https://www.youtube.com/@PeopleReview.Shorts

New Movies, 19700 S. Vermont Avenue, Torrance, CA (2025)

08/22/2025

🎬 Jack the Giant Slayer 2 (2025)
Nicholas Hoult | Eleanor Tomlinson | Ewan McGregor | Gwendoline Christie

Giants return with vengeance, and Jack must climb higher than ever to protect his world. The battle among clouds is grander, darker, and more thrilling.
Hoult and Tomlinson bring charm and heart to this enchanting adventure.
Rating: 7.8/10

08/22/2025

🎬 THE INSECT (2024)
Cillian Murphy | Rooney Mara | Dev Patel | Saoirse Ronan

A quiet seaside town becomes ground zero for an ecological nightmare when a mysterious swarm of insects begins to infect humans. As paranoia spreads faster than the infection, a small band of survivors grapples with their darkest instincts. Every crack in the walls and buzz in the night sends chills down the spine.

Cillian Murphy is a master of understated terror, while Rooney Mara brings haunting fragility to her role. Dev Patel and Saoirse Ronan round out a stellar cast that makes this psychological horror sing. With eerie sound design and grotesque yet beautiful visuals, The Insect crawls under your skin and stays there.
Rating: 8.2/10

08/21/2025

🎬 Hunter of Hyena (2025)
Mahershala Ali | Lupita Nyong’o | Winston Duke | Danai Gurira

In the deserts of Mali, a mysterious predator stalks nomadic tribes — and one man hunts it. With nothing but ancient legends to guide him, the “Hunter of Hyena” must confront not only the beast but his own demons, as the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Under the moonlight, survival becomes a primal dance.

Mahershala Ali delivers a masterclass in quiet intensity, his eyes haunted yet determined. Lupita Nyong’o is radiant as the heart of the story, grounding the chaos with grace and fire. The film’s atmosphere crackles with danger and mystery, its pacing like the tightening of a snare. A hypnotic thriller in the shadows of the Sahara.
Rating: 8.4/10

08/21/2025

🎬 The Raid 3
Iko Uwais | Yayan Ruhian | Julie Estelle | Joe Taslim

This third chapter of The Raid pushes the franchise into breathless new territory: a remote island prison controlled by mercenary warlords. Iko Uwais returns as Rama, no longer rookie but legend hardened by unmatched survival. Yayan Ruhian reprises his role as Mad Dog, whose silent menace has only grown. Julie Estelle joins as a former inmate turned resistance leader, using her knowledge to inside the fortress. Joe Taslim appears as the prison’s brutal warden—strategic, ruthless, and calculating. The setting is claustrophobic and deadly—from dank corridors to sunlit courtyards laced with danger.

Uwais’s martial artistry is transcendent—every strike a poem of violence and purpose. Ruhian's intensity builds dread before he even moves. Estelle channels grit and compassion, her character embodying resilience born of suffering. Taslim commands fear with chilling poise. Fight choreography is visceral—fists echo off brick walls, bones cracking beneath fluorescent lights—relentless in its rhythm. The pacing is unforgiving, the tension taut as a wire about to snap. The Raid 3 feels like a symphony of controlled chaos, every crescendo paid in sweat and resolve.
Rating: 8.5/10

08/21/2025

🎬 The Smashing Machine (2025)
Dwayne Johnson | Real UFC Stars | Veteran Coach | Young Challenger

In the octagon’s unforgiving glare, Smashing Machine captures the final stand of Dwayne Johnson’s legendary fighter. Gritty training halls echo with punching bags, brotherhood, regret. Johnson’s character prepares for one more fight—this time against the ghosts in his mind rather than opponents. Emerging stars, former rivals, and a stern coach weave into the cage’s tension. Every bruise, every breath counts.

Johnson carries emotional scars visible in bruised flesh. Cagefighters sweat in ambition and desperation. Coaching dialogue is gravel‑toned truth. Training montage becomes elegy. The pacing builds from quiet whispers of fear to roar of packed arena. Cinematography is up-close realism—sweat droplets, blood spatter, heavy breathing. No spectacle—just soul forged through steel.

Rating: 8.3/10

08/20/2025

🎬 MEG 3: Primal Waters (2025)
Jason Statham | Li Bingbing | Winston Chao | Shi Yan

Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) plunges again into oceanic desperation: this time under Mariana Trench depths where prehistoric predators awaken to reclaim their territory. Li Bingbing is a marine observational leader caught between discovery and disaster. Winston Chao plays the profiteering financier; Shi Yan is the moral scientist trying to halt the mission’s hubris. Undersea visuals blend neon algae, colossal shadows, and titanium cages.

Statham embodies hardened survival instinct beside flashes of wry humor. Bingbing offers emotional clarity and scientific bravery. Chao conveys greed’s cold logic. Yan wrestles with guilt and resolve. Sound design mirrors ocean hum before splitting into gunfire and thrashing fins. Narrative pace simmers with tension—then erupts with bespoke terror. Primal Waters isn’t just about giant sharks—it’s about human ambition and nature’s supremacy.

Rating: 7.3/10

08/20/2025

🎬 K.G.F: Chapter 3
Yash | Sanjay Dutt | Raveena Tandon | Ramya Krishnan

The saga of Rocky continues with blood-soaked vengeance and divine ambition. After becoming a legend in the gold mines, Rocky (Yash) rises as a political force feared and worshipped in equal measure. Sanjay Dutt returns in a dark twist, while Raveena Tandon and Ramya Krishnan command political and maternal power in opposing realms. The cinematography drenches every frame in gold and fire—opulent, operatic, unforgettable.

