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I have seen Mufasa: The Lion King! Catch my thoughts in this reaction video. Are you excited for Mufasa: The Lion King?

The survival drama "Arctic" was the feature debut of Brazilian filmmaker and musician Joe Penna, best known for his YouTube channel MysteryGuitarMan. Penna co-wrote and directed the film, which stars Mads Mikkelsen as Overgård, the lone survivor of a plane crash in the Arctic Circle.

The movie starts well after the fact with Overgård relatively safe and as comfortable as possible in his daily survival routine, which involves ice fishing, working on a huge "SOS" spelled out in the snow and operating a distress beacon with the help of a hand-crank generator. When a helicopter responding to his beacon crashes, he finds himself saddled with a severely injured survivor (María Thelma Smáradóttir). As her health begins to deteriorate, he's forced to embark on a perilous trek through the icy wasteland in order to find rescue for both himself and his unconscious companion. Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/arctic-2018-movie-review.html

The year 2000 was a huge year for blockbusters. "Gladiator", "Mission: Impossible II", "X-Men", "The Perfect Storm", "Charlie's Angels", "The Patriot", "What Women Want", "Scary Movie", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Meet the Parents" were among the big hits that came out that year. The high-altitude adventure thriller "Vertical Limit" is not one of the big hits of that year. It did okay, but is mostly forgotten today, and has gained something of a bad reputation. For me personally, it's a solid "so bad it's good" guilty pleasure that I enjoy revisiting. Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/vertical-limit-2000-movie-review.html

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Today I'm here to discuss HBO Original Series Dune Prophecy Episode 5 “In Blood, Truth” and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official SPOILER Review, Discussion and Scene Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!

Carry-on, a return to form for director Jaume Collet-Serra, checks all the boxes for a gripping ticking-clock action thriller and is a delightful addition to the list of films to watch during Christmas.

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Today I'm reviewing "Queer," period romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs. Starring Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, Omar Apollo, and Lesley Manville.

When an epidemic of diphteria broke out in the Alaskan town of Nome in the winter of 1925, which mostly affected children, the only hope was a transport of diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across a distance of 674 miles of Alaskan territory while facing extreme subzero temperatures and hurrican-force winds from a massive ocoming storm. A relay system was set up involving 20 mushers and around 150 sled dogs.

Disney's "Togo" tells the story of sled dog breeder and trainer Leonhard Seppala (Willem Dafoe) and his titular lead dog (Diesel). Seppala covered the most dangerous part of the relay, a total of 170 miles. Despite that, the dog that often got credit for saving Nome's children is Balto, simply because he happened to run the last 55 miles of the race. This movie finally sets the record straight. Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/togo-2019-movie-review.html

The allure of conquering Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is irresistable to thousands of climbers from all over the world. It's been over 70 years since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and thousands of climbers have since followed in their footsteps, of which over 340 have died in this unforgiving environment. Baltasar Kormákur's fact-based drama "Everest" chronicles the "1996 Mount Everest disaster", a tragic event that claimed the lives of eight people when a major storm hit full force on May 10th, 1996, effectively trapping two expedition groups on the mountain in the worst weather conditions imaginable. Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/everest-2015-movie-review.html

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Today I'm here to discuss HBO Max Original Series Creature Commandos Episode 3 “Cheers to the Tin Man” and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official SPOILER Review, Discussion and Scene Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!

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HBO Original Series Dune: Prophecy Episode 5 Trailer Breakdown, Theories an Predictions! In this video I breakdown Episode 5 “In Blood, Truth” Preview Trailer and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official Discussion and Scene Trailer Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!

Denis Villeneuve returns for the epic finale to his acclaimed sci-fi epic "Dune: Part One" (read the review here). If you found the pacing of the first film to be too slow, the final chapter hits the ground running and doesn't let up. While the first film was decently paced in its own right, it did have to deal with a ton of introductory exposition and set up, and lacked a proper third act, ending on an anticlimactic note. With all that out of the way "Dune: Part Two" gets straight to the good stuff. Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/dune-part-two-2024-movie-review.html

Frank Herbert's "Dune" is one of the greatest sci-fi novels ever written. It also gained a certain reputation as being impossible to adapt. That hasn't stopped filmmakers from trying. David Lynch gave it a shot in 1984 and the result was a wild, often puzzling epic that has since gained a cult following of sorts. Then there was the 2000 5-hour TV miniseries, which was very faithful to the source material, but the low budget and Sci-Fi (Syfy) Channel production values held it back from greatness. I've read the book, watched all the adaptations and played all the video games several times throughout the years, and I have to admit some "Dune" fatigue did begin to settle in. Denis Villeneuve's "Dune", however, proved to be a refreshing new take on Herbert's sprawling epic. Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/dune-part-one-2021-movie-review.html

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Today I'm here to discuss HBO Original Series Dune Prophecy Episode 4 “Twice Born” and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official SPOILER Review, Discussion and Scene Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!

