Movie Reviews by James Janzen

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https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Habit?gl=CA&hl=en&id=zlUNomzyzrk.P
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Reminiscent of early Tarantino, this edgy, outrageous thriller is one “habit” you’ll want to acquire! The action begins as L.A. party girl Mads (Bella Thorne, The DUFF) gets a gig running drugs for Eric, a washed-up Hollywood star. When their cash gets stolen and Eric is slain by a rival drug lord, Mads and her two sexy BFFs hide out by dressing up as nuns. But in spite of their costumes, these bad girls are no angels they are bad asses

Video on Demand Aug 20, 2021

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https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Risen?gl=CA&hl=en&id=swWAk9g9AU0.P

Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, The meteor dissolves turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area. Exobiologist Lauren Stone is called to find answers to the unearthly event. The dead people seem to heal. government think the planet was targeted.

Video on demand release Aug 20,2021

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In Nickelodeon’s The Loud House Movie, based off the tv show Loud House. goes on the biggest Loud family vacation ever! The adventure follows the Loud family to Scotland where they discover that they are descendants of Scottish royalty. The family quickly indulges in the most wish-fulfilling high-life ever when they discover their ancestral home is a castle.

Video on Demand Aug 20,2021

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The past is like a dream. Images provide the truth to how we got here. Even if details are blurred with time. A devastated man vows death on the man who pulled the drug off the market that could have saved his wife. meanwhile protecting his daughter

VOD Aug 20,2021

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The award for weirdest musical of the year goes to… Annette! Opening with a message imploring the audience to “keep silent and hold your breath till the end of the show”, Annette then busts out into a full-on throwback musical number entitled “May We Start.” That this sequence is the high point of the runtime speaks volumes about what will follow

Video on demand Aug 20,2021

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https://www.amazon.com/Reminiscence-Charlie-Wooden/dp/B07J9TD953

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas. People didn’t have much to look forward to so they started looking toward the past. Nicolas is trying to find long lost love. But to find her he needs to know where she’s been.

Viewed Nationwide theaters

Paw Patrol is notified that Humdinger is going to destroy Adventure City. The new mayor banning all dogs he is more of a cat person. They get a new headquarters. exciting missions, high-stake rescues, new pups and amazing new vehicles

released Aug 20,2021

Viewed Nationwide Theaters

A widow husband took his boat on the lake and killed himself. A floor plan reveals that the house has secrets. The results are scary

Released Aug 20,2021

Viewed Nationwide Theaters

Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is a great killer. When Moody is killed for a contract that he completed years ago. Anna goes after his killers

Released Aug 20,2021

Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is a great killer. When Moody is killed for a contract that he completed years ago. Anna goes after his killers

viewed nationwide theaters

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas. People didn't have much to look forward to so they started looking toward the past. Nicolas is trying to find long lost love. But to find her he needs to know where she's been.

released Aug 20, 2021

viewed by https://store.cineplex.com/product/naked-singularity
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Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi (John Boyega), a promising young NYC public defender who trying to make it right iwth the bad justice. He want to beat the system at its own game Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictable former client (Olivia Cooke) in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.

Vod Released Aug 13,2021

viewed https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_East?id=Coj6SHaS1io.P&hl=en_US&gl=US
spoken in Dutch with English subtitles
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During the post-WW2 Indonesian War of Independence, a young Dutch soldier joins an elite unit led by a mysterious captain known only as “The Turk.” into Indonesia. The Japanese and British have left. The Indonesians are fighting among themselves. When the fighting intensifies, the young soldier finds himself questioning - and ultimately challenging - his commander’s brutal strategy to stop the resistance. Are you hunter or prey?

Vod release Aug 13,2021

viewed by https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Charming_the_Hearts_of_Men?id=WeaCI0_nf60.P&hl=en_US&gl=US

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/movie/charming-the-hearts-of-men/id1578212260?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her southern home town and discovers her options are limited that some things are only available to men and not to women. With the help of a Congressional ally, she inspires historic legislation which allows opportunities and protections never before afforded to women for equal rights.

