Wicked: For Good

My View: Wicked: For Good  (2025) PG   In Wicked: For Good, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the future Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda (Ariana Grande), the Good Witch of the North, begin to embrace their roles, and a rift begins to develop between the two friends as their lives move down a path of confrontation. Oh, and a certain young woman from Kansas is about to come onto the scene. I love musicals, both in cinema and on the stage, and I loved the first film and felt that the Jonathan Bailey dance sequence in the library was incredible. Does Wicked: For Good capture the magic again? Not quite. First, the second film is much darker than the first, exploring betrayal, sorrow, and lost friendships. So this film doesn’t have the feel-good moments that the first film had. Second, there is a rift between the two friends, Elphaba and Glinda, and what was so much fun and touching was the on-screen chemistry between Erivo and Grande. Unfortunately, the two characters aren’t on the screen together for a good deal of the film, as they have separated, living isolated, opposing lives. Ariana Grande gets a bit of the short straw in the film, as her numbers aren’t as dynamic or memorable as Erivo’s. Erivo has the big power number in the middle of the film to herself, and it’s the highlight of the film. I also think that splitting what should probably have been one 3-hour film into two was a mistake, as the storyline isn’t as strong as the first film’s. There also isn’t a big musical number in this film that rivals that library dance scene in the first one. Wicked: For Good is still a fine, enjoyable film; it’s just not on the level of emotion or spectacle as the first one. And while, yes, a young girl from Kansas does show up, the film makes it very clear that this isn’t her story. I walked out of the screening thinking, I just saw a good film. The problem is that I didn’t see a great one.   My Rating: Bargain Matinee Wicked: For Good Website  Now playing in theaters. 

My View:  Rental Family  (2025) PG-13  Rental Family is about an American actor, Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who lives in Japan. His roles have recently dried up, and he takes a job at the Rental Family agency, where Phillip will play ‘stand-in’ roles in other people’s lives. Through this unique experience, Phillip discovers surprising connections and unexpected joys within his new families. Rental Family isn’t a film that explores or answers big questions. However, it does handle how connecting with someone else is essential to mental health and well-being. Brendan Fraser is lovable as an American actor who is having a tough time making a living in Japan and takes on the job of being a rental for people who need a friend, someone to blame, or even someone to stand in for a parent or a loved one. It’s also about trying to understand a different culture other than your own. Rental Family is a predictable film, but I never felt it was too sappy or wasn’t sincere in its portrayal of people who need to feel less lonely or want to experience something important from their past. Rental Family is a feel-good movie, if only to watch Fraser be kind and work his magic on-screen. And sometimes that’s all we need in a film. My Rating: Full Price Rental Family Website  Now playing in theaters. 

My View:  Sisu: Road to Revenge  (2025)  R  Sisu: Road to Revenge is about Aatami (Jorma Tommila), “the man who refuses to die,” as he returns to the home where his family was murdered during the war. He dismantles the home and loads it on a truck, intending to rebuild it. When the Red Army commander (Stephen Lang), who killed Aatami’s family, returns, it sets off a cross-country chase where the body count will be high and revenge will be on the mind of Aatami. The first film, Sisu (2022), was a surprise hit, with brutal action, a good guy who seemingly can’t be killed as our hero kills what seems like a thousand Nazis, often in really creative ways. Our hero is back, and all he wants to do is take lumber from his home and bring it back to Finland. This time, our man is battling Russians, led by a sadistic officer who was so bad the Russians even had him in jail, but let him out to hunt down Aatami. I have a feeling that with the success of the first film, the budget was higher because everything from motorcyclists in armor to fight planes to a bomber is after our man and his trusty dog. The action is almost nonstop, and the deaths are gross and spectacular in an outlandish way. I had a great time watching this film and shrieked with glee a couple of times at the incredible kills. Sisu: Road to Revenge isn’t a film for everybody, but man, if you love creative ways to kill a bad guy and want to go on an adventure with Aatami, it’s worth the ride. Just be sure to duck a few times. You might lose your head. My Rating: Full Price   Sisu: Road to Revenge Website   Now playing in theaters.

