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Greetings. It's our pleasure to serve you this Movies Merica episode. We have a very fine menu for your pleasure. Our first course is comprised of some mystery, menace, satire and wit. Our second course is what we call Ralph Fiennes as the chef that isn't exactly as he seems. Our final course is evil delights at the expense of some unfortunate diners at the fine dining restaurant that is...

Creed and Creed II director Ryan Coogler brings us his sequel to his 2018 movie Black Panther with Black Panther Wakanda Forever. This movie is 161 minutes long so he brings the quantity, but does he bring the quality? Tragically Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman, passed away far too soon so the Black Panther movie world has to figure out what direction to go from here. Check out my spoiler-...

You've seen, and smelled him, in the WWE. You've watched him in The Rundown, Walking Tall, the Fast & Furious and Jumanji movies but now Dwayne Johnson takes his turn as a superhero, or rather, an anti-hero. Black Adam is an all-powerful being from the Shazam wing of the DCEU and he's just been unleashed on the world. You smell what he's cooking, and it's usually bad g...

In this last episode of the Movies Merica Haunted House series, we take you into the world of The Conjuring. This movie is on the same level as The Exorcist in that it also involves a family fighting for survival against the forces of Hell. They go through an ordeal of blood, demon possession, evil and murder. The main characters, Ed and Lorraine Warren are two servants of God that try to help thi...

It's the 1 Year Anniversary of Movies Merica podcast AND the latest episode in the Movies Merica Haunted House series! Raise your glasses in a toast and also check out this review....revisiting of the classic vampire horror/comedy Fright Night. Crash in your bean bag chair with some Pop Rocks in your parachute pants and British Knights and listen to me go over all the fun that is this awesome...

We continue our Movies Merica Haunted House series with a new school, instead of old school, fright fest movie review this week, This week we review Halloween Ends, the latest offering in the Halloween franchise. This is the finale of the David Gordon Green Halloween trilogy. Jamie Lee Curtis plays her Laurie Strode character for the 317th time, going up against the seemingly immortal Michael Myer...

The Power of Christ compels you...to listen to this revisiting of this 1973 horror classic "The Exorcist!" Since its Halloween month, Movies Merica will be reviewing some fantastic horror movies this month. Considered by many as the scariest movie of all time, people were actually fainting or going into hysterics in theaters when watching this. Paramedics had to be stationed at some thea...

If you like documentaries that just provide an accounting of events and then lets you decide what to think, Superspreader is right up your alley. In this, it tells what happened when Sean Feucht, his wife and other people of the church wanted to provide opportunities to worship outside in cities across America in defiance of pandemic laws banning church worship. As you'd expect, they run into...

In this episode we head east for our cinematic treat. Do you like action, adventure, daring rescues, death-defying stunts and all for love? You just might dig yourself some Baahubali: The Beginning from the master director S.S. Rajamouli. You might know him from directing the international phenomenon R.R.R. that billions outside of India have even heard of. This movie is epic and barely slows down...

Our "One Trilogy To Rule Them All" series comes to an end with the multiple Oscar-winning "The Return Of The King." Winner of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Visual Effects, among others, this movie is the crown jewel of this Lord Of The Rings trilogy that is entrenched in the zeitgeist. The battles, the evil attacks, the creatures, the locations and the emotional moments are...

Our "One Trilogy To Rule Them All" series continues with the second installment in Peter Jackson's epic Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Two Towers. Released during the Christmas season of 2002, the awe movie audiences felt from The Fellowship Of The Ring was lifted to an even higher level with The Two Towers. This was nominated for multiple Oscars and has been beloved for almost 20 y...

You shall not pass...listening to this 50th episode of Movies Merica! To commemorate this event, a revisiting of the one trilogy to rule them all, is in order! In 2001, Peter Jackson took the world by storm with his first installment of this trilogy. It was a movie everyone talked about and deservedly so. A real live-action adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien classics hadn't been attempted, and...

Lords and ladies, boy and girls. Gather round for a story in the form of a movie called 3000 Years Of Longing. Then again you may not want to. Check out Van's spoiler-free review of the latest movie from Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller in order to decide. This movie stars Tilda Swinton as the finder of a mysterious bottle and Idris Elba as the genie, or Djinn, trapped in it but then...

