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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 The Speed to the BoxOffice

“Sonic 3 will beat out Mufasa, for sure!” — JimmityCritic (12) Sonic the Hedgehog 3, what a fun evening with the grandkids it was. When you have a 12, 10 and 5 year-old clap their hands at the end …

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Mufasa: The Lion King the Prequel

Mufasa: The Lion King was entertaining and the production value was amazing to watch. Set in Africa, all-new film blends live-action filmmaking techniques with photoreal computer-generated imagery.  My 12 year-old grandson thought it was one …

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Holiday Films Are in the Works!

One of my favorite time of the year is the holiday season. I love Christmas for many reasons, especially my grandkids and grandnephews. We always find time to watch our old and new favorite Christmas …

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Watch the Featurette Wicked on Singing Live

After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event this holiday season. Synopsis: Wicked, …

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Another Love Story in Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness

In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, here’s an impactful new film Another Love Story, now available for streaming on TUBI. This timely film sheds light on the emotional and psychological journey of domestic abuse survivors …

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 The Speed to the BoxOfficeMufasa: The Lion King the PrequelHoliday Films Are in the Works!Watch the Featurette Wicked on Singing LiveAnother Love Story in Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness

A Western Story with Some Complex Hearts

We liked this western. The story and the complexity of the main characters kept you captivated.

The Dead Don’t Hurt is a powerful and profoundly personal cinematic western written and directed by Viggo Mortensen. In theaters nationwide May 31.

Synopsis: The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Mortensen). After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, Nevada, where they start a life together. The outbreak of the civil war separates them when Olsen makes a fateful decision to fight for the Union. This leaves Vivienne to fend for herself in a place controlled by corrupt Mayor Rudolph Schiller (Danny Huston) and his unscrupulous business partner, powerful rancher Alfred Jeffries (Garret Dillahunt). Alfred’s violent, wayward son Weston (Solly McLeod) aggressively pursues Vivienne, who is determined to resist his unwanted advances. When Olsen returns from the war, he and Vivienne must confront and make peace with the person each has become. Both a tragic love story and a nuanced depiction of the conflict between revenge and forgiveness, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a portrait of a passionate woman determined to stand up for herself in an unforgiving world dominated by ruthless men.

Also starring Colin Morgan, Ray McKinnon, W. Earl Brown, and newcomer Atlas Green.

Upcoming Documentaries Worth Watching

A Thousand Pines, the documentary is directed and produced by Sebastián Díaz and Noam Osband, follows a season of Oaxacan tree planters traveling the United States and explores the hidden world of guest workers regrowing America’s forests and the challenges the workers and their families face. 

A solid documentary. And so bittersweet for these workers and families. Yet we have some people who just don’t get how important they are to us, especially our economy.

The award-winning documentary film debuts on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS on April 1, at 10p. ET (check local listings). The film will also be available to stream on the PBS App.

Lost Angel: The Genius oF Judee Sill, a very interesting documentary, directed by Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom.

Synopsis: The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and early tragic death.

In many ways, she was ahead of her time. In theaters and on Amazon and Apple TV on April 12.

FURIOSA is On Her Way!

Ready for some action? Check out the trailer with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth in Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal Mad Max films.

Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash Mad Max: Fury Road. 

Synopsis: As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus.  Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA is only in theaters May 24 from Warner Bros. Pictures.

Shirley Fearless. Fierce. First.

Being old enough to remember when Shirley Chisholm ran for president and the feeling it left you with was, boy, she had guts! Her slogan was “Unbought and Unbossed.” —A.O.

Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm in Shirley—the story of the first Black congresswoman and her trailblazing run for president of the United States. Directed by John Ridley and co-starring, Lance Reddick, Lucas Hedges, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christina Jackson, Dorian Crossmond Missick, Amirah Vann, André Holland, and Terrence Howard. The film chronicles Chisholm’s audacious, boundary-breaking 1972 presidential campaign.

Netflix’s Shirley is in limited theater release in the U.S. And it lands on the streaming service on March 22.

A New Crowdfunding We Support!

We like to support interesting and meaningful projects and we try to help where we can. This is the personal story of actor, writer, director, producer Yeniffer Behrens. Read below and watch the video. And see if you can give a helping hand.

Synopsis: Her Choices: Jenny From The Block an inspiring, coming of age crime drama set in Miami in the 80’s. This story is about survival, never giving up on your dreams and healing from childhood traumas. Jenny teaches us that no matter what happens in one’s life we have the power to create a blessed, happy outcome. (Drama, Crime)

Click here to find out more and to give.

Bob Marley: One Love

Getting lost in Bob Marley’s music after not listening to it on a regular basis for some time, was fantastic! The way reggae music moves you, there’s no words to really describe it.

