Strays

Strays

A newly stray dog decides to seek revenge against his former owner in Strays. Reggie (Will Ferrell) is a naive Border Terrier in a neglectful relationship with his owner Doug (Will Forte). Reggie ends up being abandoned in a city ally, where he ends up befriending street-smart Boston Terrier Bug (Jamie Foxx), who teaches him…

God is a Bullet

God is a Bullet

An escaped cult member helps a police officer locate his kidnapped daughter in God is a Bullet. One Christmas, desk jockey police officer Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is distraught to discover his ex-wife murdered and his teenage daughter Gabi (Chloe Guy) kidnapped by a Satanic cult led by the sadistic Cyrus (Karl Glusman). Bob is…

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man and Doctor Strange inadvertently open up the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The world of Peter Parker (Tom Holland) turns upside down after J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) publicly reveals a video, where Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) reveals Peter’s secret identity as Spider-Man and frames him for Mysterio’s own death. This turns the world…

Soul

Soul

The near-death experience of a musician results in him reevaluating the purpose of his life in Soul. Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is an aspiring jazz pianist, who considers his current position as a middle-school music teacher to be a dead end. However, Joe receives a huge opportunity when he gets a gig to play with…

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The cinematic reboot of everyone’s favourite wisecracking webslinger continues with The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) continues to search for the answer about his parents, while his dangerous crime-fighting life as Spider-Man makes him concerned about the safety of his girlfriend Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone).  Meanwhile, Peter’s childhood best friend Harry Osborn (Dane…

Django Unchained

Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino fully embraces his love of Spaghetti Westerns (with a Southern twist) with his latest film Django Unchained.  The film stars Jamie Foxx as the title character, a slave who is freed and trained by a German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).  Together they set out to free Django’s wife Broomhilda…

Due Date

Due Date

You could have called last year’s The Hangover a bit of a comeback film for Todd Philips, since it was his first true hit since Old School.  I think it also raised expectations a bit for the follow-up. I can say that Due Date is a bit of a step-down from The Hangover in terms…

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Ridley Scott’s new film version of Robin Hood received fairly poor reviews from most critics.  However, I feel that it might have fared better if it didn’t have the stigma of being attached to the classic story. Let it be said that this is not the traditional Robin Hood story that has been told in…