About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. Origin stories seem to be a dime a dozen in an era where the film industry lacks originality and creativity …
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Time for a Reel SPEAK NO EVIL review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on a vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. Speak No Evil presents an intriguing premise: James McAvoy, known …
Time for a Reel BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE review
About the film (courtesy of Warner Bros.): After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife …
Time for a Reel BLINK TWICE review
About the film (courtesy of MGM): Frida (Naomi Ackie) is a young waitress in Los Angeles who has her eye on tech entrepreneur Slater King (Channing Tatum). On a dream vacation to his private island, strange things start to happen. Frida will have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out alive. …
Time for a Reel ALIEN: ROMULUS review
About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. In the vast and ever-expanding universe of the Alien franchise, where xenomorphs have stalked our nightmares for decades, …
Time for a Reel DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE review
About the film (courtesy of Marvel Studios): A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life. His days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. When his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctantlierā¦ reluctanter? Reluctantest? He must convince a reluctant Wolverine toāF*ck. Synopses are so …
Time for a Reel TWISTERS review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a former storm chases haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Anthony Ramos) to test …
Time for a Reel MaXXXine review
About the film (courtesy of A24): In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. Ti West and Mia Goth deliver a bloody, brilliant conclusion to their “X” …
Time for a Reel DESPICABLE ME 4 review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Gru (Steve Carell), Lucy (Kristen Wiig) and their girls – Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison Polan) – welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal (Will …
Time for a Reel KINDS OF KINDNESS review
About the film (courtesy of Searchlight Pictures): A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, …