Author: tiki god

This Is the Tom Green Documentary: Directed by Tom Green. With Tom Green, Mary Jane Green, Phil Giroux, Howard Wagman. Comedian Tom Green’s journey takes unexpected turns as he shifts from wild MTV stunts to confronting serious health challenges, ultimately finding peace away from Hollywood on his Canadian farm. Tom Green was ever present while I was in high school, but I never found myself enjoying his efforts, they seemed too intentionally random and felt inauthentic. There’s an entire genre of comedy based around that type of humor that I just don’t go for, but enough people do that it...

Earth Abides: Created by Todd Komarnicki. With Alexander Ludwig, Jessica Frances Dukes, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Elyse Levesque. After months of isolation, Isherwood “Ish” Williams, learns that most of the world has fallen to a mysterious illness. Yet, despite his instincts to further isolate, Ish leads the charge to develop a new civilization. I’ve seen a ton of post-apocalyptic stories in so many different variations, and not many of them are able to make me feel good about the story by the end of it, feeling hopeful and open to the idea that humanity will do better than it did before. Mind...

The Wild Robot: Directed by Chris Sanders. With Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy. After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island’s animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. As good as I was expecting, and I was expecting a good movie considering the stupid trailer made me cry stupid tears. They hit all the notes required to pull the strings of the heart and have all the plot elements to make it all a wonderful experience. It’s also pretty good...

Captain America: Brave New World: Directed by Julius Onah. With Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas. Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, finds himself in the middle of an international incident and must discover the motive behind a nefarious global plan. We’re not necessarily back to the amazing level of story and effort that the original Captain America movie had, but we’re no where near the lows of recent MCU movies. There’s still some unfortunate CGI in the third act and a few scenes that look like they were filmed in both The Volume and a bluescreen at...

Code 8: Part II: Directed by Jeff Chan. With Robbie Amell, Stephen Amell, Alex Mallari Jr., Sirena Gulamgaus. Follows a girl fighting to get justice for her brother who was slain by corrupt police officers. She enlists the help of an ex-con and his former partner to face off against a highly regarded and well-protected police sergeant. While the original movie didn’t blow me away, I was happily surprised by this sequel, it was much less frantic and much more paced. There’s a decent story this time around with tales of family redemption, financial consequences, politics, and bad cops involved...

Star Trek: Section 31: Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. With Michelle Yeoh, Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, Robert Kazinsky. In Star Trek: Section 31, Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets, and must face the sins of her past. I watched this over the weekend and it was exactly what I thought it was going to be: for better or worse, it’s a vehicle to highlight the fact that Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh was under contract to do more Star Trek content and they couldn’t figure out how to use her...

The Crow: Directed by Rupert Sanders. With Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston, Josette Simon. Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save the love of his life, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge. The blood soaked title card sequence is pretty cool, and the rest of the film is equally drenched in gallons of blood, there’s not a whole lot that I can point to as innovative or all that interesting. The franchise itself has done a ton of cool stuff, but has driven most...