Written by Jonathan Abrams and directed by Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, Juror #2 is a courtroom drama
Family man Justin Kemp, played by Nicolas Hoult, struggles with a grave moral dilemma while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial. It concerns personal integrity and the concept of right or wrong. He could use it to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the wrong killer.
Eastwood tackles moral issues artfully, and its strong cast includes Toni Collette, J. K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, and Kiefer Sutherland.
Sometimes the hero you are lies just beneath the surface.
This summer, DreamWorks Animation dives into the turbulent waters of high school with a hilarious, heartfelt action comedy about a shy teenager who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens and that her destiny, in the depths of the oceans, is bigger than she ever dreamed.
Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman, voiced by Lana Condor, is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High but mostly feels invisible.
She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush, voiced by Jaboukie Young-White, who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom, voiced by Toni Collette, has forbidden Ruby from ever getting in the water.
But when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, voiced by Jane Fonda, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas.
The Krakens have sworn to protect the world’s oceans against the vain, power-hungry mermaids. One significant and immediate problem: The school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea, voiced by Annie Murphy, is a mermaid. Ruby must ultimately embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.
Dean Craig directed The Estate, a raunchy escapade about two sisters, played by Anna Faris and Toni Collette, trying to win over their terminally ill aunt, played by Kathleen Turner.
It’s good to see Turner frequently absent from the screen as the aunt who is challenging to please. Her nieces try to accommodate their aunt in hopes of pleasing her and becoming beneficiaries of her wealthy estate.
Along comes the rest of the greedy family members who have the same idea. David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt and Thomas Hayden are also in the film.
Craig is a British director, which lends to some good old suggestive humor.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Knives Out is a parody of the mastermind Agatha Christie. The movie looks like a modern-day murder mystery and everyone is a suspect. The story begins at the 85th birthday party of renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey, played by Christopher Plummer.
The movie is now streaming, or you can purchase the Blu-ray or DVD, and watch it whenever and wherever you want.
After his party, he is found dead at his estate, and the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, is enlisted to investigate his murder. But, it is unclear how he arrived at being the investigator, and that is a mystery in itself.
From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death. By watching the trailer, you can see Craig’s character heavily contrasts with his 007 in the James Bond movies.
From left to right. Richard (Don Johnson), Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), Ransom (Chris Evans) Great Nana (K Callan), Marta (Ana de Armas), Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) Walt (Michael Shannon), Jacob (Jaeden Lieberher), Donna (Riki Lindholm), Joni (Toni Collette) and Meg (Katherine Langford).
The stellar cast includes Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, and Jaeden Martell.
The movie appears to be a witty and stylish whodunit. Johnson hopes to keep audiences guessing until the very end.
Johnson is best known for directing Star Wars: The Last Jedi. His other writing and directing credits include Brick and Looper.
The second trailer offers a better idea of what the movie is about and how it flows for the audience. It flows much better because it seems to be intense and funny.
The movie looks hilarious with overwhelming craziness. Daniel Craig plays a character so unlike his James Bond.
I am not sure what is happening in this next clip. We have two cops and an inspector.
The next clip shows how snappy the movie flows.
Daniel Craig and Jamie Lee Curtis are in a scene together. It is phenomenal.
Written and directed by Ari Aster, Hereditary follows a family’s aftermath of when the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away. The daughter, played by Toni Collette, begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The whole family gets involved in uncovering the mystery. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited.
Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown. The movie is about a familial tragedy that is ominous and deeply disquieting and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.
The Blu-ray and DVD are available with streaming happening as well. Now is the time to watch the horror movie because, if you are a fan of horror, you don’t want to miss it. This is one creepy and horrific movie that any horror fan will slit their gums to see.
The below Blu-ray/DVD trailer is far better than any of the theatrical trailers. I am impressed, to say the least.
The movie also stars Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, and Milly Shapiro. Shapiro plays the creepy daughter. Watch her in the movie trailer and you will see how creepy she is, which is horrifically entertaining.
