A young Estella (Emma Stone) is a troubled young girl who earns the nickname Cruella in her youth. After an accident with her mother, Estella is orphaned, so she must resort to thievery in order to survive. But when she unexpectedly lands a job for her idol, The Baroness (Emma Thompson), she starts becoming a bit mad, but is totally in her element.
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The Mitchells vs The Machines follows Katie (Abbi Jacobson) as she prepares to go to college. She butts heads a lot with her father, Rick (Danny McBride). Rick decides to go on a family road trip in attempt to bond with Katie again before she goes to school. However, a robot uprising breaks out in the middle of their road trip.
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The Oscars are less than a week away! It’s been a long year and a long awards season. I actually haven’t reviewed most of these nominees. Apologies about that – it’s hard balancing writing reviews and having a full time job. But we have a pretty good line up this year.
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Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar centers on best friends Barb (Annie Mumolo) and Star (Kristen Wiig) as they vacation in a beach town that is plotted to be destroyed by an evil villain (also played by Kristen Wiig).
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Judas and the Black Messiah centers on William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) who is offered a deal from the FBI to infiltrate the Illinois chapter of the Blank Panthers, which is led by Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya).
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Hopefully, in 2021 things will start going back to normal, but it will be a slow process. Cinemas are still mostly closed around the world, so a lot of these movies will be seen at home. And as many of you know, a lot of 2020 movies were pushed back to 2021 and 2022, so some films that were on my Most Anticipated Movies of 2020 list will re-appear here.
First up, here are some honorable mentions: Black Widow, Eternals, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, Blonde, Don’t Look Up, and Encanto
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2020 is finally over! It’s been quite the year to say the least. A lot of movies were pushed back, so my top 10 list this year consists of some smaller fair. I also haven’t had the chance to fully review each movie on this list now that I have a full time job, so I will provide a mini-review for those.
First up, here’s some Honorable Mentions: The Glorias, Wolfwalkers, and Palm Springs
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Soul follows Joe Gardener (Jaime Foxx), a band teacher, who is finally getting the big gig he has been waiting for. But later that day, Joe gets into an accident and dies. His soul travels to the Great Beyond, but he escapes to the Great Before as he is not ready to die. He teams up with another soul, named 22 (Tina Fey), in order to try to get back to his life on Earth.
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Wonder Woman 1984 follows Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) as she and a new co-worker, Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), discover a new stone that has the ability to grant wishes. Both Diana and Barbara make a wish on the stone, but as the stone falls into the notorious and power-hungry hands of Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), it leads him to wreck chaos all over the world.
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Mank follows Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who is fed up with his MGM studio colleagues for rigging the California governor’s election. While recovering from a car accident, Mankiewicz is rushed to finish the screenplay for Citizen Kane.
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