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Movie: The Fall Guy

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) has to track down a missing movie star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life (Emily Blunt) while still doing his day job.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:03 PM on May 2, 2024 (12 comments)

Movie: Challengers

Tashi (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy turned coach, is married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist). Her strategy for her husband's redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend (Josh O'Connor)...
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:36 PM on April 26, 2024 (10 comments)

Movie: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers (Henry Cavill, the Large Guy from Jack Reacher, Henry Golding) to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II. (Guy Ritchie directs.)
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:01 PM on April 19, 2024 (9 comments)

Movie: Spy x Family Code: White

After receiving an order to be replaced in Operation Strix, Loid decides to help Anya win a cooking competition at Eden Academy, by making the director's favorite meal in order to prevent his replacement.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 6:17 PM on April 15, 2024 (7 comments)

Movie: Classe Tous Risques

A ruthless criminal (Lino Ventura) flees pursuit with his family in tow, resulting in more and more casualties.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 6:46 PM on March 16, 2024

Movie: Perfect Days (2023)

Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 12:25 PM on February 17, 2024 (7 comments)

Movie: Jin shouzhi (The Goldfinger)

A criminal conspiracy is uncovered when the stock market crashes in Hong Kong.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:53 AM on January 2, 2024 (1 comment)

Movie: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Aquaman (Jason Momoa) balances his duties as king and as a member of the Justice League, all while planning a wedding. Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen) is on the hunt for Atlantean tech to help rebuild his armor. Orm (Patrick Wilson) plots to escape his Atlantean prison.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 7:11 PM on December 25, 2023 (13 comments)

Movie: American Fiction

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison (Jeffrey Wright)'s writing career has stalled because his work isn't deemed "Black enough." Monk, a writer and English professor, writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to expose the publishing world's hypocrisies. The book's immediate success forces him to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews. (Based on Percival Everett's Erasure.)
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 11:47 AM on December 10, 2023 (30 comments)

Movie: Farewell My Concubine

Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing) was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou (Zhang Fengyi) and over the following years the two develop an act entitled "Farewell My Concubine" that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian (Gong Li), Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo's explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 8:59 AM on September 27, 2023 (5 comments)

Movie: A Haunting in Venice

In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh), now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 6:38 PM on September 16, 2023 (16 comments)

Movie: The Equalizer 3

Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the ...
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 7:50 AM on September 5, 2023 (9 comments)

Movie: Gran Turismo

The ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player (Archie Madekwe) whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:13 PM on August 27, 2023 (6 comments)

Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 6:42 PM on August 13, 2023 (17 comments)

Movie: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission--not even the lives of those he cares about most.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 7:26 PM on July 10, 2023 (40 comments)

Movie: Joy Ride (2023)

Four Asian-American friends (Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Sabrina Wu) travel through Asia in search of one of their birth mothers. Along the way, their experience becomes one of bonding, friendship, belonging and no-holds-barred debauchery.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 5:53 PM on July 1, 2023 (12 comments)

Movie: Fast X

Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family (everyone, minus Jason Momoa) have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat (Jason Momoa) emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything--and everyone--that Dom loves, forever.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:47 PM on May 18, 2023 (19 comments)

Movie: Mafia Mamma

An American mom (Toni Collette) inherits her grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm's consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she "hilariously" defies everyone's expectations as the new head of the family business.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 11:34 PM on April 13, 2023 (2 comments)

Movie: Creed III

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damien Anderson (Jonathan Majors), resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damien - a fighter who has nothing to lose.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:25 PM on March 10, 2023 (1 comment)

Movie: Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

Special agent Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars (Josh Hartnett) to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:04 PM on March 9, 2023 (12 comments)

Movie: Broker

A baby is left at a safe haven church for reasons unknown, but finds its way into the hands of low-level "brokers" (Song Kang-Ho and Gang Dong-Won), who offer the ambivalent mother (Ji-eun Lee) a cut of the money to place the child outside of the formal Korean adoption system. The ragtag group is followed on the road by human-trafficking detectives and other pursuers.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:43 PM on January 13, 2023 (1 comment)

