Despite not knowing the focus of the new script, the actress confirmed that there is a script in development. “I know we’re older now, so I don’t know exactly what the plot will be. I think they need to get the script right first, which is the age dilemma,” she added.

Rebel Wilson shared details in an interview about how, for her, filming the films in the franchise was more than just acting, as she always had fun singing and dancing.

In 2022, a spin-off of the Barden Bellas universe focusing on the story of the character Bumper and his musical career was released by the streaming platform Peacock and, despite having been renewed for the second season, its cancellation was confirmed during the Hollywood strikes.

For now, there is no release date or official announcement of a new film. The three films together grossed approximately $588 million at the global box office (via Box Office Mojo), with the third film having the worst rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with just 28% approval from critics.

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Thomas is a man in his forties who is suffering from the pain of a breakup, living a monotonous and emotionless life. Suddenly, he is invited to participate in a Dark Web game to win 1 million.

The rules are simple: he will be the prey of hunters for 30 days, he cannot be attacked if he is accompanied by someone else and, if he survives for a month, he wins the grand prize. He will be filmed the entire time and all the places he frequents have been bugged.

Thomas immediately accepts the contract, believing that his family will support him in this challenge.

Is Self Reliance good?

When I saw the teaser being released by HULU, I immediately got excited. After all, a film produced by The Lonely Island (producers of the films Palms Springs and Popstar: never stop never stopping), featuring Nick Miller (Jake Johnson’s character in New Girl) and Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg’s character in Brooklyn 99), could only offer a good comedy. Unfortunately, we don’t see this potential being used here.

Although the premise is very interesting and at the beginning it makes us a little curious, throughout the film, we can feel how much the script gets lost in its own pretentiousness.

From the beginning, we know that Thomas is not a reliable narrator/character. After all, it’s not the first time he’s made up unrealistic stories that make his own family doubt his sanity. This is a fact that drags on and serves as the basis for the entire development of the film.

The problem, however, is that there comes a point when this narrative becomes tiresome. The lack of laughter, combined with fatigue, slowly leads us to a disinterest that not even the possibility of a romance can save.

The addition of Anna Kendrick’s character does not come with a romantic touch here, it is just a plot device being planted to try to make us laugh eventually and to force the growth of the main character. Although it works well for the second thing, unfortunately, the humorous aspect of her participation, once again, is not relevant to the story.

The impression we have is that in the last 20 or 30 minutes of the film, when we should start to get our answers, we are surprised with more questions. And the ending… well, it is not enough to answer everything.

The script for Self Reliance had everything to be a gem in the world of unfunny comedies that have been released in recent years, but in the end, we have the feeling that something is still missing. As if we were presented with an unfinished project, without the final touches on the script.

On the other hand, if we have a weak script here, Jake Johnson did a great job directing some scenes, especially the scenes with “the ninjas” which, despite being humorous in nature, brought a slight element of humor and a little chill down our necks before making us laugh.

Overall, Self Reliance is a 3-point film, worth watching when we don’t have many expectations and there’s nothing better to play.

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For now, the film Self Reliance is not yet available on any Brazilian platform, but it should be distributed by Star+ soon.

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When Graham Stroop (Robbie Amell) decides to travel at the last minute to surprise his family for Christmas, he just doesn’t imagine that the biggest surprise will be for him.

Ali (Leighton Meester), his ex-fiancée who broke his heart into little pieces, was invited by his family to celebrate in his place and replace him at the festivities.

Amidst an awkward atmosphere, they decide to compete and bet that by the morning of the 25th, one of them will have been kicked out of the Stroops’ Christmas.

EXmas is it good?

Evaluating a Christmas movie ends up being simple, we already know the ending: the good guy ends up with the good girl, Christmas is briefly ruined and fixed even faster, the script follows the same pattern as countless other movies. There is not much new to offer.

Here, we have a couple who ended a 5-year relationship without any dialogue or explanation. He did not get over it and, apparently, neither did his family.

After the breakup, Ali kept in touch with Graham’s parents by text, helped his sister move, and did study sessions with his younger brother via FaceTime. Unlike her ex, she remained present in their lives.

