Recent viewings

[Svengoolie 3]

Atomica.  Another  low budget, tiny cast, dark,  psychological horror movie. Kinda boring,  predictable with a canned plot. Can't really recommend it.

[indianasmith]

DEAD NIGHT (2017)

A mother takes her family to a remote mountain cabin for a spring break vacation and then brutally murders all of them.
Or does she?  A twisty thriller that presents two very different scenarios as to how this bunch wound up dead.
Not boring, not great, just sort of intriguing. 3.5/5

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Titan Find" aka "Creature" (1985)
A space salvage crew encounters a crazy stranded German astronaut (Klaus Kinski) and a carnivorous whatchamacallit on one of Saturn's moons in this cheap, gory "Alien" knockoff. This flick doesn't have an original bone in its body, but it's enjoyable z-grade fun.

[indianasmith]

ALLADIN (2019)  This is the live action version of Disney's 1990's animated classic ALLADIN. I know the critics have panned it, but honestly, I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Will Smith will never be Robin Williams, but he did bring his own brand of humor and charm to the genie character.  It's not deep or an instant classic, but it's a fun way to spend a couple hours at the movies. 3.5/5

[Rev. Powell]

RIFFTRAX: LASER MISSION: This terribly-plotted confusing action film set in Africa with Cubans and Soviets running around stars a bumbling Brandon Lee, who doesn't even kickbox well, and Debi A. Monahan's cleavage. No lasers. The commentary adds enough laughs to the silliness to make it worthwhile. 3/5

[indianasmith]

JURASSIC WORLD: THE FALLEN KINGDOM (2018)  More dinosaur mayhem in this latest installment of the JP series.  Really, it was about everything you could want from a dinosaur movie - great visuals, peril, bad guys getting munched on, and a new scary genetically engineered dinosaur, as if we haven't seen how that ends already!  Loved it the first time I saw it, loved it this time too!  5/5

[Svengoolie 3]

The beyond 2017. An ambitious SF movie abiut a wormhole opening near earth, and a group of astronauts must have their brains transferred into robotic bodies to go thru it.  Supposedly set in 2019 it is clearly impossible for the technology to exist at that,  er,  this,  time.  The deus ex ending is simply too good to be believable.

Decent effects and some competent acting, an interesting story that bikes up to a huge letdown.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Age of Dinosaurs" (2013)
A bio-genetics firm has re-created living dinosaurs, which of course escape and take to the streets of L.A., causing lots of cheaply CGI'd mayhem and destruction. Treat Williams is a firefighter who just wants to keep his teenage daughter safe from the critters. 

This typically cheesy knock-off of the "Jurassic" saga from The Asylum is entertainingly silly junk.

[Trevor]

RIFFTRAX: LASER MISSION: This terribly-plotted confusing action film set in Africa with Cubans and Soviets running around stars a bumbling Brandon Lee, who doesn't even kickbox well, and Debi A. Monahan's cleavage. No lasers. The commentary adds enough laughs to the silliness to make it worthwhile. 3/5

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

He's a mercenary man, mercenary man, mercenary man........ 

I'm a teetotaler but this is one film you should not watch sober.

[Svengoolie 3]

Just in case anyone hasn't seen it yet I did see"the clover field paradox"and for ghawd's sake avoid this.  It starts out with a lot of potential and becomes pure,  asinine drivel.

[FatFreddysCat]

Lazy Monday afternoon double feature:

"John Wick" (2014)
Keanu Reeves is a retired professional assassin who goes back to work after Russian mobsters steal his car and (worst of all) kill his dog. This box office smash certainly doesn't have much plot, but it brings the mayhem in spades. This flick is simply one bad-ass action sequence after another. Tons of sadistic fun! Now I'm gonna have to catch the two sequels...

"Eaten Alive!" (1980)
An American heiress hires a guide and heads into the jungles of New Guinea to find her missing sister, who ran off and joined a Jonestown-style religious cult smack in the middle of savage cannibal country. You can probably figure out how well it turns out for everyone involved.
There isn't anything in this trashy man-eater saga (directed by Umberto "Nightmare City" Lenzi) that you haven't already seen in other Italian cannibal flicks, but it piles on so much sleaze and gross-out gore that you'll feel like you need a shower when it's over.

[Rev. Powell]

SERENITY (2019): A crusty commercial fisherman (Matthew McConaughey) entertains an offer from his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) to kill her abusive multi-millionaire husband. Starts as a sunlit island noir and midway through takes a turn that is... odd, and less than satisfying. 2.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Beast (2017) - seemingly a metaphor for today's stock market action, two weirdos meet and attempt to create a life for themselves on the British island somewhere where they live. fun and frolics amidst "they don't understand us" and nosy cop - isms. 5/5

[Rev. Powell]

RIFFTRAX: BUFFALO RIDER: The movie is a western about a guy who rides a buffalo. Riding a buffalo is stupid; it has major disadvantges over a horse, including the fact that buffalo hunters want to shoot your mount. The people who made this were probably animal trainers (who were definitely not monitored by the Humane Society), because there are lots of wildlife shots and stunts, including a 10-minute digression where a racoon fights a cougar. The actual human actors, however, are rarely in frame. It's a terrible movie. The RT crew has an easy time ripping it apart. 3/5.

[Gabriel Knight]

Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

After a freak accident, a yuppie turns invisible and runs from a treacherous CIA official, while trying to cope with his new life.

Considering all the mindless bashing this movie has on the Internet, I was very surprised when I discovered a thoughtful and entertaining flick. It's what you expect from Carpenter: a perfect mix between humor and drama, with the usual moral decisions the characters must take. Sam Neill is awesome as a villain, that grin is just great.
Overall, a satisfying experience, and a different approach from the usual "invisible man goes mad" plot. 3.5/5