A Private War - Great performance and craftsmanship that let-down by middling scripting.

Really appreciate the filmmaker didn't make a glorified biopic. You have scatter bits and pieces of events to drive the narrative of the legendary war correspondent. You will need to piece together on what defines Marie Colvin. Rosamund Pike shed her glamorous celebrity appeal to dug deep into portraying a lesser beauty. Think they overplayed the PTSD plot line. Would rather they don't over explained things and focus on her relationship with the surrounding people.

At the minimum after watching this you are incline to google Marie Colvin more in-depth.

Haha deng i just jekoff watching that🤭🤭😆😆

Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
Release Date: 22 March
Director-S. Craig Zahler
Running Time-2h 39m
Stars -Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles.

Henry Johns (Tory Kittles) an ex-convict arrives home from prison.
Found his mother not only using drugs but has also turned to
prostitution to make ends meet, to support his disabled kid
brother, Ethan (Myles Truitt). He desperately needs to fix his family
problem. Circumstances don’t allow him many options for income.

Henry has a good heart.

City cops Brett Ridgeman (Mel Gibson) and Anthony Lurasetti (Vince Vaughn)
both suspended six weeks without pay by their superior Lt. Calvert (Don Johnson)
when neighbor captures the injury on video, for roughing up a Latino drug dealer
And belittle his half-naked girlfriend during the drug bust.

Ridgeman has his own financial troubles. His ex-cop wife Melanie(Laurie Holden)
with multiple sclerosis and can't walk without a cane. His daughter Sara(Jordyn Ashley Olson)
being bullied by the African American youths in their neighborhood.
He wants to earn enough money to move his family elsewhere.

His partner, Anthony Lurasetti wants money to buy an impressive ring to
propose to his girlfriend.

The suspended cops decide to pull off their own score. Lurasetti reluctantly
agrees to go along with his partner...

It takes over more than 75 minutes for the stories of Ridgeman, Lurasetti and
Henry to intersect. Only when a new mother Kelly Summer (Jennifer Carpenter),
a bank loan officer, with separation anxiety as she leaves her infant son at home
to return to work for the first time.

Mel Gibson performance here is some of the best work he’s done in years.

Done watch all episodes on last weekend. Quite good storyline. Im more interested with yogurt episode. Yogurt refer as what ah? Ive really no idea.

It just a yogurt as in fermented milk becoming a sentient being at the expense of humanity's hubris.

So yogurt = human expense?

Err..just a yogurt by accident who "out-evolved" humanity. No hidden meaning about it.

i really thought got hidden meaning

Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

The first movie was a surprise "hit".

So the powers that be, decided on a sequel.

As you guys know, sequels usually don't work.

Alot bigger better movies had tried and failed and it is with great pleasure that I report to you, this little movie did a sequel and it is... great!

The nagging voice that ask, why did she time loop, is thoroughly explained here and it becomes the premised for the movie.

So, this time round it is a science fiction!

Again, all is well and the movie works.

The gang is back and with delightful additions like Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi anyone?) and Sarah Yarkin.

It is really a good sequel and if you were entertained by the first movie, you are sure to be entertained by this one.

Do watch the first one before you watch this, otherwise you will be confused.

Enjoy

My Two Sen.

Us (2019)

Wow

Jordan Peele is turning into a goto director for thrills and suspense.

First Get Out (2017) and now Us (2019).

Will he be the next Alfred Hitchcock or (and I don't want to jinx him) M. Night Shyamalan....

In homage to Alfred Hitchcock he even did a The Birds (1963) scene!!

To fully appreciate this movie, you would have to have lived through 1986.

And I have...

Hands Across America, Michael Jackson's (is this a dirty word now??) Thriller Album...

Lupita Nyong'o is amazing here.

And Winston Duke (M'Baku) plays.... the comedic relief??

This movie, draws you in, getting you more and more involved and than when you least expects it, hits you with the revelation at the end!!!

If you like thriller and suspense, this is THE movie for you.

Enjoy.

My Two Sen.

Ya agreed. Hope this movie have a sequel... looking forward to it...

Five Feet Apart (2019) - very good.....
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) -
Creed II (2018) - predictable but no bad... I loved boxing movie
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (2018) - good actions...

Shazam! (2019)

As Alpha 5 from Power Rangers would say, Aiya ya ya ya....

