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Creed III (2023) is an American sports drama film directed by Michael B. Jordan, marking his debut as a director. Serving as the sequel to 2018’s Creed II, it is the third installment in the Creed series and ninth in the Rocky franchise. In 2002 Los Angeles, Adonis ‘Donnie’ Creed watches his friend and mentor, Golden Gloves champion ‘Diamond’ Dame Anderson, compete in an underground boxing match. Inspired by Dame’s aspirations to turn professional and become a world champion, Donnie joins him on a detour to a liquor store. However, a sudden confrontation ...

Thirteen Lives (2022) is a biographical survival film by director and producer Ron Howard, with a screenplay by William Nicholson. The movie tells the story of the Tham Luang cave rescue, which took place in 2018. On June 23rd of that year, twelve boys from the junior football team “Wild Boars” and their assistant coach Ekkaphon Chanthawong decide to explore the Tham Luang cave after practice. When they fail to show up for a birthday party arranged by their parents, their families head to the caves. To their horror, they discover that the boys are missing and ...

Samaritan (2022) is an American superhero film directed by Julius Avery and written by Bragi F. Schut. It offers a fresh, dark perspective on the genre, previously explored in the Mythos Comics graphic novels by Schut, Marc Olivent, and Renzo Podesta. The story centers around superhumans Samaritan and Nemesis, twin brothers with opposing goals. After their home was destroyed by the community of Granite City, they managed to escape while their parents perished in the fire. Samaritan chose to become a superhero to prove that he is not defined by his past, while Nemesis ...

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) is a fantasy romantic drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’ by A. S. Byatt. Alithea Binnie, a British scholar with occasional hallucinations of demonic figures, unleashes a trapped Djinn during a trip to Istanbul when she purchases an antique bottle. The Djinn grants Alithea three wishes, ...

Dog (2022) is an American comedy drama road film directed by Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin, marking their debut as film directors. It is based on a story by Carolin and Brett Rodriguez. Jackson Briggs, a former U.S. Army Ranger suffering from PTSD, works at a deli while trying to secure a position in Pakistan. However, due to his condition, he is considered unfit for service and his attempts to call in favors are unsuccessful. Things take a turn when he receives news of the ...

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 ...

Directed by Ridley Scott, an American film House of Gucci (2021) is a biographical crime drama based on Sara Gay Forden’s book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. Set in Italy during the year 1978, it follows Patrizia Reggiani as she works as an office manager for her father’s small trucking firm. At a party, she meets Maurizio Gucci, a law student and heir to 50% of the Gucci fashion house through his father Rodolfo. Patrizia aggressively pursues Maurizio and they fall in love. Despite warnings from Rodolfo ...

No Time to Die (2021) is the latest installment in the James Bond franchise, marking its twenty-fifth film produced by Eon Productions. Madeleine Swann, as a young girl, witnesses her mother’s murder at the hands of terrorist Lyutsifer Safin. Safin’s family was previously assassinated by Swann’s father, Mr. White, under orders from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In self-defense, Swann shoots Safin and escapes but falls into a frozen lake where Bond rescues her. Years later, after Blofeld’s arrest, Swann joins Bond on a trip to Matera where she convinces him to visit the grave of his former lover ...

Directed by Guy Ritchie and co-written by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, Wrath of Man (2021) is a heist action thriller film loosely based on the 2004 French film Cash Truck. Five months after the initial robbery, Patrick Hill joins Fortico Security as an armored truck guard. Terry, his manager, praises his references and the company trainer, known as ‘Bullet’, gives him the nickname ‘H’. Though Hill struggles during firearm training, he eventually starts working alongside his colleagues ...

Stephen Merchant’s 2019 biographical sports comedy-drama, Fighting with My Family (2019), is based on Max Fisher’s 2012 documentary, The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family. Through the lens of Paige and her brother Zak Zodiac, the film tells the story of their journey to the WWE. Raised by renowned wrestlers Rick and Julia Knight, the siblings aspire to follow in their parents’ footsteps. After applying to join the WWE as adults, they meet veteran trainer Hutch Morgan at The O2 Arena before a SmackDown taping, where they also encounter WWE ...

