Mister Marquee

by Hans A. Carpenter Director: George A. Romero Release date: Jan. 1, 1978 This week, for a change of pace (and without the theater to turn to), my fianceé, Jessica Metcalf, and I decided it would be fun to introduce each other to movies that we love which our significant other definitely wouldn’t have picked…

by Hans A. Carpenter Streaming on Disney-Plus Showrunner: Dave Filoni Mister Marquee Says: Gooooooood Number: 4.5/5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars returned to streaming on Disney-Plus giving fans a last taste of the well-regarded cartoon set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Ashoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker’s former apprentice, tries to find…

Netflix Documentary Hey all you cool cats and kittens. Okay, everyone is talking about this show, and it’s created a flood of memes. Tiger King is a show full of truly terrible people who all see themselves as heroes and a bunch of exploited exotic animals. Tiger King follows the feud between flamboyant tiger breeder…

by Hans A. Carpenter With the final Episode of Star Trek: Picard Season 1 coming out this week, let’s take look back at the up-and-down roller coaster franchise the Star Trek movies turned out to be. Ranked from Worst to Best, here we go: 13. The Final Frontier This William Shatner directed camp fest is…

by Hans A. Carpenter Release Date: March 13 MPAA: R Director: Craig Zobel Starring: Betty Gilpin, Ike Barinholtz, and Emma Roberts A group of poor right-wingers find themselves scattered around a country estate being hunted by the Liberal elite. One of the captured begins to fight back, and the hunters may become the hunted. The…

by Hans A. Carpenter Release Date: March 6, 2020 MPAA: PG Director: Dan Scalon Starring: Chris Pratt and Tom Holland Mister Marquee Says: Magical Number: 4.5/5 Ian (Tom Holland) is a shy elf living in a modern fairytale world that has forgotten magic. When Ian turns 16, his mother gives Ian and his brother Barley…

by Hans A. Carpenter Release Date: Disney-Plus Showrunner: Jon Favreau Starring: Pedro Pascal Mister Marquee Says: Impressive…Most Impressive Number: 4.5/5 In December, Disney may have horribly underwhelmed me at the box office with The Rise of Skywalker, an incoherent stumble to a classic saga. For all that steam Star Wars has lost on the big…

by Hans A. Carpenter MPAA: R Release Date: February 7 Director: Cathy Yan Starring: Margot Robbie, Ewan McGreggor, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell Rating: 4/5 Mister Marquee Says: A step in the right direction. After the events of Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) finds herself broken up with The Joker. Without Joker’s protection, Harley finds herself…

by Hans A. Carpenter hans@freeburgtribune.com Release Date: December 13 MPAA: R Director: Clint Eastwood Starring: Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates, and Sam Rockwell Mister Marquee Says: Solid Number: 4/5 Security Guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) saves hundreds of lives from a bombing in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. When an FBI agent (Jon Hamm)…

Release Date: August 16 MPAA: R Director: Gene Stupnitsky Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, and Brady Noon Mister Marquee Says: Superbad Jr.  Number: 4/5 Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L Williams), and Thor (Brady Noon) are set to go to a kissing party with the popular kids, but none of them know how to…