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The Koalition’s Guide to Spring Movies

The seasons are changing and Winter is end for that long goodnight. As the temperatures warm and you basks in the warmth of Spring, it’s time to explore life outside your house which includes watching some of the hottest Spring movies releasing.

To make your viewing choices easier, the Koalition has complied a list of movies you shouldn’t miss.

Wonder Park

(In theaters now)

In this animated feature by Paramount Pictures, Wonder Park follows a young imaginative 10-year old girl named June who spends her childhood days constructing an amusement park filled with fantastical rides and inhabited by talking animals called Wonderland with her mother. After tragedy strikes, June loses her sense of imagination but with the help of a few furry friends she just might save the park she once loved.

  • Directed by: David Feiss, Clare Kilner and Robert Iscove.
  • Starring: Brianna Denski, Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong, Mila Kunis, John Oliver, Richard Kind, David Cross, Jennifer Garner and Matthew Broderick.

Little

(April 12th)

Marsai Martin (Diane Johnson on Black-ish) came up with the idea of Little in 2014 when she was 10 years old and inspired by the film Big. Four years later, Martin is an executive producer on Little, and at the age of 14 years old, making her the youngest person to ever hold the title on a major Hollywood production.

In the hilarious Universal Pictures comedy, a ruthless tech mogul (Regina Hall) receives the chance to relive the life of her younger self (Marsai Martin) at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much for her to bear after a girl she offended wishes she was little. Jordan receives help from her overworked assistant, April (Issa Rae), to find a way to revert to normal.

  • Directed by: Tina Gordon
  • Starring: Regina Hall, Issa Rae and Marsai Martin

Missing Link

(April 12)

From Annapurna Pictures, Missing Link follows myths and monsters investigator, Sir Lionel Frost, who sets off on an adventure to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature—Mr. Link. Frost, who’s also looking to gain acceptance by his small-minded explorer peers, is accompanied on his journey by Adelina Fortnight, a free-spirited, independent adventurer who just so happens to possess the only known map to their secret destination of trying to find Link.

  • Directed by: Chris Butler
  • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, David Walliams, Timothy Olyphant, Matt Lucas, Amrita Acharia and Zach Galifianakis

Avengers: Endgame

(April 26th) 

“Whatever it takes” isn’t just a tagline from one of the most anticipated movies in history, it’s also the mantra many of its fans will do to see this movie after waiting almost eleven years. From Marvel Studios, Avengers: Endgame sees the remaining Avengers and their allies reassemble to revert those actions in one final stand, after half of all life in the universe was killed due to the actions of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War.

  • Directed by: The Russo Brothers
  • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper and Josh Brolin