The MadHouse

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Gareth Edwards co-writes, produces & directs this Sci-Fi action film that stars John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe & Allison Janney. In this film, after a nuclear attack in the U.S. was trigged by an AI, a task force is sent to locate the main base and destroy it. In the decades to come, a lone soldier goes undercover to find this AI being, only discover a much more complex problem from his government. This movie was slated for a summer 2023 release but due to the SAG-AFTEA strike it pushed back to September before then hitting Hulu at the end of year.

The final week in the regular season sees a handful of teams trying to secure their spots in the playoffs. Saturday night’s double header featured the Steelers & Ravens and then the Colts & Texans. Sunday night’s finale saw a battle for the AFC East Title as the Miami Dolphins hosted the Buffalo Bills. Other games with playoff implications included Jaguars / Titans, Bucs / Panthers, Packers / Bears & Rams / 49ers.

This supernatural horror film is based on a short of the same name and is the first under the newly formed production studio after Jason Blum’s “Blumhouse Productions” & James Wan’s “Atomic Monster” merged in January 2024. The film is written and directed by Bryce McGuire, who wrote and directed the short film. The film stars Wyatt Russell & Kerry Condon. In this film, after retiring from professional baseball, a man and his family move into a new home that has a swimming pool. As time passes, the family’s child begins to notice some supernatural activity that is coming from the pool. This film was originally going to come out in 2023 but after the film, “M3GAN” had come out to surprising success, “Night Swim” was pushed back to January 2024.

This historical action film was written and directed by Finnish filmmaker, Jalmari Helander and is a joint production of US & Finland production companies. The film debut at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2022 and then had its US theatrical release in April 2023. In this film, a former Finnish commando finds a large amount of gold in the region of Lapland, which is now a war landscape during WWII and is occupied by the Nazis. The commando must tread through enemy lines to the Rovaniemi with the gold before the Nazis find him.

Zack Snyder writes and directs this Netflix film that stars Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hannum, Ed Skrein, Djimon Housou, Ray Fisher & Anthony Hopkins. This film had a very brief theatrical release but hit Netflix on December 22. In this film, a former military officer begins a crusade to take down this all powerful interstellar empire by assembling a group of mercenaries and former soldiers after this empire killed people from her village. Zack Snyder had plans to work with George Lucas on this film before Lucas sold his production company to Disney. When those plans fell through and Snyder had his infamous falling out with Warner Bros., Netflix decided to produce his film and its possible sequels.

In the 15th and final film in DC Cinematic Universe, Jason Momoa returns as the titular and joined by the same cast as the previous film which include, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul - Mateen II, Randal Park, Amber Heard, Dolph Lundgren, Temuera Morrison & Nicole Kidman. In this film, Aquaman is being hunted by the sea outlaw known as “Black Manta” who is hellbent on exacting revenge on him for murdering his father. Aquaman must turn to his estranged half brother for help in order to stop Black Manta from resurrecting an ancient civilization to rule the world. For the past 10 years, the DC Cinematic Universe was the answer to Marvel’s but since the previous 2018 film, the movies really didn’t take off but “Aquaman” proved still to be valuable and entertaining despite negative reviews & a lackluster performance at the box office.

The second season of Marvel’s animated spinoff series released 9 new episodes 2 days before Christmas and are all available on Disney+.

We’ve seen the best and now it’s time for the Worst movies of the year.

With only 1 week left in the 2023 NFL season, some teams hoping to keep their playoff hopes alive while others face elimination. Thursday night’s game saw the New York Jets taking on the Cleveland Browns, Sunday night saw the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. Monday was forced to move to Saturday night amidst the College Football Playoff Game between Texas & Washington leaving Saturday night for the Dallas Cowboys & the Detroit Lions. Sunday afternoon games included Texans / Titans, 49ers / Commanders, Eagles / Cardinals, Patriots / Bills & Bengals / Chiefs.