The lion does not sleep tonight in this movie. This lion must have insomnia and must also be rather angry because it rampages throughout this movie. Idris Elba stars as a Dad that takes his teenage daughters on a trip to Africa to bond as a family. Nothing bonds family together like a fight for survival so the bonding is strong here. Should you check out this movie in the theater or just wait unti...

Iconic. Legendary. Ground-breaking. Epic. Profound. Earth-shattering. Phenomenal. This movie took over the whole world in 1982 and it's the 40th anniversary of the high impact event, not just movie, but event that was E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. For this anniversary, it was essential to me that I put my thoughts out there about this movie that won me over, broke my heart. and then made me sta...

Pew Pew Pew! Brad Pitt stars in Bullet Train, an original, frenetic, kinetic action-comedy movie from the director of Deadpool 2. Aptly titled, this flick mostly takes place on a Japanese bullet train where bad boys and girls are all after a valuable briefcase. Needless to say, they do not play nice together on this bloody choo-choo. Co-starring Sandra Bullock, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Hir...

SPOILERS! Movies Merica is going back in time to 2017. Hugh Jackman hangs up the sideburns in his last Wolverine movie directed by Ford v Ferrari and Walk The Line director James Mangold. This isn't your kindly, old grandma's X-Men movie. This is one is gritty, serious, brutal and intense and is not for the kiddies Patrick Stewart is also back as Professor X as they try to survive in a w...

Yep this is Nope, a new movie from Jordan Peele from Key & Peele and Get Out. This stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun and Michael Wincott. Peele brings the mystery, thrills and otherworldly mayhem in this. Does he do it well? Is it an after school special disguised as a movie? You should listen to Van's spoiler-free review to find out.  Support the show Feel free to reach out...

Ben Affleck ditches the cape and cowl for this George Clooney-directed coming-of-age movie with Affleck playing the uncle we'd all want as a kid. He's uncle to our main protagonist, J.R., who doesn't really have a Dad so he has to get his education on finding his identity and how to be a good man from his uncle and his buddies at the bar. How to treat women, what drinks to never ord...

By the power of Greyskull....er, sorry. Wrong franchise. Marvel Studios delivers their 29th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this one featuring Thor the God Of Thunder. Chris Hemsworth again plays Thor and sinks into the role like a pair of comfortable bedroom slippers. Natalie Portman, way past playing the child protege of a hitman in The Professional and Padme in the Star Wars prequels, i...

Elvis has entered the building! Baz Luhrmann, from Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby fame, has directed this latest Elvis biopic starring Austin Butler as The King and Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker. If you know any of Luhrmann's prior work, you know this isn't going to be some drab, dull telling of the life of Elvis Presley. Is it worth you putting down the peanut butter and banana san...

When are people going to learn? When you see a creepy van with no windows you run as fast as you can the other way! That's part of the creepy, suspenseful plot of Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke. Derrickson directed the first Dr. Strange movie but has also mostly directed horror films like Sinister and The Exorcism Of Emily Rose and he sort of returns to that with...

Tom Cruise is no Maverick in this one but he gets battle-tested real quick. No new movies this week worth reviewing (just an after school special starring Buzz Lightyear), so in light of the phenomenon that is Top Gun: Maverick, we're going to a past Tom Cruise movie. The 2014 sci-fi action-adventure mind scrambler that is Edge Of Tomorrow. Here he gets top billing with Emily Blunt who comman...

Dinosaurs roam the Earth again! Get the details here in Van's spoiler-free review of Jurassic World Dominion. This is the third, and final, movie in the Jurassic World franchise and it joins the classic Jurassic Park trio with the newer characters of Jurassic World. Velociraptors, T-Rex's, bears OH MY!  Support the show Feel free to reach out to me via: @MoviesMerica on Twitter  @moviesm...

Rise! Roar! Revolt! Reach out and listen to this episode as well as my other episodes! Van goes international and exotic in this episode with the absolutely buzz worthy movie from India, RRR. He reviews this action thriller/rom-com/bromance/Marvel movie/political drama/musical and lets you know if you should get ready for your eyes to pop out of your head or for your eyelids to get heavy. Either w...