PLOT:
Will Harris is a goat who is a fan of Jett a great basketball player of
the Thorns and by odd events gets on the team.
WHAT IS RIGHT: The voice cast which includes Gabrielle Union
as Jett, Jenifer Lewis is Flo, a warthog owner of the team the Thorns and Mane
Attraction an arrogant horse, Aaron Pierre.
They match their animal characters very well.
WHAT IS WRONG: It is very predictable but still enjoyable.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: OH YES!
It is nothing new but it is fun to watch!
SCREAM 7
HORROR/MYSTERY
PLOT:
Sidney (Neve Campbell) is trying to raise her daughter but slasher
Ghostface is following her AGAIN! This time
he wants her daughter Tatum!
WHAT IS RIGHT: Creative kills and franchise is so popular it
has its own tropes! Small spoiler: It is
always 2 people. Campbell is good as
Sidney trying to raise a family and be normal but she has to get tough every
time! Courteney Cox is great as Gale, a
reporter who is friends with Sidney but she is also a bitch! Jasmin Savoy Brown is a stand-out as Gale’s
assistant Mindy. She is just like Gale
just younger!
WHAT IS WRONG: You have seen it all before and you probably
figure out who the killer is and Sidney survives! Are we going to see Scream in Space soon?
SHOULD YOU WATCH: Do you like Scream movies? If a fan you are going to watch it because
the main characters are funny and tough!
PLOT: Ben an adorable, lovable chimp gets rabies and becomes violent.
WHAT IS RIGHT: The kills are
very gruesome!
WHAT IS WRONG: You have seen
this story before. The young people want
to have a party and the monkey goes nuts.
Only in the movies when an animal infected by rabies they become smart!
You want the young people to survive but they do stupid things.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: They kills are
very good but should be ON DEMAND.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
ROMANTIC DRAMA
PLOT: Another version of Emily Bronte’s
book of the same name. Heathcliff and
Cathy have a passionate, toxic love.
WHAT IS RIGHT: It is visually
dazzling! Vivid colors and lovely country
sides. Owen Cooper and Charlotte
Mellington as young Heathcliff and Cathy are fantastic! Talented actors to look
for in the future.
WHAT IS WRONG: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the grown
Cathy and Heathcliff are very attractive actors playing the most horrible
people you can imagine! It is hard to
feel sympathy for them and what they do to other people.
SHOULD YOU WATCH:
If you have never read the novel or seen the movies it might entertain
you. This movie is fan fiction for many
things don’t happen in the novel. Those
who read the novel will be in shock! If
you can wait-WAIT!
ZOOTOPIA #2 2025
ANIMATION
PLOT: Judy Hoops, a bunny and Nick Wilde, a sly red
fox are officially cops on a new dangerous case that involves snakes being
abandoned by the city.
WHAT IS
RIGHT: The story is has EVERTHING,
comedy romance and suspense and music.
It has talented stars that include Iris Elba, singer Shakira Roman
Reigns and CM Punk!
WHAT IS
WRONG: NOTHING!!!
SHOULD YOU
WATCH? ABSOLUTELY!
AVATAR #3 FIRE AND ASH 2025
FANTASY/ ADVENTURE
PLOT: Jake and his family are sadden
by the death of their son but new threats are coming that include Jake’s enemy.
WHAT IS GOOD: The visual effects
are AMAZING as always. The evil commander
Quartich (Stephen Lang) is GREAT and Varang(Oona Chaplin) is equally menacing
as leader of her clan who will kill anyone in her quest for power. The two are the Bonnie and Clyde of
Avatar. The action scenes are fantastic.
WHAT IS WRONG: There are soap
opera elements are there but it does help the story.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: OH YES! If you are a fan of this movie franchise you
will enjoy it.
SPECIAL NOTE: I wish director
James Cameron would make a superhero movie for he knows how to make an epic,
exciting film many people would watch.
HAMNET
DRAMA
PLOT: Based on the novel by
Maggie O’ Farrell the writer William Shakespeare had a wife and three children
and the son named Hamnet died and he wrote the play Hamlet.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Paul Mescal (Gladiator
2) is Shakespeare and he is good but it is Jessie Buckley as Agnes,
Shakespeare’s wife that is amazing.