Did we really need a "Road House" remake ? This is apparently the kind of question Hollywood never asks, so we get movies like these. Now, the original wasn't some groundbreaking masterpiece. It was a silly 1980s action flick of the "So Bad, It's Good" variety. Remakes almost always attept to update the story for a modern audience. Did the 80s charm of the original survive the transplant ? Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/03/road-house-2024-movie-review.html

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Today I'm here to discuss HBO Max Original Series Creature Commandos Episode 1 “The Collywobbles” and Episode 2 "The Tourmaline Necklace" and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official SPOILER Review, Discussion and Scene Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!

Glen Powell is on a roll. After spending two decades trying to catch that big break, in the last two years, the 36-year-old actor has racked up big hits like "Top Gun: Maverick", "Anyone But You" and "Twisters". Richard Linklater's "Hit Man" is another breakthrough for Powell, offering him a chance to flex his acting muscles in a movie that is both mainstream-friendly (some might say it doesn't even feel like a Linklater film) and auteur-driven at the same time. Not only that, but Powell also co-wrote the script alongside Linklater.

First things first, although inspired by a true story and a real person, this is not a biopic. Roughly based on Skip Hollandsworth's 2001 Texas Monthly article "Hit Man", the film is a fictional account based on real-life college psychology professor Gary Johnson (Powell), who enjoyed a flourishing career as an undercover fake hitman for the police in the 1980s and 1990s, assisting in more than 70 arrests. The movie's premise is real, and the cases depicted are mostly fact-based, but everything aside from that is pure fiction, especially the part of the plot in which Gary falls in love with a suspect from one of his cases, played by Adria Arjona.

Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/hit-man-2023-movie-review.html

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HBO Original Series Dune: Prophecy Episode 4 Trailer Breakdown, Theories an Predictions! In this video I breakdown Episode 4 “Twice Born” Preview Trailer and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official Discussion and Scene Trailer Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!

It seems like the 1980s are an almost endless source of overlooked classics. Such is the case with the 1987 film "Black Widow" directed by Bob Rafelson, who is best known for the Jack Nicholson movies "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice". This was Rafelson's first film after a six year hiatus, and the script is penned by Ronald Bass ("Rain Man"). The steamy neo-noir thriller follows Justice Department agent Alexandra Barnes (Debra Winger) who is hot on the trail of a serial killer (Theresa Russell) who marries wealthy men who have a habit of turning up dead from natural causes despite seemingly being in good health. Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/12/black-widow-1987-movie-review.html

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Today I'm here to discuss HBO Original Series Dune: Prophecy Episode 3 “Sisterhood Above All” and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official SPOILER Review, Discussion and Scene Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!

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Today I'm reviewing "Nightbitch," a 2024 black comedy body horror film written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder. The film stars Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowden, Emmett Snowden, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Ella Thomas, Archana Rajan, and Jessica Harper.

As far as I know, there have been no Thanksgiving-centric horror films until Eli Roth decided to carve out his name in cinema history with the aptly titled slasher flick "Thanksgiving". The movie kind of took everyone by surprise, and I have to admit, despite not being a fan of Roth's films, it might just be his best work to date. A short-lived victory followed by this year's "Borderlands". Like "Hobo with a Shotgun" and "Machete", "Thanksgiving" is a feature-length adaptation of a fake trailer from the 2007 film "Grindhouse". Read the full review here: https://short-and-sweet-movie-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanksgiving-2023-movie-review.html

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HBO Original Series Dune: Prophecy Episode 3 Trailer Breakdown, Theories an Predictions! In this video I breakdown Episode 3 “Sisterhood Above All” Preview Trailer and I’m breaking it all down! This is my official Discussion and Scene Trailer Breakdown! Let's talk about everything in the comments!