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Happy New Year, Friends. Your favorite film enthusiast Rockwell Knuckles is back with my list of tantalizing entertainment from 2022, just for you. Whether you are starting your fantastic new adventure or realizing your life is in shambles, here are some fun distractions that you might have missed last year. Check out Rockwell Knuckles’ Favorite Movies of 2022 and top 5 must-see films!

Rockwell’s Favorite Movies List of 2022

Glass Onion – A Knives Out Mystery

Rockwell’s Take:

A wonderful “Who Done It” of a movie. Bravo Janelle Monáe & Daniel Craig. Another layer and another layer.

Movie Synopsis

Five long-time friends are invited to the Greek island home of billionaire Miles Bron. All five know Bron from way back and owe their current wealth, fame and careers to him. The main event is a murder weekend game with Bron to be the victim. In reality, they all have reasons to kill him. Also invited is Benoit Blanc, the world’s greatest detective. -IMDB


Black Adam

Rockwell’s Take:

Lol. The hierarchy of the DC Universe didn’t shift, but we still got a gritty love letter to 90’s superhero action movies. Long Live Dwayne Johnson.

Reawakening after 5000 years, Black Adam becomes the world’s ruthless protector: an anti-villain to take on the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman. Now in the 21st-Century, Black Adam must face off against the Justice Society of America and its heroes: Doctor Fate, Hawkman, Atom Smasher and Cyclone. The fate of the world than hangs in the balance. – IMDB


Violent Night:

Rockwell’s Take:

Never has Santa Claus been taken so seriously, yet framed so silly. Watching every Christmas.

Movie Synopsis

When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint. -IMDB


Strange World

Rockwell’s Take:

A sleeper Disney movie that is predictable but visually vivid. The aesthetic is a futuristic vintage village. Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special: A Very Kevin Bacon Xmas. Worth numerous holiday watches.

Movie Synopsis

The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission.


Mad Heidi

Rockwell’s Take:

A “Swissploitation” movie. Can’t explain it any better. Satire on acid.

Movie Synopsis

Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.


The Menu

Rockwell’s Take:

The concept is solid—slides into a vibe of disbelief at some point, but an interesting metaphor to watch.

Movie Synopsis

A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. -RT


Weird The Al Yankovic Story

Rockwell’s Take:

Only right that the greatest parody songwriter of all time makes his own biopic, that is a parody in itself.

Movie Synopsis

Daniel Radcliffe is “Weird Al” Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician and sex symbol of our time. With Evan Rachel Wood and Rainn Wilson. -RT


The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Rockwell’s Take:

An east coast townie, feeling emasculated, white privileges his way through the Vietnam War with a duffle bag full of beer. True story.

Movie Synopsis

To show support for his neighborhood friends serving in Vietnam, Chickie Donohue (Zac Efron) decides to do something totally outrageous: travel to the frontline by himself to bring the soldiers a little piece of home — their favorite can of American beer. However, what started as a well-meaning journey quickly turns into the adventure of a lifetime as Chickie confronts the reality of this controversial war and his reunions with his childhood buddies thrust him into the complexities and responsibilities of adulthood. Based on an incredible true story, “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” is a heartfelt coming-of-age tale about friendship, loyalty and sacrifice. – RT


Amsterdam

Rockwell’s Take:

The period piece where war buddies deal with the struggles of their lives back in the States, while reminiscing about their time living abroad. Funnier than it sounds.

Movie Synopsis

In 1933 three close friends find themselves at the center of one of the most shocking secret plots in American history. -RT


Hocus Pocus 2

Rockwell’s Take:

Lived up to the first one. Family movie gold. -Confess, Fletch: Jon Hamm takes the reigns as Chevy Chase’s beloved cult classic character with style.

Movie Synopsis

It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow’s Eve.


Clerks III

Rockwell’s Take:

Writer/Director Kevin Smith finished the trilogy of his original brainchild. S/O to Marc Bernardin for his powerful cameo.

Movie Synopsis

After suffering a massive heart attack, Randal enlists friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay and Silent Bob to help him make a movie about life at the Quick Stop. -RT


Black Panther WAKANDA Forever

Rockwell’s Take:

A three-hour wake for a hero we all loved. The cast is powerful and the story is moving. Give Ms. Bassett her trophy, please.

