Directed by Sam Levinson. With Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef. After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos decends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
Directed by Todd Burrows, Christopher Folino. With Chase Williamson, Ashley Bell, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey. A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation’s most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks’ life and reputation in ruins.
Directed by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer. With Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn Lind, Steven Elliot. A family takes refuge in a bomb shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Directed by Anthony Byrne. With Natalie Dormer, Emily Ratajkowski, Ed Skrein, Joely Richardson. A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld.
Based on a book of the same name, this is a great feel good movie with a confusing cast of characters playing outside of their range (20+ play teens? ok.), but still managed to end with a great sense of purpose.
It’s like groundhog day, but with a first date twist. I enjoyed it, as I enjoy most time loop movies, though the main character really didn’t use his loops the way most others do, he was pretty dumb about the whole thing and really only came out with a positive outcome because he just gave up on the idea of being with the perfect woman, as played by the nearly perfect Alexandria Daddario.
The story’s been adapted before and I’m not sure which ending of this film I’m actually more a fan of, but I like the theatrical version enough to buy the 4k version digitally? Both versions of the adaptation suffer from missing the point of the name “I Am Legend” entirely, but this one missed it the most. it’s still a great film, just doesn’t do justice to the original short story.
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of the Year
2018 Hugo Award winner, Best Graphic Story
2018 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel
2018, 2016, 2015 Entertainment Weekly’s The Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, Newsweek’s Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, The Washington Post’s 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year
2018, YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2018, Thrillist’s Best Comics & Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Powell’s Best Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of the Year
I loved absolutely every page of this series, I’m pretty late to the party, but Image did a preview of the first issue that blew me away so I bought the first three collections for about $10 each (still that price on amazon too, see the links above). There’s a bit of something in here for everyone, I particularly like the idea that cats are interdimensional travelers that got stuck in one universe and they’ve never forgetten they used to be able to do more. There a TON more in these books, little fox people, cats with multiple tails, demons embedded in amputated arms, queens, wars, old gods, and art that just amazed me every time I turned the page.
Found it suspiciously cheap on Facebook Marketplace, but I didn’t want to look at this particular gift horse in the mouth and got what I was looking for. The six movies look great and the special features look like they’re going to be fun to watch. I was actually surprised how nice the films look, but I know that the moment there’s a 4k version of the original trilogy I’m going to be a sucker and get those too.
Another great CMX flashback experience with one weird caveat. Before the movie begins they have a guy telling you about the film (for the previous film I watched he went into detail about how the Alien franchise was not being developed but that James Cameron was interested so that’s how we got 5+ more films in the series). For “Gone With The Wind” I was sure they were going to mention that this movie should be enjoyed (it’s a great film with absolutely amazing acting, sets, and costumes) but that it has some aspects of the film that should be taken with either a grain of salt or an entire history lesson on the American Civil War and separately, the history of Black Americans. No warnings about how this is a romanticized version of “The South” and that the grandeur they show in the movie was little more than fiction. No warning about the racist language or concepts.
It was a good experience, but as you can imagine, I feel the introduction could have been a four hour special all on it’s own.
Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell. With Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew. After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
The trilogy that I never thought would be made wraps up the origin stories that started 18 years ago. There’s likely going to be some complaints about how slow the movie is, but that’s just how the M. Night works. His films have never been wall to wall action and honestly this is the most action I’ve seen from him in a long while, but it doesn’t compare to the Marvel / DC slug fests that we’re all accustomed to by now.
I’ve played through 3/4 of the Walking Dead games, so I’m pretty well over the Telltale formula of just wandering around a scene clicking on things and hoping you figure out the black magic to move the story forward. I know this was the game that launched a dozen other games just like it, but it did nothing for me, so after a single chapter of the first episode I just gave up. RIP TTG, you never did grow or change the game the way I was hoping you would.
I really thought I had already watched this, but there were so many portions of it that felt new to me. It’s on Netflix right now in glorious 4k HDR, if you have the ability to watch it that way, I highly suggest it.
There’s a semi new theater in town that has a full fledged restaurant and bar. It also features a weekly “flashback” movie that ranges from damn awesome (Aliens, Die Hard!) some interesting (Gone With The Wind!) and some that are just horrible (A christmas story? that’s on a legit 48 hour loop on TBS every year). Aliens is the first movie that I saw in this set up, I never got the chance to see it in theaters when it originally came out, I believe I was about 5 at the time. Had a buddy call me up and suggest we see it, so I dropped everything I was doing (I was still sleeping in bed) and went on down to see it.
It’s been years since I’ve seen the original version of the film as I only own the director’s cut. The original is still a great movie without many questions, though I did appreciate a couple scenes from the directors cut that I felt were missed in the original, the opening scenes on the colony (when they say we go, we go) and the turrets running dry from the xenos just throwing themselves at them.
It was a great experience, one that I had again the next weekend when I went to see Gone With The Wind, which I’ll review in a different post.
Directed by Scott Foley. With Amy Acker, Ava Carpinello, James Carpinello, Dagmara Dominczyk. Ward’s wife is a bitch. Everyone knows it. Including Ward. After numerous conversations and ruminations on the subject amongst Ward’s colorful group of friends, a fortuitous accident leads to a whole new world of problems and possibilities.
Directed by David Bruckner. With Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, Sam Troughton. A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that’s stalking them.
Since WWII, Calvin Barr has lived with the secret that he was responsible for the assassination of Adolf Hitler. Now, decades later, the US government has called on him again for a new top-secret mission. Bigfoot has been living deep in the Canadian wilderness and carrying a deadly plague that is now threatening to spread to the general population. Relying on the same skills that he honed during the war, Calvin must set out to save the free world yet again. Starring Sam Elliott (A Star is Born), Aidan Turner (“Poldark”), Caitlin FitzGerald (“Masters of Sex”) and Ron Livingston (Office Space), THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT follows the epic adventures of an American legend that no one has ever heard of.
Directed by Jason Headley. With Matt Jones, Will Rogers, Eleanore Pienta, Jonny Mars. Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with an unexpected house-sitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into.
A shattered ship, a divided crew—trapped in the infernal nightmare of conflict!
Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the U.S.S. Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the hellish nebula known as the Pergamum, the stalwart commander instead finds an epic battle of his own, pitting ancient enemies against one another—with not just the Enterprise, but her crew as the spoils of war.
Lost and out of contact with Earth for an entire year, Pike and his trusted first officer, Number One, struggle to find and reunite the ship’s crew—all while Science Officer Spock confronts a mystery that puts even his exceptional skills to the test…with more than their own survival possibly riding on the outcome….
Super-Assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is on the run after killing a member of the international assassin’s guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head – he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.
Peter Parker and his friends go on summer vacation to Europe, where Peter finds himself trying to save his friends against a villain known as Mysterio.