Wicked for Good

      - You will be changed

Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Actors:

Ariana Grande

Cynthia Erivo

Jonathan Bailey

Ethan Slater

Bowen Yang

Michelle Yeoh

Jeff Goldblum

Other info:

Director: Jon M. Chu          

Producer (s): Marc Platt, David Stone

Running time: 137 minutes

Age rating: PG

Genre:                           Fantasy, Musical, Drama,

Release date: 21 Nov 2025

Budget:                 $150 mil

Box Office: $524,5 mil

IMDb rating: 6,7 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 66%

Our Experience

Rating:        4/10

Awfully boring. I knew exactly how the movie would end within the first 10 minutes. It is cliched and predictable. The sets are preposterous, the songs weird - they just sang the script, it wasn't songs so much. Except for the longest song - something about friendship and how they were changed for good. Despite my boredom, and the length of the song, it was quite nice, though. My daughter (10yo) didn't appreciate it, she fell asleep. I was trying to find some deeper meaning, or story, as fantasies and fairy tales normally has them. But no, this one is as bland as they come. The most I could get is that the masses will believe what they will, and that once they have adopted a certain mindset, it is not easily changed, even if it is completely false.

Audience Suggestion & Guidance

Age:                             All

Swearing:                   None

Profanity:                   None

Violence:                   Some

Thinking/Twist factor:     None

Blood & Gore:       None

Scary factor:           None

Nudity:                   None

Sex:                       Implied sex

Synopsis:

Some time after defying the Wonderful Wizard of Oz,[d] Elphaba Thropp, now branded as the Wicked Witch of the West by Madame Morrible, continues battling for Animal rights from a forest hideout. Glinda Upland, now the Wizard's spokesperson, is engaged to Fiyero Tigelaar, now Captain of the Gale Force. As Oz celebrates the grand opening of the Yellow Brick Road, Fiyero reveals he is attempting to locate Elphaba, though Glinda insists Elphaba does not want to be found.

Read the full synopsis here: Wicked for Good

F1 - the movie

   - It's not about the money

A Formula One driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver.

Actors:

Brad Pitt Damson Idris Kerry Condon Tobias Menzies Javier Bardem

Other info:

Director: Joseph Kosinski          

Producer (s): Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, Lewis Hamilton

Running time: 155min

Age rating: PG-13

Genre:                        Action, Drama, Sport  

Release date: 27 June 2025

Budget:         $200-300 Million

Box Office: $631,7 Million

IMDb rating: 7.7

Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

Our Experience

Rating:        9/10

Man, I wish I saw this on the big screen! Every time I watch it, I am fascinated and blown away. It is justsuch a fun movie, with an absolutely amazing soundtrack. I don't know about the accuracies in the movie or the details about F1, but I love the main character that went through hell, messed up his life, learnt from it, and has made his peace with it. He has found what he wants to do, and the 'noise' doesn't matter anymore. It's even a hit with my kids!

Audience Suggestion & Guidance

Age: All

Swearing: Some  

Profanity:  A little

Violence:   Yes, a little physical between characters, and then the accident scenes

Thinking/Twist factor: 2/10

Blood & Gore:   None

Scary factor:   3/10, the accident scenes may be disturbing

Nudity:   None

Sex:   2 characters kiss, and the story implies they had sex, but nothing is shown

Synopsis:

After a nasty incident almost ended his career, Sonny Hayes has retired from Formula One in 1993 and now races a Porsche in 24h of daytona but when an opportunity comes from the owner of a struggling team called apex gp, Sonny makes a return to Formula One racing, alongside a hot new rookie teammate, but soon realises that he can't take the road to redemption on his own.

Read the full synopsis here: (Link)

The Guardian

- When lives are on the line, sacrifice everything. So Others May Live.

A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

Actors:

Kevin Costner

Ashton Kutcher

Sela Ward

Melissa Sagemiller

Clancy Brown

Other info:

Director: Andrew Davis           

Producer (s): Armyan Bernstein, Zanne Devine

Running time: 2h 19min

Age rating: PG-13

Genre:              Adventure, Drama            

Release date: 29 September 2006

Budget: $70,000,000+-

Box Office: $94,973,540

IMDb rating: 6,9/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 37%

Our Experience

Rating:        8/10

I cry every single time I watch it. It is an excellent watch, and excellently done. They used real Coast Guard employees in the movie and to consult, so a lot of the facts are true. The story itself is amazing, and it so clearly and unabashedly depicts the sacrifices these people choose to make. Character growth are shown with great realism. My heart just can't take the sheer magnitude of emotions - even after seeing it more than probably 10 times by now, it still catches me.

However, my kids do not feel the same and I have met other adults who also don't share the sentiment with the concepts of the movie. For them it is boring drama, despite the action sequences.

Audience Suggestion & Guidance

Age: All, but with parental guidance

Swearing:   Some, but not much

Profanity:   A little

Violence:   A little, mostly by the sea and the circumstances on the stormy ocean

Thinking/Twist factor: 8/10

Blood & Gore:   None

Scary factor:   3/10

Nudity:   None (only naked chests of men)

Sex:   Implied, consensual

Synopsis:

Senior Chief Petty Officer Ben Randall is the top rescue swimmer at the United States Coast Guard's Aviation Survival Technician (AST) program, but the long hours have destroyed his marriage. When on a rescue, Ben loses his team in a HH-60J Jayhawk helicopter crash at sea. While waiting in a survival raft, his best friend, Chief Petty Officer Carl Billings, dies. Shaken by survivor guilt, Ben is transferred to become an instructor at the Coast Guard AST training school in Louisiana, where he develops a legendary reputation among the students for his high number of rescues. One student is hot-shot candidate Jake Fischer, a top high school competitive swimmer who rejected scholarships to every Ivy League college to enlist in the Coast Guard. During training, Jake meets local school teacher, Emily Thomas, and they begin a casual relationship.

Read the full synopsis here: The Guardian