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The Wasp (2024)
Awesome popcorn thriller from start to finish.
Dialogue thriller of flashback past events from a woman as a girl who was bullied by another girl in school she thought was her best friend, but learned in one of the most humiliating ways that she wasn't. The story unfolds when years later as adults the one who was bullied, (Naomi Harris) asks her so called friend but really bully (Natalie Dormer) to meet up with her to discuss getting rid of her cheating husband and once they get together, the story is just an awesome dialogue popcorn thriller ride from there on out. I meant it was really a decent Roman Polanski-ish style suspense that was diabolical and disappointing, only because I was rooting for a Naomi Harris's character to triumph. From start to finish, The Wasp is a very decent watch.
Subservience (2024)
One time forgettable popcorn.
Honestly I don't know why this film has such low ratings because this was one of those decent AI films that you kind of watch and realize that it's going to be one of those type of movies. Megan Fox plays in AI robot and a man whose wife is in need of a heart transplant is in the hospital and while she's in the hospital AI Megan Fox is at home with husband and children and a desire to be free of being AI controlled. Of course like all female robots or should I say synthetics, husband whose wife is in the hospital has a moment of infidelity with AI bot Megan Fox, somehow some way she has been reset to not follow the primary functions and as in all AI robotic films, robot goes rogue yada yada yada and you already know the plot. Very watchable decent sci-fi thriller. Nothing really crazy but decent one time forgettable popcorn.
The Crow (2024)
A graphic music video....meh.
I can't tell you how many times I've watched the 1994's classic Crow with Eric Draven, Sgt Albrecht, Darla, Gideon, (Tony Todd) Grange, Tin Tin, Funboy, Skank and "fire it up!, fire it up! T Bird. Hands down a if you're in the mood for a fantasy thriller classic watch it over and over and over again film. A film you simply can't remake because like certain songs like Cruel Summer, or The Proclaimers hit, I'm Gonna Be, the 1994 classic Crow was simply a one hit wonder. This Crow with Skarsgard was just a ridiculous graphic music video with scenes of ultra violence. The story would've been better if they just kept it the same paying homage to classic with today's CGI. But changing the story was an insult to all classic Crow fans. Such a disappointment.
Mother, Couch (2023)
Excellent cast but a very incoherent story that literally made no sense.
I have no idea what this film was about and neither will you. The storyline goes like this, three children who go and find their mother sitting on a couch in a furniture store and tries to get her to leave the store but she doesn't want to leave. And from there, you're left to think that the story is actually going to lead up to something spectacular or tragic to unfold and it literally does neither. From the beginning to the very end, you don't know what the message in the film is actually relaying. It's just a bunch of incoherent scenes meshed together leading up to a climax that leaves you pondering wtf did I just watch, I kid you not. Excellent cast but a very incoherent story that literally made no sense.
Here After (2024)
Not horror but a mother's guilt resolved in the afterlife.
Let me start off by saying that if you're looking for horror, scares or things that go bump in the night, look elsewhere because this is not a horror, nor thriller nor anything remotely close to anything in the horror genre. It's a heartfelt suspense drama about a mother's guilt that haunts her from losing one of her twin daughter's when then child was very young. And from the traumatic experience of losing her twin sister when she was just a child, the now older living twin daughter lost her ability to speak (another review says the living twin suffers from being deaf) but the traumatic experience only caused her to stop speaking, her hearing is perfectly fine.
But the living twin suffers and incident that causes her to be die for about twenty minutes, she comes back to life, is now able to speak again but as the story progresses, the mother realizes that something is seriously off about her daughter. The story climaxes with the mother taking matters into her own hands, with the admitting of her past guilts, only to be resolved via the afterlife. Once she's there, forgiveness and healing prevails and the living twin is all better and back to normal. A story with the somewhat vibes from the film with the late Robin Williams, What Dreams May Come. A much better film by the way. But overall, Here After is meh decent but ultimately a forgettable one time watch.
Skincare (2024)
Starts off ok but fails to deliver.
