SJM_SummerMovies_ExpDept_0519_ExpDept 4 / 30 / 19 9 : 48 AM Page 3 entertainment LATE NIGHT MEN IN BLACK : INTERNATIONAL LATE NIGHT ( June 7 ) GENRE AND PLOTLINE : A televi - sion dramedy about a late - night SHAFT talk show host who might be about to lose her long - running show . MAJOR PLAYERS : Emma Thompson , John Lithgow , Mindy Kaling , Amy Ryan , Hugh Dancy , Ike Barinholtz BEHIND THE CAMERA : Canadian Nisha Ganatra ( Chutney Pop - corn , Fast Food High ) , most of whose background is in televi - sion , directs from a screenplay by cast member Mindy Kaling . REASON TO SEE IT : It’s one of the summer season’s more “ grown - up ” movies . REASON TO SKIP IT : With all the action - oriented fantasies to see this summer , this sounds like an autumn offering . Chris Renaud ( The Lorax , Hawkins , Kyle Chandler , Bradley THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 Despicable Me , Despicable Me 2 ) Whitford , Ken Watanabe , David ( June 7 ) HIT OR MISS : It might disappear and debuting Jonathan del Val . Strathairn in the summer avalanche of GENRE AND PLOTLINE : An ani - explosive fun . mated comedy sequel that looks BEHIND THE CAMERA : Director REASON TO SEE IT : The first one in once again on a dog and his Michael Dougherty , who also co - was thoroughly entertaining pals , who live a very different wrote the script , has previously with lots of laughs and all kind of existence when their directed two horror fantasies , those colorful characters , so SHAFT ( June 14 ) owners leave the house each day . Trick‘r Treat and Krampus . there’s no reason why a second GENRE AND PLOTLINE : A sequel helping shouldn’t deliver . to 2000 ’ s Shaft , part of the ac - REASON TO SEE IT : The prede - MAJOR PLAYERS : Patton Oswalt , tion - comedy franchise about cessor was a pleasant surprise Kevin Hart , Eric Stonestreet , REASON TO SKIP IT : Another security expert John Shaft Jr . , and there are certainly more Jenny Slate , Lake Bell , Ellie sequel ? Whatever happened who turns to his family for help wrinkles to explore . Kemper , Dana Carvey , Harrison to the one - to - a - customer when his best friend dies under Ford , Tiffany Haddish , Bobby principle ? REASON TO SKIP IT : After all mysterious circumstances . Moynihan , Hannibal Buress , these years and all those varia - HIT OR MISS : The big family Nick Kroll tions , we’re just Godzillaed out . audience that flocked to MAJOR PLAYERS : Samuel L . Jack - and responded to the 2016 son , Avan Jogia , Luna Lauren HIT OR MISS : Expectations are BEHIND THE CAMERA : original should be ready and Velez , Regina Hall , Matt Lauria , modest for the umpteenth Co - directing the follow - up are willing for a second unleashing . Method Man , Richard Roundtree Godzilla flick . The Secret Life of Pets director SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 16 issue 2 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 24 |