MovieGawd Movie Reviews

Tomb Raider Directed by Roar Uthaug (The Wave, Escape) Screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Sherlock, Captain Marvel) & Alastair Siddons (In The Dark Half, Trespass) Starring Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex-Machina) Dominic West (The Wire, The Forgotten) Walton Goggins (Predators, The Hateful Eight) Daniel Wu (New Police Story, Warcraft) & Kristin Scott Thomas (Only God Forgives, The English Patient.  Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father's global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he's truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even...

A Wrinkle In Time Directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma, 13th) Screenplay By Jennifer Lee (Frozen, Zootopia) & Jeff Stockwell (Bridge to Terabithia, Children of the Machine) Based on the Novel by Madeleine L’Engle. Starring Storm Reid (Sleight, 12 Years A Slave) Oprah Winfrey (The butler, The Color Purple) Reese Witherspoon (Wild, Legally Blonde) & Mindy Kaling (The Office, Inside Out).  Following the discovery of a new form of space travel as well as Meg's father's disappearance, she, her brother, and her friend must join three magical beings - Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which - to travel across the universe to rescue him from a terrible evil. The first woman to have a budget of over 100Mil dollars for a movie. Ava DuVernay is a star what she did with Selma was magical and incredible so given the chance to adapt a book that many have said can not be delivered on the big screen is a big task. The film was marketed pretty well but it seems like the hype for it i...

Strangers: Prey at Night Directed by Johannes Roberts (storage 24, 47 Meters Down) Original Screenplay by Bryan Bertino (The Strangers, The Monster) Starring Christina Hendricks (The NeOn Demon, Bad Santa 2) Bailee Madison (Brothers, Just go With it) Martin Henderson (Flyboys, Smoking Aces) Emma Bellomy (SmokeTown, Before the Dark) & Lewis Pullman (Aftermath, Battle of the Sexes)  A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family's every limit as they struggle to survive. The first Strangers was a film that hurt me to the core and I was terrified. A movie with horrific scenes and scenarios that can happen to just anyone and that is the magic of most films. Did it need a sequel? I didn’t think so the first Strangers was a cult classic and to me one of the best horror films e...

The oscars my Christmas and it’s finally here. For us who love movies the process of making movies the little details in what separates great film from mediocre overhyped films. True art is in everything you have your blockbusters you have your art house films in every genre but the Oscars unlike the joke that is the golden globes are where movies that never get their recognition sometimes, finally get to shine. So as a yearly event for me these are my predictions of who I think will win the oscar and who I think should win the Oscar and not to brag I’m usually on point. So let’s gets started.  Best Picture nominees: Shape of Water Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri  Call Me By Your Name   Darkest Hour Phantom Thread The Post Will Win: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri  Should win: Call me By Your Name Best Director nominees: Guillermo Del Toro Jordan Peele Greta Gerwig Christopher Nolan...

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...