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A Serbian Film: Directed by Srdjan Spasojevic. With Srdjan ‘Zika’ Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Slobodan Bestic. An aging porn star agrees to participate in an “art film” in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film. I fully regret watching this. Buy On Amazon!
Armed with Buffy’s broken scythe, Willow has entered another dimension and begun a quest to somehow, someway, against all odds, bring magic back to Earth. She m It’s been a very long while since I checked back in on the Buffy verse, this mini series was a $1 bin steal a couple weeks ago. It’s set during the story continuation that they did after the show was canceled and well before they rebooted absolutely everything a couple years ago. I don’t know if I ever wrote about that, but the entire thing felt off and I didn’t really dig it....
The Invitation: Directed by Jessica M. Thompson. With Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee, Hugh Skinner. A young woman is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot. The best part of this is Nathalie Emmanuel, she’s pretty great and I like her. This movie though, I have some complicated feelings about because while I’m about burnt out on vampires and their associated stories, they had some nice changes to the mythos that worked well enough that I can recommend the film, with the caveat that the final scene in the movie is so...
Extraction 2: Directed by Sam Hargrave. With Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Adam Bessa, Tornike Gogrichiani. After barely surviving his grievous wounds from his mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tyler Rake is back, and his team is ready to take on their next mission. There’s some fantastic action sequences with plenty to appreciate as an action fan. The plot is fantastically thin, but I’ve never seen any reason for an overly complicated action film, just make the entire thing believable and I’m there. There only real complaint I have is that I’m sure they intended it to be a LONG time between...
Phenomena: Directed by Dario Argento. With Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Patrick Bauchau. A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. I have no idea why this was in my “to watch” list, I really need to start keeping better notes. Sure it’s got Jennifer Connelly in it, and I do love her to death, but this is a weird slasheresque science fiction film that never answers most of it’s pressing questions and I think...
The Flash: Directed by Andy Muschietti. With Sasha Calle, Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton. Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future. I believe this is the 5th…maybe 6th movie or television series that I’ve seen in the last couple years that deals with multiverses and transdimensional time travel shenanigans and I’m honestly just tired of the entire concept. The quicker we can get past all these attempts to tie together...
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts: Directed by Steven Caple Jr.. With Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez. During the ’90s, a new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth. There’s been five main title “Transformers” movies and one prequel spinoff titled “Bumblebee” and this is sorta a sequel to the prequel spinoff film and is set in the 90’s, well before the first Michael Bay directed film, which was in 2007. This movie is extremely loosely based on the concept of the “Beast Wars” cartoon that...
Clark Kent struggles with a book he’s writing while Superman takes on a garbage problem from Lex Luthor. I pulled this from the $1 bin at my local comic shop and it’s worth at least that much to read just once, there’s some great art and a story that’s pretty different from the Superman stuff we’re getting lately. He’s a more grounded character, with a more grounded supporting cast and the story is far slower than a modern book at well, with some space left for the story to properly develop. The Lex Luthor portion of the story is pretty...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet. With Melissa Navia, Christina Chong, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck. A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike. With season 2 starting up in just a few days, I figured I’d go back through season 1 to remind myself how utterly amazing it ended up being and how big my expectations are for the future of this franchise. It’s a short season with only 10 episodes and there isn’t a single stinker in the whole...
BEHOLD: MY STUFF bought for super cheap, the only 90’s Trek that I don’t own on physical media now is DS9. That being said, those are DVDs of Enterprise, which they’ve also released it on Blu-Ray, so I’ll see if I can grab that for super cheap like these were. I kick startered a thing! I haven’t watched it yet, but I love this guy’s work, so I’m looking forward to it. I’m in the (very slow) process of replacing my HD-DVD collection, all while building a Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, and Glenda Farrell collection, Speaking of Glenda, this was...