So the trailer peaked my curiosity and I downloaded to watch and it really started off ok. Elizabeth Banks has a beauty salon providing exquisite skincare service for her customers, ready to launch her own product line, when the competition shows up next door and coincidentally a loaded group email goes out to everyone she knows smearing her character, hurting the reputation of her business and the fallout of who's behind it begins. Everything leading up to her launch now spirals completely downward and her naive mindset has her looking in the wrong direction of who's trying to destroy her reputation. For a dark comedy it failed to deliver the way Drop Dead Gorgeous did with the late Kristie Alley o so well. Skincare was watchable but extremely forgettable popcorn.
Oddity (2024)
You guys really need to knock it off with the hyped reviews for a meh film.
So let me say right off the back, this film is not all that. It's not scary, no horror nor suspense, it just has a good eerie score. The acting is bland, the story predictable, in fact you kinda know who's behind the killing in the very beginning and the end falls disappointingly flat. As I was watching the end, I could not help but feel like I was watching one of the stories from the film Creepshow. I mean the mummy summoned by the twin sister to exact revenge on the man who killed her twin sister? I mean like, c'mon. I honestly don't know why this movie is getting 10s in reviews because it is nowhere near that. It's a 3 at best. That is so why I never go by really good reviews because most of the time, they're intentionally misleading. Another forty true reviews and the 7 rating will drop to about a 3 where it belongs. You guys really need to knock it off with the hype reviews for a really meh film.....truly nonsensical.
Crescent City (2024)
Believe every negative review. This was one of the worst.
Alec Baldwin, Terrance Howard and Esai Morales all in top notch films, should all be ashamed of themselves taking roles in this mindless dribble of a film..omg! The story was very poorly delivered, the acting atrocious, no one is likeable or believable and Terrance Howard's character had to be depicted as the black married man (of course) being unfaithful to his wife but even outside of the that, he just came off super lame and weak on screen. I really try giving films with good actors the benefit of the doubt but of a surety, there are no benefits with Crescent City only doubtful anyone will enjoy this crap. Believe every negative review. This was one of the worst, I've ever seen. It was just plain awful.
The Watchers (2024)
I'd "watch" it again.
Very interesting sci-fi thriller that pulls you in comfortably and takes you on a uniquely differently journey about legendary creatures with a vengeance in the forest only to discover, that they too have the capability of making change. Was it scary? No. Was it horror? Absolutely not. It's a thriller about four people trapped in the forest surrounded by cursed beings, finally escaping, unknowingly having one with them the whole time. I'd definitely watch again perhaps in about three years because it's that kind of film I keep in my downloaded film library I'd like to revisit, when I'm in the mood for a something not silly that has just enough thrill to it before going to sleep.....good popcorn.
Atlas (2024)
Peace to fallen.
Decent popcorn watch about once again, AI believing they were better than humans, needing to purge the planet (because of mankinds insatiable appetite of destroying itself) with of course nuclear fire and the one lone hero Atlas aka JLo, feeling responsible for the AI who goes rogue, joins the military campaign to go off planet to find and destroy that one AI who's behind the entire plot of making earth a better world by destroying it. In my opinion, the story itself was decent enough that anyone besides JLo would've been able to carry the lead character. She didn't make the film better or worse so I'm not sure how she was even casted for a sci-fi story with such a magnitude of awesome CGI. This was definitely a decent watch giving off vibes of Avatar, T2, and the TV series Humans throughout.....peace to fallen.
Abigail (2024)
What a lousy rotten film.
Another run of the mill vampire film twist with of course Hollywood's warped imagination of demonic child exploitation. Not only that, it's 2024 and they're still killing off the only black actor with a decent role twenty minutes to 1/2 hr into the film which is ridiculous leaving you with a cast and story of a vampire been there suprise twist at the end done that before story. I actually watched it half way thru and literally skimmed the rest of it, knowing full well how the predictable end was going to be. A lot of blood, way too much vulgarity and absolutely, positively, wholeheartedly, nothing and I mean nothing at all to write home about. Predictable popcorn manufactured by Hollywood. In other words....a lousy rotten film.
The Legend of Lake Hollow (2024)
This is what you get when you put up posters saying Actors Wanted.
This is what you get when you put up posters saying, actors wanted.
Hey, bro! Let's spend a few days in the woods, shall we? Bring your girl! Where is this place Here! Take a look! I've got a few pics! (Hmmm...creepy house, creepy forest, probably no cell phone or internet connection, either...good place to get effed up) Hey man, thanks for the invitation but we already have some appointments...Oh...Ok, maybe a next time, yeah Hell yeah! (Hell no!) They were never seen again.....roll the credits.
