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Weekly Trailers!!

Let’s jumpstart this month with some exciting film and television news!! Check out this week’s trailers below:

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (Streaming on Prime Video August 27th)

The Conjuring: The Last Rites (In theaters September 5th)

Wayward (Streaming on Netflix September 25th)

Zootopia 2 (In theaters November 26th)

Eternity (In theaters November 2025)

Season 2-Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Streaming on Disney+ December 10th)

Avatar: Fire and Ash (In theaters December 19th)

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Weekly Trailer Alerts!!

Wow!! We are flying through June, I feel like it just started and we are almost halfway through!! Well let’s not waste any more time, check out this week’s new trailers below:

Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer (Streaming on Hulu-July 11th)

Sausage Party: Foodtopia (Streaming on Prime Video-July 11th)

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Streaming on Paramount + -August 9th)

Alien: Romulus (In theaters August 16th)

The Killer’s Game (In theaters September 13th)

Piece by Piece (In theaters October 11th)

Season 2-Arcane (Streaming on Netflix-November 2024)

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Weekly Trailer Alerts!!

It’s a new month with a whole new set of trailers! Summer is upon us folks and the prospects are looking really good!! We got a nice mix of final seasons, period dramas, anti-heroes, some history lessons, action, and even a little child’s play!! Check out this week’s trailer below:

Origin (Streaming on Hulu-June 10th)

Season 3- Bridgerton, Part 2 (Streaming on Netflix-June 13th)

WondLa (Streaming on Apple TV+ – June 28th)

Season 4- The Umbrella Academy (Streaming on Netflix-August 8th)

Harold and the Purple Crayon (In theaters August 2024)

Wolfs (In theaters September 20th)

Venom: The Last Dance (In theaters October 2024)

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Weekly Trailer Alerts!!

We are making our way through February, can’t believe we are pretty much half way through the month! Nice selection film and television headed your way next month!! Check them out below:

Kung Fu Panda 4 (In theaters March 8th)

Apples Never Fall (Streaming on Peacock March 14th)

Season 2-Invincible-Part 2 (Streaming on Prime Video March 14th)

Marvel Animation’s X-Men ’97 (Streaming on Disney+ March 20th)

Palm Royale (Streaming on Apple TV+ March 20th)

Shirley (Streaming on Netflix March 22nd)

We Were the Lucky Ones (Streaming on Hulu March 28th)

Back to Black (In theaters May 17th)

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Weekly Trailer Alerts!!

Another exciting week of trailers headed your way!! And, just in case you missed a few of them on Super Bowl Sunday I included them here. See this week’s trailers below:

Welcome Home, Franklin (Streaming on Apple TV+ February 16th)

Iwájú (Streaming on Disney+ February 28th)

Scoop (Streaming on Netflix April 5th)

Knuckles (Streaming on Paramount+ April 26th)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (In theaters May 10th)

A Quiet Place: Day One (In theaters June 28th)

Twisters (In theaters July 19th)

Deadpool & Wolverine (In theaters July 26th)

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Dr. G’s Holiday Movie Watchlist-2023 Edition

Now this is not a post about the best Christmas movies (although all my faves are on this list), but more of a celebration of Christmas movies. This is literally my favorite time of year when it comes to movies!! You have your classics that never get old and then the newbies that hopefully become classics! With this list, I made sure to include a good mix for both the kids, the adults, and everyone in between.

Photo by Adriaan Greyling on Pexels.com

So as you continue to celebrate the Holiday Season make sure to take a little time to watch a movie or two with your family and friends, maybe even throw a Holiday Watch Party!! Nothing like starting some new traditions!

