Cooper’s highly anticipated follow-up to his feature directorial debut “A Star is Born”. His follow-up, intentional or not, is another music-focused film. This time a biopic of American Conductor/Composer Leonard Bernstein.

This year we not only got one, but we got three courtroom films. Here I am reviewing all three. The Burial, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and Anatomy of a Fall.

The Killer is based on the French comic book series of the same name. The film follows Michael Fassbender as “The Killer” he is a paid assassin who is very good at his job. Except he has a slip-up which has rippling consequences.

Killers of the Flower Moon tells the true and relatively unknown story of the Osage Indians who were pushed out of Kansas and forced to relocate to Oklahoma. On their new land barren land in Oklahoma, they discovered oil and became some of the richest people in the United States. Then systematically Osage are murdered in a scheme to gain the “head rights” to the oil fortune.

Margot Bentley is a cold case investigator. She learned about the murder of the Carmichael family at their manor. As well as the paranormal happenings that have been reported there.

So Margot wants to make a documentary to figure out what happened. So Margot, her girlfriend Rebecca, and her brother Chase stay at the manor for a week and record their findings.

David Gordon Green is back to piss all over another Horror classic.

John Kramer hears about an experimental treatment by a European doctor who can treat even the most serious of cancer patients. So, he heads to Mexico to have the procedure done but finds out they never performed surgery.

One man, Keith Gill (Played by Paul Dano), believes GameStop’s stock is undervalued. As he streams about why he is buying up GameStop stock, large hedge funds were shorting the stock betting it would fail.

Bottoms is Emma Seligman’s sophomore effort after her first film Shiva Baby in 2020. A panic-inducing comedy film starring Rachel Sennott in a breakout role. Sennott is back with Emma this time co-writing Bottoms.

A group of kids has figured out how to summon spirits with an embalmed hand, of course, things go awry. Anyone that has ever watched a horror film before could tell these kids this was a bad idea.

Barbie has an existential crisis and has to travel to the real world to connect with the girl who is playing with her to fix what is wrong so Barbie can start having the perfect life again.

It tells of a snapshot in Oppenheimer’s life when he helped/led the development of the atomic bomb. We see snippets before this and before the war and a time after, but the main focus is the A-Bomb.

Ethan Hunt and his team are back again! Once again on the run as the America Government is chasing his team believing he is a danger to his country and the rest of the world.

Past Lives is the auto-biographical or at least semi-auto-biographical story of the writer/director Celine Song.

Since Father’s Day is next weekend I thought it’d be the perfect time to look back at one of the best Father/Son films ever made, The Place Beyond the Pines. Released in 2013, Directed by Derek Cianfrance who also penned the script with the help of Ben Coccio and Darius Marder.

Stephen King is one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. His writings have been adapted into nearly countless; TV shows, limited series, and movies. We have another to hit theaters this weekend. The Boogeyman is based on King’s 1973 short story of the same name.

World famous stand-up comedian Bert Kreischer became a world-famous stand-up comedian with one simple story he would close out his shows with. “The Machine” story. Now, it’s a full-blown film! Mixed with some embellishment.

Another comedy actor turned horror filmmaker. This time it’s Joe Lo Truglio going behind the camera to make a horror film. It stars Beth Dover as Kate, a woman who has left her abusive relationship.

Even films for adults now are served in a patina of brand recognition. Tis a sign of the times, unfortunately. However, like everything else in life, there are good and bad versions of these films.

Lizzy is an aspiring artist and lost Millennial who doesn’t want to work where she is, but will also procrastinate at every opportunity while working on her art. Because she has a show in a few days.