Author: tiki god

  2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity. As a thought experiment among fans, this would be a neat discussion. As an officially released piece of media that’s an official expansion of the lore, this is a steaming pile of terminator scrap that completely changes the in-universe science. I’m perfectly fine with the new AI concepts that are introduced, the time loops are pretty well explained, but just the same, there’s an introduction to...

A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right? The marketing I saw for this really missed the mark for me, from what I remember they were highlighting the romance and goofy capers that he got up in in pursuit of love, which is fine, but didn’t really make me want to see the movie in theaters, something that I wish I had been able to do now. j...

In the near future, a ‘Grand Lottery’ has been newly established in California – the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. It’s hard for me to believe that the same director did the hilarious “Bridesmaids”, then went on to stink up the place with “Ghostbusters (2016)”, and returned to absolutely killing it with Jackpot. The cinematography, the acting, the scrip, the action, and the soundtrack all line up to make a film that I think would have done pretty well in theaters. This isn’t a theatrical release though and only viewable on Amazon...

Hit Man: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta. A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services. A very funny and fantastic movie with a True Story that I’m not entirely sure is true at all, but after all, what is truth really? Glen Powell and Adria Arjona knock it out of the park, though I mistook Adria for Eiza Gonzalez for the entire film. Buy On Amazon!

Mike, a down-to earth construction worker, is thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school sweetheart, Roxanne, recruits him on a high-stakes U.S. intelligence mission. The end result is a little less serious than I thought they were originally going for, but I think at the end of the day I still enjoyed the journey exploring the first steps of a Union CIA spy hitman / construction worker. Buy On Amazon!

A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. This one caught my eye again because first off, it’s a great film with some pivots that completely caught me off guard the first time I saw it in theaters and second, I just watched The Abyss and apparently I’m a fan of underwater science fiction dramas? Buy On Amazon!

1h 37m | PG-13 Bought it in a 4k steelbook and now it’s sitting proudly on a shelf, never to be watched again. It’s a pretty nice steelbook though! Buy On Amazon!