See my 25 Must-Watch Holiday Movies below:

  • Candy Cane Lane (Prime Video) [2023]
  • Dashing Through the Snow (Disney+) [2023]
  • The Naughty Nine (Disney+) [2023]
  • Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (Netflix) [2020]
  • Klaus [2019]
  • Almost Christmas [2016]
  • The Best Man Holiday [2013]
  • Elf [2003]
  • This Christmas [2007]
  • The Holiday [2006]
  • The Preacher’s Wife [1996]
  • The Santa Clause [1994]
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas [1993]
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol [1992]
  • Home Alone [1990]
  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation [1989]
  • Scrooged [1988]
  • Die Hard [1988]
  • Trading Places [1983]
  • A Christmas Story [1983]
  • Frosty the Snowman [1969]
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas! [1966]
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas [1965]
  • Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer [1964]
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What to Watch on Turkey Day?-TV and Film Watchlist

Whether you have a Thanksgiving routine with your family or want to start some new traditions check out this Turkey Day watch list…

Network Television

  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade [8:30 AM- 12:00 PM/ET, on NBC]
  • The 2023 National Dog Show [12:00 PM/ET on NBC]
  • Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions [12:30 PM/ET on FOX]
  • Washington Commanders vs. Dallas Cowboys [4:30 PM/ET on CBS]
  • San Francisco 49ers vs. Seattle Seahawks [8:20 PM/ET on NBC]

Streaming Networks

**Netflix

  • Rustin: Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
  • Best. Christmas. Ever!: After a twist of fate brings their families together for Christmas, Charlotte sets out to prove her old friend Jackie’s life is too good to be true.
  • The Killer: After a fateful near miss, an assassin battles his employers — and himself — on an international hunt for retribution he insists isn’t personal.
  • Leo: A coming-of-age musical comedy about the last year of elementary school as seen through the eyes of a class pet.

**Hulu

  • The League: The dynamic journey of Negro League baseball’s triumphs and challenges is told through previously unearthed archival footage and interviews with legendary players.
  • Quiz Lady: A hilarious and heartfelt comedy starring Awkwafina and Sandra Oh as estranged sisters forced to cover their mother’s gambling debts, set out to get the cash the only way they know how – by turning Anne (Awkwafina) into a bona-fide gameshow champion.
  • Season 5-Fargo: In this anthology series inspired by the 1996 film, each season follows a mostly new cast of characters who get involved with murder investigations in different Midwestern towns, with seemingly unrelated crimes sometimes being connected in some way.

**Disney+

  • Dashing Through the Snow: After a traumatic experience, Eddie Garrick, a social worker, no longer believes in the magic of Christmas. At the request of his estranged wife, he brings his daughter Charlotte to work where a magical adventure begins for them.
  • The Naughty Nine: Mischievous fifth grader Andy finds himself without a visit or presents from Santa on Christmas morning. Realizing he must have landed on the “naughty list” and feeling unfairly maligned, Andy pulls together a team of eight other “naughty listers” to help him execute an elaborate heist at the North Pole to get the presents they feel they deserve. Along the way, the group comes to realize that the very best way off the naughty list is to redirect their unique talents for good — instead of mischief.
  • Season 2-Loki: The second season of the American television series Loki, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name, sees Loki working with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other members of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to navigate the multiverse in order to find Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes. 

**Max

  • Blue Beetle: Jaime Reyes suddenly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab. When the Scarab chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he’s bestowed with an incredible suit of armor that’s capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.
  • The Gilded Age: The Gilded Age follows a young woman who moves in with her old-money aunts and quickly gets entangled in the social war between them and their new-money neighbors. In a world on the brink of the modern age, will she follow the rules of society or forge her own path?
  • Rebuilding Black Wall Street: A six-part docu-series focusing on the ongoing reconstruction of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, which was destroyed in the 1921 massacre.

**Paramount +

  • Good Burger 2: Dexter Reed and cashier Ed reunite at fast-food restaurant Good Burger with a hilarious new group of employees.
  • Lawmen: Bass Reeves: American Western television series based on the life of the first African American Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River, Bass Reeves
  • Milli Vanilli: The story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, featuring interviews with the real singers, record executives, the producer mastermind behind the deception and exclusive interviews with Rob and Fab.

