Movies Released May 18, 2018

Friday, May 18

Show Dogs PG

Follows Max, a rugged, lone-wolf Rottweiler police dog. He and his human cop partners get a tip that an animal-trafficking ring is planning an attack on the Eastminster Dog Show. Macho Max must undergo a makeover – mud baths, ballet lessons, a Brazilian waxing – to go undercover in order to thwart the plot.
Scott Lambert, Raja Gosnell, Ludacris, Stanley Tucci, Shaquille O’Neal, Deepak Nayar, Philip von Alvensleben, Max Botkin
Comedy Family

Book Club PG-13

Set in and around California, the film revolves around four lifelong friends who read 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club and have their lives changed forever.
Alicia Silverstone, Erin Simms, Katie Aselton, Craig T. Nelson, Wallace Shawn, Bill Holderman, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks
Drama Comedy Romance
119 mins

Deadpool 2 R

The wise-cracking mercenary returns.
Zazie Beetz, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Simon Kinberg, Josh Brolin, David Leitch, Lauren Shuler Donner
Action Adventure Comedy Sequel
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102 mins

How to Talk to Girls at Parties R

Set in the 1970s, the film follows two London boys who discover that the opposite sex is even stranger than they had originally thought.
Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, John Cameron Mitchell, Philippa Goslett
Comedy Music

Anders Manor R

It’s Amy’s 18th birthday. While most girls her age are celebrating with friends and painting the town, Amy is checking herself out of the insane asylum. Her mother Jane decides to take her on a family get away, to celebrate her birthday and re-acclimate her to everyday life. A weekend of, camp fires, and cotton candy socials, to rekindle family ties, quickly turns to the most horrific family reunion in American history. And it all goes down at Anders Manor.
Christina Robinson, Sully Erna, Rachel True, Kevin Nash, Mike Messier, Jonathan Schermerhorn, Michael Kanellis
Thriller Horror

Pope Francis - A Man of His Word PG

Pope Francis - A Man of His Word is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. The pope’s ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today’s global questions.
Wim Wenders, Samanta Gandolfi Branca, Alessandro Lo Monaco, Andrea Gambetta, David Rosier
Documentary Faith

On Chesil Beach R

The drama, which takes place in the UK in 1963, revolves around two repressed virgins in their early twenties whose attempt to consummate ends badly. Their futile attempt at lovemaking leads to doubt and recriminations.
Adrian Scarborough, Dominic Cooke, Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Ian McEwan, Saoirse Ronan
Drama Adaptation Teen
113 mins

First Reformed R

An ex-military chaplain is tortured by the loss of a son he encouraged to enlist in the armed forces. He is further challenged after befriending a young parishioner, and her radical environmentalist husband. He soon discovers hidden secrets of his church's complicity with unscrupulous corporations.
Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Paul Schrader, Gary Hamilton, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Michael Gaston, Cedric the Entertainer
Drama Thriller
105 mins

Cargo

Stranded in rural Australia in the aftermath of a violent pandemic, an infected father desperately seeks a new home for his infant child, and a means to protect her from his own changing nature.
Martin Freeman, Yolanda Ramke, Ben Howling, Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius
Horror Mystery

Champion

In this rousing crowd-pleaser, a former arm-wrestling champion raised in the US returns to South Korea for a tournament that could return him to glory. As he trains for the most intense fight he’s ever faced, he finds his life complicated by the appearance of the biological family he never knew.
Kim Yong-Wan
Drama Comedy

Friday, May 18