"Hereditary" (2018) Horror Running Time: 127 minutes Written & Directed by: Ari Aster Featuring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne Charlie: "Who's gonna take care of me?" Annie: "Uh, excuse me? You don't think I'm gonna take care of you?" Charlie: "But when you die?" While watching the new familial horror movie "Hereditary" (2018) …
"Upgrade" (2018) Action/Sci-Fi Running Time: 100 minutes Written & directed by: Leigh Whannell Featuring: Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson Stem: "It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction." Grey Trace: "Yeah, that's because your memories are filled with ones and zeros, pal, and our memories are filled with every fuck-up we've ever made." I …
“Narcos – Season Three” (2015 - present) Drama, Television Series, Action, Thriller Episodes: 10 Created by: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Chris Brancato Featuring: Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Paulina Gaitan, Juan Murcia Javier Pena: “Sometimes you gotta do bad things to catch bad people.” Yet another excellent Netflix show makes it ways onto Blu-ray …
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"The Bookshop" (2018) Drama Written & Directed by: Isabel Coixet Based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald Featuring: Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Bill Nighy From the novel:“Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested.” To say that this movie represents aspects of life that are from a bygone age is an understatement, it is a period …
"Last Flag Flying" (2017) Drama Written by: Richard Linklater & Darryl Ponicsan Directed by: Richard Linklater Featuring: Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne Larry 'Doc' Shepherd: "I'm not going to bury a marine. I'm just going to bury my son." This new movie co-written and directed by the great Richard Linklater is not something that you might …
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"Deadpool 2" (2018) Action Written by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds Directed by: David Leitch Featuring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, and Jack Kesy Deadpool: "Sorry, I’m late. I was rounding up all the gluten in the world and launching it into space where it can’t not hurt us ever again." Critical …
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" (2018) Drama Running Time: 124 minutes Written by: Kevin Hood, Don Roos and Tom Bezucha adapted from the ficitonal book by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Directed by: Mike Newell Featuring: Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton Dawsey Adams: [narrating, in a letter] "Our Friday …
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“Kodachrome” (2017) Drama Running Time: 100 minutes Written by: Jonathan Tropper Directed by: Mark Raso Featuring: Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen, Bruce Greenwood, Wendy Crewson, and Dennis Haysbert Ben: "We're all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That's why we're photographers. We're preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to …
"Howard's End" (1992) Drama Running Time: 142 minutes Written by: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the book by E.M. Forster Directed by: James Ivory Featuring: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Samuel West, Jemma Redgrave and Prunella Scales Margaret Schlegel: "Unlike the Greek, England has no true mythology. All we have are witches and fairies." …
"Avengers: Infinity War" (2018) Action Running Time: 149 minutes Written by: Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely Directed by: Anthony Russo & Joe Russo Featuring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, and Chris Pratt Nick Fury: "There was an idea... Tony Stark: "To …
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"Unsane" (2018) Drama/Thriller Running Time: 98 minutes Written by: Jonathan Bernstein & James Greer Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Featuring: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, and Amy Irving Sawyer Valentini: "I'm not fucking crazy!" Steven Soderbergh is back with a new movie, released this week on DVD and Blu-ray only five years after he famously said he …
"Feel Pretty" (2018) Comedy Running Time: 110 minutes Written & Directed by: Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein Featuring: Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams, Emily Ratajkowski, Rory Scovel, Aidy Bryant, Busy Philipps, Tom Hopper, Naomi Campbell and Lauren Hutton Renee Bennett: "I can eat whatever I want and still look like this." There are some movies that may sound like a good idea on paper or in …
"Isle of Dogs" (2018) Drama/Comedy/Animated Running Time: 99 minutes Written & directed by: Wes Anderson Featuring: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, Harvey Keitel, Liev Schreiber, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, F. Murray Abraham, Frank Wood, Kunichi Nomura and Yoko Ono Chief: "Don't ask me to fetch that stick." Any time a new Wes Anderson film is released it really …
"Truth or Dare" (2018) Horror Running Time: 100 minutes Written by: Michael Reisz, Jillian Jacobs, Chris Roach and Jeff Wadlow Directed by: Jeff Wadlow Featuring: Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto, and Landon Liboiron Penelope: "How do we get out of this game alive?" Markie Cameron:[smiling face] "You can't. It only ends when all the players dead. And …
“Ready Player One" (2018) Sci-Fi Running Time: 140 minutes Written by: Zak Penn & Ernest Cline Directed by: Steven Spielberg Featuring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Letitia Wright, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance James Halliday: "Hello, if you’re watching this, I’m dead. I created a hidden object, an Easter egg. The first person to find the egg …
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“Peter Rabbit” (2018) Comedy Running Time: 95 minutes Written by: Rob Lieber & Will Gluck Directed by: Will Gluck Featuring: Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, and Sam Neill, with the voices of James Corden, Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, and Elizabeth Debicki Thomas McGregor: "I'm allergic to blackberries." Peter Rabbit: [From above]"Allergic to blackberries?" Peter Rabbit: "Is that even a thing? Is that where we've …
“Winchester" (2018) Horror Running Time: 99 minutes Written by: Tom Vaughan & The Spierig Brothers Directed by: The Spierig Brothers Featuring: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke and Sarah Snook Arthur Gates: "It’s a gargantuan seven storied structure with no apparent rhyme or reason. Each maze of halls more confusing than the next. It’s under never ending construction. It’s built on …
“Game Night" (2018) Comedy Running Time: 110 minutes Written by: Mark Perez Directed by: John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein Featuring: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall and Kyle Chandler Annie: [as Annie is playing with a fake gun, she quotes Pulp Fiction] "Any of you fucking pricks move, I'm gonna execute every motherfucking …
"Tomb Raider" (2018) Action Written by: Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Alastair Siddons Directed by: Roar Uthaug Featuring: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas Receptionist: "What’s your name?" Lara Croft: "Lara." Receptionist: "Surname?" Lara Croft: "Croft." As we get closer to the lucrative summer movie season in the US there are more and more movies …
“Insidious: The Last Key” (2018) Horror Running Time: 103 minutes Written by: Leigh Whannell Directed by: Adam Robitel Featuring: Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Spencer Locke, Caitlin Gerard, and Bruce Davison Elise Rainier: "I'm going to get the attention of all the spirits in this house. I need things that were important to Garza. Specs, go upstairs. There is a …
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