Showing posts with label 2022 Movie Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2022 Movie Reviews. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Avatar: The Way of Water - Movie Review


The Movie: Avatar: The Way of Water

The Director: James Cameron

The Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet

The Story: Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their planet.

Saturday, November 12, 2022

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Movie Review


The Movie: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

The Director: Ryan Coogler

The Cast: Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Martin Freeman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Angela Bassett

The Story: The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.

Sunday, November 6, 2022

Black Adam - Movie Review


The Movie: Black Adam

The Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

The Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Quintessa Swindell, Mo Amer, Bodhi Sabongui, Pierce Brosnan

The Story: Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Smile - Movie Review


The Movie: Smile

The Director: Parker Finn

The Cast: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert, Caitlin Stasey with Kal Penn, Rob Morgan

The Story: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Emergency Declaration / 비상선언 - Movie Review


The Movie: Emergency Declaration / 비상선언

The Director: Han Jae-rim

The Cast: Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Nam-gil, Kim So-jin, Park Hae-joon

The Story: After a terror incident occurs mid-flight, a passenger jet declares an emergency.

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder - Movie Review


The Movie: Thor: Love and Thunder

The Director: Taika Waititi

The Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman

The Story: Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.

Monday, July 4, 2022

Asking For It - Movie Review


The Movie: Asking For It

The Director: Eamon O'Rourke

The Cast: Kiersey Clemons, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexandra Shipp, Ezra Miller, Radha Mitchell, Gabourey Sidibe, Luke Hemsworth

The Story: After a small town waitress is sexually assaulted after a date with her old friend she befriends a mysterious stranger who introducers her to an all femme gang.

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Lux Æterna - Movie Review


The Movie: Lux Æterna

The Director: Gaspar Noé

The Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Félix Maritaud, Clara Deshayes, Karl Glusman, Abbey Lee

The Story: Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches - but that's not all. 'Lux Æterna' is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.

Friday, June 17, 2022

Lightyear - Movie Review


The Movie: Lightyear

The Director: Angus MacLane

The Cast: Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn, Taika Waititi, Dale Soules, James Brolin,
Uzo Aduba, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Efren Ramirez,
Keira Hairston

The Story: While spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.

Friday, June 10, 2022

Jurassic World Dominion - Movie Review


The Movie: Jurassic World Dominion

The Director: Colin Trevorrow

The Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, Omar Sy, Isabella Sermon, Campbell Scott, Justice Smith, Scott Haze, Dichen Lachman, Daniella Pineda

The Story: Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live--and hunt--alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new Era.

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Row 19 - Movie Review


The Movie: Row 19

The Director: Alexander Babaev

The Cast: Svetlana Ivanova, Marta Timofeeva, Wolfgang Cerni, Ekaterina Vilkova, Anatoliy Kot, Victoria Korlyakova

The Story: A young female doctor with a 6-year-old daughter is on a night flight caught in a terrible storm. In a half-empty cabin, she faces unexplained deaths of her fellow passengers, loses her grip on reality and relives the worst nightmare from her childhood.

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy - Movie Review


The Movie: Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy

The Director: Ham Tran

The Cast: Phu Truong Lai, Diep Anh Chu, Tin Tin, Ngoc Tuong, Kim Nha

The Story: After a meteor falls to earth, 8-year-old Hung meets an alien girl from the planet Maika, searching for her lost friend. The alien helps Hung make new friends and heal a broken heart. But danger lurks everywhere.

Friday, May 27, 2022

Top Gun Maverick - Movie Review


The Movie: Top Gun Maverick

The Director: Joseph Kosinski

The Cast: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer

The Story: Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

Friday, May 13, 2022

The Innocents (2022) - Movie Review


The Movie: The Innocents

The Director: Eskil Vogt

The Cast: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim, Sam Ashraf, Ellen Dorrit Pedersen, Morten Svartveit, Kadra Yusuf, Lisa Tønne

The Story: During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking.

Friday, May 6, 2022

Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness - Movie Review


The Movie: Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness

The Director: Sam Raimi

The Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stühlbarg, Rachel McAdams

The Story: Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong, and Wanda Maximoff.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - Movie Review


The Movie: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Director: Tom Gormican

The Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tiffany Haddish, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Lily Mo Sheen, Neil Patrick Harris

The Story: A cash-strapped Nicolas Cage agrees to make a paid appearance at a billionaire super fan's birthday party, but is really an informant for the CIA since the billionaire fan is a drug kingpin and gets cast in a Tarantino movie.

Thursday, April 21, 2022

The Northman - Movie Review


The Movie: The Northman

The Director: Robert Eggers

The Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Björk, Willem Dafoe

The Story: From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.

Friday, April 15, 2022

Infinite Storm - Movie Review


The Movie: Infinite Storm

The Director: Małgorzata Szumowska

The Cast: Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Denis O'Hare, Parker Sawyers

The Story: When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must get them both down the mountain before nightfall.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Studio 666 - Movie Review


The Movie: Studio 666

The Director: Dave Grohl

The Cast: Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett
Rami Jaffee, Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, Jeff Garlin

The Story: Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.

Spiritwalker / 유체이탈자 - Movie Review


The Movie: Spiritwalker / 유체이탈자

The Director: Yoon Jae-keun

The Cast: Yoon Kye-sang, Park Yong-woo, Lim Ji-yeon

The Story: A fantasy action film that revolves around a man who loses his memory and subsequently wakes up in a new body every twelve hours.

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