My View:  Selena Y Los Dinos: A Family Legacy  (2025)  PG  Selena y Los Dinos: A Family Legacy is a documentary that shows Selena Quintanilla’s journey from playing at local events in South Texas to filling stadiums with the family band Selena Y Los Dinos, becoming the ‘Queen of Tejano Music.’ Living in San Antonio, Texas, for a long time, I got to see Selena perform several times live, and they were always so much fun. She and her band always gave a great show, and she was such a charismatic and talented singer. Most people now know Selena through Jennifer Lopez’s career-making performance in the 1997 film of the same name. While that film centered on Selena and the romance between her and her future husband, Chris, this documentary lets the whole family tell the story of the band and what it was like to be a family traveling on an old bus from small town to small town. Through the vast number of interviews Selena did and new interviews with members of her family and her husband, Chris, we get to see how they got started and the slow rise to fame that changed quickly when the band changed the type of music they were performing. One thing I found interesting was that Selena, her brother, and sister spoke very little Spanish when they started performing, and that they received a cool reception when Selena and the band first toured in Mexico, where they were seen as outsiders. Selena y Los Dinos is a fun and fascinating look at a family that loved to perform, and it wasn’t just Selena who had musical talent. Fans of Selena will love revisiting a talented performer who we can only guess would have become a major force in the music industry if her life had not been cut short so soon.  My Rating: Full Price Selena y Los Dinos: A Family Legacy Website  Now playing on the Netflix platform 

My View:  Jay Kelly  (2025) R Jay Kelly (George Clooney) is one of the world’s biggest movie stars, but is starting to reflect on his life and career. He decides to go on a trip with his daughter, Daisy (Grace Edwards), but it’s never simple living the life of Jay Kelly, movie star. Jay Kelly is a film you might think would be picture-perfect for George Clooney, one of our last true Hollywood superstars and someone who has taken over the mantle of the older heartthrob from Cary Grant. The problem is that Clooney is almost always likable on-screen, while Jay Kelly isn’t. In fact, Jay Kelly is a self-righteous jerk who puts his own well-being above everyone else and has no clue he is doing it. Jay is a part that Clooney could literally phone in, and to his credit, he doesn’t. However, the script treats Jay like such a great guy, even though he can’t even take the time to connect with his grown daughter. Writing this review, I kept thinking how the part that Adam Sandler plays, his manager Ron, would have been a better character to center the film around, and let Clooney’s character be in the background. There’s a better story there, and we certainly like Ron more than Jay. It’s not that Ron is a saint; in fact, I think Ron has a lot of baggage to deal with, but it would have made a far more interesting film. By the end of the Jay Kelly, I didn’t want to spend one more minute with Jay, and neither did anyone else in the film.  My Rating: Bargain Matinee Jay Kelly Website  Now in select theaters and on Netflix on Friday, December 5, 2025.

Forgotten Film:  Twenty Bucks  (1993) R  The story follows the journey of a twenty-dollar bill as it interweaves with the lives of different people. The first person to encounter the 20 dollars is Linda Hunt, a street person who is convinced that the 20 bucks will bring her good luck and win the lottery. Others get the twenty, including Brendan Fraser, who receives it as a wedding gift, and a stripper (Melora Walters), who gets it at a bachelor party. Everyone from Christopher Lloyd to Elizabeth Shue (my favorite story) show up in the stories. Some are better than others, but each tells an interesting story about how 20 dollars can change a person’s life, for better or worse. My Rating: Bargain Matinee Twenty Bucks Info  Available on Tubi and Amazon

Weird Credits:  From the credits of Wicked: For Good:  Dance Tutor

Coming Soon to a Screen Near You: Hamnet  (2025) PG-13  Hamnet is a historical drama that follows the relationship between Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), and the impact of the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet, on their lives. This tragedy ultimately inspires Shakespeare to create his most iconic play, Hamlet. The film is from Chloé Zhao; the filmmaker known for her two-time winning 2020 Academy Award-winning film Nomadland, and is expected to get multiple Academy Award nominations. Hamnet Website   In theaters on Wednesday, November 26, 2025.

