As someone in his mid-30s now, and with no kids, a movie like Descendants 2 isn’t exactly aimed at me, now if this were a sequel to the Alexander Payne drama that might be a different story…
Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 4K/BD + Screen Caps
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword actually isn’t a terrible movie and yet, a couple problems: 1. There really is a need for yet another adaptation, even one that incorporates more mystical elements, 2. Guy Ritchie’s style doesn’t quite gel with the material and 3. Charlie Hunnam doesn’t nearly have enough charisma to carry this movie.
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Review: Going in Style BD + Screen Caps
Going in Style is a light-hearted but incredibly fun, and oft funny, movie that excels almost entirely on the cast charms and chemistry with one another as Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin work so well off one another, even when the script isn’t all that creative.
Review: Britney Ever After DVD
Britney Ever After is, to put it bluntly, awful movie which should come to no surprise since it is a Lifetime Original Movie, but I suppose if you watch this with a group of friends, could make for a fun MST3K-like party.
Ronin Blu-ray Review
Ronin is a fantastically slow burning yet still suspense-filled crime drama, a call back to the 60s and 70s preferring realistic car chases, not unlike Bullitt and The French Connection.
Review: Re-Animator BD + Screen Caps
Re-Animator is a fun horror-comedy from the mid-80s, with enough blood to satisfy gore-hounds, and receives a nice upgrade over its 2012 Blu-ray stocked full of wonderful extras, a few new to this release from Arrow Video, and offering up excellent video and audio transfers.
Review: Teen Wolf Too (Collector’s Edition) BD + Screen Caps
Teen Wolf Too is really the quintessential example of a needless sequel, though not nearly as awful as something like Weekend at Bernie’s 2, not that’s all saying that much, even Michael J. Fox’s charm could’ve saved this.
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Review: Teen Wolf (Collector’s Edition) BD + Screen Caps
Teen Wolf isn’t exactly a memorable film from the 1980s, not even the most memorable Michael J. Fox movie of 1985 for that matter, but it’s still a lot of fun and with that era, the make-up effects actually weren’t half and the movie itself is propelled on Fox’s charisma.
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Review: The Lovers BD + Screen Caps
The Lovers isn’t great, a bit uneven at times and not entirely impactful in its drama, but I did enjoy seeing Debra Winger in a lead role and the chemistry between her and Tracy Letts is well done.
Review: Phoenix Forgotten BD
I am so sick of these found footage films and Phoenix Forgotten is one of the poorer outings, even when I went in with low of low expectations. Two-thirds of the movie is utterly dull and the finale hardly can make up for the lack of interest that came before, to go along with cardboard cutout characters.
Review: And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online? – The Complete Series BD
And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online is at least a different kind of anime fantasy movie in terms of an actually interesting story, characters and, pleasantly, animation style which I found a bit more creative compared with the others I’ve come across.
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Review: The Dinner BD + Screen Caps
The Dinner could’ve been an intimate film instead is a jumbled mess focusing on a cast of characters who, frankly, are not very likeable especially throwing in the morality at its core that shouldn’t be disputed.
Review: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* BD + Screen Caps
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (but were afraid to ask) is a series of comedy vignettes featuring Woody Allen, Burt Reynolds and Gene Wilder amongst others and while none of these were exactly gems (I didn’t laugh once during the jester part), it’s still at least okay.
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Review: The Sea Chase BD + Screen Caps
While The Sea Chase is an interesting viewpoint for WWII following the German side, it was utterly distracting seeing someone like John Wayne trying to pass himself off as a German captain, not even bothering with a fake German accent.
Review: Song to Song 4K/BD + Screen Caps
I can’t stress at how much I loathed Song to Song. I’ve seen plenty of bad movies, but none of them have had me in so much pain to sit through since, well, Malick’s To the Wonder, with only a few very minor redeeming values with the performances by a talented cast.