A Quiet, Cruella Summer

 

QUIET PLACE 2

HORROR 

PLOT:    The Abbot family still trying to survive aliens and savage men.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Very suspenseful.  How do you keep silent when you’re in pain or scream when something frightens you.

WHAT IS WRONG:  If you don’t like sequels.

SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES!  The cast and the exciting thrills are worth the wait.  If you like this sequel as of this writing there will be a Quiet Place 3.

CRUELLA

COMEDY 

PLOT:  Prequel on why Cruella DeVil is so evil.

WHAT IS RIGHT: The two lead actresses Emma Stone and Emma Thompson wicked to the core.  The soundtrack and the clothes are amazing.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Doesn’t seem like a Disney movie.  It is too dark for kids.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES! If you like Emma Stone and Emma Thompson being delightfully devious divas this should be seen, along with other new movie releases..

Finally, Summer 2021: Theaters Bring New Movie Releases

 

FAST AND FURIOUS #9

ACTION

PLOT: Dominic “Dom” Tretto and his team decide to go on another wild mission and we find out Dom has an evil brother, Jakob.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Unbelievable action sequences wrestler John Cena is the brother Jakob and the comic relief of Tyrese Gibson as Roman and Ludacris as Tej is great.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The stunts are becoming more and more insane and no other gets hurt!

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you enjoy the Fast and Furious franchise up to now you will enjoy it.  It is becoming hard to believe, but this film is still good--indeed, one of the best new movie releases of 2021.

 THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

HORROR/THRILLER

PLOT:  A young man is possessed by a demon and kills someone.  The Warrens have to prove to the court of law that he was possessed by the Devil.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The film is unsettling  and the acting by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren are very good as with the rest of the cast especially  Ruairi O’ Connor as Arne taken by a demon.  They reference  the bible and God in the film-very rare in Hollywood.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Some predictable jump scares.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  OH YES!

NOBODY

ACTION/THRILLER 

PLOT:  Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk, TV show Better Call Saul) is a mild-mannered family man.  He has a pretty wife teenaged son and cute little daughter. He has an aging father David (Christopher Lloyd, Back to the Future) who he visits often. He gets robbed in his home. Mansell is not an average man and finds out who the burglars are. He is still angry and takes the bus where thugs taunt the few passengers.  He assaults most of them but one is Yulian Kuzentsou ‘s (Alekesi Serebryakov) brother.  Yulian is a Russian gangster who wants vengeance. Mansell is up to the challenge.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The movie is action-packed!  Very funny and very violent.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The beginning is slow to show how mundane Mansell’s life is excessive.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  It is written by Derek Kolstad who wrote John Wick  films so you know what to expect.

UNITED STATES VS BILLIE HOLIDAY

BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA

STREAMING ON HULU

PLOT:    Another film about the talented but tragic singer Billie Holiday and how the FBI did many things to bring her down so she would stop singing the song Strange Fruit about lynching.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Newcomer Andra Day. She captures a lot of raw emotions.  Diana Ross was fantastic as the drug addict singer and so is this actress.  The cast is excellent as well.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The movie is epic but you think the film is over and it is not.

SHOULD YOU SEE IT:  YES!  It is a story of Ms. Holiday that hasn’t been told and now it is.

BODY BROKERS

CRIME DRAMA

PLOT:  Drug addict couple robs to get drugs but the guy wants to stop.  They meet a recruiter to help rid of his addiction but it is a racket to find other addicts to keep the top people in business.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  It is mostly newcomers so it looks authentic.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Scary but is it true?  Is it a drama? A thriller?

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  Acting is good but wait until on demand or cable.

MORTAL KOMBAT

ACTION/FANTASY 

PLOT:  An updated version of the popular video game.

WHAT IS RIGHT: The action sequences and special effects have improved from the 1995 movie.  The comic relief was very good thanks to Kano (Josh Lawson).

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is very good but very violent – I guess like the video game.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  If you like action, martial arts and fantasy this is for you.