MovieGawd Movie Reviews

Red Sparrow Directed by Francis Lawrence (Constantine, I Am Legend) Written by Justin Haythe (A cure for Wellness, Snitch) Starring Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games, Joy) Joel Edgerton (The Gift, Black Mass) Matthias Schoenaerts (The Drop, The Danish Girl) Charlotte Rampling (45 Years, Swimming Pool) & Mary-Louise Parker (Red, R.I.P.D).  Dominika Egorova is many things. A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs. A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit. A master of seductive and manipulative combat. When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparr...

Game Night Directed by John Francis Daley (Vacation, Spider-Man Homecoming) & Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man Homecoming) Written by Mark Perez (Accepted, Back Nine) Starring Jason Bateman (Bad Words, Juno) Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls, The Notebook) Kyle chandler (Argo, Super 8) Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe, Pulling) & Jesse Plemons (Battleship, Black Mass).  A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. I’m not gonna just babble I’m gonna go straight to the point. I fucking love this movie. I haven’t laughed this hard since Girls Trip. I haven’t liked Jason Bateman this much since Bad Words. And man did Jesse Plemons steal the show in this film. I cannot wait to see this movie again. This film will go under the radar and go through the year as the best comedy of the year. This film is fantastic it is funny it is my favorite of the year by far at this moment. February has become the month of sur...

Annihalation Written & Directed by Alex Garland (Ex-Machina, 28 Days Later) Based on the novel by Jeff Vandermeer. Starring Natalie Portman (Black Swan, Thor) Jennifer Jason Leigh (GoodTime, The Hateful Eight) Tessa Thompson (Creed, Thor Ragnarok) Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange, The Martian) & Oscar Issac (Ex-Machina, A Most Violent Year).  A biologist's husband disappears. She puts her name forward for an expedition into an environmental disaster zone, but does not find what she's expecting. The expedition team is made up of the biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and a linguist. Alex Garland is a genius. An up n coming Director with a huge hit on his hands already from Ex-Machina. I didn’t know what to expect from this film but from people who have read the book I been told it’s a great read. Also was told that the movie follows the book pretty well except for a couple of things but it doesn’t take away from it much. This film is a challe...

Winchester Directed by the Spierig Brothers (Predestination, DayBreakers) Written by Tom Vaughan (Unstoppable, Playing House) & the Spierig Brothers. Starring Helen Mirren (Hitchcock, The Queen) Sarah Snook (Steve Jobs, Predestination) Jadon Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Everest) & Emm Wiseman (Celeste, The Pitch).  Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester, (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren) heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman's madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook) or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house. Sh...

Fifty Shades Freed Directed by James Foley (Fifty Shades Darker, At Close Range) Screenplay by Niall Leonard (Monarch of the Glen, Wire in the Blood) Based on the Novel by E.L. James. Starring Dakota Johnson (How to be Single, The Social Network) Jamie Dornan (New Worlds, The Fall) Eric Johnson (Smallville, The Knick) & Eloise Mumford (In The Blood, So Undercover).  Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins. To be honest I don’t know what to say about these movies that hadn’t been said. They might be just a cash grab but they do have their target audience and everyone has a guilty pleasure Movie. The first one was not that bad just wasn’t good. The second one was probably the funniest movie ...

The Cloverfield Paradox Directed by Julius Onah (Don’t look Back, The Girl is in Trouble) Story by Oren Uziel (Shimmer Lake, 22 Jump street) & Doug Jung (Star Trek Beyond, Confidence) Screenplay by Oren Uziel. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Black Mirror, Belle) David Oyelowo (Selma, Queen of Katwe) Daniel Bruhl (Rush, Captain America Civil War) John Ortiz (American Gangster, Silver Linings Playbook) & Chris O’Dowd (Frequently Asked Questions, Bridesmaides)  Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality. The Cloverfield Paradox is the third installment in the Cloverfield universe that J J Abrams has created. The first Cloverfield which was released in 2008 was a surprise hit with fans and to myself as a found footage movie about a monster that appears out of the ocean and terrorizes the city of New York. So many clues and Easter eggs where in that film that if you pay close...