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Anniversary

My View:  Anniversary  (2025)  R  Anniversary follows the story of Ellen and Paul (Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler), whose lives start to fall apart when Liz (Phoebe Dynevor) starts dating their son (Dylan O’Brien). It seems that not only is Liz a former student of Ellen, but has a secret that could unravel everything they hoped and dreamed for their son. Anniversary is a film where a few of the performances outweigh the quality of the direction and the script. Kyle Chandler gives one of his best performances of his career as a husband who wants everyone to get along and is convinced that things will work out, until they don’t, and then he becomes the last holdout when almost everyone else has given in. I don’t want to give too much away about the plot, but it’s about a world where a particular ideology threatens to take over everyone’s world. The film keeps adding plot twists to a movie that already has too many in its first 30 minutes. The ending is heavy-handed, and there is a scene in the final minutes that just made me mad because it was such an obvious callback to an early moment in the film. Anniversary wastes a strong cast by giving them parts that are either too clownish to be believable or too thin to understand their actions. I don’t think I will be celebrating this film’s anniversary anytime soon. My Rating: Cable  Anniversary Website  Now playing in theaters. 

Familyfaire:  Stitch Head  (2025)  PG  Stitch Head follows the story of a small, forgotten creature named Stitch Head, living in a castle. A Mad Professor keeps bringing strange put-together monsters to life and gives Stitch Head, his first creation, the job of protecting the professor’s newest creations from the suspicious townspeople of Grubber Nubbin. Stitch Head is if Tim Burton got together with the team that created The Greatest Showman and decided to do a new take on Frankenstein. Instead of scary monsters, we get a group of creatures that are deathly afraid of venturing out of the castle, worried that an angry mob of villagers is going to attack at any minute. Into the town comes a circus sideshow that is failing, and its ringmaster discovers Stitch Head is his sure-fire ticket to success. I had a great time watching this fun and charming film, a combination of a Hollywood musical and a Buster Keaton comedy. The animation is lively, and the storyline will please both parents and kids, who will fall in love with the adorable Stitch Head. So grab some popcorn and sit down to see a bunch of lovable monsters, a strange town, and a very sad sideshow combine to make an enjoyable time in the theater.  My Rating: Full Price  Stitch Head Website  Now playing in theaters.

My View:  Hedda  (2025)  R  Hedda takes place during a lavish party at the mansion that Hedda (Tessa Thompson) and her husband, George (Tom Bateman), a college professor, live at. Things get dicey when Hedda’s former lover, Eileen (Nina Hoss), arrives with her girlfriend, Thea (Imogen Poots). Hedda takes this as a challenge to turn the tables and the spotlight on herself. It’s going to be an interesting party. Ever been to a party that you thought you were going to have a great time at, but wanted to leave after just a few minutes? That is how I felt watching this film. My biggest problem with the film is that it’s about Hedda, and I left feeling I knew less about her than any guest at the party. Tessa Thompson plays Hedda, who is unhappy unless she is creating problems for everyone, including her husband, her former lovers, and anyone else that she sets her sights on. Based on Henrik Ibsen’s play, but set in more modern times, Hedda is a woman who delights in pushing people’s buttons and in having everyone lust after her. Thompson’s performance lacks the charisma the role requires, and I never felt invested in her character. Unfortunately (for the film’s sake), I found the former lover of Hedda’s, Eileen, to be a far more interesting and rounded character than Hedda. Nina Hoss steals the movie as a determined woman who ventures into Hedda’s party with the intent of showing Hedda how much she has changed and that she no longer needs or wants Hedda’s attention. It’s a marvelous performance, so good that you wish her character was the main focus of the story. By the time the film ended, I didn’t really care what happened to Hedda, and I hope I never get invited to one of her parties again.  My Rating: Bargain Matinee  Hedda Website  Now playing on Amazon Prime

