Author: tiki god

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea. Ponyo has a fun theme song! The rest of the film is a lovely Studio Ghibli story of family and how it’s made, but with some terrifying tsunami situations and questionable magic implementation. Buy On Amazon!

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they must take it upon themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles. Oh I’ve seen this one before, but it’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I forgot that I didn’t have a high opinion of it. It’s by no mean by bad film, but the story is pretty shallow and the patriotism is firmly tattooed...

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. A lovely story of little people that borrow a fair bit of things from the much larger humans that they cohabitate with in a rural home. There’s plenty of shenanigans and a bitter sweet ending, but this is classic and fantastic Studio Ghibli. Buy On Amazon!

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange… What’s even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn’t enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is...

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family. The trailers for this were spooky as all get out, but the actual movie is hilarious, every time Nick Cage was on screen I was rolling with how hilarious he looked and sounded. His whole vibe was supposed to be “Satanist Horror” but was...

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is “allergic to everything”, and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada’s father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse… My wife was aghast when I admitted that i had never seen this, she promised it was a fun movie with a very sad ending and that’s exactly...

When an old acquaintance is murdered, Wolff is compelled to solve the case. Realizing more extreme measures are necessary, Wolff recruits his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax, to help. In partnership with Marybeth Medina, they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becoming targets of a ruthless network of killers who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. Did we need another movie about an autistic team of computer hackers and their autistic accountant / murder for hire bounty hunter friend? Maybe not, but this was definitely a fun ride with the addition of Jon Bernthal’s expanded role and the...