PLOT:The story about Bob Marley who wrote and sung music to change the world
and he did.It only deals with two years
of his short life.
WHAT IS GOOD:Kinsley Ben-Adir as Marley and his wife Rita
Marley (Lashana Lynch, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange in the Multi-Verse and No
Time to Die.)
WHAT IS BAD:The accents are very thick!The typical things that happen to a
superstar, backstage arguing; agents stealing from him and the stressed out
wife singing with him and taking care children that are his and other women.
SHOULD YOU WATCH:YES! If you like Bob Marley’s music and find out
more about him.
KUNG-FU
PANDA 4
3D ANIMATION
PLOT:Po, the panda (Jack Black) is now a Spiritual Leader and must pick a new
Dragon Warrior while the evil The Chameleon (Viola Davis) wants to be the best
martial arts in the world and will use anyone and anything to possess it.
WHAT IS RIGHT:Jack Black as Po funny as ever and believe or
not a great hero.Awkwaffina is amazing
as Zhen, a fox who lived on the streets to survive and of course Viola Davis as
the wicked shape-shifter.The rest of
the cast is amazing.
WHAT IS WRONG:You know Po will make it but it’s still a lot
of fun!
SHOULD YOU WATCH:YES!!!It has fighting, fantasy, action and humor!
GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
SUPERNATURAL COMEDY
PLOT: The Spengler family moves
to New York to help the original team to stop a creature that freezes
everything.
WHAT IS GOOD: The team of
1984! Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie
Hudson. The new team is good especially Phoebe
Spengler (Mckenna Grace), a spunky, smart 15 year old girl who can’t help the
Ghost Busters for she is too young. The
new threat is scary.
WHAT IS WRONG: Too many
characters and slows down in the middle.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES! If you are a fan of the new series of
Ghostbusters as well as the old.
GODZILLA X KONG: NEW EMPIRE
ACTION/FANTASY
PLOT: King Kong finds out he is
not the last of his kind and needs Godzilla’s help!
WHAT IS GOOD: MONSTER
MAYHEM! There are monsters and monsters
that are fighting especially Godzilla and King Kong. The human supporting cast are not that
important but Dan Stevens as Trapper, a Titan veterinarian (!) is fun to watch.
WHAT IS BAD: If you are a fan of
Godzilla he is not in the film that much until the end.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: OH YESSS! If you love giant monsters this film is for
you. The ending is worth the price of
admission!
PLOT:
Bayard Rustin, a charismatic, determined black gay man in the 60s who
against all odds organized the March on Washington.
WHAT IS GOOD: Colman Domingo is AMAZING as Bayard
Rustin! He was smart, savvy and nothing
stopped him. Chris Rock (yeah the comedian)
as Roy Wilkins another activist that didn’t care for Rustin is very and good
and Jeffery Wright is terrific as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is great! My only hope is Jeffery Wright will do Adam
Clayton Powell Jr. biography.
WHAT IS WRONG: When Hollywood does a biography they pick and
choose what is in the film and YOU want to learn more you must read to find out
the real story.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: ABSOULETY!
Rustin is an unsung person on the March on Washington that is finally
getting his due.
BEST ACTOR
BRADLEY
COOPER
MASTRO
BIOGRAPHY
/DRAMA
PLOT: The biography of Leonard Bernstein the
brilliant conductor and his wife Felicia Montealegro.
WHAT IS GOOD: Bradley Cooper as Bernstein. He is passionate about his music and
friends. Carey Mulligan as his wife
Felicia is a great for loving him no matter what. Cooper is also the director and it is very
good.
WHAT IS WRONG: Felicia may have an interesting back story
but it is not talked about much.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES because of the
performances of Cooper and Mulligan are very well done.
OSCAR NOMINATION
2024
BEST ACTOR
PAUL
GIAMATTI
HOLDOVERS
COMEDY/DRAMA
PLOT:
Paul Giamatti is Paul Hunham a crusty teacher who is punished has to
take care of students at Christmas in 1970.
Most leave except one young man that changes his life.
WHAT IS RIGHT: The cast that consist of Giamatti, newcomer
Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully, a smart but troubled young man and Da Vine Joy
Randolph as Mary Lamb, a black cook who’s son died in the Vietnam War. They are a sad but funny group of people
trying to cope with life that didn’t give them a good hand.
