In 2015 Star Wars The Force Awakens, say goodbye to one of the most famous characters of the saga, Han Solo. Most of us thought will be the last time we see this character on the big screen.

Two years later Walt Disney announced the production of the Han Solo origins spin-off and with that everyone was wondering where this movie will take place and how it will be?

Now the film Solo is released after a very troubled production where the film was done by two young directors, who were fired after almost finishing the film by Lucasfilm president.

Then Ron Howard was hired to shoot the film again and finished what Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and get it ready for the original release.

Solo tells the story of Han (Aldem Ehrenreich) and orphan made to steal in order to survive, he lives in Corellia with his lover Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke). Together they make a plan scape and find their way to another planet, but the plan failed when Qi'ra is capture before the scape and Han promise to come back to rescue her, so he joined the Empire as a flight cadet.

3 years have passed and he is already expelled from the Flight Academy and Han is an infantryman during a battle on the planet Mimban, here when he meets Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson and Val Beckett (Thandie Newton) both pirates who are stealing weapons and materials from the Empire Infantry.

This is the pivotal moment in the story when we see Han Solo will be a space pirate getting involved with the worst of the worst and also he will start acquiring debt across the galaxy.

The film continues exploring the story of how Han met Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian.

Ron Howard does a good job making this film entertaining and fun, Lawrence Kasdan and son Jonathan create an interesting idea of how Han Solo life developed to the point of seeing him in Star Wars: A New Hope.
The film does not explore social issues like Rogue One did, which to me is a more solid Star Wars movie, presenting a group of strong characters fighting for a cause and using the film as a metaphor of the problems we are living this day and age. Solo only explore visual nuances like the war in Mimban, which visually looks like World War I. The images seem to be lifted from Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory. The representation of Tobias and Val Beckett connects the dots to those people who came back to England after WW1 and later became gang members and criminals in order to have a meaning in their life.

Donald Glover does a great job as Lando Calrissian as well L3-37 droid (voice by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) which is the only character who talks about social justice in this story, sadly it felt flat. John Powell score is an excellent tribute to the Star Wars saga, with constant reminders of famous tunes of the previous films.
Overall Solo is an entertaining action-packed film, but at the end doesn't give you a solid message, Paul Bettany is a forgettable character and a weak villain.

Usually, a subject of pregnancy in films is mostly taken as a funny experience for the filmmakers who are looking to entertain the audience and deliver a weak message about paternity. Films like, Look Who's Talking, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Baby Mama, Knocked Up is among those movies.

Jason Reitman director of Juno and Up in the Air, have a different approach to make a movie about having a baby. To be quite honest, this films hit me in a very unexpected way, why? Now as a parent I lived the experience and ordeal of sleepless nights, uncountable diapers, the crying, and the reality check of one of the biggest decision of your life.

Marlo (Charlize Theron) mother of two kids and pregnant with the third deals with a developmental disorder of her son Jonah which makes him a difficult character in school. Marlo is married to Drew (Ron Livingston) they are an average family living paycheck to paycheck, but on the other side, Marlo's brother Craig (Mark Duplass) is a wealthy guy married and with kids. As a baby shower gift, he offers them a night nanny ( a person who takes care of your baby while you sleep and only wakes you when you need it)
Finally, Marlo gives birth to a baby girl name Mia, becoming overwhelmed and exhausted of dealing with her two kids and the baby. Jonah reaches a tipping point at school, Marlo meets with the principal which recommends to send him to another school. Marlo has a crisis making the decision to bring the night nanny to help her.

Tully (Mackenzie Davis) started to work for Marlo, originally it starts as an awkward situation, but later becomes a strong friendship where they share a lot of each other.

Jason Reitman tells an honest story very raw, is kind of like a slap in the face of parenthood. Charlize Theron is perfect for the role, blending from drama to comedy in a perfect way.

Rossy De Palma is one of Pedro Almodovar's muse, she had appeared in at least 7 of his films. Her personality and look becomes her signature, which gives a sophisticated humor to which project she appears.

