Mark (Kyle Allen) is a teen boy stuck in a time loop repeating the same day over and over again. One day he meets Margaret (Kathryn Newton), a girl his age who’s stuck in the time loop with him. After some convincing, Mark teams up with Margaret to make a map of all the perfect things happening in town to pass the time. Could this be the beginning of a beautiful romance?
Continue reading “Lovely Day”
Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle) is the Warner Bros. server algorithm (get it?). When he’s not ruling over the Serververs, he’s busy conducting an idea that will finally get him the respect he thinks he deserves. However, when LeBron James (himself) shoots down a proposed movie starring himself, Al-G responds by yanking the basketball star and his son Dom (Cedric Joe) into cyberspace. Now, to rescue Dom, Lebron needs to win a game of basketball as part of one giant commercial masquerading as a movie that had more in common with Ready Player One or Ralph Breaks the Internet than it does with the original Space Jam.
Continue reading “Do you believe you can fly?”
Slasher is a Canadian anthology series that takes the slasher movie format and expands it to eight episodes. Each season is a self-contained story with a different killer, though it implies that The Executioner (Season 1) and Guilty Party (Season 2) at least occur in the same universe. The show’s also gone through multiple networks, most recently switching from Netflix to Shudder. Unfortunately, they’ve also gone from releasing the whole season at once to the first couple episodes one day, the rest over the following weeks.
Continue reading “Blood and Water”
Task Force X or the Suicide Squad is a group of supervillains sent into nigh unsurvivable scenarios in exchange for time off their prison sentences. The Squad’s mission this time around is to infiltrate the nation of Corto Maltese and destroy Project Starfish, aka Starro the Conqueror. This giant alien starfish can control people’s minds. Someone with no imagination named the project.
Continue reading “The Dirty not Dozen”
Nadja (Peri Baumeister) and her son Elias (Carl Anton Koch) are traveling from Germany to the United States so that Nadja can partake in a special treatment program to cure her vampirism. Unfortunately, their plane ends up getting hijacked by terrorists. Berg, the leader of the terrorists, is played by Dominic Purcell, who also played Dracula (NSFW) in Blade: Trinity. That’s probably not a coincidence, and if it is, it’s hilarious.
Continue reading “Fly the Unfriendly Skies”
Scream and its first three sequels were a series of slasher movies that horror master Wes Craven directed. Instead of sticking two or more reviews under a single post like I usually do with franchises, I decided to instead look at the series up to this point. I hoped that my analysis would be more condensed that way. I’m not sure how well I succeed on that front, but I hope you enjoy me doing something a little different.
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Ah, R. L. Stine. Growing up, I loved Goosebumps. It was the first series I got into reading on my own, as opposed to Captain Underpants and the Magic Shop, which got read to me. I never read Fear Street, though. From what I understand, and I may be wrong, the series was essentially Goosebumps, only aimed at older teenagers. So I am excited to dig into something that is brand new for me.
Continue reading “Terror Trilogy”
Sam (Karen Gillan), a professional assassin, is sent by Nathan (Paul Giamatti) to kill David (Samuel Anderson), who has stolen from the organization they both work for. Only after she shoots him does Sam discover that the money was so that David could pay the ransom of his daughter Emily (Chloe Coleman). Uh oh. Sam decides to rescue the kid, and everything that can go wrong does go wrong, naturally.
Continue reading “Mmm…milkshake”
Between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) is on the run and by herself. Not for long, though, as a run-in with the supervillain Taskmaster (?) and a mysterious MacGuffin has her reuniting with familiar faces from her past. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Alexie Shostakov (David Harbour), and Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weisz), who once posed as a family in an undercover mission from the Red Room. The same organization that they need to take down in the present.
Continue reading “The MCU’s back in theatres, baby”
Following the President of the United States coming under fire for acting inappropriately against a “Firefly Girl,” Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is brought in to do damage control. To that end, Brean enlists Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to manufacture a fake war with Albania to get the American public talking about something else. And they do so with all the snappy dialogue that co-writer David Mamet specializes in.
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