WHAT IS WRONG: Predictable but still interesting.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you enjoy watching people deal with
tragedy and regrets then YES!
PAST REVIEWS--
BEST ACTOR
CILLIAN
MURPHY
OPPENHEIMER
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BEST ACTOR
JEFFREY
WRIGHT
AMERICAN
FICTION
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BEST ACTRESS
ANNETTE
BENING
NYAD
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
PLOT:
Diana Nyad is a gifted swimmer and at 60 she decides to swim from Cuba
to Florida.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Bening as Nyad! The female is driven! Five times she tried because she believed she
could do it. Also outstanding is her
good friend and coach Bonnie Stall played by Jodie Foster. She trusted in her friend despite how crazy
it was! The rest of the cast was great
as well.
WHAT IS WRONG: When Hollywood does a bio they sometimes
alter the facts.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES!
The film is about the human spirit that can’t be stopped!
BEST ACTRESS
LILY
GLADSTONE
KILLERS OF
THE FLOWER MOON
CRIME DRAMA
PLOT: Osage
Indians stuck oil and white men married the women to kill them and get the
insurance money.
WHAT IS RIGHT: When you think of native Indians you think
of them on horse with bow and arrows killing the hero. Not this film. They are shown as intelligent, wealthy people
who want the same thing any other people want equality and acceptance. The cast!
Leonardo Di Caprio is fantastic as Ernest Burkhart who was lead astray
by his uncle William “King” Hale played by the great actor Robert DeNiro. He should have been nominated. Molly Burkhart
played by Lily Gladstone is just amazing as Ernest’s wife. She is not melodramatic as a woman trying to
find out who is killing her people, her husband is trying to poison her and the
death of her child. She has a silent
strength you can see all the pain in her eyes.
WHAT IS WRONG: It is too long! Martin Scorsese makes great epic stories but
it is too long!
SHOULD YOU WATCH:
YES! If you like great story
telling, great acting.
EMMA STONE
POOR THINGS
HORROR/COMDEY/DRAMA
PLOT:
Bella (Emma Stone) jumps off a cliff killing herself and her baby inside
her but Dr. Godwin Baxter (William Dafoe) finds her in the water reanimates her
and places her baby’s brain in her head.
She starts off as a toddler then matures into a woman.
WHAT IS GOOD: It is a different telling of Frankenstein.
Very funny but mostly bizarre at times.
Emma Stone is fine from child-like to grown woman. Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderham a lustful
cad who has sex with her a lot on a cruise.
WHAT IS BAD: It is not for kids! Lots of nudity and sex! Bella is a
corpse! Is it Poor Things or Porno
Things?
SHOULD YOU WATCH: This is a strange movie so if you want
something different-this is iT!
BEST ACTRESS
SANDRA
HUELLER
ANATOMY OF A
FALL
DRAMA/MYSTERY
PLOT: Sandra
Voyter is a writer with her husband and young, blind son and they live in the
isolated mountains. One day his husband
falls off the top floor of the big house and dies. Sandra is indicted but did she do it?
WHAT IS GOOD:
Sandra Huller as Sandra whose past is far from perfect but still loves
her husband and child.
WHAT IS BAD:
Slow paced. It’s a French movie
SHOULD YOU WATCH:
Yes for the performances.
BEST ACTRESS
CAREY
MULLIGAN
MASTRO
SEE REVIEW
BEST
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Stering K. Brown
-American Fiction
Robert
DeNiro-Killers- of the Flower Moon
Robert
Downey Jr. Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling
–Barbie
Mark
Ruffalo-Poor Things
SEE REVIEWS
BEST
SUPPORTING ACTRESS-
Emily
Blunt-Oppenheimer
Danielle
Brooks-The Color Purple
Jodie-Foster
Nyad
Da Vine Joy
Randolph-The Holdovers
BEST
DIRECTOR
Jonathan
Glazer
THE ZONE OF
INTEREST
PLOT:
Commandant Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel) has wonderful home, a loving
family and great backyard the bad part is it is next to a concentration camp in
the 40s.
WHAT IS RIGHT: The acting is really great especially by the
two leads Friedel and Oscar nominee Sandra Huller. The music is scary as hell. You don’t see the horror but you definitely
hear it. The sickening part is the family has drama like most families but they
seem to ignore the hideous things around them.
