Here You’ll Find Newly Released Movies
The French Dispatch
This latest effort from indie darling Wes Anderson is full of his signatures. If you like his signatures this movie will be a dream come true. If you don’t like him it will be disjointed, off putting, and boring. Sadly I fall into the second camp. Wes Anderson is an acclaimed independent filmmaker with hits…
Belfast
This is a beautiful little memory. It is a collection of moments that made up this boys childhood. It has some gorgeous and conspicuous cinematography that showcases a deeply compelling time and place. I loved it. Shot in lovely black and white, the film follows a family that is living during a very rough time…
Tick, Tick… Boom!
This Netflix musical has a stunning lead performance and a surprisingly solid vision behind the camera that enliven the narrative and carries the movie through some slow patches. In 1990, Jonathan Larson was a waiter at a diner and an aspiring composer of Broadway musicals. He was years away from his musical smash Rent and…
Malignant
Oh my goodness! What a bonkers movie! This movie is absolutely bananas. It is absolutely nuts, and I kind of love it for all its absurdities. It was impossible to miss the ubiquitous trailers for this movie touting, “a new vision of terror from James Wan.” I wasn’t super excited to check this one out.…
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Violent, bloody, hilarious, and surprisingly heartwarming, this film is light years ahead of its predecessor. I really enjoyed this one and encourage you to check it out while you can. Written and directed by James Gunn, this film is weird kind of sequel to Suicide Squad from 2016 directed by David Ayer and bunch of…
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
This martial arts super hero spectacle is a lot of fun and surprisingly effective at times while being overly stuffed in other moments. The plot is full to bursting with ideas and storylines. There are a ton of characters and worlds to explore. The best parts of the film involve Shang-Chi, played by Simu Liu,…
Candyman (2021)
A movie with a lot on its mind, this strong horror film combines social commentary and slow burn suspense to incredible effect. This is a kind of sequel to the 1992 horror film of the same name. This is one of the most interesting sequels I’ve seen because although it hits all the notes of…
Space Jam: A New Legacy
This is one of the worst products I’ve seen, and I call it a product instead of a movie because it serves as less of a narrative film and more of a corporate ad for other products Warner Bros. Has on offer. Space Jam follows NBA superstar LeBron James and his fictional son Dom played…
Gunpowder Milkshake
This film combines a fantastic aesthetic, fun action, and loads of charm to elevate this female action extravaganza. Karen Gillan stars as Sam a super assassin with abandonment issues who works for a seedy organization called The Firm. In the opening moments a job goes wrong and she’s sent on an easy mission to make…
Fear Street Part Two: 1978
A gory and well executed follow up just premiered on Netflix. It has strong characters a deep lore, and wild bloody horror violence. If that sounds like your cup of tea then you might have as much as I did. Picking up immediately following the first film, this sequel follows Deena and her brother Josh…
No Sudden Move
Don Cheadle stars in this very cool very twisty turns crime thriller that has a good sense of humor and a few too many twists and turns for its own good. Don Cheadle plays Curt Goynes a man just released from prison after a heist gone wrong. He returns to Detroit in 1954 and takes…
F9: The Fast Saga
There’s a scene in the show The Office in which the character Kevin Pours a massive jar of M&M’s into his mouth. That’s what it feels like watching this movie. This movie jams so much crap down the audience’s throats that it just becomes painful and boring. I have a mixed history with the Fast…
Army of the Dead
This movie has a good opening, and a strong first act. But it gets worse the longer it goes on, and it goes on for a long time. By then end I was just so glad it was finally over. The movie is the latest big budget Netflix offering. Written, directed, produced, and shot by…
Those Who Wish me Dead
This thriller gets an A+ for execution and a C for theme amounting to a masterpiece of execution without much else. The film follows a boy named Connor played by Finn Little who goes on the run with his father after two ruthlessly efficient assassins come after him. Once he gets to Montana he encounters…
Spontaneous
