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.
Continue reading “Alternative Facts”
Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) is a legal guardian who gets her elderly wards assigned to assisted living facilities to sell off their house and belongings while also stealing their life savings. That is so appalling yet legal, you know there is a 100% chance of it happening in real life. One day, Marla bites off a bit more than she can chew with Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest), who ends up being the mother of Russian gangster Roman Lunyov (Peter Dinklage).
Continue reading “Girlboss”
Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) is a high school senior who, for a price, writes her classmates papers as part of what seems to be an open secret. One day, Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) approaches her with a request that’s a little different. He wants her to write a love letter to the girl he has a crush on, Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire). Ellie agrees because she needs the money, but complications occur because Ellie also likes Aster.
Continue reading “You complete me”
Tyler Burnside (Charlie Plummer) is the teenage son of boy scout leader and pillar of the community Don Burnside (Dylan McDermott). After borrowing his dad’s truck, Tyler discovers a piece of bondage porn. His curiosity piqued, he keeps digging and uncovers evidence that Don might be the Clovehitch Killer, a serial killer who just disappeared years ago. To figure out the truth, he teams up with Kassi (Madisen Beaty), a girl his age who has a deep interest in the Clovehitch case.
Continue reading “Knotted up”
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