In the film Madame, she is one of the main roles opposite Tony Collette and Harvey Keitel. The film tells the story of an American couple Anne (Collette) and Bob (Keitel) who are hosting a dinner party with twelve friends. Bob's son arrived unexpectedly and Anne needs to make arrangements for another guest since she is very superstitious. Maria (De Palma) is Anne and Bob maid, is asked to be the guest number 14, she needs to pretend to be a rich Spanish woman. During dinner, Mari meet David and British aristocrat and a relationship is developed really quickly.

For Anne and Bob is a complicated issue. Maria, it's been with the family for a long time and is need it. But on the other hand, they need to keep David which is an economic interest for the family.

Amanda Sthers directs a light comedy that becomes forgettable, with a weak script a powerful group of actors cannot save this movie. The film is fun to watch but end up boring with no happy ending.

The challenges of exploring the limits of horror and terror in movies are becoming more and more complicated. Those days when Alfred Hitchcock, George Romero, John Carpenter seems to be fading away because the audiences are looking for fresh stories with meaning. The film "Get Out" changed that when introduced racism as a metaphor.

in the film "A Quiet Place" we have a new dilemma, a family who is been haunted by monsters, but they can't make a sound, because that's what the monsters use to catch their victims. The story is presented as a futuristic tale where the big message is family union. But SPOILER ALERT, the death of one of the kids is the engine of the most important elements to the story, a pregnancy. From the very beginning, we have been introduced to a protective father, a caring mother and 3 children who know that the only way to survive is to stay together, follow rules, but be quiet.

Director and Actor John Krasinski brings this story with a moral compass. Every time we see a horror film, people who you care as a character will die. But in this movie, your level of stress will run wild just when you think one of the family members are in danger. The sound is powerful and necessary because it becomes another character of the film.

John Krasinski follow the footsteps of Hitchcock, Carpenter and even Ridley Scott in Alien, making this film believable and allows you to connect and make every character important.

Emily Blunt did an amazing job, as well as Millicent Simmonds Noah Jupe who play her kids in the movie.

Wes Wanderson cinema is a world filled with symmetric shots, colorful characters, well design places and plot that seems to be repetitive from the last film.

His latest movie seems to go beyond his typical plot, but address social problems in the near future. Isle of Dogs is the animated story of a dystopian future where dogs overpopulation and flu virus threat the life all citizens in Japan.
The canine population is sent to Trash Island, by an authoritarian government led by the mayor Kobayashi (Konichi Nomura) of Megassaki City who signs a decree to expel all the dogs, while scientist Professor Watanabe (Akira Ito) is looking for the cure at the same time.

Atari Kobayashi (Koyu Rankin) nephew of Mayor Kobayashi goes on a mission to find his dog Spot (Liev Schreiber) which is the first dog to be sent out to Trash Island. Atari steals a military plane and crashes into the island, he is rescued by five dogs: Rex (Edward Norton) King (Bob Balaban) Duke (Jeff Goldblum) Boss (Bill Murray) and Chief (Bryan Cranston). Later the dogs decided to help Atari to find Spots.

Isle of Dogs explores the future where authoritarian governments use media to alienate the people by making them believe what the need to believe, while political plots keeps happening in the background. For instance, in one point of the movie, Professor Watanabe finds the cure for the dog's flu but the people behind mayor Kobayashi try to eliminate this cure by poison him, so the threat of the dog flu continues to scare the habitats of Megassaki City. Trash Island becomes an exile place for displaced minorities, in this case, dogs, an animal who is been used as a metaphor for the people who left their home country because of wars of poverty and is mistreated by more developed countries.

This film has an interesting connection with Wes Anderson previous film The Grand Budapest Hotel which touch the subject of old Europe and the troubling politic arena. The most interesting thing about Isle of Dogs is the groundbreaking work in stop-motion animation and the Wes Anderson talent to make this story make sense. Is not his best film, but is very innovative.

The 80's is the decade with advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economics leaning toward capitalism, mostly due socioeconomic change. Still a period where pop culture, political movements, social changes, and technology influenced everyone around the world, it's perhaps now the most trendy subject in movies and TV shows.

