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The joys of having a sister

A good movie to start the year off with

Little Women follows the lives of four sisters who are, of course, the little women of the title. Jo (Saoirse Ronan) wants to be a writer. Meg (Emma Watson) is a poor housewife. Amy (Florence Pugh) is under pressure to marry rich to take care of the rest of her family. The limited amount of ways that women can earn money during this era is a big focus of the film. Beth (Eliza Scanlen) is a quiet musician. Together there joined by Laurie (Timothée Chalamet), the handsome boy next door.

Two movies that won’t leave you foaming at the mouth

A horror retrospective.

Rabid (1977) is a movie from director David Cronenberg, whose films are well known for their body horror and sexual weirdness. The premise is that following a motorcycle accident that her boyfriend Hart Read (Frank Moore) got into for no discernable reason, Rose (Marilyn Chambers) is taken to a nearby plastic surgery clinic for treatment. There Dr. Dan Keloid (Howard Rhyspan) performs an experimental skin graft that, as you can guess, ends up going horribly wrong. The procedure ends up creating this phallic looking stinger from her armpit that sucks blood. It also infects people with a rabies-like virus, hence the title of the film.

Twas the night before Christmas…

I hope you asked Santa for another unnecessary remake (Unmarked Spoilers)

Why did this movie have to be called Black Christmas? Yes, it’s a slasher movie set during Christmas and about a sorority, but beyond that, the two films have so little in common that I don’t know why this couldn’t have been made as a stand-alone movie. Is it trick horror movie fans who come in expecting to see a regular horror movie, but instead get a film that’s super woke? And by woke, I mean heavy-handed and not as thought out as it should be.

Ta tatatatta tatatat ta tatata ta tatata

After 42 years, it all leads up to this…until Star Wars Episode X

Palpatine’s back b*****s. How? The force, I guess…does it matter? This way, we don’t have to deal with a whole movie of Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). I know he thinks his Uncle Luke (Mark Hamil) was going to kill him, but that dosen’t mean he has to act like a whiny teenager about it. And annoyingly, this movie once again continues the question about whether or not Kylo Ren will turn good, even though that plotline has long overstayed it’s welcome. (spoiler) Overall, I’m glad that he dies at the end of this, even if he did finally turn good. (/spoiler)

Number’s up

And then there were…

Jesus, look at the cast of this movie. You have master detective Bond, James Bond (Daniel Craig) investigating the death of Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). The suspects include (deep breathe) Captain America (Chris Evans), Joi (Ana de Armas), Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), John Givings, Jr. (NSFW)(Michael Shannon), Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson), Lynn Sear (Toni Collette), Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Martell), Beatrice Bellacourt (Riki Lindhome), and Martha Kent (K Callan). F**k, that’s not even everybody.

To die, to sleep

A sequel that the filmmakers don’t want to call a sequel.

The novel version of Doctor Sleep starts with Danny (Roger Dale Floyd) before introducing our new villains. The adaption of Doctor Sleep does the opposite because having a bunch of energy vampires called the True Knot eating a child’s shining by torturing them to death is a more ‘exciting’ way to start a movie, I guess. Though what’s funny, the Knot’s leader telling a young child that her friends call her Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) is similar to a scene in It: Chapter Two. Except there, the kid has enough sense to immediately back away from the creepy stranger, forcing the monster to get extra clever.

DUNDUN DUN DUNDUN

How many versions of the same movie are we going to get? (Unmarked Spoilers)

After Halloween, I have another franchise that seems to be as unstoppable as its main villain — consisting of The Terminator, the one that started it all. Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the unquestioned apex of the series that has almost everything you could want in a movie. And all the others that I want to say are, on average, above par. Before I go on, I feel like I level with you that I liked Terminator: Genysis. Yes, I know, that and the fact I liked The Last Jedi has never made me doubt my critical capabilities more. Though if you want to keep reading even knowing that, by all means.

The night he came home, three times

A holiday retrospective.

Halloween (1978) is one of those movies that has a massive impact on the genre. Much like Suspiria (1977), there’s not really any character development, and the little plot in the film is basically an excuse for great music and atmosphere. Here’s the whole plot in a nutshell. Murderer Michael Myers (Nick Castle, Tony Moran, Will Sandin) escapes from the sanitarium he was locked up in for killing his sister. The movie then becomes over an hour of people driving, walking, standing, trying to have sex, listening to Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) go on about his patient’s evil, and hearing the audience scream ‘he’s right there, just turn around (NSFW) and look behind you.’

Cool party bro

I assume killer party was too obvious a title

Casper (Sam Strike) is a young thief just trying to get him and his dad out of their lousy neighborhood. Then his dad ends up getting in deep with a loan shark. Desperate, Casper decides to rob this wealthy family, the Dawsons, during a party they’re throwing with his two friends, Dodge (Brandon Michael Hall) and Iris (Virginia Gardner).

When you’re good to Mama

What’s wrong with these kids today?

Ah, Blumhouse Productions, for every good movie you come out with, you have about five bad ones. One of their latest releases is Ma, which is about a group of teenagers who, while trying to find someone to buy beer for them, end up bumping into Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) or “Ma” as she quickly becomes called. And get this, Ma not only buys the booze for them but invites them to party up at her house whenever they want. And why not, she’s clearly just a harmless eccentric, just like Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates).