New Movies Coming Out in June 2. Movie Releases to See in Theaters This June. Comic Demetri Martin adds "director" to his resume with an amiable comedy that echoes the winsome works of Zach Braff. Martin plays Dean, a Brooklyn illustrator stumbling through the stages of grief while falling for a girl in LA.

Low-budget scifi movies may have had their heyday during Roger Corman’s rise to B-movie greatness in the 1950s, but they’re still going strong today—proving. Directed by Andrew Piddington. With Jonas Ball, Mie Omori, Krisha Fairchild, Gail Kay Bell. A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon.

Ace supporters include Gillian Jacobs and Kevin Klein. In theaters June 2. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Handsome Devil'. John Butler pulls from his own coming of age to pen and direct an Irish feel- good film that doesn’t shy away from homophobia, instead tackling it like a pack of dudes in a rugby maul.

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Directed by Trey Edward Shults. With Krisha Fairchild, Alex Dobrenko, Robyn Fairchild, Chris Doubek. Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from.

This one—about the unlikely bond that forms between a gay outcast and a star athlete—is a winner. In theaters June 2.

Growing up as a kid who loved comic books, I spent many an afternoon running around the park pretending to be a superhero fighting all manners of evil. Fun as it was. Imagine the end of the world. Now imagine something worse. Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his breakout debut Krisha with the psychological horror.

Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Letters from Baghdad'. Dubbed “the female Lawrence of Arabia,” Gertrude Bell barreled through male- dominated spaces to help shape the Middle East after WWI. But we can’t help but wonder, why has no one heard of this woman? This documentary, narrated by Tilda Swinton, is here to change that. In theaters June 2.

Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Past Life'. A layered Holocaust melodrama buoyed by elements of suspense and sordid history, Israeli director Avi Nesher’s glossy real- life adaptation of Baruch Milch's Can Heaven Be Void? Also, it’s intended to be the first in a trilogy. In theaters June 2. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Watch The Life Before Her Eyes Online Freeform here.

The Exception'. Lily James and Jai Courtney join Christopher Plummer for a star- crossed romance thriller set in 1. Holland. James plays a Dutch Jewish woman staffed in the home of the fallen Kaiser (Plummer), and Courtney, the Nazi soldier who falls in love with her.

Though there’s little fact in the based- on- truth drama, we’ll make an exception. In theaters June 2. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below.

The Recall'. Yes, that’s Wesley Snipes. And, yes, he’s playing a camo- clad alien hunter in what feels like Blade meets The Cabin in the Woods. But stick with us; The Recall, groundbreaking for serving as the first Barco Escape movie filmed natively for the format to be released in theaters, is a super- widescreen spectacle movie buffs don’t want to miss.

In theaters June 2. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Wonder Woman'. Gal Gadot is bulletproof in director Patty Jenkin’s DC wartime tentpole, which is soaring to the top of critics’ polls. As Diana Prince, princess of the Amazons, Gadot kicks ass alongside Chris Pine to save humanity from the war to end all wars—and rescue fans from another superhero flop.

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Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Band Aid'. When all else fails, start a band! At least, that’s what the feuding lovers in the latest from Zoe Lister- Jones do. Writer/director/star Lister- Jones corrals The Mindy Project’s Adam Pally and Fred Armisen for a 9. In theaters June 9. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below.

Beatriz at Dinner'. Two polarizing personalities—Salma Hayek’s humble holistic healer and John Lithgow’s cutthroat billionaire prick—clash in Miguel Arteta’s squirmy chamber comedy. Arteta, whose fare has a hint of Alexander Payne, teams again with writer Mike White, and the result is a dish best served awkward.

In theaters June 9. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. It Comes At Night'. Trey Edward Shults’s follow- up to his SXSW hit Krisha is a post- society cabin- in- the- woods thriller that solidifies him as a visionary in the horror genre.

As an unidentified danger draws nearer outside, a group of survivors lose their minds inside. In theaters June 9. Watch the trailer here.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Megan Leavey'. From the director of the tragic Blackfish, Megan Leavey is a touching portrait of a Marine, played by Kate Mara, and her battle to emancipate Rex, the military combat German Shepherd who helped her save lives in Iraq, from another deployment. In theaters June 9. Watch the trailer here.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. The Mummy'. Brendan Fraser exits stage left to make way for Tom Cruise, as Universal resurrects the Mummy franchise into a decidedly creepier Dark Universe horror series run rampant with gods, monsters, and sarcophagi. In theaters June 9. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. My Cousin Rachel'.

In this Gothic adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s literary thriller, Rachel Weisz serves up intrigue, mystery, and a whole lotta tea. Particularly to the Englishman (Sam Claflin) who seeks revenge against her for killing his guardian. In theaters June 9.

Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Lost in Paris'. Two- person humor troupe Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordo tag- team this whimsical film, about a pair of oddballs (her, a librarian looking for her aunt; him, a bum with a heart of gold) bumbling through the City of Light.

It’s Chaplin- esque comedy we just don’t see anymore. In theaters June 1.

Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. All Eyez on Me'. TV director Benny Boom will have all eyes on him when his biography detailing the life of arguably the greatest lyrical wordsmith of all time hits the big screen. A two- plus hour narrative exploration into the mind under that infamous do- rag, this tribute to Tupac can’t come soon enough.

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Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. The Book of Henry'. First things first: This one’s weird. What starts out as an endearing relationship drama about a single mother and her precocious son turns into a vengeful thriller about abuse and the girl next door. That said, if you’re privy to Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed, then you know what you’re in for.

In theaters June 1. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Hearing Is Believing'. There’s a big- name music documentary in theaters at the same time, but we hope you seek out Rachel Flowers’s inspirational story instead.

A music and composition prodigy, Flowers is a 2. Bach by ear since she was about two.

Mind, get ready to be blown. In theaters June 1. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below.

I, Daniel Blake'. A peek at the cracks in the British benefits system and those who fall through them, Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner will make you feel all the feels. A sort of odd couple tale, it follows a pair of working middle class Brits into a tunnel of bureaucratic despair that unfortunately bears little light. In theaters June 1. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Sally Hawkins takes on the role of Maud Lewis, a recluse whose arthritic condition couldn’t keep her from the paintbrush.

Ethan Hawke co- stars as her love interest. Even though the drama can be painted as simple, Hawkins’s performance is reason enough to see it. Have Kleenex at the ready. In theaters June 1.

Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. The Bad Batch'. Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her pulpy Iranian vampire western, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, with another full- loaded genre- blender.

This one's a politicized dystopian romantic thriller starring a masterful Suki Waterhouse as dinner for a band of cannibal misfits. Prepare yourself: WTFs will be flying.

In theaters June 2. Watch the trailer here. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. The Big Sick'. You know him from Silicon Valley, but it’s this Judd Apatow- produced rom- com that will solidify Kumail Nanjiani’s spot on the comedic map. A narrative pulled straight from director Michael Showalter’s own life, this one’s a heartfelt watch about two people whose cultures just can’t get along.

In select theaters June 2. Watch the trailer here.

Why Do So Many Black Superheroes Have Electricity Powers? Growing up as a kid who loved comic books, I spent many an afternoon running around the park pretending to be a superhero fighting all manners of evil. Fun as it was, the process of picking out which superhero I wanted to be always stressed me out for one particular reason that still bothers me to this day.

Back then, it felt odd flipping through my mental Rolodex of characters and realizing that, if I wanted to play as a black hero, it was almost guaranteed that I’d be doing jazz hands to simulate zapping people with lightning. See, there are a lot of black comic book characters with electricity- based superpowers. A lot. Certainly, there are a number of differences between Storm, Black Lightning, (Black Lightning’s daughter) Lightning, Black Vulcan, Juice, Static, and Shango the Thunderer. But there’s also something about them all that feels derivative at best and stereotypical at worst, considering that the vast majority of the most popular black superhero characters were created by white men.

