Netflix’s new Charlize Theron starring action flick The Old Guard was released late last week and I gave it a look. This flick has a premise borrowed from Highlander but wants to be a more prestigious and modern style action … Continue reading
Rented (on iTunes, once again) the new thriller/suspense flick Becky. This is what you get when Home Alone is honest with the violence perpetrated on the bandits… or if John McClane is secretly a twelve year old girl. And a … Continue reading
Rented on iTunes a new science fiction/action flick called The Blackout (or The Blackout: Invasion Earth… but that’s not what the movie calls itself). I saw it pop up on the new releases but figured it was just another low … Continue reading
Also rented (on iTunes) the action/horror movie VFW. I hadn’t heard of this one before I watched a YouTube video about the best horror movies of 2020 (so far). I wouldn’t call it a horror movie so much as a … Continue reading
Also watched a Netflix movie called The Reliant. I recall seeing reactions to this film’s marketing last year from more liberal outlets who were alternatively laughing at it and incensed it would attack Black Lives Matter groups. So I watched … Continue reading
Also rented (on iTunes) a heartbreaking work of staggering genius called Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge. Half of the last sentence is as exaggerated as this absent-minded video game tie-in movie. So this animated film is based on the … Continue reading
Watched the new Chris Hemsworth action flick Extraction on Netflix. This is an original film produced and written by the Russo Brothers (of recent Avengers renown) starring Thor (Hemsworth) and directed by the stunt coordinator behind some of those Marvel … Continue reading
Checked out a sci-fi/crime movie called Code 8 on Netflix. It’s not a Netflix original and was available for streaming for months but I never pulled the trigger. Box art shows a robot similar to Chappie (the police robot movie … Continue reading
Also rented the other Covid-19 theatrical-to-streaming-early film that I hadn’t yet seen The Hunt. This is the flick that was scheduled for release last year but, after a couple shootings and conservative outrage over the premise (including the president), got … Continue reading
So finally broke down and purchased (since it’s not available for rent and it costs as much as the other Covid-19 released movies available as rentals) the Vin Diesel sci-fi action flick Bloodshot. Bought it on AMC Theaters on Demand … Continue reading