The Movie Matt

Wicked: Part 1 (2024) is directed by Jon M. Chu and stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Peter Dinklage, and Andy Nyman. The film is an adaptation of the first half of the Broadway musical, Wicked (a prequel to The Wizard of Oz). It follows Elphaba…

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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) is directed by Sam Raimi and stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Zach Braff, Joey King, Bill Cobbs, Tony Cox, Stephen R. Hart, Abigail Spencer, and Bruce Campbell. The film is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz (1939) and follows Oz (Franco), a struggling magician/conman…

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The Wizard of Oz is directed by Victor Fleming and stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, Charley Grapewin, and Clara Blandick. The film follows Dorothy (Garland), a young girl from Kansas, who, after getting swept caught in a deadly tornado is transported to a magical world…

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Jay Kelly (2025) is directed by Noah Baumbach, who also wrote the film alongside Emily Mortimer. It stars George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Grace Edwards, Laura Dern, Riley Keough, Billy Crudup, Emily Mortimer, Greta Gerwig, and Patrick Wilson. The film follows aging A-list movie star Jay Kelly (Clooney) after he decides to join his estranged daughter…

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Based on the novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams (2025) stars Joel Edgerton, Will Patton, Felicity Jones, William H. Macy, Kerry Condon, Nathaniel Arcand, Alfred Hsing, John Patrick Lowrie, Paul Schneider, John Diehl, David Paul Olsen, Brandon Lindsay, and Clifton Collins Jr. The film follows the life of Pacific-Northwest logger and railroad worker Robert Grainier…

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Bone Lake (2025) is directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan and written by Joshua Friedlander. It stars Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Marco Pigossi, Andra Nechita, Clayton Spencer, and Elaine Reis. The film follows Sage (Hasson) and Diego (Pigossi), a longtime couple who set out to spend a romantic weekend at a secluded Airbnb located on Bone…

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A House of Dynamite (2025) is directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Noah Oppenheim. It stars Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke, Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever.…

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Wake Up Dead Man (2025) is written & directed by Rian Johnson. It stars Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church, Annie Hamilton, James Faulkner, and Bridget Everett. After the mysterious murder of Jefferson Wicks (Brolin), a troubled reverend…

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Glass Onion (2022) is written & directed by Rian Johnson. It stars Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Dave Bautista, Madelyn Cline, Jessica Henwick, and Noah Segan. This sequel to Knives Out (2019) follows eccentric detective Benoit Blanc after he’s invited to attend a murder-mystery party hosted on…

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Knives Out (2025) is written & directed by Rian Johnson. It stars Ana De Armas, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Riki Lindhome, Edi Patterson, Frank Oz, K Callan, and M. Emmet Walsh. The film follows the estranged Thrombeys as…

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