Quinn Maybrook (Katie Douglas) moves to Kettle Springs, Missouri, after her dad (Aaron Abrams) gets a new job as the town doctor. Quinn quickly develops an interest in Cole Hill (Carson MacCormac), the son of corn syrup oligarch Arthur Hill (Kevin Durand). Cole and his friends are on the s**t list of Sheriff Dunne (Will Sasso) and most of the other adults in town for two main reasons.
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In writer/director Ryan Coogler’s latest film, the SmokeStack twins (Michael B. Jordan) have decided to move back home to the Mississippi Delta to open a juke joint after a stint working for Al Capone in Chicago. To that end, Elijah “Smoke” Moore recruits his love, Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), as a cook. While securing the music, Elias “Stack” Moore runs into Mary (Hailee Steinfeld), a white-passing ex-girlfriend.
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Eddie Brock and Venom (both played by Tom Hardy) have now become fugitives, but that’s the least of these problems. They’re also being hunted by a Xenophage, an alien being who can detect them when they’re in full symbiote mode. The Xenophages are the servants of Knull (Andy Serkis), the creator of the symbiotes. To escape from his prison, Knull requires the Codex, a MacGuffin that Eddie and Venom possess.
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The Monkey, based on Stephen King’s short story, is about a toy monkey that causes fatal “accidents” after playing an instrument. In the source material, it’s one of those creepy cymbal-banging monkeys, which Disney (somehow) copyrighted after Toy Story 3. So, for the film, the Monkey now plays the drums. The kicker of the situation is that, as writer/director Osgood Perkins has pointed out, a drumroll before someone gets killed is way better.
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Levi Kane (Miles Teller) is given an unusual assignment by Bartholomew (Sigourney Weaver). His mission is to travel to an outpost in the middle of nowhere and guard a gorge with strange creatures trying to escape. Across the gorge is a much nicer and better-stocked Russian outpost with another sniper, Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy). They’re not supposed to contact each other, but they do because otherwise, this would be a rather short and boring movie.
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Ally (Olivia Holt) is a career woman with an abysmal love life and on the verge of getting fired. Jay Simmons (Mason Gooding) is a new co-worker who seems more interested in getting Ally to loosen up than his actual job. However, the rom-com setup takes a turn for the horrific when Ally and Jay are mistaken for a couple by the Heart Eyes Killer, or HEK for short, a serial killer who targets couples on Valentine’s Day.
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Iris (Sophia Thatcher) visits a remote lake house alongside her boyfriend, Josh (Jack Quaid). The home belongs to Sergey (Rupert Friend), who is one tracksuit away from being a total Russian stereotype. Other people at the lake house are Sergey’s mistress, Kat (Megan Suri), and another couple, Eli (Harvey Guillén) and Patrick (Lukas Gage).
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Blake Lovell (Christopher Abbott) is a man whose writing career has stalled, leading to his current occupation as a stay-at-home dad. After his own father, Grady (Sam Jaeger), is finally declared dead after disappearing, Blake decides to take his family up to his old house. The dual purpose of the trip is for him to reconnect with his wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner), and for Charlotte to connect with their daughter, Ginger (Matilda Firth).
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Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens was a 1922 film and unofficial adaptation of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Writer/director Robert Eggers has been trying to remake it for almost a decade. That is not a hyperbole. Development on Nosferatu (2024) began in 2015. It was initially the follow-up to Eggers’ feature debut, The VVitch. At one point, it was even going to star recurring collaborator Anya Taylor-Joy, but she backed out due to scheduling conflicts.
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I’m late to the party, but I’ve finally seen the film adaptation of a musical I love, kind of. It’s just Act One. Anyway, much like the novel and stage show it’s based on, Wicked: Part 1 tells the tale of the Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo, Karis Musongole). During the first song, we learn that Elphaba Thropp, the aforementioned witch, was conceived after her mom (Courtney-Mae Briggs) had an affair with a guy with a mysterious green bottle.
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