Movie Synopsis

In Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba) fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda. -RT


Day Shift

Rockwell’s Take:

Popcorn movie about Hawaiian shirt Jamie Foxx & Cowboy Snoop Dogg killing sleeping vampires.

Movie Synopsis

Jamie Foxx stars as a hard-working blue-collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted daughter, but his mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income, hunting and killing vampires as part of an international Union of vampire hunters. -RT


RRR

Rockwell’s Take:

One of the craziest most action-packed pieces of nonstop insanity I have ever laid eyes on. Enjoy.

Movie Synopsis

RRR is an entirely fictitious story incorporating the lives of two real-life Indian revolutionaries, namely Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, who fought against the British Raj and the Nizam of Hyderabad respectively. Charan plays Rama Raju while Rama Rao plays Komaram Bheem. The plot explores their stay in Delhi of the 1920s before they begin the fight for their country. – Wikipedia


Nope

Rockwell’s Take:

Incredible scenery, wonderful concept. You get out the film what you take. Grieving siblings deal with a possible threat to their horse farm.

Movie Synopsis

After random objects falling from the sky result in the death of their father, ranch-owning siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood attempt to capture video evidence of an unidentified flying object with the help of tech salesman Angel Torres and documentarian Antlers Holst.—Universal Pictures


Beavis & Butthead Do The Universe:

Rockwell’s Take:

A simple reintroduction to two of the dumbest animated characters ever created. Wonderfully executed. 

Movie Synopsis

A tale that technically spans two centuries, BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO THE UNIVERSE promises to sit atop all future lists of the Dumbest Science Fiction Movies Ever Made. The saga begins when Beavis and Butt-Head wind up at space camp through “creative sentencing” from a juvenile court judge in 1998. Mistaking a docking simulator for something else (huh huh), Beavis and Butt-Head excel at it and are asked to join the space shuttle mission in a PR move. After ruining the mission, they are left for dead in space and end up going through a black hole and reemerging back on Earth in 2022, only to discover a very different world — and find themselves considered Buttholes of Interest by the NSA, the governor of Texas, and a highly intelligent version of themselves from a parallel universe. Also they almost lose their virginity, but don’t. – RT


Elvis:

Rockwell’s Take:

An avant-garde take on the relationship between a trusting superstar and his father-figure manager. 

Movie Synopsis

The film explores the life and music of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). The story delves into the complex dynamic between Presley and Parker spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America. Central to that journey is one of the most significant and influential people in Elvis’s life, Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).


Chip ’N’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers

Rockwell’s Take:

This snuck under the radar as a kid’s movie when it is everything except a kid’s movie. Worth a viewing for sure. 

Movie Synopsis

In “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” Chip and Dale are living amongst cartoons and humans in modern-day Los Angeles, but their lives are quite different now. It has been decades since their successful television series was canceled, and Chip (voice of John Mulaney) has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance salesman. Dale (voice of Andy Sandberg), meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. When a former cast mate mysteriously disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken friendship and take on their Rescue Rangers detective personas once again to save their friend’s life. -RT


The Gray Man

Rockwell’s Take:

Beautiful Black Ops spies double-cross each other with spectacular action scenes. Sequel maybe?

Movie Synopsis

When the CIA’s most skilled mercenary–whose true identity is known to none–accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins.


Dave Chappelle- What’s In A Name?

Rockwell’s Take:

After the backlash of his special The Closer, Dave questions the gesture his alma mater bequeaths him.

Movie Synopsis


Down With the King:

Rockwell’s Take:

A very odd dark comedy about a Freddie Gibbs-like rapper dealing w/ the burnout of fame. Starring Freddie Gibbs.

Movie Synopsis

Rap star Money Merc has been sent by his manager, Paul, to a rural house in the Berkshires to focus on his next album. Disenchanted with his rap career and the 24/7 upkeep that such fame entails, Merc has no desire to write or record music. Instead he spends most of his time at his neighbor’s farm learning about farming and enjoying the simplicity of country life. After Merc abruptly announces his retirement on Twitter, Paul rushes to the countryside to lure him back into the music industry.


Spiderhead

Rockwell’s Take:

This psychologist does insidious experiments on prisoners he acquired on his remote island. 

