To the '90s and Beyond! Film Podcast
324 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings“To the 90’s and Beyond” offers concise deep-dives into the origin, making, production, and legacy for movies of the 1990s, as well as looks at newer films that were influenced by the films that came out in the 1980s/1990s. It also serves as a companion podcast to “Around the World in 80s Movies”.
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Knives Out (2019) | Rian Johnson
November 29, 2019 19:33 - 13 minutes - 16.4 MBSet somewhere in New England, the plot of this murder mystery involves the death of the patriarch of the Thrombey family, Harlan (Christopher Plummer). Harlan is a wildly successful mystery novelist who has amassed a small fortune running a publishing company for his and other books. While initially thought to be suicide, several guests at Harlan's 85th birthday acted quite suspiciously before his death that leaves open the possibility of foul play. Along with the police, an unknown person hi...
In Fabric (2019) | Peter Strickland
November 17, 2019 14:15 - 15 minutes - 18.4 MBExecutive produced by Ben Wheatley, In Fabric is a comedic horror film from Peter Strickland, who made critical splashes with prior small-scale efforts like the crafty, Giallo-homage of Berberian Sound Studio and the fetishistic tale found in The Duke of Burgundy. Strickland's penchant for exploring unique scenarios continues with this more expansive story about a sexy "artery red" dress bought by Sheila, a lonely, recently divorced middle-aged London bank clerk, at Dentley & Soper, a bizarre...
The Lighthouse (2019) | Robert Eggers
November 10, 2019 17:03 - 11 minutes - 14 MBThere's something to Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) that's been deeply troubling him - an incident in the past that haunts him that his continued existence on the island serves as a persistent reminder. Their shift on the island in the middle of the sea was originally to be four weeks in duration. Due to a leg injury, the boss, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), requires Ephraim to do nearly all of the physical labor on his behalf, which the younger man comes to deeply resent, feeling like a sl...
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) | Tim Miller
October 29, 2019 12:17 - 10 minutes - 12.9 MBAs with the other Terminator films, a protagonist and antagonist are sent back to the modern-day from a dark future using a time-travel device. The protagonist (Mackenzie Davis) is a technologically augmented human super-soldier named Grace, who lands in Mexico City in order to try to act as a savior for humanity in the future (Natalia Reyes). The antagonist (Gabriel Luna) is an ultra-powerful Terminator model called a Rev-9, whose mission it is to terminate a young female autoworker living i...
The Gemini Man (2019) | Ang Lee
October 18, 2019 21:22 - 7 minutes - 8.98 MBWill Smith stars as Henry Brogan, a top-notch sniper and skilled combat fighter working for a black ops government agency named Gemini, performing one last kill before retiring from the assassin business at the ripe age of 50. He's the best at what he does but hates the man he's become, unable to even look at himself in the mirror without observing disappointment and pain. But just when he thinks he's pulling out, they pull him back in, discovering that he's been misled by his superior at Gem...
Joker (2019)
October 13, 2019 19:50 - 9 minutes - 12.2 MBSet in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime in the early 1980s, Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck, a man who has been dealing with mental challenges his entire life, with little to show for all of his efforts to keep on the sane path. One of his afflictions is his uncontrollable laughter when faced with things that make him anxious, which often gets him into further trouble on its own. He’s living in a Gotham City apartment with his ailing mother, Penny (Frances Conroy), trying to make it ...
Hustlers (2019) | Lorene Scafaria
September 17, 2019 21:21 - 9 minutes - 11.8 MBStarting off in 2007, Constance Wu stars as Destiny, a newbie stripper trying to make it in the clubs of New York's competitive environment in order to earn enough money to support her and her ailing grandmother. Backstage she meets and ends up being mentored by a legendary veteran stripper named Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), who completely cleans up in terms of money whenever she appears on the stage or off. However, the great recession of 2008 soon hits, with opportunities completely drying up t...
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Paul Downs Colaizzo
September 10, 2019 02:01 - 9 minutes - 11.5 MBJillian Bell stars as Brittany Forgler, a broke and down-on-her-luck woman in her late 20s who moved from Philadelphia to New York to pursue a career that didn't quite pan out. Her quest for success doesn't motivate her so much as dropping out for fear of failure. She has a job she is ill-suited for and is overweight, spending much of her time living in the shadow of her perky and pretty roommate Gretchen, going to clubs where she buries her feelings into a toxic combination of drinking, drug...
