"Hotel Transylvania, Transformia" (online) sequel to the others but without the familiar lead. The guy playing Drak is different. Meh. It was fine.
"Jackass Forever" sequel to the 2010 one where the Jackass boys are now approaching 50 and could really get hurt this time. Best comedy nods. No Bam though. He got booted off the set. Delayed for two months.
"Turning Red" (online) is a cute Pixar movie that annoyed the alt right because it's about icky stuff, sort of, at it made them feel icky. Maybe they are robots that never hit puberty? Dunno. The story is a coming of age Chinese Korean legend where the over protective mother of a young teen girl becomes twisted when her baby turns into a magical red panda, but also she seems to know as it happened to her.
"Moonfall" possibly one of the dumbest Emmerich movies ever made, as the Moon is hurled toward Earth because a black slime thing is inside the white dwarf inside it somehow. Impossible considering a star inside the moon would crush it, and the Earth. It would never fit in there anyway, as a brown dwarf is 30 times later than Jupiter, and the moon is only 1/4 that of Earth. Nods for worst movie of the year.
"Uncharted" like it never played the game, but only did a script based on reddit discussions, the odd Whalberg and Spider Boy vehicle horribly miscast but yet okay as a Tomb Raider meets Pirates flick.
"The Batman" the emo remake of the Elseworld/Long Dark Halloween (which was already animated last year) young Batman movie that has great moments, and proves sparkle vamp boy can play the Dark Knight.
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" (Online, but was theatrical) is weird scifi vehicle for Michelle Yeoh chewing scenery as dimension hopping laundromat owner. Direct result of my review of 'Parasite' but what it if was action, and had magic glasses in it, and yet one of the faves. It could very well net best picture.
"Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" tosses Strange into dimension hopping caper, similar to to that other flick, with a little space moppet girl who can jump into star shaped wormholes, and an evil version of Wanda. You have to have seen Wanda Vision to get it. Raimi pulls out his tropes, even using a zombie version of Strange for a crucial scene, and also nods to Lovecraft, minus the racism. Right wingers booty hurt over the blink and you miss it lady mothers scene. Grow a pair.
"Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers the Movie" (online) about 10 years too late, but still fun, a Roger Rabbit like live action meets toon crossover where they go there and make one of them trans, and that's fine. It was good.
"Top Gun Maverick" as this one had been put off for months, and finally saw it in midsummer, Tom Cruise returns to his Maverick role and teaches ace pilots to fly a daring mission into an undisclosed Asiatic country, possibly North Korea, but looked more like Pakistan. They could not cast the original female lead, as she looks like a highly matronly grandma now. Tom is preserved in carbonite, and looks like he had a lot of work done to look like he is still at most 45. He has to be in his late 60s by now. Still, it would have been fun it the movie had the balls to actually bring her back, that lady, and she's still in love with him and he doesn't mind, but alas they did not go there and cast someone 20 years younger, and hotter. Even so, spectacular flying scenes. Plot was fun nostalgia. Great but not terrific.
"Jurassic World Dominion" is when you run out of ideas, even though we told you, do the Invasion of LA by Dinosaurs, and they just did not want to go there, and spent much of the story chasing giant locusts to a mysterious island clone, with Datson playing Elon Musk, with underused G1 cast members along for the ride. They didn't include Lex and Tim. WTH? No Lex. So we have clone girl.
"Lightyear" as This is Not the Movie andy Watched as a Kid. No, it's the crap remake he watcherd With his Kid, who then hated it. This was so boring. Right wingers complained about blink and you miss it lesbian girl. No, that's not the problem with his nom for stiker of the year, it's the confusing story where Buzz jumps into the future only to meet his ahem, Father/Self as the bad guy, ah, barf. Whoever thought of this story should have been fired from Pixar.
"Beavis and Butt Head Do the Universe" (online) a spoof of the titular silly laughing 90s duo having been transported ala Interstellar to modern day fish out of water Earth, where in their parallel timeline, their boss has become governor of Texas, and is out to kill them. It's a fairly funny movie though and gets a lot of chuckles. The right wingers did not catch the trans gendered hippie teacher, now a woman, who speaks to them at the end, which is funny because it's the best scene. Mike Judge is no fan of the right. Ha.
"Thor Love and Thunder" Two years of hype and fake trailers led to a rather overblown and honestly not deserved raining against the movie when it came out, as it subverted expectations, and was kind of about Thor and Jane Foster, as Mighty Thor, going to hang out with Gor the God Butcher. Sure it doesn't live up to the hype, but it could not have. Also the complainers never read the comics. The cancer plot is part of the comics, so I'm told.
"Clerks 3" caps the third sequel angle on Dante and Randall's midlife crisis years, giving Kevin Smith time to spew about his heart condition through his characters. Not as funny as the first two, the story is more nostalgia and a look back at doing part 1, but it's just fine. Fun to see old cast members return, and to have them not recast the female lead, only to have her have a love scene with one of them.
"Black Adam" is sort of a SHAZAM movie where it's set at this weird made up country, and The Rock is in it. It didn't go over so well. Merely better than average, it was fine, but the Justice Socioety being in it is dumb, and they did not do Dr. Fate right. (I know of that comic).
"Black Panther Wakanada Forever" Chadwick was able to record his What Ifs before his death, but because he died, they had to do the next movie without him. It is consistent with the comics, where Suri does take over. Some not in the know complained. It was not nearly as gusty as the first, although it does include the Iron Man girl also, or a new one, which is fine too. The main problem is in doing Namor, they were trying too hard not to rip off Atlantis and Aquaman, and in doing so, rip off Aquaman. They couldn't help that. Making him meso American was not the problem. Making him at all was. They should not have made him the villain. Oh well.
"Moon Knight" (online) surreal clone of Wanda Vision where it is about a schizoid super hero who masquerades as a Egyptian god. It was okay.
"Kenobi" This is the almost movie that was made into a series, where Kenomi meets little girl Leia and rescues her. About half of it made sense. Anakin is still whiny Vader.
"Avatar the Way of Water" is James Cameron's 13 years in the making sequel where he makes it about family, his avatars for his, post divorce, and also goes full Little Mermaid meets Fern Gully. Also it is a Moby Dick, whaling is bad story. Maybe the next will have more space Nazis as Marines. It was okay. Well it has Kiri in it. Space Jesus.
