Let's Cee a Movie

Warwick

…gets billed third despite playing the main and title character. Can you believe that? (Unmarked Spoilers)

Willow was a 1988 fantasy movie starring Warwick Davis, between his other two most famous roles of Wicket and the leprechaun. The film was the brainchild of George Lucas, who came up with the story. The film was written by Bob Dolman and directed by Ron Howard. I’d be curious to find out how much they were following an outline and how much was them trying to emulate Lucas’s most famous work.

Scary Movie

Not my favorite, but still pretty good. (Massive Unmarked Spoilers)

The fifth installment of the Scream trilogy opens with Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) stuck home alone when she hears her landline ringing. When she picks up the phone, she’s greeted by a voice (Roger L. Jackson) and then attacked by someone wearing a familiar costume. The most surprising thing about all that is how the Carpenter’s even have a landline in this day and age.

Charm

“It’s all about the legacy they left with me, it’s destiny.” (Unmarked Spoilers)

The 60th film in the Disney Animated Canon, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, concerns the Madrigal family, who possess a miracle candle that gives them magical powers, a living house called the Casita, and created the surrounding village. One day, the magic starts to disappear as mysterious cracks appear in Casita. Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz) begins to investigate but runs into problems because she’s seen as kind of a loser. Why? She’s the first “Disney Princess” to have glasses, and only losers wear glasses.

A child’s plaything

A review of Chucky season 1. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Chucky is the latest iteration of the long-running Child’s Play series. Each installment concerns serial killer Charles Lee Ray aka Chucky (Brad Dourif). Right before his death, he transferred his soul into a doll, eventually learning how to split his soul into multiple vessels at once. And now he’s back in his hometown of Hackensack, New Jersey.

…Who you gonna call?

The movie fans have been waiting for (Unmarked Spoilers)

Phoebe (McKenna Grace) is a young prodigy who moves into the home of her recently deceased grandfather’s house along with her brother Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and mom Callie (Carrie Coon). There Phoebe discovers evidence that said grandfather was one of the Ghostbusters, and despite being a genius, her first reaction upon seeing an old video isn’t saying, “you know, that Egon (Harold Ramis) looks a lot like me.”

…In your neighborhood…

The underrated sequel (Unmarked Spoilers)

The OG Ghostbusters are back, baby. You got Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson). After saving the world by besting a literal god, everything should be coming up roses, right? Wrong. Much like Men in Black 2 or Alien 3, this is one of those sequels that undoes the happy ending of the previous film to allow for another movie.

If there’s something strange…

The beloved original and not so beloved remake. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Ghostbusters is a 1984 film about an awesome Ray Parker Jr. song and nothing else. I’m kidding, of course. It’s about the antics of a team of ghost hunters as they try to save the city from a supernatural menace. The film was remade in 2016, with the same basic plot, but an all-woman team. While the team members of both versions have certain overlaps, they also contrast with one another.

Welcome to the Jungle

Cruising (Unmarked Spoilers)

Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) is a scientist searching for the Tree of Life, whose petals cure any disease. Unfortunately, she was born in a time where she had the wrong parts and gender to be taken seriously. No, not today, 1916. She has a map. She just needs an arrowhead to translate it, which is denied to her by the Royal Society. So she steals it and hires skipper Frank Wolff (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), who normally does jungle cruises filled with fake danger and awful puns, to take her through the jungle.

Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light

Luckily this movie’s more heaven than hell. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Shaun (Simu Liu) is an unambitious valet who spends his days Ferris Bueller-ing cars with his best friend Katy Chen (Awkwafina). At one point, Katy shoots down the possibility of them becoming a couple, and for the most part, they do have a like brother and sister type relationship. There are, however, hints that their relationship might develop into something more. I sincerely hope that doesn’t happen, because I like the idea of them just being close friends.

Don’t hate the player

Just a sweet sweet fantasy, baby (Unmarked Spoilers)

Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is a friendly non-player character in Free City, this multiplayer game that’s all about destruction. Every day he and his buddy, Buddy (Lil Rel Howery), sit in the background as players, distinguished by their sunglasses, hold up the bank where they work. Everything changes when Guy meets and falls for MolotovGirl (Jodie Comer), inspiring him to steal a pair of sunglasses to be able to talk to her. Once he puts them on, he can see all the missions and gear that the players can access.