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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Wake Up Dead Man - A Knives Out Mystery WAKE UP DEAD MAN – A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025) Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church, Jeffrey Wright, Annie Hamilton, James Faulkner, Bridget Everett, Noah Segan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Karitzis, Kit Burden, Gavin Spokes, Paul Hilton, Ray Bolton and Nicola Hughes. Screenplay by Rian Johnson. Di

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5 days ago4 min read


Hamnet (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Hamnet HAMNET (2025) Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, David Wilmot, Jacobi Jupe, Olivia Lynes, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Freya Hannan-Mills, Dainton Anderson, Elliot Baxter, Noah Jupe, El Simons, Louisa Harland, Jack Shalloo, Sam Woolf, Hera Gibson, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Justine Mitchell, Eva Wishart, Effie Linnen, Faith Delaney and Smylie Bradwell. Screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell. Directed by Chloé Zhao. Distributed by Focus Fea

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Rental Family (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Rental Family RENTAL FAMILY (2025) Starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, Akira Emoto, Shino Shinozaki, Paolo Andrea Di Pietro, Shinji Ozeki, Takao Kin, Risa Kameda, Yuma Sonan, Kana Kitty, Gan Furukawa, Yuji Komatsu, Ryoko Osada, Helen Sadler, Kaoru Mizuki, Shohei Uno, Sonoe Mizoguchi, Keiji Yamashita, Bun Kimura, Yuki Kimura and Tsutomu Osabe. Screenplay by Hikari & Stephen Blahut. Directed by Hikari. Distributed by Searchlight Pictur

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Nov 213 min read


Wicked: For Good (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Wicked: For Good WICKED: FOR GOOD (2025) Starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, Aarin Teoh Guan Ti, Adam James, Colin Michael Carmichael, Alice Fearn, Kerry Ellis and the voices of Colman Domingo, Peter Dinklage and Sharon D. Clarke. Screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. Directed by Jon M. Chu. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 137 minutes. Rated PG. T

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Nov 203 min read


Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Now You See Me: Now You Don't NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T (2025) Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, Rosamund Pike, Morgan Freeman, Lizzy Caplan, Dominic Allburn, Lyssandra Skye Arias, Myah Banton, Henry Fisher, Sebastian Hansen, Bobby Holland Hanton, Tom Johnson, Mali McEwan, Thabang Molaba, Nick Wittman, Daniel Radcliffe and Mark Ruffalo. Screenplay by Michael Lesslie, Paul Wernick, Rhett Re

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Nov 133 min read


Netflix House is Better Than Home
Netflix House Netflix House is Better Than Home All neighborhoods have that one house that everyone wants to hang out in. Now there’s a new favorite hangout house in King of Prussia, PA, that promises to bring joy to all ages in the Philadelphia area, and beyond! Starting today, November 12, 2025, Netflix House is opening it’s colorful doors in the King of Prussia Mall, allowing you to step inside your favorite shows and movies in more than 100,000 square feet of endless fu

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Nov 122 min read


A Merry Little Ex-Mas (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
A Merry Little Ex-Mas A MERRY LITTLE EX-MAS (2025) Starring Alicia Silverstone, Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jamil, Pierson Fodé, Linda Kash, Melissa Joan Hart, Timothy Innes, Emily Hall and Wilder Hudson. Screenplay by Holly Hester. Directed by Steve Carr. Distributed by Netflix. 91 minutes. Not Rated. Who would think that this is at least the fourth cheesy holiday movie in recent years to shoehorn the awkward pun “ex-mas” into its title? It’s like – hey, we mixed “ex” and “Xmas.”

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Nov 113 min read


Frankenstein (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Frankenstein FRANKENSTEIN (2025) Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance, Lauren Collins, Sofia Galasso, Ralph Ineson, Burn Gorman, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Kyle Gatehouse, Joachim Fjelstrup, Peter Millard, Peter Mcneill, Sean Sullivan, Stuart Hughes, Gord Rand, Kenton Craig, Val Ovtcharov and Anders Yates. Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Distributed by Netflix. 150

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Nov 82 min read


Nuremberg (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Nuremberg NUREMBERG (2025) Starring Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, Michael Shannon, Lotte Verbeek, Andreas Pietschmann, Steven Pacey, Paul Antony-Barber, Jeremy Wheeler, Wolfgang Cerny, Dan Cade, Donald Sage Mackay, Dieter Riesle, Wayne Brett, Mesterházy Gyula and Sam Newman. Screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Directed by James Vanderbilt. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. 148

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Nov 73 min read


Lost and Found in Cleveland (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Lost and Found in Cleveland LOST AND FOUND IN CLEVELAND (2024) Starring Martin Sheen, Dennis Haysbert, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Yvette Yates Redick, Santino Fontana, Dot-Marie Jones, Loretta Devine, Liza Weil, Esther Povitsky, Rory O'Malley, Jeff Hiller, Jon Lovitz, Mark L. Walberg, Benjamin Steinhauser, Rob Mayes, Vanessa Burghardt, Bryant Carroll, Bryan Coffee and Stephon Fuller. Screenplay by Marisa Guterman & Keith Gerchak. Directed by Marisa Guterman & Keith Gerchak. D