Movie Synopsis

In a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by brilliant visionary Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth), inmates wear a surgically attached device that administers dosages of mind-altering drugs in exchange for commuted sentences. There are no bars, no cells, or orange jumpsuits. In Spiderhead, incarcerated volunteers are free to be themselves. Until they’re not. At times, they’re a better version. Need to lighten up? There’s a drug for that. At a loss for words? There’s a drug for that, too. But when two subjects, Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), form a connection, their path to redemption take a twistier turn, as Abnesti’s experiments start to push the limits of free will altogether. -RT


Bobs Burgers The Movie:

Rockwell’s Take:

A long Bob’s Burgers episode that is just as lovable as anything you’ve seen The Belchers do.

Movie Synopsis

The Bob’s Burgers Movie is an animated, big-screen, musical comedy-mystery-adventure based on the long-running Emmy®-winning series. The story begins when a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob’s Burgers, blocking the entrance indefinitely and ruining the Belchers’ plans for a successful summer. While Bob and Linda struggle to keep the business afloat, the kids try to solve a mystery that could save their family’s restaurant. As the dangers mount, these underdogs help each other find hope and fight to get back behind the counter, where they belong. -RT


Thor Love & Thunder

Rockwell’s Take:

A sketch comedy exercise is taken to the limit. With small injections of sadness. Wacky and colorful, Thor 4 is full of peaks and valleys.

Movie Synopsis

“Thor: Love and Thunder” finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced — a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi) and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who — to Thor’s surprise — inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late. – RT


Dr. Strange Multiverse of Madness

Rockwell’s Take:

The beginning was wild, but the ending was peculiar. It had some actual jump scares that I fell for. A sequel to Wandavision. Fun, regardless. 

Movie Synopsis

In Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before. Journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange, who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.


Everything Everywhere All At Once

Rockwell’s Take:

Get the awards ready. Haven’t seen a film like this in a long time. Unpredictable. 

Movie Synopsis

Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.


The Bad Guys

Rockwell’s Take:

My son read these books way before the movie dropped. We were excited to check it out. It was worth it. 

Movie Synopsis

In the new action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the New York Times best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are about to attempt their most challenging con yet–becoming model citizens. Never have there been five friends as infamous as The Bad Guys–dashing pickpocket Mr. Wolf (Academy Award® winner Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), seen-it-all safecracker Mr. Snake (Marc Maron, GLOW), chill master-of-disguise Mr. Shark (Craig Robinson, Hot Tub Time Machine franchise), short-fused “muscle” Mr. Piranha (Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) and sharp-tongued expert hacker Ms. Tarantula (Awkwafina, Crazy Rich Asians), aka “Webs.” But when, after years of countless heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, the gang is finally caught, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal (that he has no intention of keeping) to save them all from prison: The Bad Guys will go good. Under the tutelage of their mentor Professor Marmalade (Richard Ayoade, Paddington 2), an arrogant (but adorable!) guinea pig, The Bad Guys set out to fool the world that they’ve been transformed. Along the way, though, Mr. Wolf begins to suspect that doing good for real may give him what he’s always secretly longed for: acceptance. So when a new villain threatens the city, can Mr. Wolf persuade the rest of the gang to become… The Good Guys? – RT


And finally….

The Batman

Rockwell’s Take:

Reminds me of a live-action version of the animated series “The Batman”. Was as complex as it was simple. Colin Farrell stole the show, which is probably why he’s getting his own spin-off show, supposedly. The only thing that can stop this franchise is James Gunn. Respectfully. 

Movie Synopsis

Batman ventures into Gotham City’s underworld when a sadistic killer leaves behind a trail of cryptic clues. As the evidence begins to lead closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator’s plans become clear, he must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit and bring justice to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued the metropolis. – RT


Well, that’s it from your favorite make-shift critic. I know I missed some of your favorite films on this list. I know that Barbarian, The Whale, Top Gun: Maverick, and After Sun should be on this list. But I didn’t see those films so…. blah. Anyway, I missed you all very much. Remember that I am a threat for you, not to you. Keep watching what you love and loving what you watch. Talk soon….

Must See Top Five Films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers
  • RRR
  • Nope
  • Glass Onion

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