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Tyler Nilson & Mike Schwartz
September 02, 2019 16:50 - 13 minutes - 15.9 MBZack Gottsagen is a young man with Down syndrome who is persistently trying to escape from his care facility in order to go meet his idol, a professional wrestler named the Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Curch), who runs a wrestling school in Florida, hoping to fulfill his dream of becoming a pro wrestler himself. Along the way from the shores of North Carolina, he meets a wayward neer-do-well named Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), who is on the run after practically destroying the business of a local...
Good Boys (2019) | Gene Stupnitsky
August 26, 2019 01:43 - 10 minutes - 12.4 MBThe raunchy story surrounds three 12-year-old boys, best friends since kindergarten, dubbing themselves the Bean Bag Boys because -- well, they all had beanbags. Now they're in middle school and finding it hard to cope with the pressure of their peers to be considered cool among them. Max (Jacob Tremblay) has a crush and might be able to finally make a connection with the object of his desires once he gets invited to a 'kissing party' where the popular kids are all going. Trouble is, he doesn...
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
August 05, 2019 23:13 - 10 minutes - 12.4 MBHattie (played by Vanessa Kirby) is an MI6 agent on a mission to keep a deadly virus named Snowflake, which can liquefy the internal organs of humans who contract it, from getting into the hands of a faction of mercenaries under the employ of an evil tech-based organization called Eteon, led by Brixton Lore (Idris Elba), a hi-tech assassin with technology-augmented senses that make him a swiss-army knife of deadly skills, something seen by the company as the future of a humanity soon to die o...
Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood (2019) | Quentin Tarantino
July 28, 2019 12:54 - 12 minutes - 15.1 MBLeonardo DiCaprio stars as Rick Dalton, a Hollywood star who is seeing his brightness fade in the ever-changing and fickle industry. Brad Pitt stars as Cliff Booth, his dedicated stuntman, chauffeur, and overall sidekick in life. The outlook looks bleaker each time out for both of them, as Dalton goes from leading-man roles in films to heavies on TV shows, mulling over advice to continue his career starring in Italian films rather than take a back seat in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Cliff ends up ...
Fast Color (2018) | Julia Hart
July 19, 2019 00:09 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MBSet sometime in a future in which natural resources like water have become scarce. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Ruth, a recovering drug addict on the run due to the fact that she just might be someone who possesses some sort of seizure that reveals an earth-shattering (literally) superpower that causes a shift in tectonic plates that never move, making her the target for experimentation from government scientists. Broke and desperate, she ends up returning to the rural home he ran away from when she...
Shaft (2019) | Tim Story
July 12, 2019 09:46 - 9 minutes - 11.2 MBThirty years ago, J.J. (Jessie T. Usher) was fathered by Samuel L. Jackson's Shaft, who was immediately estranged from his kid by the mother, Maya, who wants to keep her child's life from the daily danger that Shaft is surrounded by. Shaft keeps his toe in the water with J.J. by sending presents on birthdays and holidays that often show how out of touch he is, not only in what's going on in J.J.'s life but also in what is acceptable by standards of our less politically incorrect world. J.J. S...
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Jon Watts
July 04, 2019 12:46 - 11 minutes - 13.1 MBJake Gyllenhaal gets to don the "fishbowl" as Quentin Beck, the interdimensional savior of Venice when a giant water monster surfaces to try to destroy the city. Peter Parker (Tom Holland) happens to be there at the time, as he has traveled to Europe for a week-long class trip. Peter, of course, is gifted with superhero powers, but doesn't have the "great responsibility of other incarnations of the character, and would rather just be a teenager and do teenage things, like trying to find a wa...
The Dead Don’t Die (2019) | Jim Jarmusch
June 26, 2019 02:50 - 11 minutes - 13.3 MBAfter the Earth’s rotation is disturbed due to environmental fallout resulting from “polar fracking”, strange natural phenomena begin occurring all over the globe, including, in one area at least, the dead coming back to life to feast on the living. Bill Murray stars in his second zombie comedy as Cliff Robertson, the chief of police for the small, Mayberry-esque town of Centerville. He, along with his partner in fighting very little crime, officer Ronnie Peterson (Adam Driver) find themselve...