I so didn't know that Lifetime was producing horror fims. They just don't make movies like they used to.
New Life (2023)
Watchable/Forgettable
A somewhat flashback story of a young girl carrying a very contagious and deadly virus who doesn't realize that she is the host of a deadly contagion, escapes from the facility and a women who is also deteriorating with ALS, has been assigned to capture virus girl dead or alive. After (I call her virus girl) escapes, she runs into other people not knowingly infects them and they all end up becoming very ill and of course, everyone she infects dies horribly until she is caught by ALS lady. Yeah, it's really that small budget film cut and dry. It's a watchable film but also forgettable with nothing at all to write home about. Not a recommend but not a completely disappointing film if you decide to, after watching the trailer. The hyped up rated 10 reviews are not to be trusted on this one....promise.
Knox Goes Away (2023)
The ending will move you to tears.
I was so impressed with this film, the way the story unfolded with Micheal Keaton as hitman in last stages of a life before his full on dementia sets in, whose son gets in trouble for murder and in his final weeks before he loses his complete thought process, he pulls off the most clever cover-up to protect his son who committed the crime. Shouts out to the legends Al Pacino and Marcia Gay Harden. The cast was truly decent with convincing performances by James Mardsen and Suzy Nakamura. Overall, this was a such a good watch and a highly recommended film for any who has a family member suffering with dementia. The ending will probably move you to tears. I know it did for me.
You'll Never Find Me (2023)
It was ok until it wasn't.
First off let me just say that the hype reviews on this film that are already on IMDb are truly unwarranted. This was mental health popcorn at best. A man struggling with his demons and his serial kills inside of a trailer is now being overwhelmed by his inner thoughts, and the film is meh at best. The last 20 minutes are absolutely ridiculous. I mean really it just fell apart and it just made no sense at all. This was a one-time watch and nothing more. Not horror, not a thriller but mental anguish on full display. Do I recommend? Not really but if you have nothing else better do, have at it. Don't go by the amped reviews because you will be thoroughly disappointed.
Beacon 23 (2023)
Meh Sci Fi.
I'm on ep 6, watching very ridiculous parents trying to raise their child, but overall CGIs are good, casting is okay, the story is watchable and all over the place. You have to deal with the different people in every episode who are telling the story from a different times, the very beginning leading up to Aster and Hanlan, but it's a watchful series. I'm curious to know what it will be like in the end because the origin of artifact is the main purpose of the story and of course you have to have at least one gender confusion ep in it which is sometimes very annoying. It's doable popcorn but nothing like let's say Star Trek or any of those types of sci-fi's like The Expanse or Stargate SG-1.
The Royal Hotel (2023)
90 minutes of wasted time you will not get back.
So I watched the movie from beginning to end thinking that something was going to jump off with these two girls going on traveling work pay vacation, in a run down Aussie bar owned by drunkard Hugo Weaving. 90 minutes of wasted time I will not get back watching a movie about the two of them doing absolutely nothing until the very last 5 minutes of the film, what a waste of time. Julia Garner has not been in anything remotely close to being good since the Ozark. If you want something to help you put you to sleep this would be the film to do it. It starts nowhere and it ends up nowhere. Hard pass.
Madame Web (2024)
Once again negative review are unwarranted.
Once again the negative reviews are so unwarranted. This was definitely a watchable film, from all the things that are being produced with a lot of stuff that I don't just don't want to look at. It was truly refreshing to watch young girls acting like girls not into each other but being basic teenage girls into boys. Madam Web was not the greatest movie, nowhere near fantastical but it was definitely watchable without all the other stuff that I so don't care to watch in the films with all that sexual agenda mess....hint hint. I so don't understand the negative reviews on this film, because for 2024, this was definitely a decent one time popcorn watch, so don't really get the hate. I enjoyed it because it was regular people being regular for a change in a superhero film and it was quite refreshing if you understand how I'm saying it.
American Star (2024)
Slow, dull and boring.