Graham, on the other hand, immersed himself even more in work, forgetting to live any other part of his life.

When the two meet for the first time after the breakup, there is a lot to be said, but little courage to say it.

They decide to resolve things in the most childish way possible: competing and sabotaging each other to see who is the family’s favorite.

EXmas brings up a discussion about the lack of dialogue between two people. While Graham worked to provide what he imagined Ali needed (a house, financial stability), the character felt increasingly unhappy about not receiving what she really wanted: a fiancé who paid attention to her, her dreams, and who helped her grow.

Despite the clichés, it is interesting to see how they resolve their issues, how they finally learn to listen to each other.

The film has good ideas to make viewers laugh quickly and manages to maintain the tone until its last scene, seconds before the credits roll.

The main characters have good chemistry, the family dynamics work very well. The only thing that made me a little bored during the film were the secondary characters added just so the couple could make each other jealous.

Otherwise, EXmas is a great film. If the metric is Christmas films, it gets a 4.5, in the general concept of films 3.0.

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Years have passed and his father never returned. Renato is now a successful businessman, has a fiancée and a stepson with whom he cannot create deep connections.

For him, parents and children do not need to be best friends. A belief built after suffering from abandonment during his childhood.

Everything changes when Katherine, his father’s current wife, calls him and tells him that he is sick, on the verge of death and wants to see him.

Suddenly, Renato discovers that he has a younger brother named Asher (Connor Del Rio) and the two embark on a journey of self-discovery in search of someone named Eloise.

Is Half-Siblings Good?

This was a movie I chose unpretentiously at 10pm on a Saturday. The phrase I used specifically was “I wanted something to do”.

I am happy to share that, definitely, Stepbrothers was that something. However, there is also a dramatic haze that surrounds the story of these two brothers who had never met.

Focusing on the character dynamics, Renato carries within himself a great resentment towards Uncle Sam. The idea of ​​having to travel to the United States because of a father he doesn’t even love makes him completely angry.

Meanwhile, Asher is a different guy (some say he’s weird), he can’t be serious and says whatever comes to mind.

When they meet for the first time, without knowing who the other is, their interaction leaves a terrible impression. To top it off, Asher tells Renato, a Mexican, that he’s “against the wall.” This makes things even more strange.

The “tense” atmosphere that fills the room when the two are officially introduced at the hospital doesn’t surprise viewers.

Throughout the plot, we can see Asher’s effort to connect with his brother and Renato’s effort to stay as far away as possible. They are opposites and couldn’t be more distant. And if it’s up to Renato alone, they’ll stay that way.

For me, the highlight of this film goes beyond the dynamic between the two main characters. In a not-so-subtle way, the plot manages to expose a deep-rooted prejudice among Americans towards people who are from other countries.

The hatred that Renato carries for the United States comes largely from the fact that his father left when he was a child. But in his brief time trying to understand what happened, he experiences many situations similar to those that kept his father away.

I really like the approach to healing from trauma and how our actions do indeed reflect aspects of these same traumatic events.

Step Brothers is a fun film that makes you laugh and cry, but it is, above all, a film that addresses the personal growth and emotional healing of two adults who were hurt during their childhood, due to a third adult who could not accept his own choices.

It is a film that goes by quickly and is definitely worth watching.

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I don’t really trust the recommendations of people who, during the past year, treated “Megan is Missing” as a horror masterpiece, while the film didn’t have much to offer us.

However, feeding my own blatant hypocrisy, last week I decided to give a chance to two recommendations that appeared in my for you.

Both works address the same subject, a subject that is already heavy in itself and requires delicacy and the right perspective to be portrayed.

While watching the first film, I made the decision not to mention the name, nor to do any kind of “advertising”, because, in addition to it being a very uncomfortable experience, I believe that there is a correct way to portray themes such as sexual abuse and pedophilia. And, of course, a scene of almost 5 minutes of an underage girl being abused multiple times explicitly.

Therefore, I decided to focus only on the second film, “The Tale”, released in 2018.

