Between Disney announcing their latest live action remake movie, a Whitney Houston biopic being released by the writer of Bohemian Rhapsody and Tom Cruise’s next Mission Impossible, the next year of film is going to be incredible!

Here are our top 3 movie trailers:

The Little Mermaid:

As part of their Disney 100 year anniversary celebrations, Walt Disney Studios will release their long-awaited live action The Little Mermaid movie in May 2023. The casting of the beautiful Halle Bailey (not to be confused with Halle Berry!) as the titular character has caused all kinds of uproar on social media. Here we are, in the Year of the Old Gods and New 2022, and STILL some ignorant members of the human society cannot tolerate having a black woman play the lead in a movie about an imaginary character. Let me remind these jerks that Mickey is literally a mouse, Goofy is a dog who owns a dog and Donald is a duck who roams about without wearing any pants.

The first time I ever saw an animated character who looked like me was when Princess Jasmine appeared in Aladdin and I was 7 years old already. Can we not grant little brown and black girls all around the world all these years later the same opportunity? To let each of them see themselves represented onscreen, as a “real”, live person or creature?

Let us remember that all of Disney’s princesses are based on fairy tales which themselves are based on folklore passed from tribe to tribe, generation to generation throughout the years. Chances are high that white sailors were seduced by ( or did the seducing of) island women aka sirens of all colours, on which mermaids were based, on their voyages across the seas eons ago. Check your racist attitude at the cinema door and enjoy this live remake of a Disney classic as is.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody:

Our fallen Queen of Soul finally gets her due in a theatrical movie release, I Wanna Dance WIth Somebody, this December.

I have been dancing to Whitney Houston’s music since I was in utero back in the 80s and you can be damn sure I will be shaking what my momma gave me at a cinema when this movie is released. Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker) plays Whitney and will bring The Voice to the big screen. Like Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, Ackie doesn’t really look like Whitney but I am sure she will invoke her essence the same way Butler did for The King.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch ALL of Tom Cruise’s series of Mission Impossible movies before the seventh installment drops in July 2023.

At this point, does it really matter what the plot is about as long as Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is kicking ass, getting the foreign girl (this time its the MCU’s Agent Carter, Hayley Atwell) and saving the world yet again? Leonie absolutely adores Tom Cruise and I have been happily immersing myself in Hunt’s impossible missions since I was 10 years old so count us in!

See you at the movies!