Yash is magnetic, the screen bending around his presence. Dutt exudes unhinged fury. Tandon and Krishnan balance regal strength with human heartbreak. The story unfolds like myth—Shakespearean betrayals, holy wars, and an antihero torn by fate. Chapter 3 doesn’t just raise the stakes—it explodes them.

Rating: 8.7/10

08/20/2025

🎬 San Andreas 2: After Shock
Dwayne Johnson | Alexandra Daddario | Kyle Chandler | Ellen Pompeo

California cracks again—this time aftershocks reshape coastlines and cities crumble anew. Ray Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) returns, guiding evacuations as chaos roars. Alexandra Daddario is Leah, a geologist racing time. Chandler coordinates rescue teams under impossible conditions. Pompeo leads a city shaken but not broken. Highways buckle, skyscrapers shudder, hope trembles in panic.

Johnson commands with authority born from experience and empathy. Daddario translates science into emotional urgency. Chandler is steady under collapse; Pompeo embodies civic resolve. The pacing mirrors seismic tremors—quiet monitoring gives way to heart‑stopping jolts. The film doesn’t just shake buildings—it shakes souls, then rebuilds them, resiliently.

Rating: 7.8/10

08/20/2025

🎬 Venom 4
Tom Hardy | Sydney Sweeney | Joseph Quinn | Cillian Murphy

Eddie thought he was done. But Venom knows better. A new symbiote crashes to Earth, whispering to a brilliant young host about unity, evolution—and extinction. Carnage may be dead, but the hive is waking. And it doesn’t want coexistence.

Hardy remains electric as Eddie/Venom—equal parts comedy and carnage. Sweeney adds fierce intellect, Quinn surprises with moral clarity, and Murphy chills in an unexpected antagonist role. The visuals are wild, grotesque, thrilling. Action melds with horror in ways only Venom can.

Feed. Evolve. Survive.
Rating: 8.2/10

08/19/2025

🎬 Wonder Woman 3 (2025)
Gal Gadot | Natasha Lyonne | Pedro Pascal | Jason Moama

With Themyscira teetering between immortal isolation and mortal duty, Wonder Woman 3 forces Diana (Gadot) to bridge two worlds. A political uprising led by Lyonne’s activist goddess faction demands change. Pascal portrays the god of rebellion, charismatic and dangerous. Pine returns in voice only—Kat’s echo from humanity reminding Diana what she defends.
The film marries mythic battle with emotional introspection. Gadot radiates strength tempered by wavering doubt. Lyonne’s embodiment of mortal rebellion riles the narrative. Pascal’s charisma fractures alliances. Voice-soft reminders from Pine anchor the mortal stakes. Pacing builds through symbolic standoffs ending in explosive battlefield choreographies—shield meets divine wrath under storm-lit skies.
Rating: 8.1/10

08/19/2025

🎬 Ballerina (John Wick Story)
Ana de Armas | Keanu Reeves | Anjelica Huston | Lance Reddick

In the shadow-draped corridors of the Ruska Roma, where elegance disguises death, Rooney—a ballerina trained in both grace and annihilation—prepares to avenge her family. Her past, a web of High Table betrayals, leads her across candle-lit palaces and bullet-laced alleyways, leaving rose petals and bullet shells in her wake. Between pirouettes and pistol shots, her identity unravels: not just assassin, but legacy incarnate.

Ana de Armas delivers a mesmerizing duality—beauty honed into a blade, mourning sculpted into movement. Huston returns as the matriarchal conductor of fate, her voice a symphony of tradition and threat. Reddick lends solemn command, and Keanu Reeves’ brief appearance reverberates like prophecy—John Wick’s silence blessing her path.

Action choreography melds ballet and brutality. One sequence—a slow-motion leap down a spiraled staircase, guns firing mid-twirl—is pure cinematic ecstasy. Emotional tension peaks as Rooney confronts her betrayer in a grand theater drenched in red velvet and thunderous silence. Ballerina is operatic revenge with a soul and a heartbeat.

Rating: 8.5/10

08/19/2025

🎬 I Am LEGEND 2: Last Chapter (2025)
Will Smith | Kelvin Harrison Jr. | Jodie Comer | Idris Elba

Neville’s last journal surfaces in a post‑pillaged world where mutant Darkseekers have evolved intelligence—and empathy. A young man (Harrison Jr.) discovers this as Deja’s colony teeters between revolution and extinction. With a virologist (Comer) and a hardened sentinel (Elba), he journeys into quarantined ruins haunted by memory—and legend.

Smith’s presence echoes through empty streets. Harrison Jr. portrays resolve forged in loss. Comer is braced compassion; Elba is solemn survival. Cinematic ruin is poetic: overgrown skylines, sun-bleached cars, silent echoes of past civilization. Pacing alternates noise and lingering dread. When darkseekers speak, horror becomes heartbreak. A conclusion rich in sorrow, hope, and sacrifice.
Rating: 8.6/10

New Movies

08/22/2025

08/22/2025

08/21/2025

08/21/2025

08/21/2025

08/20/2025

08/20/2025

08/20/2025

08/20/2025

08/19/2025

08/19/2025

08/19/2025

Address

Telephone

Website

Alerts

Contact The Business

Shortcuts

Share

Category