Directed by Jennifer Fox, the film is based on her own story. The director, played here by actress Laura Dern, goes through a journey of discovery and deals with the resurfacing of memories after her mother finds a story in which she tells about her first relationship.

What was just an innocent story for Jennifer soon begins to gain a deeper layer, as the character realizes that in reality she was being manipulated by two adults when she was only 13 years old.

As the main character begins to investigate her past, we embark with her on a mix of confusing memories and see the world through her eyes. Here we see the world from the perspective of a child neglected by her parents, being welcomed by a woman she considered beautiful and stunning.

Little by little, we see how the couple built this world where she was trustworthy, mature, and too adult for her age.

Two adults twice, perhaps three times, her age become her confidants. Through letters, she vents about how much she hates her family, and they exchange poems and more details about each other’s personal lives.

In her parents’ lack of love, we see little Jenny growing increasingly attached to Mrs. G and her boyfriend Bill. Through small acts such as Mrs. G pushing on her the responsibility of deciding whether or not to tell her parents that she visited Bill at his house, we can see how they manipulate her and insert her into a narrative where she can make her own decisions.

Unfortunately, halfway through the film, “The Tale” makes the same mistake as many films on this subject.

For me, as a viewer, I can’t see the need for scenes with such a sensitive topic to have more explicit scenes. Even though things here are not shown with such fidelity and violence, it is still an inconvenience that can be avoided.

I understand that the directors want to shock viewers, but I believe that the story itself is already shocking enough.

Some dialogues between Jennifer and her mother, played by actress Ellen Burstyn, also cause a certain discomfort. The mother, who at the same time blames herself, also questions her daughter if she liked what was happening to her.

Jennifer’s understanding is slow, she doesn’t like it when someone calls her a victim or openly says that Bill abused her, she becomes defensive and says that they actually had a “relationship”.

As memories come together, details that go unnoticed are added later. In this way, our journey happens together with Jenny’s.

Painfully, we walk towards an unimaginable end. Jenny wants to face her greatest enemy, she wants to look him in the eye, to close this chapter as much as we do, to feel that justice has been served in some way.

However, justice does not always come to everyone.

In Conclusion

Jennifer Fox tells us her story through letters, a short story, and memories. She exposes an event that changed her life and completely affected her path.

We, as spectators, spend the film rooting for justice, wanting something to be done against someone who abused not just one, but multiple underage girls.

The bitter taste comes to our mouths when we remember that not every story has a happy ending. As bittersweet as reality, Bill did not suffer the consequences of his actions; on the contrary, he lived his life being acclaimed and awarded.

The coach accused by Fox died in 2021, at the age of 88. Two years after his death, an investigation was opened to verify cases of abuse involving his name. As of the date of publication, there is no information about other victims.

For now, I may avoid Tiktok recommendations, but as I said above, sometimes hypocrisy wins.

In Brazil, the film “The Tale” can be accessed on the HBO Max streaming platform.

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In this 2023 Australian film, we follow Kol (Elias Anton), an introverted boy with a passion for dance who, upon receiving an emergency call from his best friend Ebony (Hattie Hook), abandons his plans to participate in the finals of a competition to travel to another city and look for her.

He contacts Adam (Thom Green), Ebony’s older brother, and asks for his help to hit the road in search of the girl.

During this trip, we can watch two strangers get to know each other better through dialogue, music and jokes.

Of an Age is good?

This film is not for everyone. However, I do not say this to imply that you need to have a higher intellectual level or a high IQ to understand the story, but rather because the film has an extremely slow pace, which can bore many viewers.

If for Adam and Kol everything happens in 24 hours in the first act, for us things happen very calmly. After all, when Adam tells Kol that he has an ex-boyfriend, Kol is still digesting things about himself.

In addition to the dialogues, many of the things here are portrayed in the absence of words.

Details such as the duration of a look, the flexing of a muscle, the direction of the camera that guides us along the same path as the eyes of one of the characters.

Everything is designed in a way that makes it clear to us what is happening, without having to verbalize it.

And if these subtleties are already enough to make the film special, when the actors are able to verbalize their “feelings,” the acting is done in such a natural way that it makes us share this feeling and almost live that moment with them.

