What to Watch This Weekend: Holiday Movies, Let Him Go, Post-Halloween Horror, Playing With Fire, Long Shot

For Some Irreverent Holiday Cheer - Cup of Cheer (Digital and Tubi)

Cup of Cheer's confident, irreverent style, beautiful camera work, and great music make this one holiday treat that you won't want to return for store credit.  For more information, check out our review!

For Some Emotional Holiday Cheer - My Dad's Christmas Date (Digital)

My Dad's Christmas Date gives Barrett and Piven a chance to shine and brings an unconventional holiday story with great characters and plenty of emotion and heart.  For more information, check out the review!

For Some Extra Holiday Cheer - Operation Christmas Drop (Netflix)

The film is doing well with audiences and provides your standard holiday rom com so you can get in the holiday mood now!

For A Family or Western Thriller - Let Him Go (Theaters)

Let Him Go has fantastic characters and a slow burning story, fueled by the natural chemistry between Costner and Lane, in this harrowing tale of family and fear.  For more information, check out our review!

For Some Post-Halloween Horror - The Dark and the Wicked (Theaters, Digital)

The Dark and the Wicked will keep you on edge with it's palatable sense of tension, dread-filled atmospheric horror, amazing gore and effects, and wonderfully nuanced characters in a terrible predicament.  For more information, check out our review!

For Some Historical Horror - Antebellum (Redbox)

Antebellum is an imaginative mind game that explores the sins of the past and present through strong performances, a mysterious story, and some fantastic, dread-inducing music.  For more information, check out our review!

For the Kids - Playing With Fire (Hulu)

Maybe you have a lot on your mind this weekend and want to distract the kids for a couple hours.  If that's the case, then this is the perfect movie.  It is surprisingly entertaining for adults and my kids absolutely loved it  For more information, check out our review!

For Election Junkies - The Long Shot (Cinemax)

Long Shot starts off ridiculously enough but as it develops, you get to see a lot of heart from Theron and Rogan in this humorous election romp.

Deal: Digital Movie Deals for May 24, 2020

Here is a collection of digital movie deals to help keep you entertained while you quarantine.  There are some great choices here.  We have some Disney classics in 4K for the kiddos (if you don't already subscribe to Disney+).  Those movies are Movies Anywhere will port to your linked iTunes, Amazon, Microsoft, Google Play, and VUDU accounts.  And we have some 4K 99 cent rentals of recent movies that will give you a lot of entertainment for a little bit of money!

$10 Disney Movies (Movies Anywhere) [fandangonow.com]

• Aladdin (4K)
• Beauty and the Beast (4K)
• Beauty and the Beast (2017) (4K)
• Brave (4K)
• Cinderella (2015) (4K)
• The Jungle Book (2016) (4K)
• The Little Mermaid (4K)
• Moana (4K)
• The Princess and the Frog (4K)
• Tangled (4K)
• A Wrinkle in Time (4K)

99 cent rentals [fandangonow.com]

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (4K)
• Bombshell (4K)
• Color Out of Space (4K)
• Extra Ordinary (HD)
• The Farewell (4K)
• Knives Out (4K)
• The Lighthouse (HD)
• Like a Boss (4K)
• Midsommar (4K)
• Playing With Fire (4K)
• Waves (4K)

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Digital Movie Deals: April 21, 2020

Here is a collection of digital movie deals to help keep you entertained while you quarantine.  The movies listed as Movies Anywhere will port to your linked iTunes, Amazon, Microsoft, Google Play, and VUDU accounts.

