Author: tiki god

Cocaine Bear: Directed by Elizabeth Banks. With Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Ray Liotta. An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. “Based on the idea of a concept of a true story that someone overheard at a bar” is more true than “inspired by true events”. Sure, there was a bag of cocaine that a bear got into, but that bear was dead before anyone found it. “Cocaine Bear” is exactly the film you would expect it...

Dr. Strange: Directed by Philip DeGuere Jr.. With Peter Hooten, Clyde Kusatsu, Jessica Walter, Anne-Marie Martin. A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past. It’s a made for TV that I believe was intended to be the pilot to a TV show, but it never got picked up. For the time it was released, this is a pretty solid fantasy story with all sorts of familiar elements that i’m sure modern audiences would recognize but not especially appreciate too much due to the budget and filming style. It’s...

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance: Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Nicolas Cage, Violante Placido, Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba. Johnny Blaze, tortured by the Ghost Rider’s curse, gets a chance of redemption through protecting the Devil’s son, whose father is pursuing him. The second movie with Nicolas Cage playing ol’ hot head, but they’ve changed the origin, forgotten all the characters from the first movie, and moved production over to Romania. I have no idea why they chose to do that, but the changes were jarring and Nick Cage was weird as possible, which worked for me, but I...

Ghost Rider: Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. With Matt Long, Raquel Alessi, Brett Cullen, Peter Fonda. When motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze sells his soul to the Devil to save his father’s life, he is transformed into the Ghost Rider, the Devil’s own bounty hunter, and is sent to hunt down sinners. I’m on a very slow mission to buy all the movies that Stan Lee is in, which is obviously going to lead me to owning nearly all of the legacy Marvel films like “The Trial of the Incredible Hulk” and “The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”. So...

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Directed by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein. With Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith. A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. I swear I saw this opening weekend, but I’m just now getting around to logging it here. Imagine you’re at the game table with 5 of your friends playing a campaign for the 50th weekly session. The DM takes all the notes from your sessions, gives...