A hug here symbolizes a great act of courage. And with so much symbolism, everything gains an even deeper layer, especially because of the way this film is directed by Goran Stolevski.

With the end of the first act, we are transported from 1999 to 2010. Here, Kol is already mature, confident in his identity and sexuality. Adam is also even more determined and certain of who he is.

Two people who fell in love and loved each other in a short period of 24 hours are now strangers, they know little about each other, but they still share the same affectionate look for each other, the same concern.

If the first part of the film already causes intense emotions, these final 30 minutes are crucial in the sensations they want to extract from us.

The script is also accurate in leaving the ending open to the viewer’s imagination. We want more, we want them to be happy and, if the film does not provide us with these scenes, we are in charge of imagining them.

In Conclusion

Of an Age is a sweet, romantic, painful film to watch and that can hit “close to home” for anyone who has ever lost a love due to life’s unavoidable circumstances. It is the dialogue between our brain and our heart in a scenario full of “what ifs”.

A film that draws on the plot of “the right people at the wrong time”, who were meant to be together, but life wanted to go the other way. All of this bathed in self-discovery, in the struggle to understand who you are and who you love.

It makes me happy to see that when poetry and cinema intersect, it is possible to obtain works with such meaning, impact and beauty.

Although it is not available on any streaming platform in Brazil, it is worth playing and enjoying this beautiful film.

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Mavis Beaumont (Michelle Buteau) is a fashion designer with a lot of personality and dreams. When her stable relationship with the perfect man comes to an end on the eve of a great professional opportunity, she needs to find a way to start over in her life. And with the help of her best friends, she sets out in search of new adventures.

Right from the start, I would like to point out that one of my favorite parts of this series: the character’s best friends have their own stories. They are more than just “friends of the main character” and escape the cliché of the unemployed friend who is always on screen ready to crack a joke.

Marley (Tasha Smith) and Khalil (Tone Bell) have plots that are just as interesting as Mavis. Khalil is the typical scoundrel who ends up falling in love and experiencing romance for the first time, and Marley is discovering/developing more of her sexuality.

And even though it is not as in-depth as the main plot, we can follow a little of each one’s story.

Despite addressing issues such as racism, plus-size women, and having a lot of LGBTQIA+ representation, none of these issues seem forced in the story. On the contrary, they are there adjacent to everything else and are treated with due naturalness.

The comedy itself revolves around Mavis’s discovery and journey of learning to be single. We follow a woman returning to the single life in her early 30s, after a long relationship that didn’t end well.

Here, we follow her disastrous dates, her professional challenges, and her adventures living in a house with someone who is the complete opposite of her.

Jade (Liza Treyger) is an eccentric character, with questionable habits (such as bathing her body in olive oil and sitting on the apartment’s furniture) and a cat affectionately called Cocaine.

Her character comes as a contrast to the normality of Mavis’ life, the change from a stable life to a messy apartment and an even messier roommate.

As for Mavis’ love life, when I started the series, when I got to know the dynamics between her and Khalil, I was afraid of being led to “ship” the two for the sake of plot convenience. In shows with plus-size characters, this is already a cliché: “the chubby friend who ends up being seen as a woman by her long-time friend”.

Fortunately, the tone is quickly set; the two are friends, they care a lot about each other and would do anything for each other, but that’s it.

There’s no room for romance; on the contrary, each one really roots for the other’s love life and there are no secrets between them. Khalil is Mavis’ best friend, almost like a brother, but there’s nothing more to it than that. Which makes the love between them even more genuine.

As for her ex, Jacques, he still wants to reconcile the relationship and chases after Mavis for a good part of the series. Despite being the reason for the breakup, he wants to prove to her that he can’t live without her and that he has now changed into a better person.

There is a slight “love triangle” when we are introduced to Luca, an Italian with a sense of humor and an accent that takes our main character’s breath away.

In the end, Surviving in Style is a series that shares with the viewer the daily life of a woman in normal situations of her day to day life.

And yes, despite being a mid-size/plus-size woman, there is never a mention of insecurity due to her body, Mavis is a very confident woman, men compliment her and flirt with her.

