Coming & Current Unreviewed Movies

Mufasa: The Lion King

North American Theaters: December 20, 2024 (wide release)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

North American Theaters: December 20, 2024 (wide release)

“It pays to switch sides” / “The score isn’t settled”

North American Theaters: January 10, 2025 (wide release)

Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.)— Starring: Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jordan Bridges, Evin Ahmad | Director: Christian Gudegast

Immediately following the events of ‘Den of Thieves,’ sheriff ‘Big Nick’ O’Brien is tracking down Donnie Wilson, who escaped to Europe and is planning another heist.

September 5

North American Theaters: January 17, 2025 (wide release)

Paramount Pictures Corporation, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS— Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Benjamin Walker, John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Georgina Rich, Ben Chaplin | Director: Tim Fehlbaum

September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows the ABC Sports broadcasting team who quickly shifted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides an important perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by millions of people at the time.

At the heart of the story is Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard). Together with German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), the story focuses on the intricate details of the high-tech broadcast capabilities of the time, juxtaposed against the many lives at stake and themoral decisions that needed to be made against an impossible ticking clock.

“Protect your own” / “Keep the bad things outside”

North American Theaters: January 17, 2025 (wide release)

Universal Pictures— Starring: Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott, Sam Jaeger, Matilda Firth | Director: Leigh Whannell

The film follows Blake (Christopher Abbott), a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth). But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.

Flight Risk

“Y’all need a pilot?”

North American Theaters: January 24, 2025 (wide release)

Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.) / Icon Productions— Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, Topher Grace, Paul Ben-Victor | Director: Mel Gibson

In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award® nominee Mark Wahlberg plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

“Part dog. Part man. All hero.”

North American Theaters: January 31, 2025

Universal Pictures— Producer: DreamWorks Animation —Starring: Isla Fisher, Ricky Gervais, Pete Davidson, Lil Rel Howery, Poppy Liu, Stephen Root, Billy Boyd | Director: Peter Hastings

Dog Man, half dog and half man, he is sworn to protect and serve as he doggedly pursues the feline supervillain Petey the Cat.

When a dog and a police officer are injured together on the job. A life-saving surgery changes the course of history when Dog Man is born. Half dog, half man, Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve as long as he isn’t distracted by squirrels, as he doggedly pursues his arch-nemesis: the feline supervillain Petey the Cat. But the rivalry between Dog Man and Petey is upended by the arrival of an adorable kitten clone of Petey, Lil Petey, who changes the game for both of them.

North American Theaters: January 31, 2025

Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company— Starring: Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Angus Imrie, Steven Yeun | Director: Bong Joon Ho

Space colonist Mickey Barnes tries to survive in a beachhead colony on an alien world. The job he reluctantly signed up for is to be ‘expendable’, undertaking all of the most dangerous tasks necessary for a mission to colonize the ice world Niflheim. When one Mickey dies, another is cloned in his place with most of his memories intact, but at significant cost to the colony. Mickey’s survival difficulties mount as the colony struggles for resources, native life forms become increasingly threatening, and circumstances result in the accidental creation of two Mickeys. He goes head-to-head with a new multiple, Mickey 18.

Budget: $150-million

Based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, which NPR included among its list of the Best Sci-Fi Books of 2022.

North American Theaters: February 7, 2024

Universal Pictures— Starring: Ke Huy Quan as Marvin Gable, Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Sean Astin, Cam Gigandet, Lio Tipton | Director: Jonathan Eusebio

Marvin Gable is a successful realtor whose past as a hitman comes back to haunt him. Marvin is pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner-in-crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past and the history he never fully buried.

North American Theaters: February 14, 2025 (wide release)

Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures— Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw (voice), Imelda Staunton (voice) | Director: Dougal Wilson

Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

North American Theaters: February 14, 2025

Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures— Starring: Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Captain America, Harrison Ford as Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross / Red Hulk, Liv Tyler, Giancarlo Esposito as Seth Voelker / Sidewinder, Rosa Salazar, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres / Falcon | Director: Julius Onah

Following the election of Thaddeus Ross as the president of the United States, Sam Wilson, who’s officially taken up the mantle of Captain America, finds himself at the center of an international incident and must work to stop the true masterminds behind it.

North American Theaters: May 23, 2025

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures— Starring: Maia Kealoha (as Lilo Pelekai), Chris Sanders (voice of Stitch), Sydney Agudong (as sister Nani Pelekai), Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Tia Carrere, Amy Hill, Jason Scott Lee, Zach Galifianakis | Director: Dean Fleischer Camp

The film tells the story of the bond formed between a lonely human girl named Lilo and a dog-like alien named Stitch, who is engineered to be a force of destruction. Pursuing aliens, social workers and the idea of the bond of family figure into the proceedings.