“The Protégé” believes that old movie plot ideas can be done with a new twist and with new characters and still be a rip-roaring experience. They would be correct in that thinking, because this movie finds a unique place to become a globe-trotting revenge fight-fest and shoot-out that makes the best use of the excellent cast.
“The Night House” is a spooky drama with few real scares, but a slow burn of a thriller to see if ghosts exist in the main character’s mind — or in real life. Due to her husband’s recent suicide, a woman deals with supernatural troubles in her house, where things tend to go bump (or worse) in the night. Rather than do the normal thing, and LEAVE, she sticks around to unfold the mystery.
Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton and Cliff Curtis star in a decent sci-fi, noir thriller from a co-creator of Westworld and Christopher Nolan’s brother.
What is this title all about? Just what are filmmakers Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker saying they believe it takes to be a fascist, the Hitler, of this generation?
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I have to admit that I wasn’t looking forward to watching Free Guy. I love Ryan Reynolds and I’m and old school gamer but honestly the movie looked like a typical action/comedy filled with lame jokes and too much CGI. I am happy to write that I was completely wrong and that the movie is one of the best times I’ve had in a theater this year. Read more
“John and the Hole” is a story about a shy and quiet thirteen-year-old named John (Charlie Shotwell). John wants desperately to get control of his life but doesn’t know how to go about doing that.
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It’s really nice when something comes along and totally catches you off guard as “Nine Days” does and will. It was truly fascinating, with an absolutely brilliant cast. Winston Duke is incredible.
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Opens in theaters on August 5
Also available for streaming on HBO/Max
“The Suicide Squad” is the full-barreled, R-rated, no-holds-barred Love Child resulting from the combination of Writer/Director James Gunn and D.C. Comics. The D.C. Extended Universe of comic-based movies just got a kick-start with a cattle prod to the nether regions. But rather than resulting in a painful experience, this ‘Squad’ takes off at sixty-miles-an-hour into a Gunn-designed world of magnificent mayhem. The gore and violence comes with equal measures of hilarity and movie magic.
“Annette” is perhaps the first ‘art-house/art-pop operatic musical’ type movie. But this might be the final one ever made, too. The idea to make this unusual style of film was a creative leap of faith. However, this leap might be going into the ‘abyss’. The story is portrayed as combination of normal dialog along with singing vocal dialog. Much like in the tradition of many operas, it tells a story of a tragic cycle of fame and failure. The talent to make this movie is quite abundant. The results are sparse. Read more
The new documentary, “Enemies of the State,” starts by giving us some Oscar Wilde, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” That’s for sure… and you’ll see it playout here.
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