Indiefest:  Nouvelle Vague  (2025)  R Nouvelle Vague tells the story of the birth of the New Wave era in French cinema. In 1959, Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck), a former film critic, directed a groundbreaking film called Breathless that ignited the cinema world. I am not a big fan of the French “New Wave” films of the late 50s and early 60s, which took a new perspective on filmmaking, including using jump cuts, hand-held cameras, and dialogue created in the moment. The film is director Richard Linklater’s love letter to the New Wave movement and its filmmakers and film critics. The film follows Jean-Luc Godard as he films a movie, seemingly with little regard for anything beyond his conviction that he is making a great movie. For filmgoers who aren’t knowledgeable about the movement, the constant introduction of filmmakers and writers in the film will get old very fast. I think what is missing from the film is the excitement and passion these filmmakers brought to moviemaking, in their gorilla-style of shooting first and taking names later. I thoroughly enjoyed the performances of Zoey Deutch as American actress Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Deutch makes us fall in love with beautiful and talented Seberg, showing us why Seberg had that screen presence and charm that filmmakers fell in love with. And Dullin gives us the boyish charm of Belmondo that made him an instant international star. I just wish I had enjoyed the film more, but I felt it was trying to teach me rather than letting me enjoy the moment. Kind of like the New Wave movement wanted us to experience film, just enjoy the moment.  My Rating: Bargain Matinee  Nouvelle Vague Website      In select theaters on Friday, October 31, 2025, and on Netflix on Friday, November 14, 2025. 

Indiefest:  Queens of the Dead (2025)  R  Queens of the Dead takes place when a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn. As the undead emerge on the night of a major warehouse party, a group of drag queens, club kids, and even a few frenemies must put aside their differences to take on the danger. Together, they will harness their unique skills to fight against the horde of zombies. Queens of the Dead is fun and funny for about the first fifteen minutes. Sadly, it starts to run out of steam when the zombies start showing up in force. Which is quite strange, given that the daughter of legendary George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead), Tina Romero, co-wrote and directed this film. The jokes become increasingly forced, and the acting begins to falter when the characters are pushed to react more intensely. By the end of the film, which concludes quite unconvincingly, I felt ready to sashay my way out of the theater.   My Rating: Cable  Queens of the Dead Website    Now playing in select theaters

Indiefest:  Bugonia  (2025) R Bugonia unfolds when two conspiracy-obsessed young men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap a high-powered CEO (Emma Stone), convinced that not only is she an alien, but she is planning on destroying the planet. Another in a long line of strange but enjoyable films for five-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia is part comedy, part drama, with a bunch of absolutely bonkers scenes thrown into the mix. It is so much fun to watch Plemons and Stone on the screen together. Plemons plays a man who is convinced he must save the earth by forcing this alien to take him to her leader for a meeting to save the planet. Stone, playing a CEO who thinks, no, knows she is smarter than Plemons’ character and needs to find a weakness to get him to see that it would be in his best interest to let her go. If you didn’t enjoy films like Poor Things or The Favourite, then don’t see this film, as it is more of the same Lanthimos touch of wackiness with scenes that can go quickly from humor to horror in a matter of seconds. Stone and Plemons show why they are two of our finest actors, who have finely tuned their craft to make any scene work, no matter how off-the-wall nuts it is. My Rating: Full Price  Bugonia Website  Now playing in theaters

Forgotten Film:  A Walk on the Moon  (1999)  R  In 1969, things are changing in the world, especially in a small town where a bored housewife named Pearl (Diane Lane) meets a traveling dress-seller (Viggo Mortensen). Soon, Pearl succumbs to desire, and her life becomes more meaningful than it ever has been before. While A Walk on the Moon isn’t great, it’s always a delight to watch Diane Lane work. I wish the story had been more centered on Pearl’s daughter, Allison, played by Anna Paquin, who commands the screen in every scene she is in, so much so that you can’t take your eyes off her. There is a better film hiding somewhere in the script about Allison than this one, centering on Pearl.   My Rating: Bargain Matinee   A Walk on the Moon Info Available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime

Weird Credits:  From the credits of Bugonia: Air Management

Coming Soon to a Screen Near You:  Wicked: For Good  (2025)  PG  As Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the future Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda (Ariana Grande), the Good Witch of the North begin to embrace their roles, a rift begins to develop between the two friends, as their lives move down a path of confrontation. Oh, and a certain young woman from Kansas is about to come onto the scene.  Wicked: For Good Website The sequel to last year’s hit musical comes to theaters on Friday, November 21, 2025. 