In works with the same theme, a common mistake is to always reduce the character to this, being fat is who she is and nothing else matters. Fortunately, this is another cliché avoided by Surviving in Style.

Surviving in Style is a quick series, easy to binge-watch and with great moments to make you laugh. The series is available on Netflix and has 8 episodes.

For now, there is no confirmation of a new season and Michelle Buteau, the actress who plays Mavis and author of the book of the same name, made it clear that she will not consider the idea of ​​another season until the rights of the writers are respected and the strikes in Hollywood end.

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When it comes to putting ourselves in the actors’ shoes, we are sure that we would do better. But would we really?

Following the footsteps of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), Netflix has just added an interactive romance to its catalog called “Choose Love”.

Here we can define the fate of Cami Conway (Laura Marano) and help her choose between 3 love interests: Paul (Scott Michael Foster), her current boyfriend, Rex (Avan Jogia), a musical star, and Jack (Jordi Webber), an old love from her teenage years.

But is ‘Choose Love’ good?

To answer this question, we first need to consider what was promised to us.

The interactive factor is there and we can directly choose the main character’s actions.

So, saying that you didn’t like the ending would be the same as saying that you hated a Subway sandwich that you put together and chose each of the ingredients, right?

Maybe! But beyond our choices, we can also talk about the construction of the plot.

Yes, our choices are important, but if we ignore the fact that we pressed a button here and there, would that script make sense if it were delivered that way?

I question each of these things before expressing my opinion, because I want to raise a debate about our interference and to what extent it becomes relevant.

After all, all the paths are pre-constructed and we are only choosing “right or left”. That said, let’s go to the movie!

The first scene of this film serves as a good summary of everything that will happen. Our main character, Cami, consults a fortune teller and the cards show how her life will have several twists and turns, and everything will depend on the choices she makes along the way. There is also a breaking of the fourth wall that is done several times in other moments of the film, enough to show how we will be brought into the film and indicate that the character knows that we are in control.

The central point of this twist is in her love life. In a stable relationship for 3 years, Cami still feels that something is missing in her life. And if it depends on what the cards say, soon there will be something left: suitors.

Minutes after being introduced to her long-time boyfriend and the relationship dynamics between Paul and Cami, we meet Jack. Jack is an old love of Cami’s. They dated during their adolescence and he left for Guatemala to help people. Now he is back and, by coincidence of fate, works at Cami’s niece’s school. Our third suitor is introduced a few scenes later. One of his songs is being mixed in the studio where Cami works and in a “meet-cute” she helps him make coffee in a complicated coffee maker.

Part of a good romance lies in the chemistry between characters and actors, unfortunately, in this film it is a little difficult to see that chemistry.

There are three possibilities and none of them seem interesting enough for us to get invested in the moment of choosing. None of the couples are convincing enough.

For me, of all of them, the one that interested me the least was Jack. Their first meeting is not convincing enough for me to want to see more of the interaction between the two.

That said, as a big fan of Austin and Ally, I took advantage of my opportunity to pair Laura Marano with a blond singer in a red jacket (who knows, he knows lol).

To see which one was more worthwhile, I did the 6 endings and I can say that the feeling we were left with is the same as Cami had at the beginning of the film: something is missing.

The film does not seem to be well-structured, which leaves some gaps that give us the feeling of an empty plot.

We also don’t care enough about the characters to celebrate any change.

And to top it off, some endings are so quick to reach that it almost seems like a joke.

The conflict is not convincing in the plot. My experience is that they focused too much on the choices of the character who was least interesting to me, and so when I reached my ending, it felt rushed and thrown together.

In conclusion

This is an average movie that offers an average experience.

If the future of streaming cinema is interactivity, then the writers need to find ways to better tie together the consequences of choices and make the plot complete.

For now, it’s just a little “fun”, a concept of: wow, I can make my own movie.

But I ask again: can it really be done?

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Still, I don’t give up and always give it a chance when a new movie of the genre is released.

When I saw the trailer for Puppy Love, I wasn’t very excited about the story. But the cast did interest me.

Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) and Grant Gustin (The Flash) play Nicole and Max. He is a boy who developed social phobia after COVID and isolated himself from the world during the two years of the pandemic, she is a party girl with a very messy lifestyle.

When Max decides to adopt Chloe on medical advice and Nicole rescues Channing Tatum from the streets, their paths end up crossing.

Is Puppy Love good?

Puppy Love dives into the plots of enemies to lovers and opposites attract. If these aren’t clichés enough, sprinkle the film with absurd scenes and dialogues and you’ll have a film that would be shown in an afternoon session after a few cuts.

There’s nothing that shines or stands out enough to make Puppy Love the romantic comedy of the year.

The interactions between the main characters are quick and, often, it’s hard to understand some of their attitudes.

In the first meeting, for example, it seems that the character Nicole chose to be annoying for no reason. Meanwhile, Max continued to be the only one with justification for his actions (coming from a psychological problem).

Max and Nicole don’t like each other, but after a meeting in the park, Chloe ends up getting pregnant by Channing Tatum (and yes, the film shows the scene of the puppies being made). Because of this, the main characters need to learn to live together, since they will be grandparents to a pet.

Little by little, we see the change happen, Nicole helps Max feel better and get out of the house more. While Max helps Nicole face her fears and enroll in college.

Like every cliché movie, the reason for the conflict is kind of stupid, but it works here in the middle of this “guy with OCD, sloppy girl” narrative.

As for the acting, Lucy delivers the same as always, her performance is consistent and she manages to play the perfect girl from a rom-com movie.

Grant, on the other hand, is once again haunted by his past. If in The Flash it was absurd to have the character sing, here, there is no reason at all. The actor has to sing for nothing, with no addition to the narrative.

The reason is only one and obvious: he acted in Glee and knows how to sing.

In conclusion

Puppy Love won’t change the history of cinema; it’s just another generic and forgettable film that’s good for a laugh here and there.

Because it’s quick, it’s worth watching while you’re doing something else in your day-to-day life and just want to have some fun.

The film premiered on August 18 in the United States and is not yet available on any Brazilian streaming service.

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That’s how I ended up watching “They Cloned Tyrone.” I confess that the name was the first thing that made me curious.

In the story, Fontaine (John Boyega) lives the same routine every day. He lives with his mother – who he never sees, because she’s always locked in her room -, sells drugs around the neighborhood and is a lone wolf.

One night, when he goes to a hotel to collect debts from the city’s pimp (Jamie Foxx), Fontaine is shot inside his car and left for dead.

Things get even stranger when he wakes up the next day with no memory of what happened and no injuries.

Fontaine decides to investigate how he’s still alive after everything that happened and ends up discovering a government project that uses the neighborhood where he lives as guinea pigs for chemical tests in broad daylight.

Eles Clonaram o Tyrone é bom?

The beginning of the film may mislead the viewer, the formula seems hackneyed, after all, we have “Happy Death Day” and countless other films that have time loops as their central theme.

But it doesn’t take long for the film to show its tone and have its first plot twist (which is already present in the title).

The investigation and the attempt to find out why people are being cloned is the central part of the film, it’s what makes the journey of Yo Yo (Teyonah Perris), Slick (Foxx) and Fontaine so interesting.

With moments of humor and drama, the film has a good balance in tone, without getting lost in the development.

The way they deal with conspiracy theories here also adds even more value to the script. After all, who doesn’t want to know what interest the government has in controlling people?

The film is average and aims to make you think about the treatment that peripheral neighborhoods receive in society, but at the same time, this discussion gets lost amidst the almost satirical comedy.

The mix of comedy and science fiction, combined with the attempt to address a social issue, makes the film a confusing mess, with peaks that vary between laughter and thoughts of pity for one or more characters.

It’s worth playing They Cloned Tyrone, because the film is edited in a way that almost doesn’t allow us to see time passing, its pace is not slow and the story is very interesting and good for making us laugh.

Just don’t go in expecting very deep social criticism, tear-jerking drama and exaggerated laughter.

They Cloned Tyrone is a Netflix original film and is now available to watch.

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