Summer always starts early at the movies, and this year it starts with a big finish: “Avengers: Endgame,” which promises to be the culmination of a decade of Marvel superhero movies, and a box office bonanza.
There’s more going on this summer than the rematch between Iron Man, Captain America, et al, and the universe-shifting Thanos. This summer’s biggest movies promise to show us big monsters, pocket-sized monsters, a genie, computer-generated lions, alien-busting peacekeepers, a friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, and the dreamy pairing of Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
But there are a lot more movies that won’t get big marketing pushes, yet have more unusual and intriguing premises: Satanic gadflies, an evil superhero, a perky comedy writer, star-crossed young lovers, a zombie-fighting Bill Murray, creepy Europeans, and a Chinese family keeping a big secret.