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Movie review for new Neon rated film "Ferrari". Directed by Michael Mann & written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Starring: Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz & Shailene Woodley. Released in theaters worldwide December 25th, 2023. Synopsis: Ferrari is set during the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle and danger of 1950's Formula 1, ex-racer, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he...

Movie review of new Netflix movie "Maestro". Written and directed by Bradley Cooper and c0-written by Josh Singer. Starring Bradley Cooper & Carey Mulligan. Limited release in theaters as of November 22nd, 2023. Available to stream on Netflix on December 20th, 2023. Synopsis: Maestro is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felic...

Movie review on new Toho Internatioanl film "Godzilla Minus One". Written & directed by Takashi Yamazaki. Released on December 1st, 2023, worldwide. Synopsis: Japan is already devastated by the war when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster.

Movie review of new Lionsgate film "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes". Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler & Peter Dinklage. Released on November 17th, 2023, in theaters worldwide. Synopsis: 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem. THE HUNGER GAMES: TH...

Movie review for new Marvel Studios film "The Marvels". Starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson & Zawe Ashton. Released on November 10th, 2023 in theaters nation wide. Synopsis: Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the bu...

Movie review of new Focus Features film "The Holdovers". It stars Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph & Dominic Sessa. Released on November 10th, 2023 in theaters nation wide. Synopsis: THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Event...

Second episode reviewing new Sci-Fi animated series "Scavengers Reign". Which streams on MAX every Thursday. This series has a total of 12 episodes, Max releases 3 episodes weekly. This review covers series episodes 4-6. The series started airing on October 19th, 2023. Synopsis: Based off Charles Huettner and Joseph Bennett’s short film, it follows a crew of a damaged deep space freighter who are...

Movie review on new Netflix movie "The Killer". Directed by David Fincher & written by Andrew Kevin Walker. Starring Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard & Tilda Swinton. In limited release in theaters as of October 27th, 2023. Will stream on Netflix starting November 10th, 2023. Synopsis: After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an interna...

First episode reviewing new Sci-Fi animated series "Scavengers Reign". Which streams on MAX every Thursday. This series has a total of 12 episodes, Max releases 3 episodes weekly. This review covers series episodes 1-3. The series started airing on October 19th, 2023. Synopsis: Based off Charles Huettner and Joseph Bennett’s short film, it follows a crew of a damaged deep space freighter who are s...

Movie Review for new Apple films movie "Killers of the Flower Moon". Released on October 20th, 2023 Synopsis: At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could bef...

Movie reviews for "A Good Person", "Inside", "Dungeons & Dragons" & "A Thousand and One".

Movie reviews of "Super Mario Brothers", "Beau is Afraid", "Suzume" and "Chevalier".

Movie review on new Lionsgate film "John Wick: Chapter 4". Written by SHAY HATTEN and MICHAEL FINCH. Directed by CHAD STAHELSKI. Starring: KEANU REEVES, DONNIE YEN, BILL SKARSGARD, LAURENCE FISHBURNE, Hiroyuki Sanada, SHAMIER ANDERSON, LANCE REDDICK, RINA SAWAYAMA, SCOTT ADKINS, CLANCY BROWN, NATALIA TENA, MARKO ZAROR and IAN MCSHANE. Released in theaters March 24th, 2023. Synopsis John Wick uncov...

Movie review on new Niu Vision Media film "Full River Red". Written by Yimou Zhang and Chen Yu. Directed by Yimou Zhang . Starring: Teng Shen, Jackson Yee, Yi Zhang, Jiayin Lei, Wang Jiayi and Yunpeng Yue. Movie in limited release in the US as March 17th, 2023. Synopsis 12th century China, during the Song Dynasty, set against a brewing rebellion by the Jin people against the Imperial Court. Two ho...

Movie review on new Warner Bros Pictures film "Shazam: Fury of the Gods". Written by Henry Gayden & Chris Morgan. Directed by David F. Sandberg. Starring: Zachary Levi ( Thor: Ragnarök ) as Shazam; Asher Angel ( Andi Mack ) as Billy Batson; Jack Dylan Grazer ( It Chapter Two ) as Freddy Freeman; Adam Brody ( Promising Young Woman ) as Super Hero Freddy; Ross Butler ( Raya and the Last Dragon )...

Movie review on new Columbia Pictures/Sony film "65". Written and directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods. Starring: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt & Chloe Coleman. Release in theaters on March 10th, 2023. Synopsis After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth…65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at resc...

Movie Review on new Paramount Pictures film "Scream VI". Written by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett. Starring: Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Mason Gooding, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Jenna Ortega, Tony Revolori, Josh Segarra, Samara Weaving with Hayden Panettiere and Courteney Cox. Rele...

Movie review on new Lionsgate film "Operation Fortune: RUSE DE GUERRE". Written by Guy Ritchie , Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone and Hugh Grant. Released in theaters March 3rd, 2023. Synopsis In the film, super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new we...

Movie review on new Sony Pictures Classics film "Return to Seoul". Written and directed by Davy Chou. Official selection of Cannes Film Festival. In limited release as of December 2nd, 2022. Starring: Park Ji-Min, Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han and Kim Sun-Young. Synopsis After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before...

Movie review for new MGM film "Creed III". Written by Keenan Coogler & Zach Baylin. Directed by Michael B. Jordan. Released in Theaters March 3rd, 2023. Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors, Wood Harris, Florian Munteanu, Mila Davis-Kent and Phylicia Rashad. Synopsis After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) has been thriving in both his career...

Movie review on new Bleeker Street Media film "Emily". Written and directed by FRANCES O’CONNOR. Released on February 17th, 2023. Starring: EMMA MACKEY, FIONN WHITEHEAD, OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN, ALEXANDRA DOWLING, ADRIAN DUNBAR, AMELIA GETHING and GEMMA JONES. Synopsis "EMILY” tells the imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, a rebel and misfit, finds her voice and writ...

Movie review on new Universal Pictures movie "Cocaine Bear". Written by Jimmy Warden and directed by Elizabeth Banks. Released on February 24th, 2023 in theaters. Starring: Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Christian Convery-Jennings, Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Aaron Holliday with Margo Martindale and Ray Liotta....

Movie review on new film distributed by Open Road Films entitled "Marlowe". Screenplay by William Monahan and Neil Jordan. Directed by Neil Jordan. Released in theaters February 15th, 2023. Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Daniela Melchior, François Arnaud, Séana Kerslake with Danny Huston and Alan Cumming. Synopsis A gripping noi...

Movie review on new Marvel Studios film "Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania". Directed by Peyton Reed. Released in theaters February 17th, 2023. Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathryn Newton and Jonathan Majors. Synopsis In the film, which officially kicks off phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Super-Hero partners Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne ret...

Movie Review for new Columbia Pictures(Sony) film "A Man Called Otto". Written by David Magee. Directed by Marc Forster. Based upon the best-selling novel “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman, and the film A Man Called Ove by Hannes Holm. Starring: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Truman Hanks and Mike Birbiglia. Synopsis A Man Called Otto tells the story of Otto An...