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Wicked

My View: Wicked  (2024) PG Wicked is about Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a misunderstood young woman who has been looked down upon because of her green skin. Glinda (Ariana Grande) is a spoiled rich girl who is a little boy crazy. At Shiz University in the Land of Oz, they find themselves becoming unlikely friends. We are about to learn that there are always two sides to a story. Wicked is a perfect example of what film can do with an adaptation of a Broadway musical. Take the music and story from the stage and flesh the story out, giving us more about the characters than what we get just from a song. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande shine in this adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Both are award-worthy performances and, like the two characters, the performances of Erivo and Grande are different but still both fantastic. Grande is perfect as the vain Glinda (pronounced with a hard G, by the way), who knows she is something special and loves the attention she gets just walking in the room, always looking perfect. Grande shows impressive range in her songs and commands the screen in every scene she is in, which is hard when your cast-mate in many scenes, Cynthia Erivo is equally compelling and commanding. Wicked is Elphaba’s story, and Erivo runs with the role, making us fall in love with her character from her first song. It’s an impressive and multi-level performance that gives us insight into what Elphaba thinks and feels as she discovers she isn’t a freak with green skin but someone who can have friends who care about her. The musical numbers range from some solos for both Erivo and Grande to big production numbers that are inventive and fun to watch. The musician number which takes place in the school’s library where the love interest of the film, Jonathan Bailey, as Prince Giyero, does a rousing number that has people dancing upside down that will blow you away. For fans of the Broadway musical, this will be a wonderful addition to a story they love. To the rest of us who haven’t seen it, it’s a beautiful film anchored by two terrific performances and a set design that is truly out of this world. I don’t know if there are any songs you will be humming as you walk out the theater door, but I know that you will be looking forward to part two.  My Rating: I Would Pay to See it Again.  Wicked Website Now playing in theaters nationwide, including 3-D. 

My View:  Gladiator II  (2024)  R    Gladiator II tells the story of Lucius (Paul Mescal), who, after his home is conquered by a Roman army led by Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal), is captured and taken to Rome to become a Gladiator to fight in the Colosseum. Lucius vows revenge and looks to his past to find the strength to return the glory of Rome to its people. Gladiator II takes place fifteen years after the first film, and the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), Lucias, is living a good life with his loving wife, Arishat (Yuval Gonen), in Numidia. That city is attacked by a Roman force led by General Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal), who conquers the city. Lucius’ wife is killed, and he is forced into slavery, where he is spotted by Macrinus (Denzel Washington), who hand-picks Lucius to become a gladiator. Lucius vows to kill Marcus Acacius and anyone who gets in his way. The reason Gladiator was such a fantastic spectacle of a movie was because of the star power of Russel Crowe, the absolutely bonkers performance of Joaquin Phoenix and the incredible fighting sequences (including tigers). Now we have Gladiator II, which is still worth the price of admission because director Ridley Scott knows how to bring something this big and magical to the screen. However, there are some problems with this film that the first film didn’t suffer from. First is Paul Mescal doesn’t have the star power to play this part. I love him in smaller films, but this role needed a commanding presence that when he walks into any room, people will follow him to the death because of his charisma and star power. Russel had it. Even going back to Kirk Douglas in another gladiator genre film, Spartacus, had it. Mescal doesn’t. He is too soft- spoken and not charismatic enough for the role. In fact, I think the film might have been better if Mescal and Pedro Pascal had switched roles. The second problem is the CGI is not worthy of a movie that cost 250 million to make. Some of the CGI effects look like they didn’t go through a final process, making the film, at times, lose some of its impact. However, some of the battle sequences are fun to watch, and then there is Denzel Washington. Washington has a blast playing the string pulling Macrinus, who plays people like they are pieces on a board game. Washington does what few can do, chew up scenery and still make it look like a master class in acting. Watching Washington act on screen makes up for any fake-looking CGI severed head any day. So, pay tribute to Maximus and the past with a new adventure in the land of sandals, blood, and sweat. We are entertained. Just not as much as the first one.  My Rating: Bargain Matinee Gladiator II Website  Now playing in theaters nationwide.

