259 | Civil War

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 49min

• Written & Directed by Alex Garland

• Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura

• Premiered at South by Southwest March 14, 2024

• Released in theaters April 12, 2024

• RT: 81% critics / 70% audience

Synopsis 

War correspondents pick up a young woman on their way to Washington D.C. to capture footage of the insurgent Western Forces taking the capitol and seizing power from the president.

Join us in two weeks when we review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, opening in theaters September 6.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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232 | The Last Voyage of the Demeter

• Directed by André Øvredal

• Written by Bragi F. Schut and Zak Olkewicz

• Stars Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi and Javier Botet

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 58mins

• Released August 11, 2023

• RT: 49% critics, 74% audience

  Synopsis 

  Based on a single chapter, the Captain's Log, from Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel "Dracula", the story is set aboard the Russian schooner Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo - 24 unmarked wooden crates - from Carpathia to London.

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing Snowtown, now streaming on Shudder, AMC+ and Kanopy.

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175 | Army of the Dead

Directed by Zack Snyder

Stars Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera

Released 5/21/2021

Available on Netflix

Rated R

Runtime: 2hrs 28mins 

RT: 69% critics, 75% audience

Synopsis: An army transport accident leads to a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas. Many people are killed but the city is eventually walled off, the outbreak contained within Vegas. Scott Ward (Dave Bautista) was a hero in the outbreak, but now works as a line cook in a diner, having become estranged from his daughter. One day a mysterious millionaire offers him a heist job that will pay big. The only catch? The vault is in Las Vegas, of course. Can Ward and his team get the money and get out alive? And can they do it before a nuclear bomb is dropped, annihilating the city?

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Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing A Quiet Place part deux. Let’s see if they came up with an interesting follow-up to the first film, without her having another baby…

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