FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH – Only on APPLE TV+
My first good streaming movie of 2025 is a little better than I expected despite the mixed reactions from critics and audiences.
Guy Ritchie’s newest heist film stars John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as a pair of estranged siblings who team up with a crew to find the famed – well, you get it. Other major cast include Eiza González as a badass woman competing with John’s character to find the…
LILO & STITCH – RealD 3D
Disney’s newest live-action remake has the same heart and charm as the original 2002 animated film. However, because of the fact that it’s a remake, there’s bound to be changes. Some good, but also some bad.
Without spoiling too much, I’ll start with the changes I didn’t like. The big one being that the main villain of the original, Captain Gantu, is not in this movie. According to director Dean Fleischer Camp, the hulking evil…
RED ONE – Early Access screening
Yesterday afternoon, I went to an Early Access screening of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first Christmas movie, which cost an insane $200-250 million and is supposed to kick off a new holiday-themed franchise for Amazon MGM Studios. Jake Kasdan, the director of the last two JUMANJI movies reunites with Dwayne for an epic, fun, and at-times ridiculous take on the old “Saving Christmas” trope that many festive movies have done in the past.
The…
THE AMATEUR
Based on the novel by Robert Littell, this is both a spy movie and a revenge story. I’m basically here for both as I recently came out of seeing an exciting, sleek, and thrilling tale of a heartbroken CIA cryptographer who blackmails his agency into training him as a field operative to go on a one-man mission to avenge his wife.
Rami Malek, who won an Academy Award for playing Freddie Mercury in BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY and it’s a…
