Avatar: Fire and Ash

 

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" is one of my favorite movies of the series. 

This movie made up for "Avatar: The Way of Water" (which I felt was a rehash of the first). 

I did not think I would love this as much as I did, but Fire and Ash really made me love it from start to finish (3 hours and 18 minutes). 

The characters are back, but it's deeper and more involved. It picks up after The Way of Water, with Quaritch (Stephen Lang) tried to kill everyone with him finding a new tribe (Ash people) that want to destroy Jake and his family as well as take over Pandora. 

Working against Quaritch is General Ardmore who wants to finish the job of getting the RDA to poach the Tulkun. 

Overall, this film is a 4/5. The pacing is great except I feel the final part of the film could've been condensed into one big battle instead of two. But everyone acted their arses off, and the story is so tight and meticulous.

Eternity

 

This is one of the most surprisingly, charming movies I've seen in a long time.

Eternity is a romantic drama about Elizabeth Olsen (Joan) dying. As she goes to choose her eternity (where she will end up forever), she's confronted by her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean War, and her recently deceased husband Larry (Miles Teller), whom she was married to for 65 years. Here's the kicker...Luke has spent 67 years waiting for Joan to come to the "Junction", an in-between space where he must decide where he wants to spend his eternity. 

It's surprisingly a great movie. When I was about to sigh and give up, a twist happened that made me invested again. That happened about 4 times.

Easily 4/5 stars. Worth seeing in the theaters for a date night.

The Running Man

 

Glen Powell plays Ben Richards, a go right married father who goes on a reality tv show to save his daughter's life and provide for his family...based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Set in the near future, Ben hops job to job trying to provide from his family only caveat his firings aren't his fault. From being a whistleblower to not working unsafe conditions, no one wants to keep him on staff. When he sees the advertisement to win $1b by surviving 30 days on the tv show THE RUNNING MAN, he hesitates at first but takes the chance. 

The Running Man is a reality tv real-time survival show where the contestant travels the world while having a target on their back. If they can live past 30 days they win the grand prize, but every day they are alike they get bonus points...even more bonus points if they kill the Hunters from the show hired to track them down.

It's actually a very good movie. 4/5 stars. And now I have to watch the original 1987 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger!

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

 

50 Cent obtained the footage of Diddy's documentary right before he was going on trial. Then 50 interviewed others around the footage.

This is the most disturbing documentary since "the Murder of Gabriel Fernandez." The fact that he got away with this for so long is truly crazy to me...and he assaulted women AND men.

So many revelations came out of this doc. Basically the takeaway was that Diddy made his fortune on the back of others...he's no different than a slave owner. He lied, cheated, and stole from people that trusted and believed in him. THEN made them feel like they did something wrong. But it's the physical, mental, and verbal abuse he did to SO MANY PEOPLE...he needs to be locked away for the rest of his life. 

I agree with 50...this needed to be done. And Aubrey O'Day and others needed to have their voices heard. 4/5 documentary.

Wicked for Good

 

It has taken me a few days to write this because I'm actually very upset...this movie did not live up to the first.

I waited A YEAR! And backstory, I never saw the musical. So I was so in love with the first movie. Saw it 3 times in the theater. And watched it once a week for two months when it came on streaming.

The real problem for me is that it was a repeat of the first. It started off with a song medley remix and just felt so unoriginal. There were parts I loved (the Glinda/Elphie fight, the house drop, and the triangle of Elphaba/Fiyero/Glinda). But Nessarose can GET hit by another house.

Well this gets 3 out of 5 stars.