Author: tiki god

Scream VI: Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett. With Courteney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown. In the next installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in New York City. My wife and I watched all five of the Scream films in an exceptionally coordinated effort in the 3 days leading up to our AMC reservations for Scream VI. Watching them all nearly back to back like that really shows how the franchise and the genre itself has evolved from a navel-gazing, self referential treatise on slashers to something that’s...

The Whale: Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Hong Chau. A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Brendan Fraser’s official return to Hollywood glory, even though I’ve personally seen him or heard him in several things prior to this. It’s a good film with a small cast of five or six people, two or three filming areas, and a story that cuts way too close to home. I recently had a medical wake up call that resulted in me deciding that I didn’t need to eat the things...

The Greatest Beer Run Ever: Directed by Peter Farrelly. With Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Jake Picking, Kyle Allen. A man’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam. We all knew that this film was going to end up being a navel gazing look into America’s involvement in Vietnam, right? That’s exactly what it is, but I’m happy to report that even though ‘War is Bad’ this is still a good movie that seems to be loosely based on a true story. He does seem...

The Menu: Directed by Mark Mylod. With Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau. A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. Oh it’s a mockery of the stuck up foodies and food bros that inhabit nearly every restaurant you’ve ever been to that’s required a dress code of some sort. Anya Tyalor-Joy is fantastic as always, with Nicholas Hoult and Ralph Fiennes doing a fantastic job as brining her character to the forefront of the film. I actually watched The...

Elektra Luxx: Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Ermahn Ospina, Jake Hames. Life for porn actress Elektra Luxx gets turned upside down when she finds out she’s pregnant. Picks right up where the previous film ended and continues to be an engaging and entertaining cast of interesting people doing interesting things. Buy On Amazon!

Women in Trouble: Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. With Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Dan Mailley, Connie Britton. A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly desperate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, an actress, a masseuse. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble. I knew what I was in for, but I wasn’t expecting Adrianne Palicki to openly say “I really want to eat your pussy.” while playing a porn star who has issues with cars backing into her and some PTSD from a self...

The Final Countdown: Directed by Don Taylor. With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino. A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This has been on my watch list since it came out in 1980, but I never got around to watching it for various reasons (or maybe I did and I’ve just forgotten?), but watching it now, I realize that it’s just a tease of a better film, but set to some exceptionally patriotic backdrops of a 1980’s aircraft carrier and some pretty...