Directed by Craig Gillespie, an Australian best known for I, Tonya brings us a Cruella based on 101 Dalmatians.
In this live-action prequel feature, the story follows young Cruella de Vil, played by Emma Stone. We learn how Cruella became a fur lover and dog hater.
Dana Fox and Tony McNamara contributed to the screenplay. McNamara wrote The Favourite, which starred Emma Stone.
The film also stars Emma Thompson and Mark Strong.
Directed by Tom Story, Tom & Jerry stars several voice actors, which is a concern. The original classic cartoons had no dialogue, and it entertained kids of all ages. Why change it?
All is not lost since the feature film uses archive recordings of William Hanna. Hanna performed all the original shrieks, howls, screeches, yells, gasps, and screams heard in the cat and mouse cartoons of 1942 to 1957.
The second theatrical movie is the first rendition as live-action and animation. It is Warner Bros.’s first animated/live-action hybrid movie. It’s been 28 years since the release of the first Tom and Jerry in 1992.
The voice actors include Michael Pena, Chloe Grace Moretz, Rob Delaney, Colin Jost. The script is by Kevin Costello based on William Hanna and Joseph Barbera characters. Costello’s screen credits appear limited with Brigsby Bear and one episode for the Jean-Claude Van Johnson series.
Directed by Tom McGrath is the sequel to The Boss Baby, starring James Marsden and Alec Baldwin as the Templeton brothers. They are adults now and drift away from each other. Tim is now a married, stay-at-home dad. Ted is a hedge fund CEO.
But a new boss baby with an innovative approach and a can-do attitude is about to bring them together again… and inspire a new family business.
Also starring in the movie are Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Greenblatt, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Eva Longoria, and Amy Sedaris.
The Boss Baby: Family Business DVD is now available, with the movie streaming as well on Amazon.
Directed by Joel Crawford, The Croods: A New Age is a sequel to the 2013 film called The Croods. In the first movie, we meet the first family, The Croods, of the prehistoric era. The Oscar-nominated comedy is about a clan dealing with their changing world, which captivated global audiences, reminding us of the family’s timeless importance.
With the sequel, we get to see just how little we’ve evolved with an all-new adventure back in time with The Croods: A New Age. Returning stars Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, and Clark Duke welcome Leslie Mann and Peter Dinklage to the film’s cast as The Croods face their biggest threat since leaving the cave—another family.
Directed by Dean Parisot, the franchise returns with writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon—Bill and Ted Face the Music. The film will continue to track the time-traveling exploits of William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan. Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.
They will also include their daughters, who help them along the way. A new batch of historical figures join the fantasy, and a few music legends seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Dean Parisot also directed Galaxy Quest, and as mentioned earlier, the second installment script is by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.
These two guys seem like they are having too much fun time traveling.
The featurette moves quickly through clips of the original movie and the sequel. There are interviews with the director and producers who explain what happens when Bill and Ted are older with daughters a lot like them.
This featurette is fun to watch and talks about the large cast.
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Valley Girl sets it’s the pace to a rock ‘n roll ’80s soundtrack. A soundtrack produced by legendary Harvey Mason, Jr. with dance numbers by choreographer Mandy Moore, Valley Girl, is a musical adaptation of the classic 1983 hit film that became a cult icon. The movie streams digitally on Amazon as well as on other platforms.
Julie, played by Jessica Rothe, is the ultimate ’80s Valley Girl. A creative free spirit, Julie’s time is spent with her best friends shopping at the Galleria mall and making plans for senior prom. That is until she falls hard for Randy, played by Joshua Whitehouse, who is a Sunset Strip punk rocker and challenges everything the Valley and Julie stand for. Despite push-back from friends and family, Julie must break out of the safety of her world to follow her heart and discover what it means to be a Valley Girl.
The movie also stars Jessie Ennis, Ashleigh Murray, Chloe Bennet, Logan Paul, Mae Whitman, Mario Revolori, Rob Huebel, Judy Greer, Alicia Silverstone, and Camila Morrone.
The following Fast and Furious premise is, “No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past.”
The next franchise title is short and sweet. Appropriately, the film is F9 for the ninth chapter in the adventure that has endured just about two decades, earning over $5 billion worldwide.
Directed by Justin Lin, the story follows Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto as he leads a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon.
This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he’s going to save those he loves most. His crew forms up to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they’ve ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom’s forsaken brother, Jakob (John Cena, next year’s The Suicide Squad).
Justin Lin returns as director. He directed the franchise’s third, fourth, fifth, and sixth sequels when it became a global blockbuster. The action hurtles around the globe—from London to Tokyo, from Central America to Edinburgh, and from a secret bunker in Azerbaijan to the teeming streets of Tbilisi. Along the way, old friends show up, old foes will return, history becomes rewritten, and the true meaning of family goes through a test like never before.
The film stars returning cast members Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Sung Kang, with Oscar winners Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron. F9 also features Grammy-winning superstar Cardi B as a new franchise character named Leysa. She arrives as the woman with a connection to Dom’s past and a cameo by Reggaeton sensation Ozuna.
Directed by William Brent Bell, Brahms: The Boy II brings a frightful look at the unaware and terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion. The story follows a young family just moving into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms.
Bell directed the first Brahms movie. An excellent cast includes Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman, and Ralph Ineson.
The studio calls this the final trailer, and it’s okay because it tells more about the story.
Written and directed by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place Part II is ever so intense as its predecessor.
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family, played by Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe, must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
I watched the following three clips, and they had me jumping out of my seat. The creatures are darting here and there, freaking me out.
The feature introduces us to Cillian Murphy’s character, and he’s phenomenal.
Written by Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman, and directed by Reitman, Ghostbusters: Afterlife becomes the next chapter in the original Ghostbusters franchise.
We follow a single mom, played by Carrie Coon, and her two kids, played by Stranger Things Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace, who also stars in Troop Zero.
The family arrives in a small town. They begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
The cast also includes Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, and Paul Rudd.