Derrick T Dunn

Antagonistic and villainous doll, Chucky, receives an update for the 21st-century in Child’s Play from United Artists Releasing. Director Lars Klevberg and scriptwriter Tyler Burton Smith opens an adaptation of the eighties classic by introducing us to the Kaslan Corporation (a parody of Amazon). The company is launching its newest product, the”Buddi”, a doll designed to be life-long …

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French film director Luc Besson, introduces audiences to a new action heroine in Anna from Lionsgate. The year is 1990, and Anna Poliatova (Sasha Luss) is a beautiful young woman selling China dolls in Russia to make ends meet. One day, Anna meets a man who wants her to become a model, which she does, …

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Sheriff Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) return to the screen in director Josh Cooley’s Toy Story 4 from Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. After opening with a brief backstory regarding the separation of Bo Peep (Annie Potts) and Woody, the latest entry in the Toy Story franchise reintroduces us to …

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Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson don the quintessential black suits and shades in Columbia Pictures Men in Black: International. F. Gary Gray directs the film with a script courtesy of writing duo Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The new movie is a standalone sequel, spin-off and soft reboot of the original trilogy; with the fourth …

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Iconic African American police detective John Shaft returns to the big screen in Warner Bros. Pictures, Shaft from director Tim Story. The latest Shaft film opens in 1989 and finds John Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson) arguing with his wife Maya (Regina Hall) and mother of his newborn son John “JJ” Shaft Jr. After an …

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Iconic video game and media franchise “Pokémon” receives a big screen adaptation in Warner Bros. Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Rob Letterman helms the film, which features Ryan Reynolds voicing the iconic character. Pokémon Detective Pikachu opens on the outskirts of Ryme City in a lab where scientists are conducting devious experiments. Gumshoe Harry Goodman is investigating …

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Walt Disney Studios and Marvel Studios present one of the year’s most anticipated movies, Avengers: Endgame. Picking up after the events of Avengers: Infinity War, Endgame finds Thanos (Josh Brolin) basking in his victory of eradicating half of the universe. The earthbound Avengers who survived include Captain America (Chris Evans), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris …

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The latest entry in Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Conjuring Universe arrives with The Curse of La Llorona from director Michael Chaves. Opening with a prologue in 1673 Mexico, a family is celebrating a joyous moment. All is not well. For reasons unknown, the mother drowns the children. Three hundred years later, a social worker Anna …

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Easter weekend provides audiences with a new faith-based film from 20th Century Fox and director Roxann Dawson. Based on the 2017 biography The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother’s Faith and Her Child’s Resurrection by Joyce Smith, Breakthrough is a predictable, yet heartwarming, film. John Smith (Marcel Ruiz) is a typical fourteen- year-old living …

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The concept of age swapping gets a new spin in Universal Pictures, Little from director Tina Gordon. Opening in 1993, Little introduces us to a young Jordan Sanders (Marsai Martin) who is passionate about science. At the school science fair, bullies embarrass Jordan and she vows to never become a victim again when she grows …

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