Grow Omaha Flicks

★ The Strangers: Chapter 3 caps off what might go down as one of the worst movie trilogies of all time. Chapter 1 was so mind-numbingly dumb it doesn’t even cross into ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ territory. Chapter 2 was the most entertaining of the three, still not good, but passable horror. Now in Chapter 3 we’re given the worst, and by far most boring, of the series. After an opening scene…

★ ★ ★ Melania is a documentary that follows Melania Trump in January 2025 through President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. It gives us a glimpse of what it takes to be Melania as FLOTUS while she makes design decisions for the events and precise, custom fashion choices. We’re given a peek behind the scenes in the penthouse apartment at Trump Tower in New York. In Trump fashion, nothing in the penthouse…

★ ★ ★ ½ Solo Mio stars Kevin James as Matt Taylor, a fourth grade art teacher who falls in love with a fellow teacher, Heather (Julie Ann Emery). As the film opens, we get a glimpse of their picturesque, late-in-life romance. They seem perfect for each other, destined for happily ever after. Matt gets his students to arrange an art project… that assembles into a written marriage proposal…

★ ★ ½ Shelter is an action thriller that stars Jason Statham as Mason, a former British Intelligence assassin living as a recluse in a lighthouse on the shores of Scotland. It’s a fun, capable action thriller—but also a mash-up of the best parts of other Statham films. It blends well, but we’ve seen it before. A man retires to a life in hiding, comfortable with his simple life with little or no human contact. Until something, or someone…

★ ★ ★ Send Help is like a mashup of Office Space, Cast Away and Misery. It’s an exploration of the reversal of roles. What happens when a woman is unfairly passed up for a promised promotion, the jackass son takes over the company after his father’s death, and the two end up stranded on a deserted island—the only survivors of a private jet crash? The answer is a surprisingly fun little thrill ride that makes you think…

★ ½ Mercy kicks off its story a couple of years after an artificial intelligence justice system replaces the Los Angeles court system. The film sets itself on bad footing from the get-go, never fully explaining how LA got around constitutional due process, the removal of core rights, the elimination of presumed innocence and basic transparency—the list seems endless. The more the film goes on, the more the lack of explanation…

★ ★ ★ ½ 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple takes place immediately following the events of last year’s film, 28 Years Later. This marks the third follow-up in the series and the second film in a planned trilogy that began with the June 2025 release. The two films were shot back-to-back, with a third installment likely arriving in 2027 or 2028…

★ ½ Night Patrol is a film with a promising premise that starts off captivating and quickly evolves into a narrative filled with missed opportunities, trading horror for confusion. It’s a gangland story where the cops are the bad guys, set around a Los Angeles neighborhood where the Crips and Bloods are still at odds. What’s interesting about this concept? The night patrol…

★ ★ ★ ★ Is This Thing On? is a striking look at a middle-aged married couple on the brink of divorce. It’s loosely inspired by John Bishop, a real-life British comic who began a career in stand-up following his pending divorce. The title comes from a quip—when a comic taps the mic after a joke fails to land—and serves as an allegory for a marriage rife with miscommunication…

★ ½ Greenland 2: Migration feels like a movie thrown together to fill the January off-season theatrical slot. It starts off slow, and despite some nonsensical action scenes, manages to get more boring as it goes. In the previous film, the stakes were high and the mission clear. John Garrity (Gerard Butler) must find a way to get his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and son Nathan…