Jake's Cinema Room

  2022. PG-13. 139 mins. Directed by Rian Johnson In 2019 Knives Out was released to critical and financial success. Director/writer Rian Johnson put together one of the best movies from that year and solidified himself as a top notch director and writer. Netflix bought the rights to release to more movies in the Knives Out universe. Enter in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. With only Daniel Craig returning from the first movie and a new cast of characters, does Rian Johnson manage to strike gold once again or does it suffer from sequel-itis and pale in comparison to its predecessor? This time around we follow Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) as he is invited to a remote island owned by billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton). Miles has invited his close friends to his private island for a weekend party where he plans to have a murder mystery party in which all of his friends try to solve the mystery of his murder. Along for the ride is tech entrepreneur and Miles’ ex-partner Andi (Jan...

  2022. PG-13. 161 mins. Directed by Ryan Coogler After the massive success of the first Black Panther, and because Marvel typically gives all their hero’s multiple movies, it was inevitable that a second movie was going to happen. Unfortunately, main star Chadwick Boseman sadly passed away in 2020 after a battle with cancer. Now the question is how does Marvel move forward with second movie after their main actor passes away? Well thankfully Ryan Coogler is back in the director’s chair and most of the crew from the first movie comes back meaning we should have another hit on our hands. Coogler and company have done the impossible of successfully making a good sequel when they no longer have their main actor. In Wakanda Forever King T’Challa has passed away from an undisclosed issue. The country of Wakanda is in mourning and they don’t really know how to move forward with no longer having someone under the Black Panther mantle. Fast forward to a year later and Queen Ramonda (Angela...