This movie is SO..... CHEESY!!!!

Wait wait wait...

First thing first, this is directed by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out (2016), anyone).

Probably one of my favorite horror movie in recent years.

The main lead in this movie is Shazam (duh), played by Zachary Levi (whom I liked alot in (Chuck 2007)).

Mark Strong plays the villain, Thaddeus Sivana... and was he not also the main villain in Green Lantern? Oh wait, not DCEU canon....

Shazam is actually the acronym for Solomon (wisdom), Hercules (strength), Atlas (stamina), Zeus (power), Achilles (courage), and Mercury (speed).

Billy Batson/Asher Angel is magically transported to the Rock of Eternity and was bestow with the power of Shazam by the wizard.

The reason he was bestowed the said power if to fight again the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth that had taken over Thaddeus Sivana.

As Michael Buffer would say, "Let's Get Ready To Rumble!!".

Here is my experience with this movie.... I am more interested in Billy Batson back story, compared with his growth into the superhero Shazam.... Weird right.

What I am trying to say is I am more sold by Asher Angel as Billy Batson than I am by Zachary Levi as Shazzam...

Am I making sense?

Jack Dylan Grazer is proving to be a really good actor.

The Marvel Family/The Shazam Family is also introduce.

Am disappointed that with all the characters introduces, Mister Tawky Tawny, wasn't...

My Two Sen.

Hope DC stepping stone is on

I want the dark knight DC level back hahahaha

For me, I think Zachary Levi hammed it up a little too much

Just an opinion

Pet Semetary


I've got to say, I liked this better than IT. Very edgy and thought provoking. Takes an hour plus to build up but it was worth it.


Overall: 70/100

At the insistence of a buddy to check out Oriol Paulo filmography. Gotta say I'm a fan by the first movie. His style reminded me Park Chan Wook's Vengeange Trilogy. It has the same theme across the aisle. Always start with a murder mystery and it just went to places you won't able to expect where it will go.

The Body - Murder mystery mindfuck.

A premeditated murder with the body missing from morgue. The cops pretty much single out who is the murderer but no clue to why would the body went missing. For the bulk of it is about freaky incidents that meant to answering the mystery of the body. Then the last 10 minutes did an 180 where your mind blown to pieces by the revelation.

The Invisible Guest - Kinda Usual Suspect 2.0.

On the surface it's a cover-up of an extramarital affair that led to a murder. The movie will keep shifting your expectations of who is the antagonist or protagonist. Be immersed with the quick sleight of hand on your grasp of the story progression. One moment you are convinced the adulteress is behind it all and then it realigns to the husband. And it flips few more times until the dramatic revelation.

Mirage - Timeline murder mystery.

You can watch this on Netflix. A storm enables a present day lady to communicate with a boy in the past. When she saves the boy from a certain murder, she changes her timeline where she no longer has her family because of butterfly effect in chaos theory. So the movie is about the lady finding ways to reclaim her timeline that linked to the boy she saves.

Entertaining as it may be with the twists and turns, it goes overreaching in the big revelation. Like Nolan's Interstellar where the movie couldn't stick the landing. Still engaging but not bulletproof in how things being unfolded.

Keep a look out for Oriol Paulo as he has the potential to be the next Park Chan Wook and his craftmanship surpasses has been like Shaymalan.

This post has been edited by 6so: Apr 6 2019, 09:46 AM

Hellboy (2019) - a very hot mess, too violence, ton of bloods, no Abe Sapien. I more preferred Hellboy (2004) story lines is good, I loved Selma Blair, all the characters is good, at least I can sense the emotions for this one, but Hellboy (2019) not even close...

This post has been edited by Mickey C: Apr 11 2019, 10:13 PM

Hellboy (2019)

This movie is a disaster...

I mean, this is right up there with The Spirit (2008)....

And no, I am not exaggerating...

Bad direction, bad editing, bad script and bad casting...

Nimue / The Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich)
Professor Broom (Ian McShane)
Hellboy (David Harbour)
Major Ben Daimio (Daniel Dae Kim) (I honestly rate his English accent as bad as Dick Van Dyke in the original Mary Poppins....)

How the heck is Mike Mignola involve with this piece of Kaka....

I have nothing redeeming to say about this movie.

My Two Sen....

Haha thks 4 saving my pocket