Using technology not available in the waning days of the Cold War, director Rob Marshall and his team serve up a charming fresh take on the timeless story.
The 10th direct instalment of the “Fast & Furious” car-racing franchise features the clan’s patriarch, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel), going up against Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the scion of a Brazilian drug-dealing dynasty.
Raised amid hardscrabble circumstances, George Foreman, played by Khris Davis, is anxious to please his strong-willed mother Nancy (Sonja Sohn) by realising his potential. What may surprise viewers who haven’t followed the titular fighter’s career closely is the strong – indeed, transformative – role that faith has played in his biography.
As leader of the titular team of miscellaneous superheroes, Peter is naturally alarmed when a previously unknown enemy endowed with mighty fighting prowess suddenly invades the ensemble’s headquarters, Knowhere.
Star Russell Crowe brings verve to his portrayal of Father Amorth. Genial and fond of a joke, the cleric is nonetheless never frivolous. The film starts off promisingly enough but eventually becomes overheated and lurid.
The movie opens with an image reciting two powerful statements by Jesus to the Jews in John 8:56 and 8:58 in the New Testament: “Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad,”. The Record has 3 Double Passes to give away.
In this latest edition of the Scream franchise co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick move the mayhem that is Ghostface from fictional Woodsboro, California, to New York City. And on a long Halloween weekend at that.
In this visually imaginative but dramatically flat third instalment in their joint screen adventures, romantically linked superheroes Ant-Man, aka Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), and The Wasp, alias Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), become the victims of a dangerous experiment.
It’s appropriate that the follow-up Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – like its predecessor, a Marvel Comics-derived epic – opens with a farewell to Boseman’s King T’Challa, sovereign of the imaginary African nation of the title, before continuing the story of other important characters from the kick-off.