It’s worth pointing out that Black Vulcan was created by Hanna- Barbera for the Superfriends cartoon, which producers felt needed a black character even though Black Lightning already existed. It’s also worth pointing out Black Vulcan was created after Black Lightning’s creator Tony Isabella left DC over creative differences.)The earliest black superheroes like Black Panther and Luke Cage crossed the comic book color line with their technology and super strength, but over the years, electrokinesis has seemingly become to go- to power black characters are most often assigned. But why? In the fifth issue of Mark Waid and Peter Krause’s Irredeemable, Volt, a member of the book’s answer to the Justice League, apprehends a kidnapper while sheepishly admitting to the people around him that yes, he’s a black hero with electricity powers and yes, he knows that it’s a Thing™, and he’s kind of embarrassed about it. While Volt’s powers are a playful jab at superhero comics as a whole, they do raise a number of questions about what it means exactly when creators choose to turn black characters into walking, talking batteries. Taken purely at face value, it’s not difficult to understand what makes electrokinesis popular with creators.

For one thing, it can make for some of the most visually arresting art you can imagine, and with the right sort of creativity, electrokinesis can be used in a variety of novel, clever ways beyond simply discharging energy. Writer Matt Wayne has helped give Milestone Media and DC Comics’ character Static his signature voice on a number of projects like the Static Shock animated series and various comics like Static and The Brave and the Bold: Milestone.

When I spoke with Wayne recently, he assured me that, when creating a new character and deciding which powers they should have, every comics writer sits down and considers how similar their creation will end up to others that came before them. Static’s powers, Wayne told me, were meant to be an extension of his geeky personality and the kinds of science fair projects he enjoyed working on. In other cases, though, Wayne reasoned that electrokinetic powers were the perfect way of having a black hero around who could participate in a fight, but not necessarily be the one to win the fight.“I think maybe some of it is that these kinds of heroes are usually physically vulnerable.

So they get their hits in and get taken out. There’s definitely an unconscious undercutting of black heroes, keeping them just shy of being a heroic ideal, that used to be more pronounced,” Wayne said. In that vein, maybe electricity can be an unconscious expression of the hero’s ‘tamable’ nature?”While it’s heartening to hear directly from a writer about how much thought they personally put into crafting a character’s identity, the point still stands that black heroes with electrical powers are an established trope.

Personally, the thing that’s always stuck with me about most black heroes with nature- based power sets is the very thin line writers and artists have to walk to make sure the character isn’t being depicted as a “savage.” The idea that black people are inherently closer to nature is one of the larger undertones to the problematic magical negro trope that many black characters are often hamstrung by. The Black Electricity Trope reads like a distant cousin to the Magical Negro, in that they’re both established formulations of a character whose most defining qualities are a preternatural understanding and command of natural force.

It goes without saying that Storm is perhaps the most iconic example of a the Black Electricity Trope, but she’s also a character who’s transcended much of its limitations as a result of being written and depicted thoughtfully across a variety of different mediums. Storm isn’t just a black hero who throws lightning bolts, she’s one of the most complicated and nuanced comic book characters created in the past 4.

We’ve seen Storm as both a lethal weather goddess and a vulnerable human. She’s incredibly strong, but you always get the sense that at the center of whatever devastating weather phenomena she’s manifested, there’s a human who’s just as powerful even when she doesn’t have her powers.

It’s that sort of solid characterization and fleshing out of a personality, Wayne told me, that’s the key making sure that a character doesn’t become reduced to a two- dimensional stereotype.“Know who your character is. Black Lightning wouldn’t defeat a villain the same way that Static would,” Wayne said.

Although, Black Vulcan’s approach would probably be indistinguishable from Black Lightning’s. The only difference would be who gets paid.”.