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 ...

Overboard (2018) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Rob Greenberg, with a screenplay written by Bob Fisher and Leslie Dixon. Kate Sullivan, a widowed mother of three studying to be a nurse, works two jobs. While cleaning carpets on spoiled playboy Leo Montenegro’s yacht, he makes offensive remarks and fires her for refusing to fetch him food. When she confronts him about his behavior, he shoves her off the boat with her cleaning equipment. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Leo’s sisters Magdalena and Sofia care ...

The American mystery drama television miniseries, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018), is based on the same-named 2014 novel by Joël Dicker. It made its debut on Epix, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Patrick Dempsey, Kristine Froseth, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr., and Virginia Madsen. Prior to its release in the United States, the series was sold and ...

Sherlock Gnomes (2018) is a mystery comedy directed by John Stevenson, and based on the beloved character Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Serving as a sequel to Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), it sees Sherlock, along with his trusted companion Dr. Watson, taking on their arch-nemesis Moriarty at London’s Natural History Museum. In a thrilling battle, Moriarty is seemingly defeated by a dinosaur skeleton. As the plot unfolds, Miss Montague, Mr Capulet and their gnomes relocate from Stratford-upon-Avon to a rundown garden in London. Lady ...

Steven Caple Jr. directs Creed II (2018), an American sports drama with a screenplay by Juel Taylor and Sylvester Stallone. Adonis Creed, also known as ‘Donnie’, has bounced back after his defeat by ‘Pretty’ Ricky Conlan in 2015, winning six consecutive matches and ultimately reclaiming his beloved 1967 Ford Mustang from Danny ‘Stuntman’ Wheeler. As a renowned champion, Adonis pops the question to his girlfriend Bianca Taylor, who agrees to marry him. While Bianca suggests leaving ...

Tomb Raider (2018), the action-adventure film directed by Roar Uthaug, features a screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons from a story written by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet. This American and British co-production is based on the 2013 video game of the same name, as well as incorporating aspects from its rebooted sequel by Crystal Dynamics. It is also the third installment in the Tomb Raider ...

The Magnificent Seven (2016), directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk, is a modern retelling of the acclaimed 1960 film with the same title. Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, Fuqua brings his unique vision to this classic story. The town of Rose Creek is under the ruthless control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, and the desperate townspeople turn to seven outlaws, ...

Me Before You (2016) is a romance drama film, directed by Thea Sharrock in her directorial debut and adapted by author Jojo Moyes from her 2012 novel of the same name. Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark, a cheerful young woman, is hired as a carer for Will Traynor, a once successful banker and active sportsman who became tetraplegic after being hit by a motorcycle. Hoping to lift his depressed and cynical spirits, Will’s mother turns to Lou for help due to her bubbly personality. However, Will initially displays coldness towards her. Things become complicated when ...

Directed by Ryan Coogler and co-written by Aaron Covington, Creed (2015) is an American sports drama film that serves as the first spin-off in the Rocky franchise. Adonis ‘Donnie’ Johnson, the illegitimate son of former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, meets his father’s widow Mary Anne while serving time in a Los Angeles youth detention center in 1998. Despite her initial reluctance, she offers to take him in. Fast forward to 2015 and Adonis is training for an amateur boxing bout in Tijuana. After returning from the fight, he quits his job at ...

Spectre (2015) is the latest James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. Tasked with a mission by his former boss, M, MI6 agent James Bond foils a bombing attempt at a Day of the Dead festival in Mexico City. After recovering a telltale octopus ring from the deceased attacker, Marco Sciarra, Bond uncovers his involvement with an enigmatic organization. However, upon returning to London, the new M – Gareth Mallory – reprimands Bond for acting without authorization. Meanwhile, M finds himself embroiled in a power struggle with Max Denbigh (dubbed ‘C’ by Bond), Director-General of the newly formed Joint Intelligence Service that combines ...