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Marvel’s misfits are given a chance to shine in a post-Avengers MCU World. The director of the CIA, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), is being investigated by Congress for her black ops. She plans to get rid of the evidence, including four of her operatives, so she tricks those individuals into a hidden facility […]
After a nine-year break, the 2016 thriller The Accountant gains a sequel with many of the talent in front of and behind the camera returning. Raymond King (J.K. Simmons) is killed while investigating a missing persons case. Raymond protégé at FinCEN, Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), investigates his death, and she calls in some outside assistance, […]
The decline of the movie star has been well-documented. For the uninitiated, the idea is that audiences historically showed up to a movie on the strength of its lead actors, but that’s not generally true anymore. Currently, the ones who can draw a crowd are mostly over forty, indicating that Hollywood hasn’t been minting new […]
If you ask most people what makes a David Cronenberg movie, they’ll inevitably use the phrase “body horror”. It’s not unreasonable: his breakthrough came when he codified the genre in the 80s with Scanners and Videodrome, softening the ground for The Fly to become his biggest box office success in 1986. The connection between his name […]
Ray Mendoza is a war veteran who makes his directional debut with Warfare, a film about his experience serving in the Iraq War. A platoon of Navy SEALs is assigned a mission to monitor Insurgents and Jihadists in Ramadi and offer support to the Marines. After acquiring a house for the stakeout, enemy forces build […]
After dipping his toes in the Rocky series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ryan Coogler makes his first original film since his debut film. In 1932, the Smokestack Twins (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to the Mississippi Delta after working in the Chicago Underworld for seven years. They plan to open a Juke […]
Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes use the worst first date imaginable as the set-up for a tight thriller. Violet Gates (Meghann Fahy) is a widowed, single mother and a survivor of domestic violence. She goes on her first date since her husband’s death, meeting Henry Campbell (Brandon Sklenar), a handsome photographer. However, when the date starts, […]
While The Amateur is technically a remake, it’s more akin to last year’s The Fall Guy. Popular culture has largely forgotten the original spy movie (and book), and the marketing for James Hawes’ version has avoided mentioning that source material. Given that neither was very well received, that’s probably for the best, as it gives Rami […]
Death of a Unicorn is a satirical horror-comedy that looks at the lives and reactions of the superrich to a supernatural threat. Elliot and Ridley Kintner (Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega) are father and daughter who have a strained relationship. The pair had been invited by Elliot’s boss, Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant), to his […]
Minecraft is one of the biggest video games in the world, delighting millions of players. After years of development, a film adaptation has been released. Henry and Natalie (Sebastian Hansen and Emma Meyers) are brother and sister who move to Chuglass, Idaho, after the death of their mother. On his first day of school, Henry befriends […]