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  • Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant:  A masterfully manipulative war thriller

    Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant: A masterfully manipulative war thriller

    Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay…

  • Plane: Gerard Butler Saves Us from Liam Neeson Once Again

    Plane: Gerard Butler Saves Us from Liam Neeson Once Again

    Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island — only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels,…

  • Fast X:  Dumb Fun and Horsepower Thrills

    Fast X: Dumb Fun and Horsepower Thrills

    Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and…

  • The Equalizer 3: Finding Home By Killing Everyone in the Old Town

    The Equalizer 3: Finding Home By Killing Everyone in the Old Town

    Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new…

  • Hypnotic:  Jedi Mind Tricks All Around

    Hypnotic: Jedi Mind Tricks All Around

    Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Determined to find his missing daughter, Austin detective Danny Rourke finds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole investigating a series of reality-bending crimes where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz, a gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously…

  • The Wrath of Becky:  Getting Her Revenge on the Second Time

    The Wrath of Becky: Getting Her Revenge on the Second Time

    Movie Info via Rotten Tomatoes: Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman — a kindred spirit named Elena. But when a group known as the “Noble Men” break into their home, attack them, and take her beloved dog,…

  • Sisu: Doing His Finnish Duty to the Dullest Extent

    Sisu: Doing His Finnish Duty to the Dullest Extent

    Storyline via IMDB: During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word “sisu”,…

  • Grand Turismo:  Lap after Lap after Lap

    Grand Turismo:  Lap after Lap after Lap

    Summary via IMDB: Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs – a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec – who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. Review: Racing movies only have to get the cars,…

  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Oh, Just Get on With It

    How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Oh, Just Get on With It

    Summary via IMDB: Theo and Xochitl, lifelong companions from Long Beach, California, a city riddled with pollution from multiple oil refineries, are now in their twenties. After Xochitl’s mother passes away during an unexpected heatwave that she attributes to climate change, she becomes disillusioned with the sluggish pace of her college divestment campaign. Seeking more…

  • The Monkey King:  Too Much Monkey Shines

    The Monkey King: Too Much Monkey Shines

    Summary via IMDB: THE MONKEY KING is an action-packed family comedy that follows a charismatic Monkey and his magical fighting Stick on an epic quest for victory over 100 demons, an eccentric Dragon King, and Monkey’s greatest foe of all -his own ego. Along the way, a young village girl challenges his self-centered attitude and…

  • Blue Beetle: Las Cucarachas Fight Back

    Blue Beetle: Las Cucarachas Fight Back

    Summary via IMDB: An alien scarab chooses college graduate Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the teenager with a suit of armor that’s capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle. Review: I expected there would be moments in Blue Beetle where…

  • Heart of Stone: Netflix Fights Back to Reclaim the Algorithm

    Heart of Stone: Netflix Fights Back to Reclaim the Algorithm

    Summary via IMDB:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13603966/?ref_=tt_mv_close An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable and dangerous weapon. Review: In Heart of Stone, Gal Gadot is Stone, a spy with her own IMF team like Tom Cruise- Heart is the all powerful computer that plots and control it…

  • TNMT: Mutant Mayhem— Oozing Growing Charisma

    TNMT: Mutant Mayhem— Oozing Growing Charisma

    Storyline via Rotten Tomatoes: After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers. Their new friend, April O’Neil, helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army…

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3:  A Nice Send Off for the Old Team and Good Setup for the New Guardians

    Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3: A Nice Send Off for the Old Team and Good Setup for the New Guardians

    Storyline via Rotten Tomatoes: In Marvel Studios “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if…

  • Nimona: F(r)ight the Power

    Nimona: F(r)ight the Power

    Storyline via IMDB: When Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed), a knight in a futuristic medieval world, is framed for a crime he didn’t commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz), a mischievous teen with a taste for mayhem – who also happens to be a shapeshifting creature…

  • Mission Impossible; Dead Reckoning-Part One— See Tom Run and Run and Talk and Talk

    Mission Impossible; Dead Reckoning-Part One— See Tom Run and Run and Talk and Talk

    Storyline via IMDB: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan…

  • The Out-Laws:  Living With the Almost Bad In-Laws.

    The Out-Laws: Living With the Almost Bad In-Laws.

    Summary via IMDB: A straight-laced bank manager about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws. Review: I come to expect a pretty reliable formula for every Adam…

  • 65:  That Extinction Meteor Can’t Come Fast Enough.

    65: That Extinction Meteor Can’t Come Fast Enough.

    Storyline via IMDB: After a catastrophic crash, pilot Mills quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on an unknown planet. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills must make his way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive. From the writers of A Quiet Place comes 65, a…

  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny:  Going into History

    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Going into History

    Summary via IMDB: Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA. Review: In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Professor Henry Jones must…

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse-  Lighting Refines Gold

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse- Lighting Refines Gold

    Storyline via IMDB: Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.…

  • Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Dungeons, Dragons, Thieves, Oh My

    Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Dungeons, Dragons, Thieves, Oh My

    Plot via IMDB: A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves serves up everything promised in the title and more.  There are thieves. They are…

  • Shazam: The Fury of the Gods- A Little too Much DC Universe

    Shazam: The Fury of the Gods- A Little too Much DC Universe

    Plot via IMDB: The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word “SHAZAM!” is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam In the sequel, Shazam: Fury of the Gods the superhero’s alter ego is the 17-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel), a foster child on the cusp of…

  • John Wick 4: Same John, Meaner Dog

    John Wick 4: Same John, Meaner Dog

    Plot via IMDB: John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. John Wick: Chapter Four like its predecessors is an endless kinetic display of…

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania— Getting Tinier and Tinier Until It Hardly Even Matters

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania— Getting Tinier and Tinier Until It Hardly Even Matters

    Plot via IMDB: Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, along with Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, explore the Quantum Realm, where they interact with strange creatures and embark on an adventure that goes beyond the limits of what they thought was possible. It’s a cinematic truism that if a character says “It’s never over,”…