WHAT IS BAD: Slow but frightening.
SHOULD YOU SEE IT: YES but fair warning: It is not a popcorn movie! It is powerful and shocking!
BEST
DIRECTOR
JUSTINE
TRIET- Anatomy of a Fall
YORGOS
LANTHIMOS-Poor things
JONATHAN
GLAZER-The Zone of Interest
SEE REVIEW
MARTIN
SCORESE-Killer of the Flower Moon
Christopher
Nolan-Oppenheimer
BEST PICTURE
American
Fiction
Anatomy of a
Fall
Barbie
Killers of
the Flower Moon
Mastro
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of
Interest
PAST LIVES
BEST PICTURE
ROMANTIC/DRAMA
PLOT:
Nora and Hae adore each other when they were young but Nora moved to the
US while Hae stayed in Korea. He comes
to see her. They care about each other
but things and time have changed.
WHAT IS GOOD: Greta Lee as Nora. She hated leaving her country but is content
with living in America yet she still thinks of her young lover Hae. Teo You as Hae Sing stayed in Korea but to him
his life is ordinary. Both care deeply
for each other but life happens. Past
lives is a saying in Korea and it is throughout the movie. John Magaro is good as Arthur who is a writer
and understanding husband of Nora.
WHAT IS BAD: Not much humor.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: It is a romantic movie without the melodrama.
THE BEEKEEPER
ACTION
PLOT:An elderly woman Eloise Parker (Phylicia
Rashad) lets Adam Clay (Jason Statham) stay at her barn to take care of his
bees.She is scammed out of her life
savings and kills herself and Clay wants revenge.
WHAT IS GOOD:Jason Statham as Adam Clay!He is more than a beekeeper; he is a retired
special agent.Phylicia Rashad as Eloise
a kind senior who helps Adam.She isn’t
in the film long but she is great.
WHAT IS
WRONG:It is like a low-rent John Wick.
SHOULD YOU
WATCH:If you like Jason Statham
YES.You have seen it all before but he
is a very good action actor!
ARGYLLE
ACTION/COMEDY
PLOT:Elle Conway (Bryce
Dallas Howard, Jurassic World) has a dull life but she is a successful spy
novelist whose real spies want her information.It’s an update on The Long Kiss Goodnight.
WHAT IS GOOD:Sam Rockwell
(Aidan) is great as a real agent trying to protect Elle.He is very funny but he can fight!The action sequences are amazing.
WHAT IS BAD:There is a lot of
unbelievable twist and turns.Elle’s cat
Alfie gets into bad situations dropped in her backpack, left to die and shot at
for comedy!
SHOULD YOU WATCH:Not
really.If you can see it on cable or
streaming it would be better.Exciting
but senseless!
MADAME WEB
ACTION/SUPERHERO
PLOT: Cassandra Web (Dakota Johnson) is a paramedic
and she gains clairvoyant powers and must save three teens from an evil
Spiderman (Tahar Rahim) because these three female teens will kill him in
future.
WHAT IS RIGHT: The ending is
exciting. She does become blind and in a
wheelchair like in the comic book by the end of the movie.
WHAT IS WRONG: Madame Web is a
villain in the Spiderman comic books but to the public she is not well known. It is really a mess! The three ladies are stereotypical types the
nerdy girl; the smart girl and the tough girl.
The bad Spiderman ONLY goal is to kill the women. He has a little
backstory. Cassandra supposed to protect
them but leaves them alone a lot. Four writers
including the director S.J. Clarkson who did the great Netflix series Jessica
Jones !
SHOULD YOU WATCH: NO!!! This movie should be seen on a streaming
service or ON DEMAND
DUNE PART TWO
SCI-FI/ACTION
PLOT: Paul Atreies is now part
of the leader Fremen warriors along with Chani (Zendaya) who is his love
interest.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Timothy
Charlamet is good as Paul and Zendaya as a female warrior Chani but Austin Butler
as Feyd Ratha Hankonnenn is great an evil assassin.
WHAT IS WRONG: As always in
Hollywood there are changes from the classic novel to the screen.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES! If enjoyed the last one it and it is better.