Giving child birth alone or with help she shows the agony of it! The film is slow and sober. The ending is closure than a happy ending.
WHAT IS WRONG: It is a novel
so much might not be true but could be.
The film may add things that might not have happened.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES! It is a film about grief and how people deal
with it even in olden times.
NOMINATED FOR:
BEST PICTURE
BEST ACTRESS
BEST DIRCTOR
FRANKENSTEIN
HORROR
PLOT: Another version of the
novel of Mary Shelly’s novel of an obsessed doctor creating parts of deceased men
to creature new life.
WHAT IS GOOD: The acting of
Oscar Isaac as Dr Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the “creature”! It is like a father and son relationship! Frankenstein made something alive that is
dead and he is not proud of it. The
“creature” is upset because he came into the world and is hated even by his creator. It is creepy.
It is very elaborate. It is a sad
tale of man reaching for greatness at what cost!
WHAT IS WRONG: How did
Frankenstein become so strong from dead men?
The monster is not as great as the Boris Karloff version. It should be better because of AI!
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES! Especially if you like horror and great
acting.
NOMININATED FOR:
BEST PICTURE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
TRAIN DREAMS
PERIOD DRAMA
PLOT: Robert Grainier is an
orphan who lived 80 years and took odd jobs while the world changed around him.
WHAT IS GOOD: Joel Edgerton! He plays Robert in a low key manner. He does his job, goes home to his wife and
child. That’s it! He does what most people do. He sees things doesn’t understand why but
does his best in the world he lives in.
You root for him because that’s what most people do. William H. Macy as Arn, an older explosive
expert is comic relief and he does it well.
WHAT IS WRONG: It is slow moving
but that is the point-like life. It is
not exciting like an action movie.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES! It is a character study about a man with
life, loss and change.
NOMINATIONS FOR:
BEST PICTURE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
SECRET AGENT
DRAMA
PLOT: A tech
expert with a mysterious past return to his home town but there is more danger
ahead in Brazil.
WHAT IS GOOD:
Wagner Moura as the tech expert who wants a peaceful life. He sees corruption with his sad eyes and
wants to remain peaceful.
WHAT IS
WRONG: This is a foreign films and they
are different than American films. This
one is no different. It takes a long
while to get going! You also think with
a title like this it is action packed, gadgets and pretty girls. Not this movie. It is slow and sober.
SHOULD YOU
WATCH: It is good but you must have
patience!
NOMINATIONS FOR:
BEST PICTURE
BEST INTERNATIONAL
FEATURE
SONG SUNG BLUE
MUSICAL DRAMA
PLOT: Cover singers Mike
Sardina (Lighting) and his wife Claire Stengi(Thunder love to sing Neil Diamond
songs at various clubs. The duo is very
close to stardom but tragedy gets in the way.
It is based on a true story.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Hugh Jackman is great as Mike who once was a
soldier and an alcoholic and it is music that saved him. He is charismatic but
hurting. He is not nominated for BEST ACTOR but he should have been. Kate Hudson as Claire is nominated and she is
wonderful as well. She was a fun-loving
woman then something bad happens.
WHAT IS WRONG: Their story is so
fantastic you think it was fiction but it is not!
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES! If you
like Neil Diamond songs-some I never heard of and the good pairing of Jackman
and Hudson is worth the watch.
NOMINATIONED FOR:
BEST ACTRESS
BUGONIA
THRILLER/SCI-FI
PLOT: Michelle Fuller (Emma
Stone) is CEO of a drug company and Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons), a conspiracy theorist
and beekeeper and his autistic cousin Don(Aiden Debis) kidnap her thinking she
is an alien.
NOTE: The title means ancient
Greeks folk tale that bees would generate from a dead cow. If you watch the film . It might make sense, might not.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Emma Stone is
fantastic as the CEO Michelle Fuller.
She is driven, aggressive and scheming.
You don’t know how far she will go to escape. Jesse Plemons
is intense as Teddy obsessed that she is really an alien. Don, his cousin doesn’t believe him but goes
along because it is his cousin and he admires him.