I Am Mother (2019) | Grant Sputore
June 20, 2019 03:27 - 9 minutes - 8.74 MBn this thoughtful sci-fi film, Clara Rugaard plays a young teenager we only hear referred to as 'daughter' by 'mother', who is has an android body with a soothing woman's voice (Mother's finished voice-over acting provided by Rose Byrne). We soon come to find that Mother is an artificial intelligence robot that works within a facility that is raising children in order to learn how to properly nurture them to adulthood, for the purpose of one day repopulating the contaminated Earth that lies o...
Men In Black: International (2019) | F. Gary Gray
June 15, 2019 16:25 - 8 minutes - 10.2 MBFor this fourth entry in the series, out are Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Instead, we get two new characters to follow working for the super-secret government organization to protect Earth from interdimensional threats and to keep knowledge of alien lifeforms away from human knowledge. The two are Tessa Thompson’s newly on-board Agent M and Chris Hemsworth’s roguish veteran named Agent H. The two “Men in Black” get their assignment from their boss, High T (Liam Neeson), to look after an a...
Dark Phoenix (2019) | Simon Kinberg
June 12, 2019 11:58 - 14 minutes - 16.9 MBThe plot, initially set in 1992 after a prologue with a tragic event in Jean Grey's childhood back in 1975, continues with the First Class set of mutants and involves a presidentially sanctioned trip into space in order to rescue a space shuttle. Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) commits an act of heroism in trying to keep the space shuttle together as the crew is rounded up to safety, absorbing a massive wave of energy that should have easily taken her life. She ends up surviving the ordeal, much to...
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Michael Dougherty
June 09, 2019 16:36 - 8 minutes - 11 MBEco-terrorist Alan Jonah (Charles Dance), who has taken as hostage a paleobiologist under the employ of the Titan-research group known as Monarch, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), along with her teenage daughter Madison (Millie Bobby Brown), to utilize Orca, an experimental mind-control technology she created to try to control the Titans, the giant monsters of the Earth that he sees as protecting the planet from humanity's continued exploitation and destruction, effectively by destroying most...
Always Be My Maybe (2019) | Nahnatchka Khan
June 01, 2019 14:57 - 10 minutes - 12.2 MBThe main premise is that two childhood friends, Sasha Tran (Ali Wong) and Marcus Kim (Randall Park), end up consummating their time growing up together as Asian-American teens in San Francisco with their first sexual experience, only to find their friendship has become awkward after going beyond the friend zone. These besties soon drift apart and lose connection as they progress into adulthood, with Sasha hitting the big time by becoming one of the most successful celebrity chefs in Los Angel...
Booksmart (2019) | Olivia Wilde
May 27, 2019 16:20 - 11 minutes - 13.2 MBBFFs Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) have busted their tails off academically all through high school to set themselves up for post-graduation excellence, with Molly accepted to Yale and Amy going on a mission to help the poor in Africa. Their world gets rocked when they realize that the kids around them that looked like they just lived for partying are also going to similarly great colleges, or have lucrative careers waiting for them. Upset that they sacrificed all their fun...
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) | Chad Stahelski
May 19, 2019 15:54 - 10 minutes - 12.3 MBJohn Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum spins off its plot from something that happens in the second chapter, namely that John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is now "excommunicado" by the High Table that controls the world's leading organization of assassins for killing someone inside the assassin's "sacred ground" of the Continental Hotel in New York - a big no-no. that sees a huge bounty put on his head. John has very few places he can run, and he'll eventually run out of safe havens, but he means to keep h...
The Professor (2018) | Wayne Roberts
May 18, 2019 23:08 - 7 minutes - 8.72 MBJohnny Depp stars as an English professor for a prestigious New England college named Richard Brown who learns he has late-stage lung cancer and probably only six months to live without treatment, which he doesn't plan on seeking. On top of this, Richard is also a terminally bored, self-absorbed jerk whose own life has been falling apart long before this diagnosis. His wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) is cheating on him, with the chancellor at his school (Ron Livingston), no less. Now he can say what...
Wine Country (2019) | Amy Poehler
May 12, 2019 20:21 - 8 minutes - 10.6 MBAmy Poehler directs her first feature film with Netflix's WINE COUNTRY, about six women who question their friendships and futures when they take a girls' trip to Napa Valley, California, to celebrate the 50th birthday of one of them. Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Tina Fey, Jason Schwartzman star for fans of old "Saturday Night Live".