IRON CLAW
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
PLOT: The tragic tale of the Von
Erich dynasty in wrestling.Fritz Von
Erich (Holt McCallany) is determined to make one of his four boys a wrestling
champion and will do whatever it takes.Hepushes them to the limit!
WHAT IS GOOD:The cast.Holt Mcallany is amazing as the father who
will break his sons to become a wrestling champion.Zac Elfron as Kevin Von Erich is intense
trying to get his approval but always failing.Maura Tierney as Doris Van Erich the silent but strong mother of the
family who tries to keep it together despite all the sadness.
WHAT IS WRONG:Aaron Dean
Eisenberg as Ric Flair!They should have
got the real guy because He would be better than the actor who played him.REMEMBER:When you are watching a bio not everything is true and you have to
separate fact from fiction.
SHOULD YOU WATCH:YES!It is a sad story of brothers who loved each
other but their father’s dreams got in the way ofthem living.
THE COLOR PURPLE
MUSICAL
PLOT:Celie goes on a journey
to find faith, hope and her sister.Based on the novel by Alice Walker, was a movie in 1985.
WHAT IS GOOD:The songs are very
good especially “Hell No.”Taraji P.
Henson as Shug Avery,a sassy, brassy
blues singer daughter of a preacher.When she is singing or talking she is sensational!
Fantasia Barrino as Celie who went through hell in life is
fantastic.The rest of the cast is
equally good.
WHAT IS BAD:It still makes
black men look bad.
SHOULD YOU WATCH:YESSSS!It is better as a musical than the drama in
1985.It has tragedy and triumph.Worth watching.
AMERICAN FICTION
COMEDY/DRAMA
PLOT: Monk Ellison (Jeffrey
Wright) writes intelligent novels that don’t sell but he needs money to pay
bills so he writes a book about stereotypical blacks in the ghetto which
becomes a best seller.
WHAT IS RIGHT: The cast is
amazing that includes Sterling Brown, Tracie Ellis Ross, Issa Rae and John
Oritz, Monk’s happy agent he has a successful client. The subject matter is great as well! Not all black writers want to write about the
usual slavery; crime and being poor.
WHAT IS WRONG: The predicable
story of family with problems and secrets.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES. It shows that black writers have the same
problems as black actors; the usual, tired stereotypes.
MAYHEM
ACTION
PLOT: Sam (Nassim Lyes) is a
model prisoner. He finally gets out
finds a job, marries and has a little girl.
He wants to buy land but can’t but Narong (Olivier Gourmet) will help
him if he does illegal activities and when he doesn’t bad things happen to his
family.
WHAT IS GOOD: The fight
scenes! Brilliantly brutal and men and
women get Sam’s wrath! Also you can
about the characters because Sam wants to do the right but his pass catches up
with him.
WHAT IS WRONG: It is not wrong
but half the movie is subtitled; the
other half English.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YESSS! People who love action will love this
MOVIE!!!
PLOT: How Willy Wonka,
inventor, magician and chocolate maker became rich and started his own
chocolate factory.
WHAT IS GOOD: Timothee Charamet
who was good in Dune is great as Wonka!
Cheerful, optimistic and outrageous!
Calah Lane as Noodle, who helps him, is great. Paterson Joseph as Slugworth leader of the
chocolate cartel (!) is evil to the core!
Last but not least Hugh Grant as Oompa Loompa, a short, orange skinned,
green-hair guy. Director Paul King is
the English Steven Spielberg.
WHAT IS WRONG: Most of the songs
were okay but not great.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: OH YES! It has everything you want in a movie!
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
SCI-FI
PLOT: Japan in the late 1940’s
living through the war now a new menace rises in the form of Godzilla.
WHAT IS GOOD: Godzilla! He is not a B-movie monster anymore! He is a
giant killing machine! He spares no
human! The cast of humans are very good! You care about the people will they survive
Godzilla’s wrath! In most of Godzilla
movies you can’t wait for the King of the Monsters to show up and cause damage
but this film is not the case. They keep
the roar and his music –very good! The
film was made with less than 15 million dollars-unlike the millions of dollars
Hollywood needs but isn’t very good.
