It’s Easter weekend, and Watch With Us is sick of green bunnies and pale colors.
Instead, we want colorful flicks and dark horror films, and Prime Video is the best broadcaster to deliver those goods.
Top of our weekend movie binge list Mission: Impossible – The Final Countdowna chapter that is reported to be the climax of the spy story.
Michael Keaton fans should check out his ghost picture, White Noisewhile those are not Aretha Franklin must watch his excellent biopic, Respect.
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Countdown’ (2025)
All good things come to an end – I mean Objective: Impossible movies. The final Countdown it is said Tom CruiseIt’s a farewell to the leads, though the film has made enough money to spark rumors of another one.
Picking up immediately after Dead Count, Ethan (Cruise) is on the hunt for the Entity, a powerful AI system that threatens the world by targeting various nuclear sites. The key to defeating the Organization lies with the villainous Gabriel (Esai Morales), but he’d rather die than give Ethan what he wants. He is supported by the IMF team which includes the thief Grace (Hayley Atwell) and his old friend Luther (Ving Rhams), Ethan only has days to find and disable the Enterprise before it’s too late.
The final Countdown it does not reach the height of high class installments like Ghost Protocol or A corrupt nationbut it’s still a fun ride that’s more alive than flawed Objective: Impossible III. (Also less said about it M: I am 2better.) Rhames, Atwell and Pom Klementieff as a reformed Parisian gangster makes for an amazing and energetic team to save the world, while sixsomething Cruise still runs, kicks, punches and dives with the best of them all. He’s really an Empowering bunny, and let’s hope he doesn’t run out of juice.
The final Countdown is streaming on Prime Video.
‘White Noise’ (2005)
When Jonathan (Michael Keatonwife, Anna (Chandra West), mysteriously disappeared, only to be contacted by a stranger who informed him that he had died. When her body is found a few weeks later, Jonathan tracks down a stranger and discovers the presence of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena), which allows someone to communicate with the dead through technology. Jonathan struggles to communicate with his dead wife and inadvertently awakens evil spirits to help. Jonathan just wants to say goodbye to his wife, but he may say goodbye to his life before he talks to her.
White Noise it is absurd nonsense, even if you believe in the afterlife. But it commits to its remote location, and Keaton somehow manages to sell Jonathan’s tragic situation. He is a man blinded by grief who does not see the danger in front of him.
White Noise is streaming on Prime Video.
‘Respect’ (2021)
When Aretha Franklin died in 2018, everyone agreed that the world had lost a once-in-a-lifetime talent. But legends aren’t just born, they’re made – and they have to be recruited by the right people to make it big. And that’s it Respecta 2021 biopic starring the Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson as an iconoclastic soul singer, he focuses on all the generosity but necessity of 145 minutes.
Growing up in post-World War II Detroit, Franklin did not have an easy life – his mother died when he was young, and he became a parent to two children when he was young. But he had a voice that no one could deny, and he doggedly pursued his dreams of becoming a chart-topping artist despite many obstacles. Despite releasing many albums, he has yet to have a hit single — until he decides to re-record. Otis ReddingA little hit song, “Respect.” And the rest, as they say, is history.
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The musical biography genre is one of the strongest, too Respect it does not reinvent the wheel. But what it does do is provide insight into an artist few know much about. Very few artists can match the power of Franklin’s voice, but Hudson is one of them, and he does the Queen of Soul proud with his faithful renditions of Franklin’s signature songs. It’s a fun but still respectful performance, and well worth watching Respect just seeing Hudson hit those impossible high notes.
Respect is streaming on Prime Video.
