LUKE CAGE: SEASON 2 - VLOG REVIEW
I talk a bit about Season 2 of Marvel's Luke Cage .
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JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM - VIDEO REVIEW
I take a look at blockbuster sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom .
A BOY AND HIS DOG - VIDEO REVIEW
L.Q. Jones' cult sci-fi film A Boy And His Dog gets its own video review.
NETFLIX CATCH-UP - VLOG REVIEW
My thoughts on a few Netflix shows: Lost In Space , A Series Of Unfortunate Events (S.2) and Arrested Development (S.5).
GAME NIGHT - REVIEW
Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star in Game Night , a dark comedy about a couple and their friends who are invited to play a new game one night, only to find that the ensuing chaos is very real and not actually part of said game. Sort of like a cross between The Man Who Knew Too Little and Date Night with a little of The 'Burbs thrown in, Game Night takes a gimmicky, slightly derivative premise and runs with it with enough gusto to make Baby Driver jealous. For all its goofier aspects, this is a sharply written comedy that strikes a good balance between dumb and clever without losing track of its characters and why we should care about them. Max (Bateman) and Annie (McAdams), through their playfulness and competitiveness, seem to be perfect for each other and, even though some problems are revealed along the way, this is a relationship we root for throughout. Their friends are mostly one-dimensional but they each have their moments and remain likeable despite their ob
DRAG ME TO HELL - REVIEW
Directed and co-written by Sam Raimi, Drag Me To Hell was a horror film from 2009 about a loan officer who makes a very powerful enemy when she denies an elderly woman a loan as the latter attacks her before rewarding her with a terrible curse. Raimi's return to the horror genre after completing his Spider-Man trilogy, Drag Me To Hell is every bit as violent and wacky as you'd expect from the man who brought us The Evil Dead and its madcap sequels. If anything, this is far more a comedy than it is a horror film. There are gross-out "scares" but those are more hilariously odd and disgusting than they are actually frightening. Take the multiple scenes in which the poor cursed heroine Christine (Alison Lohman) gets thrown up on or when she's the one throwing up various fluids, for example. Most of the scares in this movie are so cartoonish that it's just impossible not to laugh at them. Christine battles the old lady in a car at one point using office eq
BRAIN DAMAGE (1988) MOVIE TALK
We talk briefly about the horror movie Brain Damage on episode 3 of The Big Rewind .
INDIANA JONES 5? - PODCAST
We discuss the prospect of a fifth Indiana Jones movie on The Big Rewind .
BIG HERO 6 - REVIEW
Based on the Marvel comics, Big Hero 6 was a 2014 CG-animated Disney film about a young inventor who befriends an inoffensive robot called Baymax before training it to become a fighting machine. 14 year-old genius Hiro Hamada is introduced to us participating in illegal robot fights and conning others with his misleadingly unassuming creations. His brother, in the hope of steering Hiro towards a better path, encourages him to apply for a university with an impressive research lab in which a team of quirky inventors get to be as creative as they can. After an unexpected accident, a mysterious villain shows up using one of Hiro's inventions on a dangerous scale so he and his friends, along with inflatable healthcare robot Baymax, decide to fight back and unmask their powerful enemy. Similar to how the marketing for Pixar's The Incredibles relied heavily on an out-of-shape Mr. Incredible trying to fit into his old superhero suit, Big Hero 6 was sold mostly through the ball