Get Out (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Get Out (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Written and Directed by: Jordan Peele

Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Keener, LilRel Howery, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel,

Runtime: 104 min

Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) are dating for a few months now, so she invites him to meet her parents, Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford), on a weekend getaway.

Initially, what seems to be just nerves from her parents since she's in an interracial relationship, happens to be much more than what Chris expected it to be and a lot of thought-provoking and disturbing discoveries lead him to something even more surreal.

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The Mummy (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

The Mummy (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Alex Kurtzman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Russell Crowe

Runtime: 120 min

Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) is a "soldier" (he's more of a thief) looking for a treasure with his companion, Chris Vail (Jake Johnson), when some mysterious Egyptian findings below the surface change their plans.

Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), a princess that had her destiny taken from her, was imprisoned there, but now she's finally awake and ready to release her anger and evil in the world.

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Wonder Woman (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Wonder Woman (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Patty Jenkins

Written by: Allan Heinberg

Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui

Runtime: 141 min

Synopsis: Gal Gadot portrays Diana, an Amazon princess that lives peacefully on an island of only women warriors until Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), a man (!), crashes his plane into the water nearby. After saving him, she learns that the world is going through war and she decides to help him in order to fulfill the destiny of her people and restore peace all around the planet, while also discovering who she really is.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: James Gunn

Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Kurt Russell

Runtime: 137 min

After the huge success of the first film, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team's adventures, being "family" the main thread of this film.

The Guardians fight to protect each other while Peter Quill / Star-Lord(Chris Pratt) learns the mysteries of his lineage and characters (new and old ones) from the comics show up for the delight of the fans.

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Ghost in the Shell (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Ghost in the Shell (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Rupert Sanders

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt

Runtime: 106 min

Ghost in the Shell (1995) is a very influential anime movie that inspired several great films (The Matrix, AI: Artificial Intelligence, ...), so a live-action adaptation felt needed. Scarlett Johansson plays Major, a cyber-enhanced human that is built to prevent and stop terrorism, something that she's uniquely qualified to do since she's the first of her kind.

As a new enemy appears, she discovers that her life might not have been saved, but yet stolen. She goes on a journey to recover what she can of her memories and try to stop it from being done to other people, while a psychological battle around humanity and life takes place throughout the film.

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Life (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Life (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Daniel Espinosa

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya

Runtime: 103 min

A six-member crew of the International Space Station (ISI) have the mission of retrieving the first ever evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. However, as the research goes on, this life form starts evolving and proving everyone that it (he? she?) is smarter than everyone thought.

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Beauty and the Beast (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Beauty and the Beast (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Bill Condon

Starring: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Audra McDonald, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson

Runtime: 129 min

Disney brings us a new live-action film from another very known childhood's movie: Beauty and the Beast. Following the success of The Jungle Book, this time we have the pleasure to watch once again the story of Belle (Emma Watson), a beautiful, simple and ahead-of-her-time woman, who gets imprisoned in a castle by its Beast (Dan Stevens).

While staying true to the original story, costumes and score, we also receive some new music and a few changes in the characters and screenplay ... Good changes or not really?

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Logan (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Logan (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: James Mangold

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Dafne Keen

Runtime: 135 min

Logan is set in 2029, (almost) all of the mutants died and a drunk, isolated and depressed Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), aka Logan, is spending the rest of his life near the Mexican border with a mutant named Caliban (Stephen Merchant) and a sick Professor X (Patrick Stewart).

When a woman comes asking for his help to take her "special" daughter to safety, Logan sees himself in a live-or-die mission that might finally take him through his long-searched destiny's path, similarly to Hugh Jackman's supposedly last portrayal of this epic character.

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La La Land (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

La La Land (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Damien Chazelle

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, Callie Hernandez, Sonoya Mizuno, Jessica Rothe, Tom Everett Scott, Josh Pence

Runtime: 128 min

After the success of Whiplash, Damien Chazelle brings us an original musical about the journey of pursuing our dreams and all of the hope and pain that that path leads us through.

Mia (Emma Stone) is an aspiring actress, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is a passionate jazz musician and both of them are struggling to reach their similar dream: to live doing what they love the most.

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Manchester by the Sea (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Manchester by the Sea (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Kenneth Lonergan

Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson

Runtime: 135 min

Kenneth Lonergan directs his own original story with the help of Casey Affleck, who portrays Lee Chandler, a man who lived a very tragic past and he's now his nephew's guardian due to his brother's death.

This is something that he wasn't expecting and a trip to Manchester (by the sea), the city where he was born and raised (and where all of the tragic events happened), makes him go through all of those horrible memories while trying to help his spirited nephew.

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