Airport security agent Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) finds himself being blackmailed on Christmas Eve to let a carry-on case through the security scanner that he is manning. His girlfriend, whom he just discovered is expecting their first child, will die if he does not comply. Can Ethan foil the criminals and save the day? Carry-On … Continue reading Carry-On
As a teenager Sergei Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) survived a lion attack when he was given a voodoo potion by a mysterious girl named Calypso (Ariana DeBose). Granted with animal like superhuman powers he becomes the greatest hunter on the planet, but his prey are poachers and gangsters. Kraven The Hunter will likely be the final … Continue reading Kraven The Hunter
Christopher Reeve became a superstar in 1978 when at the age of twenty-six he played Superman opposite acting greats such as Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando. So it was inconceivable that in 1995, following a horse riding accident he was paralyzed from the neck down. This is his story as told by his surviving family … Continue reading Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
When seventeen-year-old Gretchen’s (Hunter Schafer) mother dies she is forced to live with her father (Marton Csokas) just as he is moving his new family to a resort in the Bavarian Alps. But neither the owner of the resort, Herr Konig (Dan Stevens) nor the resort itself are exactly what they seem. Cuckoo is a … Continue reading Cuckoo
Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw) receives a letter from the Reverend Mother (Olivia Colman) at the home for retired bears in Peru where his Aunt Lucy (voiced by Imelda Staunton) lives. The letter suggests that Aunt Lucy deeply misses him and needs his company, so he sets off with the Brown family in tow to … Continue reading Paddington In Peru
The story of how Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) made his name in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the assistance of lawyer Roy M. Cohn (Jeremy Strong). The film opens with Nixon’s “I’m not a crook” speech which makes you initially believe that this might be a one sided viewpoint of the only American President to … Continue reading The Apprentice
The origin story of Oz’s Wicked Witch Of The West asks the question, “are people born wicked, or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” Wicked is the story of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Galinda (Ariana Grande) who will later become The Wicked Witch Of The West and Glinda The Good in the story that … Continue reading Wicked
Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom must fight off a universe destroying threat that is seeking a key created by Brock and Venom’s union. To undo the key would be to kill one or both of our anti-heroes. Touted as the final film in the trilogy, The Last Dance continues its predecessors scrappy and haphazard … Continue reading Venom: The Last Dance
Sixteen years after Maximus and Emperor Commodus fought in the Colosseum another gladiator fighting for “the dream of Rome” arises. Lucius’ (Paul Mescal) finds himself purchased by gladiator wrangler Macrinus (Denzel Washington) when his North African home is conquered by a Roman general named Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal). Lucius was once a son of Rome … Continue reading Gladiator II
Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) are missionaries from the Mormon Church who find themselves at the door of the religiously curious Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). But it seems that Mr. Reed’s motivations for requesting further information about the Church are not entirely altruistic. The concept of Heretic is that it is … Continue reading Heretic
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