The Underdoggs (2024) - Review

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The Underdoggs (2024) - Review

Directed by: Charles Stone III

Written by: Danny Segal, Isaac Schamis

Starring: Snoop Dogg, Tika Sumpter, Andrew Schulz, Mike Epps, George Lopez

Runtime: 101 min

Synopsis: Jaycen "Two Js" Jennings is a washed-up ex-professional football star who has hit rock bottom. When Jaycen is sentenced to community service coaching the Underdoggs, an unruly pee-wee football team in his hometown of Long Beach, California, he sees it as an opportunity to rebuild his public image and turn his life around. As Jaycen works to transform the foul-mouthed Underdoggs into top-notch champions, he reconnects with his past, including an old flame and few of his ex-teammates and rediscovers his love of the game.

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Role Play (2024) - Review

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Role Play (2024) - Review

Directed by: Thomas Vincent

Written by: Andrew Baldwin, Seth W. Owen

Starring: Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen, and Bill Nighy

Runtime: 100 min

Synopsis: Emma and Dave have the seemingly perfect life - two kids, suburban house, good jobs - but after seven years of marriage they find themselves in a bit of a rut. For their wedding anniversary this year they are looking to spice things up with a little role play. They plan to meet as strangers in a hotel bar, but before Dave arrives, Emma catches the eye of a mysterious older man. The mystery gentleman recognizes Emma - as an international assassin for hire with a bounty on her head.

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Lift (2024) - Review

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Lift (2024) - Review

Directed by: F. Gary Gray

Written by: Daniel Kunka

Starring: Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D'Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, Sam Worthington

Runtime: 104 min

Synopsis: An international heist crew is recruited to prevent a terrorist attack, and must pull off the heist on a plane mid-flight.

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Self Reliance (2024) - Review

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Self Reliance (2024) - Review

Directed by: Jake Johnson

Written by: Jake Johnson

Starring: Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales, Mary Holland, Emily Hampshire, Christopher Lloyd, Wayne Brady

Runtime: 90 min

Synopsis: When a middle-aged man is invited into a limo by famous actor Andy Samberg, his dull life takes a thrilling turn. Johnson is offered a chance to win a million dollars in a dark web reality TV show, where assassins from all over the world attempt to kill him for 30 days. The catch? He can't be killed if he's not entirely alone, leading him to recruit an unlikely team to help him survive.

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Night Swim (2024) - Review

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Night Swim (2024) - Review

Directed by: Bryce McGuire

Written by: Bryce McGuire

Starring: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren

Runtime: 98 min

Synopsis: Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.

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Society of the Snow (2023) - Review

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Society of the Snow (2023) - Review

Directed by: J.A Bayona

Written by: J.A Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques-Olearraga, Nicolás Casariego

Starring: Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi

Runtime: 144 min

Synopsis: In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive

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Memory (2023) - Review

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Memory (2023) - Review

Directed by: Michel Franco

Written by: Michel Franco

Starring: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever, Brooke Timber, Elsie Fisher, Josh Charles, Jessica Harper

Runtime: 100 min

Synopsis: Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) - Review

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) - Review

Directed by: James Wan

Written by: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick

Starring: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman

Runtime: 124 min

Synopsis: After failing to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta wields the power of the mythic Black Trident to unleash an ancient and malevolent force. Hoping to end his reign of terror, Aquaman forges an unlikely alliance with his brother, Orm, the former king of Atlantis. Setting aside their differences, they join forces to protect their kingdom and save the world from irreversible destruction.

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The Iron Claw (2023) - Review

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The Iron Claw (2023) - Review

Directed by: Sean Durkin

Written by: Sean Durkin

Starring: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany, Lily James

Runtime: 132 min

Synopsis: The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

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Wonka (2023) - Review

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Wonka (2023) - Review

Directed by: Paul King

Written by: Simon Farnaby, Paul King

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant

Runtime: 116 min

Synopsis: Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children's book and one of the best-selling children's books of all time, this new adaptation tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today.

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