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Nov 63 min read


Train Dreams (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Train Dreams TRAIN DREAMS (2025) Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Chuck Tucker, Rob Price, Paul Schneider, John Diehl, Alfred Hsing, Nathaniel Arcand, Johnny Arnoux, David Olsen, John Patrick Lowrie, Brandon Lindsay, Eric Ray Anderson, Beau Charles, Rick Rivera, Taylor McKinley, Ashton Singer, Zoe Rose Short and the voice of Will Patton. Screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar. Directed by Clint Bentley. Distribut

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Nov 53 min read


Bugonia (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Bugonia BUGONIA (2025) Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone, J. Carmen Galindez Barrera, Marc T. Lewis, Vanessa Eng, Cedric Dumornay, Charita 'Momma Cherri' Jones, Fredricka Whitfield, Rafael Lopez Bravo, Yaisa, Teneisha Ellis, Roger Carvalho, Atsushi Nishijima, Janlyn Mallis Bales, Andy Blackburn, Stella Bizirtsaki and Diana Duah. Screenplay by Will Tracy. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Distributed by Focus Features. 118 minute

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Oct 282 min read


Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Interview
Jay McCarrol and Matt Johnson at the Philadelphia Film Festival showing of "Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie." Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Interview By Jay S. Jacobs It’s a tale as old as time. Two guys start a band. They are enthusiastic about the project and sure that stardom lurks ahead. They even set a goal of their ideal venue – the storied Toronto rock club The Rivoli. Unfortunately, they are a little naïve in the ways of

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Oct 277 min read


Primate (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Primate PRIMATE (2025) Starring Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, Charlie Mann, Tienne Simon, Miguel Torres Umba, Kae Alexander, Amina Abdi, Albert Magashi, Kevin McNally, Stuart Whelan, Amina Abdi and Kieran Deane. Screenplay by Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera. Directed by Johannes Roberts. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 89 minutes. Rated R. Screened at the 2025 Philadelphia Film Festival. If you ever thought

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Oct 263 min read


Blue Moon (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Blue Moon BLUE MOON (2025) Starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Jonah Lees, Rifkin Simon Delaney, Cillian Sullivan, Patrick Kennedy, John Doran, Anne Brogan, Giles Surridge, Brian Briggs, Caitríona Ennis, Elaine O'Dwyer, Aisling O'Mara, David Rawle, Ray Weafer, Ian Dillon and Daniel Mick Ryan. Screenplay by Robert Kaplow. Directed by Richard Linklater. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. 100 minutes. Rated R. Screened at the 2025 Philade

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Oct 244 min read


Case 137 (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Case 137 (Dossier 137) CASE 137 (DOSSIER 137) (2025) Starring Léa Drucker, Jonathan Turnbull, Mathilde Roehrich, Guslagie Malanda, Stanislas Merhar, Sandra Colombo, Valentin Campagne, Mathilde Riu, Côme Péronnet, Solàn Machado-Graner, Théo Costa-Marini, Théo Navarro-Mussy and Florence Viala. Screenplay by Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand. Directed by Dominik Moll. Distributed by Haut et Court. 115 minutes. Not Rated. Screened at the 2025 Philadelphia Film Festival. It is kind

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Oct 232 min read


Hedda (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Hedda HEDDA (2025) Starring Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, Nina Hoss, Kathryn Hunter, Finbar Lynch, Mirren Mack, Jamael Westman, Saffron Hocking, Finbar Lynch, Mirren Mack, Jamael Westman, Jack Barry, Michelle Crane, Sam Hoare, Stacey Gough, Mark Oosterveen, Sonya Orlov, Nicholas Bishop, Milly Paris and Jack Sherlock. Screenplay by Nia DaCosta. Directed by Nia DaCosta. Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios. 107 minutes. Rated R. Screened at the 2025

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Oct 223 min read


Köln 75 (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Köln 75 KÖLN 75 (2025) Starring Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer, Susanne Wolff, Ulrich Tukur, Jördis Triebel, Marie-Lou Sellem, Mala Emde, Enno Trebs, Shirin Lilly Eissa, Daniel Betts, Ilse Brandes, Leo Meier, Leon Blohm, Moritz Heidelbach, Michael del Coco, Gisela Walter, Uwe Preuss, Lea Draeger, Tobias Lange, Ana-Marija Markovina and Alexander Scheer. Screenplay by Ido Fluk. Directed by Ido Fluk. Distributed by Zeitgeist Films. 113 minutes. Not Rat

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Oct 215 min read


If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (2025) Starring Rose Byrne, Conan O'Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, ASAP Rocky, Ivy Wolk, Daniel Zolghadri, Delaney Quinn, Ronald Bronstein, Lark White, Josh Pais, Eva Kornet, Mark Stolzenberg, Helen Hong, Ella Beatty, Manu Narayan, Amy Judd Lieberman, Char Sidney, Jodi Pynn Gabree, Alan Scott, Jason Matthews and Victor Broadley. Screenplay by Mary Bronstein. Directed by Mary Bronstein. Distributed by A24. 113

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Oct 203 min read


Ruby Modine & Ian Kimble – It’s Just a Dead Giveaway
Ian Kimble and Ruby Modine at the Philadelphia Film Festival Premiere of "Dead Giveaway." Ruby Modine & Ian Kimble It’s Just a Dead Giveaway by Jay S. Jacobs Don’t you hate it when this happens? You’re out on a Friday night. You hit a few bars, and maybe a party. You have a bit too much to drink. Or maybe a lot too much to drink. Or maybe you literally recreate Marion Ravenwood’s shots-drinking contest scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. You wake up the next morning, still ful

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Oct 186 min read
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