Apple TV+

  • A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Peppermint Patty invites everyone to Charlie Brown’s for Thanksgiving, even though he’s going to see his grandmother; Snoopy decides to cook his own version of a Thanksgiving meal with help from his friends.
  • Lessons in Chemistry: In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott’s dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere; she accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of housewives way more than recipes.

**In Theaters

  • Wish
  • Thanksgiving
  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
  • Napoleon
  • The Marvels
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Weekly Trailer Alerts

We have a nice line-up of film and television for you to check out!! The weather is changing, a little more crisp in the air, so why not bundle up and watch something new!! Check out this week’s new trailers, see below:

Season 2-Invincible (Streaming on Prime Video November 3rd)

The Curse (Streaming on Showtime/Paramount+ November 10th)

Squid Game: The Challenge (Streaming on Netflix November 22nd)

Faraway Downs (Streaming on Hulu November 26th)

Candy Cane Lane (Streaming on Prime Video December 1st)

American Fiction (In theaters December 2023)

Occupied City (Coming Soon to Apple TV+)

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Sharing Some Animation Goodies!!-Dr. G’s Pop Culture Corner (PCC)

Good People! Good People!!

So it is nothing like having good friends who keep you posted on new goodies that are dropping within the pop culture arena! While preparing for our weekly writing session, my colleague and friend Michael Hall shared with me a new Disney+ animated anthology series that dropped last week called Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire! Immediately I did a quick Google search and to my delight, I was hooked! Premiering on July 5th Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire is a new series that blends elements of Africanfuturism, Afrofuturism, cyberpunk, sci-fi, and fantasy to tell 10 inclusive stories of African histories and cultures.

“This is Africa as you’ve never seen it before.” Advanced technology, spirits, aliens, and time travel…SIGN ME UP!!

Produced by Triggerfish Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios, executive produced by Oscar-winning director Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rise of the Guardians) with Tendayi Nyeke and Anthony Silverston as supervising producers, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire is what Ramsey describes as a series with “recognizable genres and recognizable aspects of contemporary culture, but they’re wrapped in African culture.” You got my attention! Plus the representation of the African diaspora is in full effect, with stories from such countries as South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe…GAME CHANGER!!

With a cast that includes Florence Kasumba (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Captain America: Civil War, Wonder Woman, “Emerald City”), Kehinde Bankole (“Desperate Housewives Africa”, Blood Sisters), Nasty C (“Blood & Water”), Mo Ismail (“Star Trek Beyond”, ) and a plethora of up-and-coming African talent, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire is definitely gonna change the game of how we tell animated stories!!

Now while I have not watched the series as of yet, I am already convinced this is legit greatness right here!! Just going off the trailer, the diverse representation, vibrant animation still shots, the voice cast, and the series direction, I’m willing to put my money on it sight unseen!

Photo Credit: Disney

This is totally in my personal and professional wheelhouse!! I am loving that more diverse African stories are being told and shared!! Cause trust me that content has and is there, the whole world just needs to see it!!

And just in case you need a little more convincing see the trailer below:

I am totally hyped about this series and siked that ALL episodes are available to watch!

I know what I will be binging on tonight!!

Hit me up in the comments and let me know what you think!!

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Weekly Trailer Alerts!!

Let’s hit the ground running and showcase some new tv and film trailers!! Gonna be a jam-packed month, I can feel it in my bones!! So without further ado let’s see what is on deck! Check out this week’s trailers below:

Final Season-Never Have I Ever (Streaming on Netflix June 8th)

The Crowded Room (Streaming on Apple TV+ June 9th)

Season 2-The Wonder Years (Streaming on Hulu June 14th)

Jagged Mind (Streaming on Hulu June 15th)

Season 2-And Just Like That… (Streaming on Max June 22nd)

Make Me Believe (Streaming on Netflix June 23rd)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (In theaters August 2nd)