Reviews

This movie is an excellent sequel. It has all the necessary paranormal elements and some cool new ones. There are drone ghost traps and a lab that studies ghosts. Walter Peck is now the Mayor of New York City but he is still trying to take down the Ghostbusters. There is of course a big and bad evil spirit causing mayhem. Slimer is still eating and sliming like there's no tomorrow. Little marshmallow men are everywhere. The Ghostbusters definitely have their hands full and not just with Proton Pack guns. The new cast and old mesh well together. Busting makes them feel good and makes me feel good watching it.

Bradley Cooper truly transforms into Leonard Bernstein in more ways than one. Not only is he made to look just like him but all his mannerisms and speech is exactly alike too. Cooper plays Bernstein as passionate about music and love just like the real Bernstein was. The first half of this movie is a bit dull but the second half has the real fire. When Bernstein conducts the orchestra in the cathedral not only are the acoustics fantastic but Cooper puts his heart and soul into that performance. He trained for six years to do that and it shows. Carey Mulligan, who played Bernstein's wife, is fantastic in her acting especially when she has breast cancer in the movie. It is nice to see Sarah Silverman play a serious role as Bernstein's sister. I give Bradley Cooper so much credit for really immersing himself into this role as well as directing.

This is absolutely one of the best biopics I've seen. Kingsley Ben-Adir nails this role. He plays Bob Marley as a savior for the Jamaican people. A man who freed them with music. There was so much turmoil going on in Jamaica in the 70's that someone had to stand up for their right. Marley was like Moses who was chosen to lead the people to the promised land. That's why the album title Exodus fits so well with this. Marley's melodies and lyrics united the people during a bloody war. They were all about peace, love and redemption. Bob Marley had the courage and heart of a lion who deserves his place in musical history forever.

First of all, I am a Jew who has read the Torah and knows the story of Moses very well. Second, I am a big fan of the original movie which does the actual story of Moses justice. This musical changes things in extremely unnecessary and convoluted ways. At one point the pharoah Ramses makes a deal with Moses that he will free the slaves if Moses joins him. Moses agrees to this. This is an absurd change considering in the original story Ramses hardens his heart and doesn't free the slaves so he can keep his kingdom strong. He also promised his dying father, Seti, that he will not be the weak link in the chain. In the musical Ramses goes back on his word to Moses and keeps the Hebrews enslaved which also makes him a liar and a coward. At the end of the show Ramses survives and is all buddy buddy with Moses. Moses also doesn't even go to the top of Mount Sinai and get the Ten Commandments which is literally the most important part to the story. The production and additional music were nice but nowhere near enough to save this travesty.

This is a cautionary tale about what goes around, comes around. Cady Heron is a girl who lived in Kenya, Africa with her mother. She transferred to North Shore High School in the US and befriended two outcasts named Janice and Damian. The Plastics led by the queen bee of the school, Regina George, also befriended Cady and let her in their circle. Janice was bullied by Regina in the past and conspired with Cady to get revenge on the queen of mean. Cady suddenly became popular and her status turned her into a vain and petty person. She turned on Janice and Damian. Regina and Cady's karma came around to bite them. I saw the Broadway musical that this is based on and this movie does it justice. The cast performs their parts well. The moral of the story is basically don't try to be someone you're not and don't be mean or you'll be sorry in the end.

This movie starts off as a Frankenstein inspired piece. Then it gets progressively weirder and weirder. Emma Stone is good in her role as Bella Baxter, the creation of Dr Godwin Baxter played by Willem Dafoe. Mark Ruffalo as Bella's love interest is horrible in his acting. He should just stick to playing the Hulk. The movie becomes so sexualized that it is kind of perverted. The design of the movie is interesting and unique with Victorian and future elements. The costumes are nice as well. I don't understand why this movie got such a high rating. It is decent but not amazing. It is original though so that is a plus.

Timothee Chalamet does an excellent job playing Willy Wonka. He has a nice singing voice as well. The movie is a musical with some good new songs. The story is cute but a little too odd sometimes. The whole thing about a corrupt priest who loves chocolate is a bit excessive and kind of making fun of Christianity. This movie does pale in comparison to both the Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp movies. Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa is funny. This movie doesn't take itself too seriously which is good considering there's so many zany things going on. I will say that the story's pure imagination is original and that is a plus.

This movie is beautifully filmed, casted, written and scored. It also shows that AI can be more than just machine. The AI in this movie feel, think, eat, drink and have self awareness. In many ways the AI is more human than most of the humans depicted, especially the little AI girl named Alphie. She was built by Nirmata, the Creator, to be the Chosen One and free AI from humans' slavery. She is sweet and innocent. She has amazing powers but has no idea why she has them and why she was created. In the beginning of the movie I was rooting for the humans but then I started rooting for the AI when I found out that they just wanted to be free from humanity's enslavement. Gareth Edwards directed and wrote this. He did a fantastic job with both. I hope this movie wins some awards because it deserves to.

Oppenheimer was a greedy war monger who could have blown up the world. The fact that people love this man so much is incredibly disturbing to say the least. It's like looking at Lex Luthor as being a superhero. Oppenheimer created the most awful invention in the history of humanity and he should be looked at with disdain, not applauded. If the world does get blown up by nuclear weapons it will be thanks to this man. I hope people understand that so they don't see this movie with rose colored glasses. War is hell and nuclear war is Armageddon. I don't worship war profiteers for that very reason.

The movie is semi decent but the story is so unoriginal. The multiverse thing has been done to death and the time travel stuff has been done even more. The whole concept of multiple Batmans from different timelines has already been done even better with Spider-Man: No Way Home with multiple Spider-Mans. Seeing Michael Keaton come back as Batman is mildly entertaining. The comedy in this movie goes from kind of funny to cringeworthy. Supergirl is in this movie for half a second so I can't really comment on her. The last scene in the movie shows the timeline being changed with the worst Batman of all time being the current Batman.... George Clooney. I finally have accepted that original ideas for scripts are not going to be the Hollywood norm. Oh well.