Tag: Julia Garner

Weapons

“Weapons” is a 2025 horror/mystery that everyone has been talking about. It stars Julia Garner (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange), and Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams).

All the kids from the same elementary class, minus one, mysteriously vanish at the exact same time in the middle of the night. Now the whole town is one edge without knowing what happened to the kids.

I originally didn’t want to see this one as I thought it looked a little weird, but I kept hearing from people how great of a movie it was, so I had to check it out. It’s cool how the movie is set up, it follows six different people’s perspectives before and after the event of the missing kids. You get a little from each person until it all comes together at the end to create the whole story. It isn’t scary but it’s a good watch and has a few good gory scenes. I wish it went a little more in depth overall, you find out what happened and why it happened, but it felt a little shallow. It does do a good job of keeping you guessing until it’s revealed what happened. I found the ending hilarious, and it was perfect poetic justice. Even though it isn’t exactly scary, it’s a fun movie though and worth checking out. I give it a 7/10,

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is a 2025 Marvel superhero movie based off the popular Fantastic Four comic book series. This one stars Pedro Pascal (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), Vanessa Kirby (Mission Impossible-Fallout), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear), Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), Julia Garner (Ozark), and Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai).

It’s the 1960’s and four astronauts, who are also family, go into space on a mission. When their suits become compromised, they come back to earth with unique superpowers. They become earth’s protectors. When a powerful being who devours planets comes for earth, it’s up to the Fantastic Four to come up with a plan to stop him before it’s too late.

This looked like it would be good, I’m not a big Fantastic Four fan but Marvel makes great movies so I gave it a try. I like how they stayed true to the comics, and set it in the 60’s. That was a nice touch. There’s not a lot of action in this one, especially for it being a superhero movie, but no pun intended, it’s fantastic. The casting is great all the way through, the story is really good, the writing is phenomenal. It’s a two-hour movie but doesn’t feel any bit of it. There’s not a single part that felt like it lulled. It’s a heartfelt movie, that will have you tearing up, even though you know it turns out okay, you’re still on the edge of your seat. It’s one of the better movies I have seen in a while. They tease there will be a second one, and I can’t wait. This is a must see movie, that I give a 10/10.