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Spider Man: Homecoming

For years, the public has been exposed to Spider Man in different ways. Starting in 2002, we had the Tobey Maguire films, which were good in their own right, but after the flop of the third one, Sony decided to reboot it with the Andrew Garfield films. Middling reviews and poor box office receipts left Spidey’s future in limbo. Eventually, Marvel announced a deal to feature Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, first introducing him in Captain America Civil War. With that film setting the stage for a new film, Spider Man Homecoming sets us up for a new future with our favorite web slinger. Spider Man Homecoming takes place after the events of Captain America Civil War. Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) has gotten a taste of what it is like to be an Avenger and his life will never be the same. Spending his days taking care of small scale crimes at the behest of Tony Stark (played by the reliably great Robert Downey Jr.), Pete dreams of more and wishes to become a full Aven

Logan

One of the best things that came out of 2016's Deadpool was that 20th Century Fox found that R rated superhero movies can be successful. With this, they announced that they were in the process of creating an R rated Wolverine movie. Logan is the result of this. As it embraces the R rating with violence and language, Logan draws you in on an emotional level as well. The film takes place in the year 2029, a time where mutants are near extinct. Logan (played by the worn Hugh Jackman) does his best to blend in within his small town near the border, as he cares for Professor Charles Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart) with the help of Caliban (Stephen Merchant). This all changes when a nurse named Gabriella (Elizabeth Rodriguez) pays Logan to take her and a young girl named Laura (played by Dafne Keen in her big screen debut) to North Dakota. What she doesn't reveal is that Laura is Logan's genetic clone and that they are being hunted by Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook). The film

Passengers

No. No. No. No No. No. No. I don't know who convinced Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt to make Passengers, but they should be fired. The film follows Jim (Chris Pratt), a mechanic who agrees to take a voyage to start a new life on a colony. The initial idea is that the trip entails 120 years of hibernation, followed by four months of reintegration to prepare passengers for life on the foreign land. Where Jim comes into play is that he awakens 90 years before the scheduled integration period when his hibernation pod malfunctions. After spending a year by himself, he decides to wake up another passenger. He chooses Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), a writer who chose to go on the trip to become the first person ever to travel to a colony and back. She has no idea that Jim woke her up and believes that it was a pod malfunction like Jim's. They fall in love, but as the ship begins to decompose and threatens the life of the 5,000 people in hibernation, it is up to them to try and save