My View:  Bread & Roses  (2023)  Bread & Roses is a documentary that follows three women living in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Kabul. The documentary is a heartbreaking and powerful film about women at great peril fighting for their rights. The film is shot by the women on their phones as we see the fall of Kabul and how the Taliban started taking away the rights of women. One of the women, Dr. Zahra Mohammadi, is an outspoken dentist who has her own successful practice. She is vocal in street protests, constantly having meetings in her dentist offices, and is arrested several times during the film. Her practice is shut down, and she can no longer even take a taxi alone on the streets of Kabul. As the film progresses, we see the bravery of these women who keep speaking up, even when threatened with imprisonment and beating. The film shows the bravery of these women, as we see scene after scene where their protests are shut down with violence and arrests. In one shocking scene, after being arrested and put in a police car, the women are told that if they don’t shut up, they will be killed. A woman in the car dares the officer to kill her. Bread & Roses is a film that puts you right in the middle of a fight for basic human rights, where women are fighting against a regime of tyranny. Bread & Roses has gotten some publicity because of actress Jennifer Lawrence and activist Malala Yousafzai (who, as a teen, was shot in the face by the Taliban), but the focus should be on the film and the women who put their lives on the line to protest the ceasing of women’s rights at great peril.  My Rating: Full Price Bread & Roses Info  Now playing on Apple TV. 

My View:  The Piano Lesson  (2024) PG-13    The Piano Lesson focuses on the Charles family in 1936 Pittsburgh during the Depression and their conflict over what to do with a treasured heirloom piano, a legacy of their enslaved ancestors. This is another film produced by Denzel Washington that is based on a play by the legendary playwright August Wilson. The film is directed by Malcolm Washington (Denzil’s son), who co-wrote the screenplay with Virgil Williams, who was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay Mudbound, which he co-wrote with Dee Rees. Another Denzel son, John David Washington, stars as Boy Willie Charles, who comes into town and into the lives of his sister Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler) and their uncle Doaker (Samuel L. Jackson). Boy Willie is there to claim his inheritance, a piano carved by a relative, a slave at the time, who carved the Charles family’s faces and scenes from their life into a piano owned by their slave master. Boy Wille’s father, who lost his life in the heist, stole that piano, and Boy Wille wants to sell the piano to buy some farmland. His sister is dead set against selling the piano and is convinced that ghosts are protecting it from being taken. Most of the film, like the play, centers on a couple of rooms in the home, as characters talk and drink, debating if the piano should be sold and if the ghosts of the dead are still around to protect it. There is a show-stopping scene in the middle of the film when the men are all drinking late one night and start a work song from the past that they sing with their hearts. The Piano Lesson is a film filled with powerful performances and always with August Wilson’s work, some fantastic speeches that seem to fill the air with those ghosts from the past. My Rating: Full Price The Piano Lesson Website  Now playing on the Netflix platform. 

Forgotten Film:  The Comedians  (1967)  A Welsh hotel owner (Richard Burton) secretly romances a diplomat’s wife (Elizabeth Taylor) while the harsh and violent reign of the despot ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier brings a country to its knees. The Comedians isn’t a great film, but it has a ton of star power from the 60s. Taylor and Burton were at the height of their fame and relationship, and they bought the rights to the book by Graham Greene as a vehicle for them to work together on. No matter that the wife in the book is barely in the film, Graham Greene wrote the screenplay and put Taylor in a scene every ten minutes to satisfy the couple and ensure the check would clear. Besides the power couple (Taylor looks terrific in the film), we have a cast that includes Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Lillian Gish (great performance in a sea of bad ones), James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and Paul Ford. The Comedians is worth watching to see a great example of Hollywood of the 60s trying to find things for the world’s most famous couple and failing.  My Rating: Bargain Matinee The Comedians Info  Available to rent/buy on Amazon.

Weird Credits:  From the credits of Gladiator II: Shooting Electricians

Coming Soon to a Screen Near You:  Mufasa: The Lion King  (2024)  PG  Mufasa is a cub who is lost and alone. He meets another cub named Taka, who is heir to a royal bloodline. They become fast friends, and with Taka’s help, along with some new friends, Mufasa might survive in this savage and beautiful world. The film is from Barry Jenkins, the Academy Award-winning director of Moonlight. Mufasa: The Lion King Website The film will be released on December 20, 2024, 30 years after the original The Lion King was released. 

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