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Next Goal Wins

A washed up soccer coach with anger issues is exiled to American Samoa to coach the world’s worst soccer team. They aren’t good. Neither is he. But together they’ll discover the meaning of happiness… and provide some major laughs along the way.

Rating: 4.5
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  • Director: Taika Waititi
  • MPAA: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 44m
  • Year: 2023
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

The Ghostbusters are still in a rundown building in NYC, with a poor public image, busting ghosts with maximum property damage. And then they inevitably unleash a super deadly paranormal entity that will threaten to destroy the entire planet. Accidentally, of course.

I really enjoyed Afterlife, but this wasn’t quite as good. Too many subplots and took waaaaaay to long to gain any momentum.

Rating: 3.0
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  • Director: Gil Kenan
  • MPAA: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 55m
  • Year: 2024
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Arachnophobia

Dr. Jennings arrives in a small town to take over for the retiring physician only for things to go immediately wrong. The current doc changes his mind about retirement, the family farmhouse is in disarray, the townspeople start dropping like flies, and of course Jennings is blamed. But the deaths are really the doing of the town’s other new residents: deadly South African mutated spiders.

You’ll laugh a lot but it’s mostly because of how absurd this whole movie is.

Rating: 3.5
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  • Director: Frank Marshall
  • MPAA: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 49m
  • Year: 1990
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The Miracle Club

Fans of the cast members will find a way to enjoy this quaint little story. Women of a small Irish town travel to the sacred land of Lourdes where they each hope to find some form of a miracle. Along the way they find another form of healing, even if it requires more heartbreak to earn it.

Rating: 3.0
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  • Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan
  • MPAA: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 30m
  • Year: 2023
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Anyone But You

Two not-so-funny hot people make a rom-com where we’re supposed to believe they could have a love/hate fake relationship. And of course this all takes place in a very intimate destination wedding venue with their closest friends & family who know them best… yet somehow miss all evidence of reality. Mmkay.

Rating: 2.5
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  • Director: Will Gluck
  • MPAA: R
  • Runtime: 1h 43m
  • Year: 2023
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Waitress: The Musical

Waitress, Jenna, has a lot going on. Mostly bad. But it’s nothing she can’t overcome with friends, love, and a delicious pie or two… or twenty.

This glorious Broadway production was filmed and shared with the masses, headed up by songwriter Sara Bareilles who created the beautiful music. I love that this exists.

Rating: 4.5
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  • Director: Diane Paulus & Brett Sullivan
  • MPAA: NR
  • Runtime: 2h 24m
  • Year: 2023

[Rewatch]: Clue

Sometimes you just gotta accept a cryptic invite to dinner with five strangers at a creepy mansion. Bonus points if the party includes a murder or two or…more. Just make sure you find the killer before you become the next victim.

My favorite board game got the Hollywood treatment and I am eternally grateful this kooky little production exists.

Rating: 4.0
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  • Director: Jonathan Lynn
  • MPAA: PG
  • Runtime: 1h 34m
  • Year: 1985

[Rewatch]: Dan in Real Life

[Rewatch: Thanksgiving Edition] To be fair, this movie has nothing to do with Thanksgiving. But the vibes are right. Dan is a widower who accidentally falls in love with his boyfriend’s new girlfriend at the family’s annual lakeside vacation. Life’s just funny that way sometimes.

Rating: 4.0
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  • Director: Peter Hedges
  • MPAA: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 38m
  • Year: 2007

[Rewatch]: You’ve Got Mail

[Rewatch: Thanksgiving Edition]. Cozy as a cable-knit sweater in autumn, You’ve Got Mail is one of my fall favs. Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox are enemies in the real world, but falling in love via email. And they have no idea. Rival bookstores, anonymous pen pals, and bouquets of sharpened pencils… what’s not to love?

Rating: 4.0
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  • Director: Nora Ephron
  • MPAA: PG
  • Runtime: 1h 59m
  • Year: 1998

[Rewatch]: Jack

If you thought Patch Adams was sad, be prepared to have your heart ripped out by Jack. Robin Williams is 10-year-old Jack Powell, a special boy with a rare condition that makes him age 4x faster than normal. This movie probably aged about as well as Big, but only Williams could make this better than it had any right to be.

Rating: 3.0
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  • Director: Francis Ford Coppola
  • MPAA: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 53m
  • Year: 1996