WHAT IS WRONG: The people are
important in the movie but it does drags when Godzilla is not on screen. He is in the film only 4 times and the movie
is 2 hours and 5 minutes so he is on screen every 30 minutes or so. You have to read the subtitles which turns
many people off.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: There are 2
kinds of Godzilla fans: One, the fans
who love the film in 1954 where Godzilla was created by the atomic bomb.
Second, the fans who love Godzilla coming out of the ocean of Japan destroying
everything and if there is another monster attacking and destroying the
creature. To enjoy this film you have to
a little bit of both!
THANKSGIVING
HORROR/SLASHER
PLOT: Black Friday sales at
Right Mart ends in tragedy and a killer in a John Craver mask rises.
WHAT IS GOOD: The killer is not
slashing teens at random; there is a purpose why he is taking out young
people. Some of the kills are SICK!!!
WHAT IS WRONG: Fans who watch these kind of films will easily
know who the killer is! Stereotyped
teenagers.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you like
revenge /slasher movies YES.
WISH
3D ANIMATION
MUSICAL/FANTASY
PLOT: Asha finds out King Magnifo really doesn’t
grant wishes like he promised.
WHAT IS GOOD: Ariana DeBoise as
Asha who is an intelligent girl who figures out many things about King
Magnifo. Chris Pine as Magnifo who is
charming and controlling. Some songs are
very good.
WHAT IS
WRONG: Too many songs!
SHOULD YOU
WATCH: If you like the usually Disney
heroine, pretty and smart, the cute characters and the
villain then YES! It is a joy to
watch even if there is too many musical numbers.
HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLARD OF SONGBIRDS AND
SNAKES
ADVENTURE/ FANTASY
PLOT: The prequel to Hunger
Games and the transformation of Coriolanus Snow.
WHAT IS GOOD: Tom Blyth as the
young Snow and the slow turn that he became a tyrant. Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Braid, a spunky
young girl who Snow gets romantic with. Viola Davis as the Dr. Volumina Gaul
who is very devious and charge of the 10th Hunger Games who has a
big barrel of snakes she trained! Peter
Dinlage as Casca Highbottom who is Dean of the Academy but has a drug problem.
WHAT IS BAD: It takes a while to
grow on you. It gets very interesting
near the end.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you like
the Hunger Games starring Jennifer Lawrence and the book by Suzanne Collins’
novel which they didn’t change too much then YES!
TROLLS BAND TOGETHER
3D ANIMATION/MUSICAL/ADVENTURE
PLOT: Branch (Justin
Timberlake) was in a boy (Troll?) band and one of his brothers are in the
clutches of a singer Velvet(Amy Shumer) who drains his talent so she can
sing. The third film in the series.
WHAT IS GOOD: Justin Timberlake
as Branch, Poppy(Anna Kendrick) his very happy girlfriend, Tiny (Kenan
Thompson) a small but loud friend and Amy Shumer as the evil Velvet.
WHAT IS WRONG: They break out in
song at any time!
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES!!! It
tells the importance of family, has many of songs and Amy Shumer is great as
the villainess!
SILENT NIGHT
ACTION/THRILLER
PLOT: Brian and his wife lose
their only son to gang war at Christmas Eve. She wants to move on: he wants
revenge!
WHAT IS GOOD: Joel
Kinnaman! There is no dialogue, like a
silent movie and yet he shows all the anguish and suffering of losing a
child. The action is near the end but
when it happens it is non-stop!
WHAT IS WRONG: Revenge is a
popular theme in action films but director John Woo has to add something unusual
to the genre! No dialogue meaning no
catch phases!
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES-if you
want a different take on revenge action movies!
THE GRINGO WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY/COMEDY
PLOT: Mexican dad (George Lopez) is happy that her
daughter is coming home for the holidays until he finds out she is bringing her
white boyfriend.
WHAT IS GOOD: George Lopez!
He wants to keep tradition but times are changing. The three young neighbors are like Three
Latin Stooges. A few stereotypes but
still amusing. Where is their movie?
WHAT IS
WRONG: It is Guess Who‘s Coming To
Dinner vibe which has been done too much.
SHOULD YOU
WATCH: If you like romantic holiday
comedies-Yes!
AQUAMAN:
THE LOST KINGDOM
ADVENTURE/SUPERHERO
PLOT: Black Manta still wants
revenge against Aquaman and goes to great lengths to get it.