WHAT IS WRONG: The director
Yorgos Lathimos is a talented and twisted director! His films are bizarre to say the least! Watch the movies, The Favorite 2018 and Poor
Things 2023. This film is very violent
and strange.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: The ideas are
good and Emma Stone is very good but it is a outrageous film but to me better
than Poor Things.
F1
SPORTS DRAMA
PLOT:
Aging race car driver Sonny Hayes gets to drive again and train a new
comer Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) and has a romance with an attractive, smart
technical director Kate McKenna (Kerry Condon).
WHAT IS RIGHT: The race car driving scenes! You feel you’re inside the car with them
taking the risk! Javier Bardem who is
the APXGP owner who needs Sonny’s help is good and dresses very well. Damon
Idris as Joshua who is very confident younger race car driver. Sarah Miles is great as Bernadette Joshua’s
smart, protective mom.
WHAT IS WRONG: You know the experience older driver helping
the cocky newcomer yet it NEVER gets old.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES!
If you like race car driving, Brad Pitt along with a good cast you will
enjoy this movie.
NOMINATED FOR:
BEST PICTURE
MARTY
SUPREME
SPORTS
COMEDY DRAMA
PLOT:
Marty (Timothee Chalamet) in the 50s is a chiasmic, determined young man
who works at a shoe store but wants to go to Japan to become a table tennis champion.
WHAT IS RIGHT: The actor Timothee Charlamet who does
whatever it takes to achieve his goal no matter what the cost. He is no hero to cheer for but you watch to
see if he is successful. Odessa A’zion
is very good as a married woman who is having an affair with Marty. Gwyneth Paltrow is Kay Stone an actress
married to a very rich man who is horny as hell!
WHAT IS WRONG: When they do biography movies many things
don’t really happen just to intensify
the film. You if are interested
you read more about the person. The film
could have been cut a slightly.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you like Charlamet and the rest of the
cast-YES.
NOMINATED FOR:
BEST ACTOR
IF I HAD
LEGS I’D KICK YOU
COMEDY DRAMA
PLOT:
Linda (Rose Byrne) is a working mother with a sick child and she is a
hot mess!
WHAT IS RIGHT: Actress Rose Byrne is a therapist but she has
more problems than her patients! Her emotions are anger, stress, drinking and
drugging! Byrne is great as woman who
has too much on her plate. Stunt casting
the comic, late night host Conan O’ Brien is her therapist! She funny and frightening at the same
time.
WHAT IS WRONG: The director, Mary Bronstein tells the story
in a strange way. You may not understand
it in the beginning but it is explained.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES!!!
If you want to see GREAT acting!
NOMINATED FOR:
BEST ACTRESS
BLUE MOON
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
PLOT:
This is a movie about the great songwriter Lorenz Hart who wrote songs
like Lady Is a Tramp, Manhattan and Blue Moon.
His partner Richard Rogers who team up later with Oscar Hammerstein to
create more outstanding songs.
WHAT IS RIGHT: Ethan Hawk is fantastic as Lorenz Hart! He is talented but he drank too much, erratic
and could be gay. The setting is in Sadri’s
Restaurant which was popular in the 40s after Hart watch Oklahoma. He is a sad, creative person. He wants to be better but his bad habits get
in the way. Bobby Cannavale as Eddie,
the bartender is very funny. He is a
supporting character in films but he shines in this one.
WHAT IS WRONG: It is not wrong but the film is like classic
Hollywood. You find out much about the
character through dialogue. It is like a
play on film.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES!
If you like Lorenz Hart, his songs and Hawke’s performance a MUST SEE!
Note: Back from a long break, but ready to roll. Let's go!
BLACK PHONE #2
HORROR
PLOT: The “Grabber” origin.
WHAT IS GOOD: Some jump scares
and an interesting back-story of Grabber.
WHAT IS WRONG: Very slow to get
started.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you enjoy
the first film but is curious about how the Grabber beginnings you will like it
but no rush to see this film.
WICKED FOR GOOD
MUSICAL/FANTASY
PLOT: The sequel to Wicked. Elphaba, (Cynthia Erivo) the Wicked Witch of
the West and Glinda (Ariana Grande) are at odd with each other but still want
to be friends.
