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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is a documentary about the life and death of the celebrity chef and world traveler. Baffled by his sudden suicide, the movie attempts to piece together the life of a beloved international star. The titular figure of this documentary is the celebrity chef and author of “Kitchen Confidential.” His...
Director Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key, The Taking of Deborah Logan) brings moviegoers Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, sequel to the suspenseful action flick, Escape Room. Escape rooms are a relatively new form of entertainment. Also called escape games or exit games, they came to popularity in the 2010s. It’s an amusement where visitors...
Director Navot Papushado (Rabies) takes the script he co-wrote with newcomer Ehud Lavski, mixes it with an excellent cast, and slides it down to audiences. The result is Gunpowder Milkshake, an action-packed and sometimes over-the-top film that has more enjoyable girl power than a Spice Girls concert. Scarlet (Lena Headey) is an assassin for The...
Disney Studios is getting back into the full swing of the Marvel cinematic universe, this time with the release of the long-anticipated Black Widow. Directed by Cate Shortland (Lore) from a screenplay by Eric Pearson (Godzilla vs. Kong), the movie provides a complete but imperfect backstory for the popular Avenger. Natasha and her sister Yelena...
The Boss Baby: Family Business is the high-concept, low-brow sequel to The Boss Baby, loosely based on the picture books of the same name by Marla Frazee. When babies Tim and Ted grow up, they have wildly different lives – becoming a family man and a businessman, respectively. But when Tim’s little one, Tina, turns...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson steps away from his Tonight Show gig to direct Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), compiling footage from the third Harlem Cultural Festival that sat dormant for fifty years. In doing so, he has given audiences a palatable taste of several important and pivotal weeks in both...
The Forever Purge is the fifth action/horror film in The Purge franchise. The New Founding Fathers of America are a group of people who have created a legal loophole called “The Purge,” allowing everyone in the USA to commit any and all crimes without any repercussion for their actions, including actually killing people, for 12...
The Sparks Brothers contains everything one could ask for in a music documentary. Director Edgar Wright’s debut documentary film focuses on the eccentric and largely obscure pop band, Sparks. Led by two brothers, Ron and Russell Mael, Sparks has been consistently pumping out albums and pushing the envelope of music for the last 50 years....
F9 is the latest installment in the long-running franchise of The Fast and the Furious films. Happily retired from racing and all criminal activity, Dom has settled down to become a family man with Letty and their son Roman. Unfortunately, the airplane transporting their former enemy Cipher has been hijacked and she’s gone missing, which...
Director Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3) returns for The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, the sequel to his 2017 hit action-comedy. Bringing the original cast and much of the crew together again, he and screenwriter Tom O’Connor (The Courier) prove that lightning can strike the same spot twice, given the right conditions. Bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds)...