Long Shot (2019) | Jonathan Levine
May 07, 2019 02:14 - 10 minutes - 12.3 MBIn this raunchy romantic comedy, schlubby Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), an established left-wing journalist whose uncompromisingly progressive Brooklyn-based online news site has found itself taken over by a right-wing corporatist that he refuses to kowtow to. Due to his deep-seated principles, Fred quits immediately, but he's bummed out at having to start over again. His best friend, Lance (O'Shea Jackson Jr.) takes him out to blow off some steam and forget hir troubles for a while with a perfo...
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (2019) | Joe Beringer
May 05, 2019 01:22 - 8 minutes - 9.74 MBThis biopic on Ted Bundy covers mostly the ten years between 1969 and 1979, where we find the seemingly sweet courtship of single mom Liz Kendall (Lily Collins) on the part of Ted Bundy (Zac Efron), who seems like an ideal dream man when they meet and seems to be a loving and nurturing father figure to her young daughter over the years. Things take a turn when Bundy leaves their home in Seattle to attend law school in Utah, especially when he gets tagged as a suspect in a kidnapping and murde...
Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Joe & Anthony Russo
April 26, 2019 03:42 - 12 minutes - 14.4 MBEndgame starts in a world following "the snap" delivered by Thanos that extinguished half of all life within the galaxy in an instant, without a trace, in his effort to bring what he feels is a much-needed balance and tranquility caused by overcrowding interests. After a brief intro, we fast forward five years to find a world that has had trouble moving on from the loss of their many loved ones, especially the surviving Avengers (conveniently, all the characters that comprised of the first c...
Hellboy (2019) | Neil Marshall
April 17, 2019 10:33 - 11 minutes - 13.1 MBIn this Neil Marshall reboot, we already have an established the scarlet-bodied Hellboy (David Harbour) as part of the B.P.R.D. (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense), working for his adoptive father, Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm (Ian McShane), in corraling and eradicating malevolent supernatural menaces wherever they may arise around the world. Hellboy reunites with Alice Monaghan (Sasha Lane), a powerful medium, and a cat-beast man named Major Ben Daimio (Daniel Dae Kim), in or...
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) | Terry Gilliam
April 10, 2019 11:59 - 11 minutes - 13.5 MBFilm-maker Terry Gilliam has finally made it to the finish line with his seemingly quixotic quest to make a film version of Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote", decades in the making. Adam Driver is the main star, playing a hot-shot hothead director named Toby, who is attempting to shoot a commercial in Los Sueños (aka, “The Dreams”), Spain with elements of Miguel de Cervantes’ epic, “Don Quixote”. He’s been down this road before, a decade prior, shooting it as a low-budget student film when ...
Pet Sematary (2019) | Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer
April 09, 2019 00:20 - 9 minutes - 11.4 MBPet Sematary is the second film adaptation of the Stephen King novel first published in 1983. The premise involves a family of four who relocate from the hustle and bustle of Boston to a small town in Maine called Ludlow on a wide parcel of land that includes many acres of wooded forest. It’s in that forest that their daughter Ellie (Jete Laurence) discovers a cemetery for beloved pets of people in the surrounding area, going back decades, including one belonging to their elderly neighbor Jud...
Shazam! (2019) | David Sandberg
April 06, 2019 19:50 - 8 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this lighthearted DCEU entry, Billy Batson is a trouble-making fourteen-year-old living in a foster home in Philadelphia, having been abandoned by a young mother he's been searching for since she left him at a crowded carnival many years prior. One day, the sleuthing prankster gets transported after an act of bravery to another realms to meet a powerful and reclusive wizard, who has been on a long-term search for someone pure of heart to pass on his magical powers to. The wizard bestows up...
The Dirt (2019) | Jeff Tremaine
March 30, 2019 21:47 - 9 minutes - 11.7 MBThe Dirt is a Netflix biopic featuring re-enactments of some of the wild, raunchy and tragic stories as told by the members of popular 80's/90's metal band Motley Crue in their autobiographical book of the same name. Starring Douglas Booth, Machine Gun Kelly, Daniel Webber, and Iwan Rheon. Directed by Jeff Tremaine.
