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Review – Wicked (2024)

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🎬 Bob Ward & Kevin Muller are back with a spellbinding review of the box office sensation—Wicked! 🌟✨

The guys dive into the magical world of Wicked, where the story of Elphaba, the misunderstood green-skinned girl, and Glinda, the popular “Good Witch,” unfolds at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. 🏰 But when they cross paths with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship is tested, and their destinies take a dramatic turn. 🌪️

From jaw-dropping performances to stunning visuals, they break down what makes this adaptation a must-see on the big screen! 🎶💚

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Review – Da 5 Bloods (2020)

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by Kevin Muller

For almost 40 years, Spike Lee has made some of the most memorable films to come out of Hollywood. His works are full of black pride, black history, and the overall nature of the black experience. With that being said, it took him 35 years to finally get an Oscar nomination. That one was for the incredible 2018 film, Blackkklansman which featured amazing performances by Adam Driver and John David Washington, son of Denzel, who has every bit of his father’s swagger and gift for performance. In the recent years, directors are flocking towards Netflix, because as we saw with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and Alfonso Cauron’s Roma, both my picks for best picture in their respective years, the studio lets the artist do their thing with little to no involvement. It’s now Spike’s turn, so how did he do?

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Review – Da 5 Bloods (2020)

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by Armando Vanegas

Contemplative and uncompromising, Spike Lee’s latest movie, Da 5 Bloods, offers a look at four black Vietnam vets and long time friends who return to Vietnam to retrieve both the U.S. gold they hid during a mission and the body of a fellow fallen soldier, Stormin’ Norman. Things get complicated when one of the vets, played by Delroy Lindo, goes his own way and manages to complicate things for the crew. It also doesn’t help that his son, played by Jonathan Majors, has shown up to get a share of the gold.

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ADOPT A HIGHWAY by Logan Marshall-Green – In Theaters November 1st

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“Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.”

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