Stranger Things, Halt and Catch Fire, The Goldbergs, The Americans, 21 Jump Street, Deutschland 83 and of course the long list of reboots from Hollywood a perfect excuse to keep squeezing money from fans: Star Wars, Star Trek, Pee Wee, Dallas, Dynasty, the list goes on and on. There is so many tributes, studies, and analysis about this period of time that you can spend months watching documentaries about what happens and how it happen.

Finally, another tribute based on a book comes to life, from the hands of a director who makes love the 80's with famous characters like Indiana Jones, E.T., Gremlins and Back to the Future.

Ready Player One is probably one of the biggest 80's tributes ever made to the film. In 2045 earth population have become a confined trailer park slum city. The citizens of the earth escape reality by using virtual reality world name OASIS which is the ultimate VR experience, you can be whatever you want in any place you like and play any game you want. One of the creators of the OASIS James Halliday (Marl Rylance) before his death left an easter egg in the game, if found, allows the player to win the full ownership of the OASIS. Everyone is trying to win this game and it's has been impossible for the players.

One of the players is Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) an orphan living in Columbus, Ohio with his aunt and abusive husband/boyfriend, Wade has the avatar Parzival. Aech is Parzival friend in the OASIS and they have teamed up to win the 3 keys necessary to win the game. At the same time, the CEO of a company name Innovative Online Industries Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) recruited an army of people to win the game too, they are fully trained and supported by a team of geeks to knows every single aspect of James Halliday life. But still, they have not won the game. Art3mins (Olivia Cooke) is another avatar who's trying to achieve the same mission, is doing it for the cause of save the OASIS itself.

Ready Player One becomes a full pack action film, with a few clever moments, but sadly miss the point. For someone like me who lived the 80's to the fullest, this movie turns into a digital mashup of "some" of the most famous cultural references of the 80's, the problem is, you get so immersed into a virtual world and forget the essence of what that time was like. Steven Spielberg defeats the purpose of the movie message which embraces real life versus reality. When you watch this movie you are experiencing something like being in an amusement park where the sound is so loud that your seat is shaking, I can almost assure you they can splash water at you, to make you feel you are there.

The percentage of live action footage vs computer generating is so unbalanced that makes you wonder, why don't just make the whole film CGI? I was unable to connect with any of the characters and also I hate to say this, but Sorrento character is such a terrible villain, it's clumsy with a lack of planning to make his plan works. Maybe is just a nice metaphor for typical American CEO who just know to use the resources to get what they want, but it's so stupid because it needs an army of trained monkeys to help them.

One of the things I can rescue from this movie is the easter eggs, there is so many that you can spend the whole film looking for them. Stanley Kubrick tribute was my favorite, perhaps the best scene.

In the end, the film is incredibly long and you just desperately want to end after watching a such a lame showdown between the heroes and the villains.

Joe Wright talented filmmakers with an interesting filmography that goes from Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Hanna and Anna Karenina.

Brings one of the most challenging characters to be portrayed on film, Winston Churchill. A long list of actors has portrayed Churchill, From Albert Finney, Brendan Gleeson, Timothy Spall, Bob Hoskin and Richard Burton.

Churchill was a very complex character who was loved and hate for politicians in the UK and around the world. His personality and mannerism was his signature, but his thoughts and idea was the most controversial element from Winston Churchill personality.

The film Darkest Hours explores one of the most obscure and suspenseful time in the history of the United Kingdom. In 1940 the Labour Party of the UK demands the resignation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for been weak against the Nazi regime. Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is chosen as the last option after others don't want the responsibility of the Prime Minister duties.

From the very beginning, he is dealing with a bad reputation due to his record at the Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War. His first words in the parliament become controversial after promising blood tears and sweet against the German government. His troubled relationship with King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) is an addition to his conflicted actions against the war and refusal to negotiate with Nazi regime. He received support from his family especially from his Clementine Churchill (Kristin Scott Thomas) who becomes his advisor and most powerful ally.

Darkest Hours explores dramatic moments where the UK have a lack of leadership, the Dunkirk miracle where Churchill plan to rescue British soldiers from the French and the thread of a German invasion to the island of the United Kingdom. Joe Wright masterful direct a solid group of actors and delivers an excellent film, with such a unique visual style and technical appealing, from cinematography, music, editing, costume, sound, and makeup.