Dragged Across Concrete (2018) | S. Craig Zahler
March 27, 2019 01:07 - 12 minutes - 15.4 MBDragged Across Concrete is writer-director S. Craig Zahler’s further exploration of the seamy underbelly of American society, particularly through the prism of how that experience causes ripple effects that throw even innocent people into the wake of the criminals. Most of the action follows the exploits of two cops in the fictional city of Bulwark, the older burnout Brett Ridgeman (Mel Gibson) and his younger partner Anthony Lurasetti (Vince Vaughn), who get suspended from the force after t...
Us (2019) | Jordan Peele
March 21, 2019 23:31 - 11 minutes - 13.8 MBAs a young girl living in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz in 1986, Adelaide walked away from her parents while at the beach boardwalk amusement park, into a seemingly empty fun house, and saw something that would negatively affect her the rest of her life. Flash forward to today, and Adelaide is now married with two kids, and her husband, Gabe Wilson, has a yen to visit Santa Cruz for a family vacation, not knowing about her deep-seated fear of her experience there. Despite her q...
Triple Frontier (2019) | J.C. Chandor
March 18, 2019 02:55 - 10 minutes - 13.4 MBAfter a nearly five-year hiatus from writing and directing films, J.C. Chandor re-emerges with Triple Frontier (for Netflix), in which five ex-military special ops soldiers reunite in order to stage a heist of a murderous major South American drug lord. Oscar Isaac is the de facto leader of the quintet, playing Santiago, who decides to "get the band back together" for one last mission for reconnaissance for the government to take down the elusive drug lord he's spent years trying to take dow...
Greta (2018) | Neil Jordan
March 12, 2019 11:20 - 15 minutes - 18.2 MBAlthough the film is called Greta, Chloe Grace Moretz’s character, a young waitress named Frances McCullen, is the one we follow most, newly relocated to New York City from Boston after losing her beloved mother. Frances is perhaps a little too nice and accommodating for her roommate Erica’s (Maika Monroe) tastes to not get taken advantage of by the worst the Big Apple has to offer. That niceness comes into play when Frances finds a lost purse sitting on a seat in her subway car, prompting h...
Captain Marvel (2019) | Anna Boden & Ryan FLeck
March 09, 2019 23:55 - 17 minutes - 21.6 MBBrie Larson stars as Carol Danvers, aka Vers, aka Captain Marvel, an ultra-powerful warrior for an alien race called the Kree, from the capital planet Hala, part of an elite group of warriors called Starforce, who are doing battle with the fearsome, shape-shifting Skrulls, who have the power to impersonate other living beings, with a notable limitation in memories. She is haunted by her own memories of a strange time and place, when she was a pilot in the United States Air Force, which she en...
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) | Robert Rodriguez
March 06, 2019 00:10 - 11 minutes - 13.7 MBThe origin of Alita: Battle Angel starts with Yukito Kishiro’s intricately plotted 1990 manga, something this adaptation has to simplify in order to make it palatable for wide-release audiences. The setting is an Earth five centuries from now, a mostly tumultuous and vice-filled world that suffers even more by comparison to the life of luxury from the beaming city utopia called Zalem that floats above their heads. Christoph Waltz plays Dr. Ido, a brilliant scientist who has been through he t...
Isn’t It Romantic (2019) | Todd Strauss-Schulson
February 20, 2019 03:59 - 7 minutes - 9.19 MBRebel Wilson plays Natalie, working as an architect in New York City, though often marginalized by her peers at her firm as one of the administrative assistants who make copies and fetch coffee for the others a the board meetings. To make matters worse, she ends up getting mugged and assaulted in the subway, resulting in a loss of consciousness that finds her waking up in a too-nice hospital being catered to, and flirted with, by the handsome doctor there. Her apartment is now three times th...
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) | Dean DeBlois
February 03, 2019 01:17 - 9 minutes - 11.3 MBHiccup is now into adulthood, young but now the leader among the Dragon-rescuing Vikings of their island fortress village of Berk. Though the Vikings have lived in Berk for generations, Hiccup soon sees that they’ve outgrown their small island, especially with the overcrowding of the Dragons there as they rescue more of them, eyeing the mythical sanctuary on the edge of the world to guide these magical beasts. Meanwhile, love may be in the air, with Hiccup perhaps on the verge of marriage w...
