"The Predator" (2018) Action/Sci-Fi Running Time: 108 minutes Written & directed by: Shane Black Featuring: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, and Sterling K. Brown Casey Bracket: "I think they're attempting hybridization. They're upgrading on every planet they visit." Critical Commentary: Was anyone really in need of another 'Predator' movie especially after the lacklustre …
"Mile 22" (2018) Action/Thriller Running Time: 94 minutes Written by: Lea Carpenter Directed by: Peter Berg Featuring: Mark Wahlberg, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, and Ronda Rousey James Silva: "Are you feeling calm, Alice?" Alice Kerr: "No, not even a little bit. Are you?" James Silva: "Me? I'm totally calm." Alice Kerr: "That's because you're mentally unstable." James Silva: "Thank you." …
"Mission: Impossible – Fallout " (2018) Thriller Running Time: 147 minutes Written by: Christopher McQuarrie Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie Featuring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Henry Cavill and Angela Bassett August Walker: "How many times has Hunt's government betrayed him, disavowed him, cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?" Critical …
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"The Equalizer 2" (2018) Drama/Thriller Running Time: 129 minutes Written by: Richard Wenk Directed by: Antoine Fuqua Featuring: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Melissa Leo, and Bill Pullman Robert McCall: "They killed my friend. So I’m going to kill each and every one of them. And the only disappointment is that I only get to do it once." After …
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"American Horror Story – Season Seven" (2018) Television/Horror Eleven Episodes Created by: Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk Featuring: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Cheyenne Jackson, John Carroll Lynch, Chaz Bono, Adina Porter, James Morosini, Emma Roberts, Mare Winningham, Frances Conroy, Jamie Brewer, Billie Lourd and Alison Pill Ally: "You were wrong. There was something more dangerous in this world than a humiliated man. A nasty woman." Released this …
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"Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" (2018) Musical Running Time: 114 minutes Written & directed by: Ol Parker Featuring: Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Andy García, Dominic Cooper, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies, Jeremy Irvine, Josh Dylan, Hugh Skinner, Cher, and Meryl Streep Tanya: "Be still my beating vagina." Critical Commentary: This week sees the release of "Mamma Mia! Here We Go …
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"The First Purge" (2018) Action Running Time: 97 minutes Written by: James DeMonaco Directed by: Gerard McMurray Featuring: Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Mugga, Luna Lauren Velez, Kristen Solis, and Marisa Tomei The Architect - Dr. Updale: "Please don't tell me your sending mercenaries into the island disguised as purgers?" This week sees the arrival of the fourth …
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"Skyscraper" (2018) Action/Thriller Running Time: 101 minutes Written and directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber Featuring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber and Hannah Quinlivan Will Sawyer: "If you can't fix it with duct tape... you ain't using enough duct tape." Critical Commentary: First things first, with this new movie featuring Dwayne Johnson, released this week on …
"Ideal Home" (2018) Drama/Comedy Running Time: 91 minutes Written by: Andrew Fleming Directed by: Andrew Fleming Featuring: Steve Coogan, Paul Rudd, Allison Pill, Jake McDorman, and Jack Gore Paul:"Wait, you have a grandson?" This has been such a very good year for comedies that there is always the risk of taking them for granted which after a terrible 2017 …
"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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"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 …
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