Coming Distractions - The Latest Movie and TV Reviews

The sequel to the popular "Rocky" franchise, spinoff, "Creed" features Michael B. Jordan returning as Adonis Creed. Still working to live outside of the shadow of his father's boxing career, Adonis is pulled back in when the son of the man who killed his father in the ring wants to challenge him for the title.

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A bouncer at a New York nightclub named Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) takes a job as a famed black pianist's (Donald Walbridge Shirley) played by Mahershala Ali, chauffeur during a tour in the American Deep South, forging a close friendship while navigating the deep racism of the region. The film deals with interracial friendships, monolithic views of other races, and a reversal of community status in this story based on a true story. 

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Ralph Breaks the Internet is the follow up to the wildly popular 2012, Wreck-It Ralph. This film follows the continued misadventures of Ralph (John C. Reily) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) as they make their way into the Internet to hunt for a video game steering wheel on Ebay. The two come across dying websites, Disney princesses, and much more in this animated journey that will lead them to find more than just a video game part.

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Director Steve McQueen's fourth film, Widows, follows the lives of 3 women who are newly widowed as their husbands are killed during one of their heists. Harry (Liam Nesson), the leader of the team, leaves behind his wife Veronica (Viola Davis) who must pick up the pieces of her life. She starts to get harassed from Jamaal Manning, a local gangster who is running for alderman in the South-Side of Chicago. Jamaal demands his $2 Million dollars to be returned that Harry stole from him. Veronica must gather the other widows (Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki) together, along with a driver (Cynthia Erivo) to pull off one last heist job to get the money to pay back Jamaal and move on with their lives.

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On the eve of D-Day, a paratrooper squad is sent to destroy a German radio tower in an old church; however, their plane is shot down before they can reach their target, leaving only five apparent survivors, Corporal Ford and soldiers Boyce, Tibbet, Chase, and Dawson. The team comes in contact with Nazi experiments to use the dead as soldiers.

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This week on Coming Distractions, Jay and Micah sit down to give their overall thoughts (including spoilers) on season 3 of Marvel's Daredevil series on Netflix starring Charlie Cox. This season finds Daredevil fighting a new enemy, Bullseye, who's been hired by his arch revival, Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio). The season deals with religious questioning, mental disorders, and vulnerabilities in love. The hosts also discuss how well the season worked comparative to previous seasons, what implications this has on the rest of the MCU, future seasons of the show, previous rumored casting, and much more.

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A modern fantasy re-imagining of the classic Nutcracker story takes a young girl to a world of four realms. She must bring balance back to one of the realms that has been cast in a shadow of evil in order to save the day.

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During the early 1970s, aspiring songwriter Farrokh Bulsara, later known as Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), forms the rock band Queen alongside his new friends Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon with his supportive girlfriend Mary Austin. Their career is successful against all odds of getting their music to be heard. In 1985, the band is given the chance to perform at Live Aid. The film is directed by Bryan Singer.

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mid90s on the surface is a skateboard coming of age film set in the 1990s, but if one goes deeper it's far more about building an extended family from your friends when your traditional family structure is lacking. Stevie (Sunny Suljic) is a 13-year-old kid who has a broken relationship with his brother and mother and is at an age that he needs some sort of family around him to guide him during his teenage years. To that end, Stevie befriends a group of skateboarders in Ruben, Ray, Fuckshit, and Fourth Grade. They step in as his replacement family and introduce him to a life that is full of little rules, adult-like experiences, and brotherhood that he's never known.

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Halloween is a 2018 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Jeff Fradley, and Danny McBride. It is the eleventh installment in the Halloween film series, and a direct sequel to the 1978 film of the same name, while disregarding the continuity of the previous sequels. Set forty years after the original film, the plot follows Laurie Strode as she prepares to face Michael Myers in a final confrontation when he returns to Haddonfield, Illinois to finish her off for escaping his killing spree on Halloween night in 1978.

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