fall under a Union soldier's spell in Sofia Coppola's THE BEGUILED. In less than twenty years writer-director Sofia Coppola has established herself as

2010 Director: Peter Hyams Screenplay: Peter Hyams Based on the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Helen Mirren, Douglas Rain, Keir Dullea, Elya Baskin, Dana Elcar Rated PG Running Time: 1 hour 56 minutes Released: December 7, 1984 **** out of ***** Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer A joint US/Soviet crew journey to Jupiter to solve the mysteries behind the failed Discovery mission in 2010, the sequel to 2001: A SPACE ODYSS