Movie: Plane

A pilot (Gerard Butler) finds himself caught in a war zone with little help but a man wanted for murder (Mike Colter) after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 8:34 PM on January 12, 2023 (5 comments)

Movie: The Menu

A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:36 PM on November 17, 2022 (82 comments)

Movie: The Banshees of Inisherin

Two lifelong friends (Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell) find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:55 PM on October 29, 2022 (31 comments)

Special Event: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 2:20 PM on October 29, 2022 (11 comments)

Movie: Ticket to Paradise

A divorced couple (Julia Roberts, George Clooney) teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:13 PM on October 22, 2022 (3 comments)

Movie: Amsterdam

Set in the '30s, it follows three friends (Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington) who witness a murder, become suspects themselves, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:38 PM on October 7, 2022 (7 comments)

Movie: The Woman King

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca (Viola Davis) as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:25 PM on September 16, 2022 (15 comments)

Movie: Breaking

A Marine war veteran (John Boyega) faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 8:15 AM on August 29, 2022 (7 comments)

Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet. (Now in limited re-release for its 40th anniversary.)
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 6:01 PM on August 20, 2022 (25 comments)

Movie: Emily the Criminal

Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 8:57 PM on August 13, 2022 (6 comments)

Movie: Bodies Bodies Bodies

When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:30 PM on August 12, 2022 (9 comments)

Movie: Bullet Train

Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe--all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives--on the world's fastest train.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 6:36 PM on August 2, 2022 (26 comments)

Movie: Minions: The Rise of Gru

The untold story of one twelve-year-old's dream to become the world's greatest supervillain.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:17 PM on August 1, 2022 (2 comments)

Movie: DC League of Super-Pets

Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his own powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 11:28 AM on August 1, 2022 (10 comments)

Movie: Gilda

A gambler (Glenn Ford) discovers an old flame (Rita Hayworth) while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss (George Macready).
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 11:59 AM on July 21, 2022 (3 comments)

Movie: Morbius

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:54 PM on April 2, 2022 (19 comments)

Movie: Uncharted

A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor "Sully" Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of "the greatest treasure never found" while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan's long-lost brother.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 2:01 PM on February 19, 2022 (11 comments)

Movie: Death on the Nile

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 8:58 PM on February 10, 2022 (12 comments)

Movie: House of Gucci

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately...murder.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 3:46 PM on November 25, 2021 (10 comments)

Movie: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi, the master of unarmed weaponry based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 11:03 PM on September 3, 2021 (65 comments)

Movie: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

After saving the life of their heir apparent, tenacious loner Snake Eyes is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage where he is taught the ways of the ninja warrior. But, when secrets from his past are revealed, Snake Eyes' honor and allegiance will be tested--even if that means losing the trust of those closest to him.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 8:05 AM on July 29, 2021 (8 comments)

Movie: F9

Cipher enlists the help of Jakob, Dom's younger brother to take revenge on Dom and his team.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:00 AM on June 25, 2021 (14 comments)

Movie: The Swimming Pool

(AKA La piscine). Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter (Jane Birkin) to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:40 AM on June 19, 2021 (2 comments)

Movie: Cruella

In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella's flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 4:02 PM on May 28, 2021 (36 comments)

Movie: Wrath of Man

H is a cold and mysterious character working at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:24 PM on May 7, 2021 (3 comments)

Movie: Mortal Kombat

Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 7:30 PM on April 30, 2021 (20 comments)

Top Chef: Finito!

The final three all stars face off in an epic Italian showdown to cook the meal of their lives in an effort to take home the ultimate title and prize.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:13 AM on June 19, 2020 (19 comments)

Top Chef: Parma

The chefs are treated to a culinary dream trip to Parma, the legendary home of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and Prosciutto di Parma ham; the chefs must feature the ingredients in two courses and serve their dishes to a table of 16 Michelin stars.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 9:41 PM on June 11, 2020 (12 comments)

Top Chef: Lucca

The final five travel to Italy, where the chefs must make an aperitivo for 30 locals from the town of Lucca that pairs perfectly with a Peroni beer; then, they hunt the elusive white truffle which they must use in a dish for a Tuscan food festival.
posted to FanFare by praemunire at 10:22 AM on June 7, 2020 (8 comments)

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