Lisa Miller

1 week ago | shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen |Lisa Miller

(In Theaters June 20) In 2002, director Danny Boyle popularized zombies that ran and chased down their victims. Five years later, the franchise released 28 Weeks Later, and now, 23 years after the original, 28 Years Later. As before, the zombies are more lethal. One group of survivors remains safe by holing up on a small island, hundreds of feet from shore. Needing supplies, a male survivor decides to search the nearby mainland with his girlfriend’s 12-year-old son.

2 weeks ago | shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen |Lisa Miller

(Red Arrow Video Blu-ray) A suave young man picks up a fashionable young woman at a dance club—and when two other guys plant themselves in the backseat of his car, trouble is around the corner. The Hitman: Dangerpoint (1991) shows a graphically disturbing rape scene—a gang rape aborted by the emergence of a man from the shadows in a long black leather coat. He’s hard-faced, laconic, and gets down to business, killing all three men with his handgun.

3 weeks ago | shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen |Lisa Miller

(In Theaters June 6) The popular “John Wick” franchise spins off a storyline featuring a female assassin. She is ballerina Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas), intent upon acquiring professional skills necessary to avenge her father’s death. Lance Reddick returns as the concierge of the Continental Hotel, in the actor’s final performance prior to his death. Ian McShane reprises his role as the Continental Hotel’s proprietor.

4 weeks ago | shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen |Lisa Miller

(In Theaters May 30) Writer-director John Maclean marries the samurai film to the American western, and sets his story in late 18th century England. His icy palette unfolds beneath overcast skies, where teenage Tornado (Kōki) is a Japanese puppeteer and Sword-fighting expert. Along with her samurai father, Fujin (Takehiro Hira), Tornado wanders this landscape to perform life-sized puppet shows for meager returns.

1 month ago | shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen |Lisa Miller

(In Theaters May 23) Tom Cruise delivers the thrills in what is claimed to be the final film of this franchise. The convoluted plot is exposition-heavy, with almost none of the satiric dialog that eased the burden of previous installments. Welcome to part two of a tale about an A.I.’s plan to cleanse the earth of humanity. POTUS (Angela Bassett) wants to harness the A.I. on behalf of our nation’s interests, so the government plans to retrieve a device granting its owner control over The Entity.