Vod release Aug 13,2021

Vod release Aug 13,2021

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Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home after learning of his former client’s dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Soon, Pat embarks on an odyssey to confront the ghosts of his past — and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. Swan song is a comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering one’s sparkle, and looking gorgeous while doing so.

VOD Release Aug 13,2021

Viewed nationwide theaters

A Bank Teller is getting tired of the same old actions day after day. He kills one robber and puts on his glasses and finds he is in a video game. He wants to save the world his way

Release Aug 13,2021

Viewed nationwide theaters

The sequel to a initial home invasion. Norman Nordstrom has a dangerous secret. When his home gets invaded by hoodlums, he becomes very dangerous to the bad guys

Released Aug 13,2021

The sequel to a initial home invasion. Norman Nordstrom has a dangerous secret. When his home gets invaded by hoodlums, he becomes very dangerous to the bad guys

viewed nationwide theaters

Aretha Franklin doing singing, This movie is based on her life growing up from a child singing to adult

Released Aug 13,2021

Viewed on Netflix
It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, It started with a kiss and Elle gets taken off the waiting list and suddenly has to make a decision who she will disappoint right away. Who will she choose?

Released Aug 11,2021

Limited Theaters
Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Soon, Pat embarks on an odyssey to confront the ghosts of his past -- and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. Swan song is a comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering one's sparkle, and looking gorgeous while doing so.

Released Aug 6,2021

Limited Theaters
Limited Theaters
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.

Released Aug 6,2021

Limited Theaters
Our story begins in 1985. The Macaluso sisters (Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella) are five very young, orphaned siblings who live in and work from a rooftop apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves out for ceremonies of all manner. During a rare beach outing by the sisters a shocking catastrophe transpires. That single event will change the course of the relations between the sisters for the rest of their lives.

Released Aug 6,2021

Limited Theaters
What we left unfinished tells the incredible and mostly true story of five unfinished feature films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991) -- when films were weapons, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories told onscreen. It is also a story about a tight-knit group of Afghan filmmakers who loved cinema enough to risk their lives for art. Despite government interference, censorship boards, scarce resources, armed opposition, and near-constant threats of arrest and even death, they made films that were subversive and, in the filmmakers' opinions, always "true" to life. All five films -- THE APRIL REVOLUTION (1978), DOWNFALL (1987), THE BLACK DIAMOND (1989), WRONG WAY (1990), and AGENT (1991) -- completed principal photography before being canceled by the state or abandoned by the filmmakers. Never edited, they escaped the final censors' cut. And while all five films are fictional, they each record some aspect of the period. What we left unfinished brings together the newly rediscovered and restored footage from these lost films with present-day interviews that reveal the behind-the-scenes stories of the filmmakers (including directors, actors, and crew members who often swapped roles), and new footage shot in the same locations by some of the same directors and cinematographers. Just as the original filmmakers did when they shot action scenes with real bullets, hired ex-agents to play spies, or restaged the Communist coup d'état with the army, air force, and an awful lot of tanks and missiles, What we left unfinished interweaves histories and fictions. We call on the filmmakers to explain how their fictions were constructed, how much truth was in these fictions and how true they sometimes became in their making. And ultimately, we come to understand both the price paid by Afghan filmmakers for the benefits they gained under Communism and the reasons they persisted despite the risks they faced -- and why they still believe that film could save Afghanistan from the divisions tearing it apart today.

Released Aug 6, 2021

Limited Theaters
A talented young singer named Sam (Monica Moore Smith) is grieving the loss of her older sister Amber, who was a singer in a band of her own when she passed away. When Sam steps in to fill her sister's place in the band, they decide to pursue Amber's dream of making it big in the only way they know how: They are going to Nashville! Their dreams begin to come true faster than expected after they sign with a music manager (Alison Arngrim) who shows them the way to success -- but at a deep personal cost. As the taste of fame draws near, tensions begin to rise within the band. Will the vicious music industry tear them apart or will they find Amber's song and truly live their dreams? Even in Dreams is an inspiring, feel good, musically driven family film.

Released Aug 6,2021