The only thing I'll say about this film is if you have suffer from insomina and have trouble sleeping, this film will do the trick. It's better than Ambien, Tylenol PM, Unisom and any other melatonin product on the market. Talk about slow, dull and boring, good golly Ms. Molly, good gracious alive. The scenery fantastic, score wonderful but the story? I watched the entire film and I still dIdn't understand what the contract killer's purpose was. Normally these type of films provide some semblance of the reason on why they've been hire to do a hit, a definitive reason of the specific targets but this film does neither. It doesn't provide any real purpose of the hit. The story makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Without question this is a true bedtime film that will have you snoring in no time....promise.
Bastarden (2023)
Easiestly the best movie I've seen in all of 2023.
I haven't written a review in quite awhile because I really didn't feel like writing any more reviews on all of the meh popcorn films I watched all year long. But it's December 27, 2023 and The Promised Land was easiestly the best film I've seen all year long. I mean like wow, just a truly wonderful story from start to finish. And normally I get tired of reading subtitles but this film just pulls you in and doesn't let to go until the end when the screen fades to black. Yes it's that good! I'm so not a fan of the academy awards but without question this would easily be a contender for an Oscar for best picture. This was truly a fantastic film. Kudos to the entire cast. I mean really. Great work.... everyone.
Payback (2023)
A 90 min flim would've made more sense.
An unnecessary six part mini series of a wife and mother accountant plunged into the bowels of the underworld after her recently murdered husband's criminal affairs of money laundering, double dealing and stealing his bosses money now finds herself on a dangerous crossroad of being accused of her husband's murder, finding the money he stole from the man he money laundered for, to working with DCI police to save herself and her family. Story was okish, although there are a plethora of better stories to watch with a much better lead character
.....sheesh. And this so did not need to be a six part 45 min each ep miniseries to make it work. A 90 min flim would've made more sense. This took way long to a make a very meh predictable point.
Totally Killer (2023)
Awful awful awful.
I don't care how many hype reviews you read, this film was just awful. Talk about slow, talk about dull, talk about boring....omg. A time travel story that ends up being dry, meh and very cold to watch. The acting was so lame, I just so wanted to find out who the killer was and be done with story. I can't believe the amount of positive reviews that were written because the story was utterly ridiculous. It took me forever to actually get thru watching because I kept turning it off because it was so boring. Don't believe any of the hype reviews and trust me when I say that this film was awful, awful, awful.... hard pass.
The Nun II (2023)
Utter garbage.
It is safe to say that with or without a writer's strike, american horror films as of late are the absolute pits. You can easily add the nun 2 to the not scary, no horror, no real story but massive CGI overkill to give the viewer something to react to genre. I'm just so very glad that I stop doing theater twenty years ago, cut my cable five years and watch everything and I mean everything online for free. And thanks to the govt funded ACP program, even my internet service is free. I just downloaded and watched MI dead reckoning yesterday and I gotta say it wasn't that great but ok popcorn. Tom Cruise is definitely the goat but I hope part two makes uo for the lackluster part one film. Back to the Nun 2, if you like CGI effects with no real substance, then have it. The Pope's Exorcist is another film of mindless dribble.
Aporia (2023)
What was the ending?
Decent sci-fi concept dealing with time not travel but rearrangement. A wife loses a her husband from a dui accident and his best friend who has built a time rearrangement machine uses the machine to bring him back but in the process (as the story goes in all time tampering films) changes the outcomes of the future for surrounding characters. And kinda as a predictable flow, they realize the harmful effects of time altering and try to correct their dilemma but go deeper into a time altering conundrum. The three main character's chemistry was mature, watchable and made sense for a story of such, also the daughters of both effective families had decent friendship chemistry on screen but was was the ending? I really didn't get the closure I was looking for but it was still a solid one time watch.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
A film that insults the viewers intelligence.
I am truly sick and tired of the generic concept in most horror films where the obvious answer is right in front of you and the story takes you on a nonsensical journey of characters being oblivious and making poor choices to survive, and this film does not disappoint in doing so. Dracula is onboard a ship of a crew set sail to bring his coffin from Romania to England and things start happening (as usual in these films) and a young maiden find on board (knowing who Dracula is) warns them to abandon ship, and of course her attempts are ignored, no one listens to her and bibadaboup, everyone on board starts paying the consequences. When I say fed up with watching story stupidity, you have no idea. Another run of mill voyager with the dracula onboard ridiculous decision making film. A meh one time watch.