Director Steven Spielberg Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn Rated M Score 2/6 When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. I was actually kind of looking…
Movie Reviews
Storming Juno
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Director Tim Wolochatiuk Starring Benjamin Muir, Kevin Walker, Craig Cyr Rated M Score 3.5/6 Docudrama retelling the Canadian assault of Juno Beach on D-Day, as told via re-enactment and through interviews with those who were there. Okay, for the record I came across Storming Juno while browsing the movies on iTunes, so I was a…
Pacific Rim: Uprising
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Director Steven S. DeKnight Starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny Rated M Score 2/6 Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat. I wanted to be impressed with Uprising, but I wasn’t.…
Tomb Raider
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Director Roar Uthaug Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins Rated M Score 4/6 Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Alright we have yet another movie adapted from a computer game, and we all…
Loving Vincent
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Director Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman Starring Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn & Robert Gulaczyk Rated M Score 6/6 In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. Loving…
Bullet Head
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Director Paul Soulet Starring John Malkovich, Adrien Brody, Antonio Banderas Rated MA Score 3/6 Three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse with the law closing in and an even worse threat waiting inside – a nigh unstoppable killer dog. If you did not want to watch this one it would be perfectly understandable…
Black Panther
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Director Ryan Coogler Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o Rated M Score 4/6 T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. Alright I am finally over my…
Brawl in Cell Block 99
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Director S. Craig Zahler Starring Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson & Udo Kier Rated R Score 3/6 A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly. I’ll admit it, I usually don’t watch a lot of movies starring Vince Vaughn. In the past he has struck me as the…
What Happened to Monday?
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Director Tommy Wirkola Starring Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe Rated MA Score 5/6 In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.…
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
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Director Sam Liu Starring Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Chris Cox Rated PG Score 4/6 In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is based on Gotham by Gaslight a DC Comics one-shot from 1989…