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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!
POW Aden Jansen has lost a decade of his life to both the war and internment when he’s recruited by the Alliance. He’s to return to Gretia as an undercover Blac Kloos is firmly one of my favorite military science fiction authors right now and this fourth entry into his Palladium series continues to reaffirm that affinity. There’s not enough spaceship combat for my tastes, but it’s more than made up for by the political and personal drama happening on the surface of one of the main planets. Buy On Amazon!
It’s been a minute since I’ve written an update on my life and since I’m just got over covid, I figured I’d celebrate being able to breath properly with a new post with words. I’ve started a new job with the state (a few months ago back in June!) and while I’ve been exposed to a ton of new people and new things, it wasn’t the job that granted me access to my second covid infection, that came from my wife who brought it back with her from a concert she went to with some family down in Tampa. She was...
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!
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. It’s been a while since I’ve seen this and while it’s still an enjoyable film, knowing what I know about both the behind the scenes stuff with this movie and the science behind how deep they’re going, it’s hard to suspend my disbelief. If you’re able to turn off that part of your brain though, boy howdy this is a fun movie. Buy On Amazon!
Venom: Directed by Ruben Fleischer. With Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze. A failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it. I own the steelbook of the 4k movie now! It was just a couple bucks, so why not. The movie itself is still goofy, but I think I’m getting over the fact that they’ve changed the character so much for these films and have accepted him for what he is now. Buy On Amazon!
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. They somehow managed to fit 3 different Alien flicks in this one movie’s 2 hour run time. The pacing is damn near perfect, the scary stuff is scary as hell, and the alien / human / android drama plays fantastically. There was only one point that I doubted where they were going (it was something that also happened in Resurrection) but the direction they went in was appropriately horrifying and worked...
Borderlands: Directed by Eli Roth. With Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramírez, Jamie Lee Curtis. Based on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power. The internet seems to think that this is the worst movie in the world, but it doesn’t rise to the terrible results of other video game adaptations and has it’s own share of great moments, but at the end of the day it’s not terrible, not great, just mediocre. I think my complaint with it would...