WHAT IS GOOD: The two female leads Erivo and Grande! They
have great voices. The costumes are
dazzling!
WHAT IS
WRONG: The Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion
and the Scarecrow origins have been changed and Dorothy ! You NEVER see Dorothy’s face only silhouette
but you see her shoes-they are not red!
SHOULD YOU
WATCH: It is a different telling of the
classic story. It is not bad but not
great either.
THE CONJURING: LAST RITES
HORROR
PLOT:The Warrens do their last
paranormal investigation and background story about their past.
WHAT IS GOOD:It is creepy,
scary and suspenseful. There is blood but not what you think.
WHAT IS WRONG:Even this movie
has typical jump scares.
SHOULD YOU WATCH:YES!!It is suppose to be the last film of the
franchise but I don’t think so.It is
effective but if you’re into slasher the film it may bore you.
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY
CASTLE
ANIME
PLOT:The Demon Slayer invades a mansion with
assorted supernatural beings.The first
of three movies.
WHAT IS GOOD:It is visually stunning and the sound
astonishing!
WHAT IS
WRONG:It is a long anime film.It is over 2 ½!
SHOULD YOU
WATCH:If you are a fan of the series it
is a violent treat.It is beautiful and
bloody!
THE RUNNING MAN
ACTION/SATIRE
PLOT: In the distant future
people watch selective, ordinary citizens become “runners’ and are tracked and
killed by “hunters” while customers love to watch the carnage. The film is
based on the Stephen King novel which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987.
WHAT IS GOOD: The action which
is exceptional! Colman Domingo as Bobby
Thompson is great as the host of the violent TV show. Josh Brolin is good as the evil
producer. Glen Powell is very good as Ben Richards, who doesn’t want to be a runner but does to pay
for his child medical bills.
WHAT IS WRONG: I didn’t see the
1987 version so I can’t compare the two.
It could have been shorter.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: Maybe. If you like the 1987 movie you might like it
better than this one but this movie isn’t bad.
PREDATOR: BADLANDS
THRILLER/SCIENCE FICTION
PLOT: Dek, a small predator goes
to Genna also called the death planet to prove his worth as a warrior. This is the ninth movie in the popular
franchise.
WHAT IS GOOD: Dek (Dimitrius
Schuster Koloamatangi) proving he is worthy of being like his father and
brother. He shows emotion in his alien
face. Thia (Elle Fanning) is amusing,
friendly to be a synthetic-looks human but is not who Dek helps on his journey
to prove he strong and brave .
WHAT IS BAD: Many fans are used
to the ugly alien is the bad guy but in this film it has feelings and is the hero.
Not bad but strange.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES! It’s a different take on the
Predator series and it does pay off.
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
THRILLER
PLOT: Pat Calhoun (Leonardo Di Caprio) an explosive
expert who was in a terriost group French 75 is now stays of the grid and get
high all the time until his daughter is kidnapped by an enemy from his past
Colonel Lockjaw (Sean Penn)
WHAT IS GOOD: The
cast is great but DiCaprio and Penn stand out.
Great mix of acting and action –very
rare today.
WHAT IS
WRONG: It could have told the story
shorter.
SHOULD YOU
WATCH: YES! If you enjoy the talented cast, exciting
action. I am sure there will be Oscar
nominations for this film.
SISU 2: ROAD TO REVENGE
ACTION
PLOT: Jorma Tommila (Aatami
Korpi) comes home in 1946. His family is
dead so he takes down his home by himself and moves to a new place to
live. Stephen Lang (Igor Draganov)
killed his family and he is jail but they release him to kill Korpi.
WHAT IS GOOD: First of all Sisu
is not the hero’s name. In Finnish it
means sheer determination. Korpi is
determined and cannot die! Draganov
tries to kill him with everything he’s got but Korpi is very resilient! Stephen Lang starred in Avatar as a villain
Colonel so these two attacking each other is just fantastic and bloodly!
WHAT IS WRONG: The violence is
WAAY over the top! Almost cartoonish.
SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you like
the first SISU you will enjoy this!
