Wes Ball directs the latest Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes. Many generations passed after Caesar’s reign, and that’s when the story begins. The apes are the dominant species, hoping to live harmoniously. The humans are now reduced to living in the shadows.
Inspired by the 1980s hit TV series, real stuntman and director David Leitch helms an all-star cast in The Fall Guy. We follow a stuntman, played by Ryan Gosling, who, like everyone in the stunt community, gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment.
And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life, played by Emily Blunt, while still doing his day job.
Leitch is the blockbuster director of Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and the producer of John Wick, Nobody and Violent Night. The Fall Guy is his most personal film because he’s an original stuntman. It’s his love letter to the under-appreciated crew in this supposedly hilarious, hard-driving, apex-action thriller.
Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on his physical and mental health. He is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie directed by his ex, Jody Moreno, played by Blunt, goes missing.
While the film’s ruthless producer, played by Hannah Waddingham, maneuvers to keep the disappearance of star Tom Ryder, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, a secret from the studio and the media, Colt performs the film’s most outrageous stunts while futilely trying to charm his way back into Jody’s good graces.
But as the mystery around the missing star deepens, Colt becomes entangled in a sinister, criminal plot that will push him to the edge of a fall more dangerous than any stunt.
The Fall Guy also stars Winston Duke and Stephanie Hsu.
The # 1 worldwide hit song by Michael Martin Murphey inspired Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse. It’s that tale of the Cherokee ghost horse and a young girl coming to terms with a guilty conscience.
Directed by Eric Parkinson, Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse tells a story of redemption and forgiveness as a young girl deals with her guilt following the tragic death of her parents.
With the family facing financial ruin, the survivors move from Texas to Oklahoma to live with Grandma Bette on her horse farm outside Tahlequah. Emotionally lost and distraught, young Samantha finds peace from the attention she receives from a mysterious wild horse that seems to follow her as she walks home from school each day.
The late Anne Heche plays Diana Jones, and this could be her last acting role.
Eventually, Samantha can contact and ride the horse, and with training help from a champion rodeo cowgirl, she enters competitive rodeo barrel racing and accepts her new situation.
But her guilt remains, as Samantha hides the dark secret that she feels responsible for her parent’s death. She cannot forgive herself.
With the help of a local Cherokee spiritual leader and the town’s local pastor’s wisdom, Samantha realizes a greater truth and a solace to her worries.
Was the horse real? Or was it a spiritual messenger to help guide Samantha? Wildfire combines a tale of native spirituality with Christian doctrine and values to create an enchanting film for all audiences.
Ridley Scott directs Napoleon with Jacquin Phoenix in the starring role and Vanessa Kirby as Josephine.
It’s a spectacle-filled action film detailing the checkered rise and fall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
Along with a stunning backdrop orchestrated by Scott, the story captures Napoleon’s relentless journey to power through the kaleidoscope of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine.
Written for the screen and directed by Cord Jefferson, American Fiction is a hilarious twist on the obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.
Based upon the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.
In Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is about two siblings exploring their family’s relationship with the mysterious organization Monarch following the epic fight between Godzilla and the Titans. The battle destroyed San Francisco.
Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army Officer Lee Shaw, played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell.
It took place in the 1950s and half a century later when Monarch becomes threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic saga that spans three generations reveals buried secrets. And the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives.
A new trilogy of terror comes from director Renny Harlin, who brought us Die Hard 2 and The Exorcist: The Beginning.
In Chapter I, Madelaine Petsch stars as a young woman starting a new life with her fiancé.
A gang of masked strangers unexpectedly targeted them while staying in a remote vacation rental during their road trip. What begins as a fight to stay alive becomes one woman’s journey of courage and cunning in this horror series, bridging three compelling films.
Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland wrote the screenplay. Froy Gutierrez also stars in the film.
Reginald Hudlin directs Eddie Murphy and a stellar cast in this holiday comedy adventure, Candy Cane Lane. It’s about a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest.
After Chris, played by Murphy, inadvertently makes a deal with a naughty elf named Pepper, played by Jillian Bell. He wants to better his chances of winning the annual holiday decoration contest. Pepper casts a magic spell that brings the 12 Days of Christmas to life and wreaks havoc on the whole town.
Chris, his wife Carol, played by Tracee Ellis Ross, and their three children race against time to break Pepper’s spell and save the holidays. It’s a battle of deviously magical characters and saves Christmas for everyone.
Bryce McGuire directed Night Swim, which follows Ray Waller, played by Wyatt Russell. He secretly hopes, against the odds, to return to pro ball. He persuades Eve, played by Kerry Condon, that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids.
The pool will also provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash an evil force that will drag the family into the depths of inescapable terror.
Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, a degenerative illness forces Ray into early retirement. His concerned wife, teenage daughter Izzy, played by Amélie Hoeferle, and young son Elliot, played by Gavin Warren, move into the home with a possessed pool.
Amélie Hoeferle and Gavin Warren also star in the film.
David Ayer directed The Beekeeper. The story follows a man’s, played by Jason Statham, brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes.
He’s revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as “Beekeepers.”
The cast includes Jeremy Irons, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, and Josh Hutcherson.