WHAT IS GOOD: Jason Momoa as
Aquaman. He is funny, protective and
serious! Patrick Wilson as Aquaman’s
brother King Orm is amazing hating his brother
who placed him in prison but ready to help him to save Atlantis. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Black Manta is just
FANTASTIC!!! He will stop at NOTHING to
get destroy Aquaman. Amber Heard as Mera whose scenes were cut down by her
famous divorce from Johnny Depp was not in the film much.
WHAT IS WRONG: Comical in spots,
a little gross in spots too.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: The movie is
like a 2 hour superhero cartoon so if you like that-GO
Note: Yeah, the Writers and Actors strike paused the industry, including for us humble movie bloggers. Now that that's over, perhaps there will be (finally!)no more lockdowns and labor disputes to get in the way of Hollywood releasing new films---so hey, it's 2024 already, here we go!
EQUALIZER 3
ACTION/THRILLER
PLOT:DIA Robert McCall (Denzel
Washington) wants to retire in Italy but he has to get rid of the gangsters
first.
WHAT IS RIGHT:Oscar winning
actor Denzel Washington!His talent is
still there despite he kills the bad guys like The Punisher!He is cool, calm and cold.Italy looks beautiful and dangerous.
WHAT IS WRONG:It’s a story they
use thousands of times: man with a skill set takes out the crooks!
SHOUD YOU WATCH:If you like Denzel
Washington and the kills he commits for justice.
GRAND TURISMO
DRAMA
PLOT:Based on the video game
of the same name and a true story.A
young guy who plays video games gets a chance to become a real race car driver.
WHAT IS RIGHT:The cast!Archie Madekwe is great as Jann Mardenboroguh
who worked in a store to professional race car driver.David Horbour as Jack Salter, once a great
driver now a mechanic.Djimon Hounsou as
Steve Mardenborough, Jann’s father and Geri Hallwell (Ginger Spice) as his
mother Lesly.
SHOULD YOU WATCH:Only if you
like the video game and the cast are great.
EXPENDABLES 4
ACTION
PLOT:The gang has to stop a
merceny from selling warheads to a terrorist.
WHAT IS GOOD:Sylvester Stallone
as Barney (?) Ross and Jason Statham as Lee Christmas playfully annoying each
other!The banter is priceless.Curtis (50Cents) Jackson is good as new
member Easy Day.Tony Jaa (Ongbak) is
good as Decha, an ex Expendable. The villian Iko Uwais (The Raid 1 and 2) as
Suarto Rahmet.He doesn’t talk very much
but his brutality is much.
WHAT IS BAD:The CGI is not very
good and the final battle is on a ship!The price tag of the film is 100 million dollars!Where did the money go?Megan Fox as Gina who is great but becomes
the leader of the team!Once was
Christmas girlfriend.
SHOULD YOU WATCH:If you like
action and despite it isn’t as good as Expendable 2 it is B-movie good!
THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER
HORROR
PLOT:Two teens go in the woods
and come back possessed.
WHAT IS RIGHT:The production
is very good.Two special guests are in
it.
WHAT IS WRONG:It is the
rip-off of The Exorcist name!Terrible
sequels and this is a possible reboot.Who is asking for it?It is more
like Evil Dead than the title.
SHOULD YOU GO:If you are a fan
of the original movie and all the others than yes but if not-WAIT!!!
THE NUN II
HORROR
PLOT: In 1956 a priest is killed by fire and Sister Irene has to deal
with the evil nun again. The sequel to
the first film The Nun.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Tasa Famiga as
Sister Irene. She is scared and she is
brave as well. Sophie (Katelyn Rose
Downey-not related to actor Robert Downey Jr) is a innocent little girl who is picked on by
bully Kate(Anna Popplewell) and Maurice(Jonas Bioquet) is great as a friend to
Sophie and wants to be lover to her mother.
WHAT IS WRONG: Many jump scares
that you know are coming!
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you like
the first movie you will enjoy it but if you didn’t it is more of the same.
SAW X
HORROR
PLOT: John Kramer/Jigsaw GOT
conned by bogus doctors for his illness-bad idea!
WHAT IS RIGHT: John
Kramer(Tobin Bell) is near death and someone in his support group tells him
about a group of doctors to save him so he goes and finds out it a scam! That doesn’t sit well with him so you know
what happens next! All 10 movies this is
my first. I enjoy the revenge theme that
is why I watchted this one. Very good
and gory. Bell as John Kramer is very
good at being bad and the villains are very terrible and gets what is coming to
them.
WHAT IS WRONG: It is long for a
horror movie
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you are a
fan of the franchise –YES! If not you will not be used to the gory death!
PAW PATROL THE MIGHTY MOVIE
ANIMATED
PLOT: Cute puppies becomes cute superhero puppies
from a magical meteor. Based on the
Nickelodeon TV series
WHAT IS GOOD: The evil but brilliant scientist Victoria
Vance (Taraji P. Henson) is great as being wicked. Skye, a tiny pup but is strong and driven.
WHAT IS BAD: Too short!!!
SHOULD YOU
GO: If you have children who love the
series YES and even if you don’t like the series you will enjoy this!
THE MARVELS
SUPERHERO/ADVENTURE
PLOT: The Supreme Being is destroyed in Hala and
the new Kree leader Dar Benn wants to save her planet and get revenge on
Captain Marvel.
WHAT IS GOOD: The three superheroes Brie Larson (Captain
Marvel)who carries herself well as a deity, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau
and Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan. Samuel
L. Jackson as Nick Fury as comic relief.
Zawe Ashton is a good villain as Dar Benn.
WHAT IS BAD: Marvel latest movie problem is being too
funny mostly.
SHOULD YOU
WATCH: It is B-movie good! It is not the best but not the worst! If you can wait for ON DEMAND or streaming would be the best bet.
PLOT: The sequel to the The
Meg in 2018. Five years later they discover something in
the water that has Megs and large octopus.
WHAT IS GOOD: The Megs! The sharks are the stars and they do deliver! Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor is still a hero
like in the last movie. There is a lot
of humor and horror.
WHAT IS BAD: This is a popcorn
movie so have to expect the outrageous things.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: OH YES. If you like shark movies, unbelievable
situations and heroics you will enjoy
it!
TEENAGED MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT
MAYHEM
ANIMATED/ACTION/COMEDY
PLOT: The Teenaged turtles must stop a malformed
house fly from destroying all humans.
WHAT IS GOOD: Every few years
Hollywood always makes a Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle movie. This time it is creepy animated but it is
very good. The turtles are voiced by
young people! The best is Jackie Chan as
Splinter, the father of the turtles who constantly tells them humans will never
accept them. Ice Cube as Superfly, a
huge mutant housefly who hates humans and wants to kill all humans and make
more grotesque insects and animals. He
is evil and very funny. Maya Rudolph is
funny to as Cynthia Utrom, who works at TCRS-Techno Cosmic Research
Institute to use their blood to make
weaponize ordinary animals.
WHAT IS BAD: The ending is long and crazy.
SHOULD YOU
WATCH: YES if you like the turtles.
INSIDIOUS #5 RED DOOR
THRILLER/SUPERNATURAL
PLOT: Dalton Lambert (Ty
Simpkins) is now grown and going to college but evil still follows him. His father Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) is
not getting along and his wife died. Both are trying to repress tragic memories. Supposedly the final chapter of the popular
franchise.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Patrick Wilson is
star and director. He does a good
job. Good jump scare moments. Simpkins as Dalton does a good job of a
trouble with college and other problems in his life. Sinclair Daniel as Chris his female roommate
is great comic relief.
WHAT IS WRONG: Slow and not many
jump scares.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you enjoy
the franchise you know the characters you will find it good; others may find it
very slow.
OPPENHEIMER
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
PLOT: Julius Robert Oppenheimer,
the man who created the atomic bomb directed by Christopher Nolan.
WHAT IS GOOD: The performances
of Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy Batman, 28 Days) Robert Downey Jr. ( Iron Man
franchise)as Lewis Strauss, his rival. Emily Bunt as Kitty, Oppenheimer’s wife
and the rest of the cast. Oscar
nominations are in their future.
WHAT IS BAD: Oppenheimer was
said to be a ladies’ man but the nudity could have been cut out.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: It is an epic
tale of creating something that could destroy the world and the same people who
helped you are the very same people to bring you down. It is a great movie but ALWAYS read more
about famous people when they make a drama about them.