October 04, 2020

Here's the Scoop...

It's that time again... we watched movies! And we want to tell you about them!

Be sure to click on titles below to see the reviews, the trailers, posters, bonus trivia, and credits for these entertaining motion pictures. Hopefully, this will entice you to check some of these flicks, or revisit them for your audio-visual pleasure. And without further ado...

Here are movies that we watched and reviewed for the month of September.

Enola Holmes
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Toy Story 3
I Come In Peace
Spies Like Us
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
Old School
The Rundown
From Beyond
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans
Constantine: City of Demons

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'Lion King' sequel from director Barry Jenkins in development

Disney is developing a follow-up to its 2019 photo-realistic remake of The Lion King with filmmaker Barry Jenkins attached to direct.

The sequel will touch on the early years of Mufasa, who was originally voiced by James Earl Jones in the 2019 film and the animated film from 1994.

Jeff Nathanson is returning to pen the script. The 2019 film, from director Jon Favreau, grossed $1.5 billion globally.

Disney has not announced a release date or production start date for the sequel. It remains unknown if any of the cast from the 2019 film will be returning.

Donald Glover voiced Simba with Beyonce as Nala, Billy Eichner as Timon, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar.

"Helping my sister raise two young boys during the 90s, I grew up with these characters. Having the opportunity to work with Disney on expanding this magnificent tale of friendship, love and legacy while furthering my work chronicling the lives and souls of folk within the African diaspora is a dream come true," Jenkins said in a statement.

Jenkins is best known for helming Best Picture winner Moonlight and If Beal Street Could Talk.

'Borat' sequel to premiere on Amazon

A sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 mockumentary, Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, is set to debut on Amazon next month.

An exact date has not been announced yet, but Variety said Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan is expected to premiere shortly before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3.

In the original film, Cohen posed as fictional Kazak journalist Borat Sagdiyev and asked people around the United States awkward and provocative questions in a quest to better understand the country's culture.

Deadline said Cohen and a small crew filmed the Borat sequel as soon as production restrictions were lifted and safety regulations put in place during the coronavirus pandemic.

'I Am Woman' singer Helen Reddy dead at 78

Australian singer-songwriter, feminist icon and TV personality Helen Reddy has died at age 78, her family announced.

Reddy was diagnosed with dementia in 2015. Her final years were spent being cared for at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's Samuel Goldwyn Center for Behavioral Health in Woodland Hills.

An exact cause of death was not released.

"It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Helen Reddy, on the afternoon of September 29th 2020 in Los Angeles," her children Traci Donat and Jordan Sommers wrote in a statement on Reddy's official fan page on Facebook Tuesday.

"She was a wonderful Mother, Grandmother and a truly formidable woman. Our hearts are broken. But we take comfort in the knowledge that her voice will live on forever."

Jeff Wald, Reddy's former husband and manager, also confirmed her death.

"I am v sad to announce that my first wife of 18 years and the mother of my two oldest Traci & Jordan. Traci spent the morning with Helen and she passed soon after under the excellent care of the Motion & Television Home #Helen Reddy," Wald tweeted Tuesday.

The Grammy-winning artist is best known for her hit 1960s and '70s songs "I Believe in Music," "I Don't Know How to Love Him," "Delta Dawn" "Angie Baby," "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)," "You and Me Against the World," "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" and "I Can't Hear You No More."

Reddy frequently sang her feminist anthem, "I Am Woman," at Democrat political events, particularly those advocating for women's issues.

She was a popular guest on talk and game shows, hosted the short-lived variety program The Helen Reddy Show and starred in the films Pete's Dragon and Airport '75.

Her memoir, The Woman I Am, was published in 2006 and a dramatic film about her life -- I Am Woman -- was released this month.

Outside entertainment, Reddy worked for the California Department of Parks and Recreation 1977-80 and earned a degree in clinical hypnotherapy in 2002.

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Peacock's 'Saved By the Bell' sequel to debut Nov. 25

The new Saved By the Bell series will premiere on Peacock on Nov. 25, the streaming service said Tuesday.

The sequel of the original 1989 sitcom of the same name about high school rivalry and friendships at California's Bayside High School will have a new twist, but also reprise some roles of the original cast.

In the sequel to premiere on NBC Universal's Peacock streaming service, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, a main character as the student Zack Morris on the original, will now play Gov. Morris.

After getting into trouble for closing too many low-income schools, the governor proposes sending the affected students to the most well-funded schools statewide, including Bayside High. Then, the new students give the privileged students at Bayside High a dose of reality and humor.

The new series also reprises the roles of Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley as A.C. Slater and Jessie Spano, respectively. Lopez's Slater, a high school jock in the original, is now the Bayside High gym teacher, and Berkley's Spano, a feminist, is now the guidance counselor.

Josie Totah is set to star as Lexi, a cheerleader and the most popular girl at Bayside High. The new class of students also features actors Dexter Darden, Haskiri Velazquez, Mitchell Hoog, Alycia Pascual-Pena and Belmont Cameli. John Michael Higgins will play the new principal, Principal Toddman.

Tracey Wigfield executive produces, alongside original series creator Peter Engel and Franco Bario, who worked on the original.