Unlikable Female Protagonist

Prepare to be triggered (Spoilers)

Danni Sanders (Zoey Deutch) is a photo editor and wannabe journalist who fakes going on a Paris trip to impress influencer Colin (Dylan O’Brien). Except when the city’s attacked, Danni pretends to be a victim and rides the newfound notoriety to internet fame. The film opens with her being the most hated person on the planet, probably because the truth being revealed is a forgone conclusion.

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Starman

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue (Massive Spoilers)

Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) of Star Command is on an exploration vessel that decides to check out an unknown planet to see if the locale lifeforms are hostile. Early on, Buzz makes it clear that he hates rookies and autopilots for getting in the way, believing that he can do everything himself. So much so that when making an emergency evacuation, Buzz disregards the warnings of his autopilot and insists that he won’t crash. And he ends up crashing, stranding everyone on the planet.

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Nonononono

Peele’s third film is out of this world. (ba-dum-tis) (Massive Spoilers)

Halloween might be over, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop watching scary movies. Here’s a review that I’ve had on the back burner for a while but haven’t gotten around to publishing until now. The film I’ll be going over is Nope, our third helping of horror from Jordan Peele—unless you count Candyman (2021). I’m not because he was only a scriptwriter on that movie. 

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This is the end

Or is it? (Almost certainly not)(Massive Spoilers)

Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) is a young man living in Haddonfield who accidentally kills the kid he’s babysitting on Halloween. After Micheal Meyers (James Jude Courtney) escaped at the end of the last movie, Haddonfield takes their collective grief and rage out on Corey, turning him into the town pariah. However, one bright spot in his life is that he ends up starting a romance with Allyson Strode (Andi Matichak).

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Where’s Conan?

These past two months have been good for horror (Massive Spoilers)

Barbarian is one of several surprise horror hits this Halloween season, alongside Smile and Terrifier 2. Tess Marshall (Georgia Campbell) books an Airbnb at an old house in Detroit located in a rundown neighborhood. When she gets there, however, she finds Keith Toshko (Bill Skarsgård) already staying there. Then things go from being awkward to being weird.

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Clowning Around Part 2

Bigger, Better, Bloodier (Spoilers)

Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is back. This time, he’s set his sights on the Shaw siblings. There’s Sienna (Lauren LaVera), who for Halloween this year is making this handmade and awesome-looking Valkyrie costume. There’s also her younger brother Jonathan (Elliot Fullam), a young boy with a fixation on Art for reasons that only become clear later.

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Clowning Around

The Art of Terror (Spoilers)

It’s All Hallows’ Eve and a violent lunatic named Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton in his film debut) has a whole garbage bag full of violent instruments with which to murder people with. And murder them he does. Two of the people he ends up setting his sights on our friends Tara Hayes (Jenna Kanell) and Dawn (Catherine Corcoran).

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The Bland Man

Chris Evan’s catchphrase in this is eerily prophetic. (Spoilers)

Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling) is a CIA assassin whose target at the movie’s start is Dining Car (Callan Mulvey). After completing his mission with help from fellow agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas), Six acquires a MacGuffin with things about CIA official Denny Carmichael (Regé-Jean Page) that he’s not supposed to know.

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More BS

It’s Morbin’ Time (Spoilers)

Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is a brilliant scientist with a rare blood disease. Alongside his college Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), Morbius is looking to find a cure for himself and his rich, surrogate brother Milo (Matt Smith). Eventually, Morbius starts experimenting with putting vampire bat DNA into a human, turning himself into a living vampire. A vampire that looks worse than the ones in  Fright Night (1985), The Lost Boys, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, From Dusk Till Dawn, and John Carpenter’s Vampires, all of which were made more than a decade ago.

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