Movies Anywhere Movies:

• Apollo 11 (4K) - $8.99 [vudu.com]
• Jurassic Park/World 5 Movie Bundle (4K) - $21.99 [vudu.com]
• Parasite (4K) - $9.99 [vudu.com]
• Purge 4 Movie Bundle (4K) - $17.99 [vudu.com]
• Recent Hits Mix & Match Bundle (4K) - $19.99 [vudu.com]
• Example Titles:
• Glass
• First Man
• Mortal Engines
• Tully
• American Made
• Happy Death Day
• Ma
• On the Basis of Sex
• Greta
• The Mustang
• The Purge: Election Year
• The Girl on the Train
• The House with a Clock in Its Wall
• Breaking In
• A Dog's Journey
• The Little Stranger
• Blockers
• Little
• Night School
• The Dead Don't Die
• Welcome to Marwen

NOT Movies Anywhere Movies:

• New Releases Mix & Match Bundle (HD) - $14.99 [vudu.com]
• Example Titles:
• Rocketman
• Dora: The Lost City of Gold
• Bumblebee
• Wonder Park
• Pet Sematary (2019)
• Playing With Fire
• Crawl
• Overlord
• Official Secrets
• Instant Family

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What to Watch This Weekend: February 7, 2020

In Theaters: Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey is a triumphant breakout for Harley Quinn, a wild celebration of this character filled with bold style, entertaining action, a wonderful cast, and plenty of craziness.  For more information, check out our review!

In Theaters: The Traitor

The Traitor is an Italian mob epic, with amazing acting, a brutal and compelling story, and perfect music that will keep you engaged until the final shot.  For more information, check out our review!

At Redbox: Playing With Fire

Playing With Fire takes a very funny cast, ridiculous situations, and lots of funny moments and tells a silly but heartwarming story that the whole family will love!  For more information, check out our review!

At Redbox: Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep pairs a stellar cast, with a big score, and enough nostalgia from the original movie to keep you entertained.  Whether you are a fan of the novel or have seen Kubrick's original masterpiece, you will thoroughly enjoy Doctor Sleep. For more information, check out our review!

Streaming (Showtime): The Best of Enemies

A historical film starring two amazing actors playing very different characters, The Best of Enemies tells the story of the clash between a civil rights advocate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during school integration.  This was an underappreciated film in theaters and should not be missed now!

Streaming (HBO): John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum

John Wick Chapter 3 is an action-packed new chapter in the John Wick saga.  It has John Wick's trademark flair, brutal and imaginative action, and continues the assassin's story against ever increasing odds.  For more information, check out our review!

Review: Playing With Fire

Release date: November 8, 2019
Running time: 96 minutes
Starring: Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, John Cena

In Playing With Fire, four daredevil "smoke jumpers" (firemen who use a helicopter to jump right into a dangerous fire) have to put out a new kind of disaster when they are forced to take care of three children in their isolated fire station.  The kids have a blast playing with dangerous equipment and disrupting these men's lives, while the smoke jumpers (Cena, Key, Leguizamo, and Mane) must adapt quickly if they are going to survive this latest challenge.

The premise of this movie is ridiculous, but luckily the cast makes this film a fun little adventure.  Cena is very entertaining as the gruff, straight edge commander of the smoke jumpers, who only wants to pursue his career and has no interest in insubordinate children.  The rest of his crew (Key, Leguizamo, and Mane) provide lots of additional comic relief as they relate to and run away from their new rambunctious roommates.  Greer provides a love interest and a much needed strong female character.  And the kids do a great job in their natural roles, as troublemaking kids.  

The movie puts the smoke jumpers in a number of ridiculous situations that are highly dangerous, but also highly entertaining for a kids movie.  These kids destroy LOTS of equipment and cause lots of trouble, and it is up to the smoke jumpers to fix their messes and keep them in line.  Sure, the film is pretty far-fetched and the situation is silly, but it is also enjoyable to see.  And although there isn't a lot of fire after the first two scenes, that is probably better as my children enjoyed the silly antics more than the serious fire scenes.  And speaking of children, my kids couldn't stop raving about the movie after we left, which is a pretty good indicator for a children's movie. 

Playing With Fire takes a very funny cast, ridiculous situations, and lots of funny moments and tells a silly but heartwarming story that the whole family will love!

Watch it (with your kids)