This film is a great way to introduce Marley to a new audience who is willing to learn and listen to his story. I enjoyed the authenticity of the Jamaican and Caribbean sounds. Something dear to my heart, being Panamanian.

This is a great film, it is not perfect, because no bio pic is. With that said, I thought, the acting was superb. I found Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lashana Lynch believable as Bob and Rita Marley. 

Also starring James Norton, Tosin Cole, Umi Myers, Anthony Welsh, Nia Ashi, Aston Barrett Jr., Anna-Sharé Blake, Gawaine “J-Summa” Campbell, Naomi Cowan, Alexx A-Game, Michael Gandolfini, Quan-Dajai Henriques, David Kerr, Hector Roots Lewis, Abijah “Naki Wailer” Livingston, Nadine Marshall, Sheldon Shepherd, Andrae Simpson, and Stefan A.D Wade.

Screenplay by Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, Zach Baylin, and Reinaldo Marcus Green. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. And produced in partnership with the Marley family.

Synopsis: Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.

I really hope this film will help bring back the “One Love” concept. In theaters now.

The Greater the Spy, the Bigger the Lie

Argylle is very entertaining. It’s over the top, funny, and if you over look a few little inconsistencies, it’s thrilling. And it has a great soundtrack. You have to watch or you could miss a tiny detail. With that said, we give it, 👍🏼👍🏼

Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway

From the twisted mind of Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman franchise, Kick-Ass) comes Argylle, a razor-witted, reality-bending, globe-encircling spy thriller.

Synopsis: Bryce Dallas Howard is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night at home with her computer and her cat, Alfie. But when the plots of Elly’s fictional books—which center on secret agent Argylle and his mission to unravel a global spy syndicate—begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past.

Accompanied by Aiden (Sam Rockwell), a cat-allergic spy, Elly (carrying Alfie in her backpack) races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Elly’s fictional world and her real one begins to blur.

Cast includes Henry Cavill, John Cena, Dua Lipa, Bryan Cranston, Sofia Boutella, Ariana DeBose, Catherine O’Hara, and Samuel L. Jackson. In theaters February 2, 2024.

 

Check out the official music video for Electric Energy performed by Ariana DeBose, Boy George, and Nile Rodgers.

National Geographic’s GENIUS: MLK/X

We watched the eight episodes of the new segment of National Geographic’s GENIUS series. And we thought they did a great job showcasing these two civil rights icons. It’s a must watch.

Two episodes will premiere weekly beginning February 1 on National Geographic at 9/8c and will stream the next day on both Disney+ and Hulu. The first episode of the new season, “Graduation,” will simulcast on ABC February 1 at 9/8c.

GENIUS: MLK/X explores simultaneously the formative years, pioneering accomplishments, dueling philosophies and key personal relationships of both Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) and Malcolm X (Aaron Pierre). While King advanced racial equality through nonviolent activism, X advocated for Black empowerment, identity and self-determination. The eight-part series also brings their wives, Coretta Scott King (Weruche Opia) and Betty Shabazz (Jayme Lawson), to the forefront and shows them as formidable equals of the Movement. While King and X met only once and often challenged each other’s views, the two visionaries, with their wives leading by their sides, ultimately rose to pioneer a movement that lives on today.

Channing Godfrey Peoples (Miss Juneteenth) directed the pilot episode and also served as co-executive producer.

New Trailers for Upcoming Films and Series

New films and series are showing up every where, in movie theaters, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HULU, and many other streaming services. We are here to try and guide you to where you can find what’s new and where to find it. Check out these trailers below.

Underdoggs – On Prime Video, January 26

Kings From Queens: The RUN DMC Story – On Peacock, February 1
(3 Part Documentary)

The Tiger’s Apprentice – On Paramount+ February 2

Vigil – On Peacock, February 15 (Season 2)

Land of Bad – In Theaters, February 16

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The Beekeeper is Action! Action! Action!

If you are looking for action, The Beekeeper does not disappoint. This action thriller with a bit of slasher thrown in is quite entertaining. Read what Lina Fubar has to say about it below.

I loved The Beekeeper when I thought it’ll just be another OK action movie. The tug of war of generations kept me interested in the story while the nostalgic action movie directing really made me reminisce being forced to watch Steven Seagal movies as a kid. The Beekeeper was shot with a lot of SHOCK factors and fun fighting scenes that kept me invested. I definitely recommend watching this movie with a dad with a watch history of The Expendables and Tropic Thunder.

Synopsis: In The Beekeeper, one man’s brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as “Beekeepers.”

Starring Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, with Phylicia Rashad and Jeremy Irons. And directed by David Ayer.

In theaters now. ** NOT FOR CHILDREN **

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