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) | Joe Cornish
January 31, 2019 11:01 - 12 minutes - 14.7 MBTHE KID WHO WOULD BE KING involves a young boy in London named Alex, who spends his days bullied at school, primarily because he sticks up to those bullies - Lance and Kaye - to protect his bullied friend Bedders. In the heat of one of those skirmishes, Alex stumbles upon a 'sword in the stone' like the one in his book on King Arthur left to him by his absent father, and he manages to pull it out from the concrete block that had been its home. Knighting Bedders with it, the boys are soon visi...
Vice (2018) | Adam McKay
January 27, 2019 14:42 - 10 minutes - 13 MBWritten and directed by Adam McKay, who impressed in his last effort from 2015, The Big Short, Vice is specifically a biopic of sorts about former Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush, Dick Cheney — both of whom were seen as responsible for the policies that brought about the stock market crash covered so well in McKay’s prior film. McKay covers Cheney’s rise from drunken slob, to shaping up by entering Wyoming business and politics, to becoming a power player in the Repu...
Glass (2019) | M. Night Shyamalan
January 22, 2019 02:51 - 12 minutes - 15.4 MBGlass serves as a sequel to two films from M. Night Shyamalan, 2000’s Unbreakable and 2018’s Split, the latter of which tied itself to the former with the post-end title stinger. Bruce Willis makes his return as the ‘unbreakable’ security company owner David Dunn, who, along with his adult son (and sole employee) Joseph, is trying to track down a crazy roaming the streets of Philadelphia who is abducting teenage girls. James McAvoy continues his portrayal of Kevin Wendell Crumb, aka The Hord...
Leave No Trace (2018) | Debra Granik
January 11, 2019 02:03 - 9 minutes - 12.3 MBBen Foster’s war vet Will, widower father to the young teenage girl with the boy’s name of Tom (Thomasin McKenzie), is suffering from some sort of Post Traumatic Stress from his time in the service, living out in the woods, completely off the grid, roughing it in that public park in Oregon. Director Debra Granik combined these elements with the story of a man who raised his daughter off the grid in their own cabin in Oregon, wanting her to learn from nature and books rather than live her who...
Bumblebee (2018) | Travis Knight
January 06, 2019 17:29 - 13 minutes - 16.9 MBThis time out, the character of Bumblebee ends up going back to his original look from the toy line and cartoon series of a Volkswagen Beetle, when he arrives on Earth back in 1987 as part of a last-minute escape plan for the Autobots on Cybertron to find an inhabitable planet as theirs is about to be destroyed in an all-out civil war with the Decepticons. Bumblebee ends up emerging in California, where his dormant state of the Beetle laying in rust in a junkyard, in hiding after being hunte...
BlacKkKlansman (2018) | Spike Lee
December 31, 2018 23:21 - 12 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this Spike Lee joint, we go back to the 1970s, where we find Ron Stallworth, the first black police detective working for the Colorado Springs Police Department. In one of his first assignments after laboring behind the scenes to test the waters as a file clerk, Ron is hired to go undercover to record a speech being given locally by black activist Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins), formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, at a nearby college, in which the subject is black empowerment, racist law en...
Aquaman (2018) | James Wan
December 21, 2018 22:34 - 9 minutes - 11.4 MBThe setting starts sometime in the 1980s, where we find Atlantean queen Atlanna (Nicole Kidman) coming up to the surface in the state of Maine to get away from an arranged marriage, seeking a bit of sanctuary and time to heal in a lighthouse run by a human named Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison). The two unlikely partners fall in love, eventually leading to a son, Arthur Curry. The kingdom of Atlantis is not pleased with Atlanna's apparent defection to the land, sending out their soldiers to clai...
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) | Bryan Singer
November 24, 2018 13:19 - 10 minutes - 12.6 MBBryan Singer directs this tribute biopic on Freddie Mercury and his stint with one of the most influential rock groups from the 1970s and 1980s, Queen. Electrifying performances, lavish stage costumes, and a peek into Freddie's confusion and acceptance of his sexuality are in the mix of this loose-hanging look at one of the greatest rock-and-roll frontmen.
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018)
November 15, 2018 03:46 - 8 minutes - 10.4 MBIllumination Entertainment brings Dr. Seuss' beloved story to the modern age with 3D animation and the vocal talent of Benedict Cumberbatch. The Grinch hates Christmas and plans to thwart the festivities of the Christmas-loving denizens of nearby Whoville, but after donning the Santa Claus outfit to steal their presents away, has to confront the wishes of a young girl who needs Santa's help.