Onward It was an early release so I had to buy it. It's not the best they ever made but anything Pixar touches is good. I'd watch it again some day. 8/10 Jumanji: The Next Level I like the first movie but the second wasn't as good. The story was a little screwy and Danyy Glover was annoying. I guess he was supposed to be annoying but still. 6/10. Karen Gillan and all her body doubles are still looking pretty good.
Spenser Confidential Every Mark Wahlberg movie rolled into one Mark Wahlberg movie. It’s the most Mark Wahlberg movie that ever Mark Wahlberged. Written, directed by, and starring Mark Wahlberg. Get ready to Mark your Wahlbergs.
One Cut of the Dead A film built around the premise of doing a horror movie in one cut/take. I’d heard very good things about this and was told to go in blind; I kind of did but would have been better going in totally blind to it - if you can, do that and just stick with it, it’s a film that really develops.
Bloodshot A nice superhero movie that doesn’t tie into any existing cinematic universe that I know of. Vin Diesel may have the range of a wooden door, but he does a good angry.
Brightburn It’s Superman if he was raised by Roy from The Office instead of Jonathan Kent. It’s good but maybe a “wait till it’s on Netflix” kind of good. I don’t regret the purchase, though.
Cold Pursuit The latest installment in the “Liam Neeson punches things” genre. Liam Neeson is a snow plow driver who punches and snow plows evil drug dealers. The villains are highly punchable and Neeson gets right into things with lots of face punching. After he punches bad guys to death he wraps them in chicken wire and throws them over a waterfall. Movie Trivia: before he was an actor, Liam Neeson was a school teacher. He was fired for punching a student.
Us Was not what I expected. Very good and even thought provoking but not really scary. Any scare basically stopped about halfway through. Strange premise. But I enjoyed it enough to immediately watch: Get Out Again, not super scary but scarier than Us, I guess. I was a little worried it was going to be some preachy racist stuff like HBO’s the Watchmen (which got so tiresome so fast that I didn’t finish it) but the race card was kept kind of cheeky and lighthearted but definitely cringy. I liked it better than Us. Both of the movies were more creepy than anything. The bad guys in Us were, in the end, kind of ridiculous. Overacted craziness? The bad guys in Get Out were played much better.
Uncut Gems It's a Martin Scorsese produced crime drama starring Adam Sandler. I had absolutely no idea what to expect out of that. It was actually really damn good. Like one of the best movies I've seen in awhile. Very suspenseful. Some really dark humor. Really well written and acted. 8/10
I almost went to see Uncut Gems in the theater, but I read about it described as frenetic and anxiety inducing. I'll check it out.
Anxiety inducing is exactly how I would describe it. Sandler plays a character who is a walking disaster who just keeps digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole. This movie is to degenerate gamblers what Leaving Las Vegas was to alcoholics. Den of Thieves It was a Heat knockoff crossed with a Usual Suspects knockoff. It has no original ideas but it was still sort of entertaining. Gerard Butler is a dependable discount action hero.
Some older relatives wanted to watch a movie at the theater with me, and I was uneasy about what I might be getting into with that movie so I passed on it. I'll check it out and see what I missed.
The Invisible Man Elisabeth Moss has had a lot of practice playing an unhinged, abused, belittled lady needing to be taken seriously. This movie is very good, but it’s all Moss, all the time, being freaked out. But she’s really good at it so it works.
365 Days This movie was like something that would have been on late at night in the 1990s on Cinemax. It was a low budget Eurotrash version of 50 Shades with cheesy music but decent sex scenes. The way it seemed to be glamorizing kidnapping and Stockholm Syndrome was disturbing.
1917 Interesting cinematography where the entire movie is like one long tracking shot. They really tried to show the horrors of World War 1 trench warfare.
..Well,is an interesting movie the only problem is at the end,lack of more information action and dialogue,he just reach Titan and this action is presented at the end of the movie in few seconds