Very dark comedy combines with a heart felt coming of age drama to incredible effect in this surprise and explosive movie. A boring math class in an average high school. Senior Mara, played by Katherine Langford, drops her pencil on the floor. She leans over to pick it up. In that moment the girl sitting…
Unhinged
An all in performance from Russell Crowe helps make this thriller a little less generic, but it can’t save the film entirely. Rachel is a harried mother dealing with a contentious divorce, a failing business, and a teenage son she’s struggling to raise. On top of all that she has to deal with rush hour…
Thunder Force
This movie was terrible. It’s poorly conceived and executed. It has a big cast of talented people who are wasted. Somehow inspire of its lack of quality, it has a few moments I genuinely enjoyed. The movie has squanders an interesting set up through incompetence. A world in which cosmic rays bombard the earth and…
Concrete Cowboy
I loved this movie. It has fascinating characters. It’s set in a really unique world that I never knew existed. It tells a classic narrative with some nice twists. I really fell for this one. This story might feel familiar, a troubled teen named Cole, played by Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin, gets into a fight…
Godzilla vs Kong
Did you want massive monster fights? You got it along with a lot of dumb stuff that nobody asked for. Thankfully there’s enough spectacle, action, and surprisingly heart to make up for it. This movie mashup is the latest installment in the “monsterverse” an attempt to duplicate Marvel superhero films success. It is the second…
Nobody
Anchored by a quirky Bob Odenkirk, this is a really entertaining action movie if you like your action brutally violent and darkly comic. This is the latest entry in what I’m calling the “middle aged men you shouldn’t have messed with” genre. These are violent action thrillers about mild mannered men who are accosted in…
Zack Snyder’s Justice League
This movie is an overly long, self indulgent, slog, but it’s also a lot better than the originally released Justice League movie. A little history for those who haven’t been following the Snyder cut saga… Zack Snyder directed Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, and he had a grand plan to complete his superhero…
Moxie
At times ham-handed, at times wonderfully genuine, this coming if are story is a big old feminist anthem that is pretty good. Directed by Amy Poehler, Moxie tells the story of high school junior Vivian, played by Hadley Robinson, who is struggling to find something she’s passionate about. After witnessing the blatant sexism on display…
Coming 2 America
This is pleasant sequel that tries to do way too many things, but still ends up being a pretty enjoyable comedy. Thirty years after Prince Akeem of Zemunda journeyed to Queens in search of a bride, he’s back, and he has a lot on his plate. He finally takes the throne from his father played…
Chaos Walking
Charming leads and an intriguing premise can’t save this movie from being a rushed somewhat generic young adult adventure. Todd Hewitt, played by current Spider-man Tom Holland, is a young man who lives in a world where people’s thoughts appear floating above their heads in cgi clouds. They call it the noise. Todd is described…
Tom and Jerry
After the heavy and emotional Pieces of a Woman, I decided it was time for some lighter fair. It just so happened that Warner Bros. released Tom and Jerry yesterday on HBO Max. I figured there couldn’t be a more to ally opposite movie out there, so I gave it a shot. Honestly it’s a…
Class Action Park
Streaming on HBO Max, this documentary tells the story of a world without rules a world that is wild and fun and resulted in the deaths of five people. The movie is full of unbelievable stories. Memorable anecdotes and an interesting perspective on growing up. Action Park was an amusement park located in New Jersey.…
Avengers Endgame
Oh boy, this is a movie and a half. This is the culmination of more than a decade of superhero movies, and it satisfies in almost every way. For the uninitiated, this film will be difficult. It does a nice job reestablishing characters and relationships, but it isn’t for the newbies. It deals with a…
Alita: Battle Angel
What a bad movie. Alita: Battle Angel follows the story of a doctor who treats cyborgs in a far off distant future. Scraps fall from a city in the sky. The last city left after the Fall. In the scrap pile he finds the parts of a cyborg girl. He takes the parts and gives…
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