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A Journal for Jordan (2021) is a romantic drama movie directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington. Its screenplay, written by Virgil Williams, is based on the memoir A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor by Dana Canedy. The film was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures banner on December 25, 2021. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, it did not perform well at the box office. Inspired by the real experiences of First Sergeant ...

TAn animated supernatural black comedy film, The Addams Family 2 (2021), is a sequel to the 2019 film based on the characters by Charles Addams. At a science fair, Wednesday Addams plans to present her experiment using her pet squid Socrates’ DNA on Uncle Fester to demonstrate how humans can be enhanced (though it also has the side effect of slowly changing Fester). However, she becomes disappointed upon seeing her family’s arrival. Despite this, her work catches the attention of scientist Cyrus Strange. Meanwhile at home, Gomez worries that his children are growing distant from him and Morticia. In an ...

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021), an American action thriller directed by Taylor Sheridan, follows the story of Hannah Faber, a smokejumper who is struggling after being unable to prevent the deaths of three campers and a fellow smokejumper in a forest fire. She now finds herself stationed at a lookout tower in Park County, Montana. Meanwhile, Owen Casserly, a forensic accountant, discovers that his boss and family were actually murdered by assassins Jack and Patrick disguised as a gas explosion. Fearing for his own safety, Owen takes his son Connor and goes on the run to seek refuge with his brother-in-law and Deputy ...

An American sci-fi film Chaos Walking (2021), directed by Doug Liman and written by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford, is an adaptation of Ness’s trilogy of the same name. The first book, titled The Knife of Never Letting Go, serves as the basis for the movie’s plot. Set in 2257 AD on the planet New World, the male colonists are affected by a condition known as Noise, which exposes everyone’s thoughts to one another. The colonists were previously ...

An animated supernatural black comedy film, The Addams Family (2019), is based on characters from the cartoon created by Charles Addams. As a result of rejecting anything macabre in nature, an angry mob of villagers interrupts the midnight wedding ceremony of Gomez Addams and Morticia Frump. In the midst of chaos, Grandmama buys Uncle Fester time to evacuate them, along with Gomez and Morticia’s loyal hand servant, Thing. Deciding they’ve had enough of the outside world, Gomez and Morticia relocate to New Jersey – a place they deem undesired by most. There, they stumble upon an abandoned asylum on a ...

Bombshell (2019), a film by Jay Roach with screenplay by Charles Randolph, follows the story of Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson in the aftermath of the 2016 Republican debate. Kelly faces backlash from Donald Trump after questioning him about his offensive comments toward women during the debate. Despite receiving death threats and unwanted paparazzi attention, she later reconciles with Trump under pressure from the network. On the other hand, Carlson is removed as co-anchor of Fox & Friends and placed on a less popular show due to rampant sexism both on and off air, ...

Directed by Todd Phillips, Joker (2019) is an American psychological thriller film with a screenplay co-written by Scott Silver. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, the loosely based DC Comics story follows Arthur Fleck, an aspiring stand-up comedian and clown living in Gotham City during the early 1980s recession with his mother Penny. Despite suffering from a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable laughing fits, Arthur relies on social services for medication. Randall, his co-worker, gives him a revolver after he is ...

The American crime drama, The Mule (2018), was both directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also stars in the film. After missing his daughter Iris’s wedding to receive a prestigious lifetime award for his work as a horticulturalist in 2005, Korean War veteran Earl Stone faces the consequences of choosing his career over his family. This event leads to his daughter cutting off communication and his wife filing for divorce. Twelve years later, Earl attends his granddaughter Ginny’s wedding rehearsal without revealing that he is bankrupt and facing foreclosure on his once successful flower farm. It is ...

The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), directed and co-written by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, follows the story of Audrey Stockman in Los Angeles. Recently dumped by her boyfriend Drew, Audrey’s best friend and roommate Morgan Freeman encourages her to get rid of his belongings. Little does she know, Drew is actually a CIA agent being pursued by dangerous individuals. Before leaving town, Drew asks Audrey not to burn anything while he is away. At work, Audrey meets a man who turns out to be Sebastian Henshaw, revealing that he is looking for Drew who has gone missing. ...

The Front Runner (2018), a 2018 American political drama film directed by Jason Reitman, is based on the 2014 book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai. This gripping tale follows former Senator Gary Hart as he makes a comeback in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries, after coming up short against Walter Mondale in 1984. As he gears up for his campaign launch in April 1987, some of Hart’s staffers express their concern about his reluctance to share personal details and instead focusing solely on his ideas and ...

Tully (2018), an American comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, follows Marlo who is unexpectedly pregnant with her third child with husband Drew. The couple already has two children – daughter Sarah and son Jonah, who struggles with an undiagnosed behavioral disorder resulting in Marlo’s nightly ritual of brushing his skin to minimize his sensitivity to stimuli. Despite her brother Craig’s offer to pay for a night nanny as a baby gift, Marlo declines. She often dreams of an underwater mermaid and her son’s aggressive ...

Beatriz at Dinner (2017) is a comedy drama film directed by Miguel Arteta from a screenplay by Mike White. The movie follows the story of a Hispanic woman in her late forties, who begins her day with an unusual dream – she’s in a rowboat in a mangrove swamp, and spots a little white goat on the shore. After waking up, Beatriz tends to her two dogs and another brown goat that she keeps in her bedroom, reminding them to keep quiet. She then proceeds to prepare for the day ahead, meditating and lighting candles at an altar adorned with photos of a man and the ...

Ithaca (2015), an American drama directed by Meg Ryan and written by Erik Jendresen, is based on the 1943 novel The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. Set in a small fictional town of Ithaca, CA in the 1940s during World War II, the story follows 14-year-old Homer Macauley who is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger. His motivation comes from his desire to take care of his widowed mother Katie, his older sister Bess, and his youngest brother Ulysses. Unfortunately, Homer’s older ...