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Split

Cerebral but not too deep. Creepy but nothing to weird you out and get this, there was no twist. What?!! I know right! The movie follows a guy named Kevin who has 24 personalities that he has developed within him. Neither personality knows what the other is thinking but can interact with each other. Kevin has 2 dominate personalities that seem to protect him and make sure the plans of the 24th…

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Sleepless (Sloppy)

Deception, crookedness and just plain no point. The story is about a cop who gets caught up in a job gone wrong and ends up crossing hairs with the wrong people. While he and his partner tries to rob someone of their drugs they get blindsided by another group who comes at them with heavy artillery. He later inadvertently gets his son involved as they kidnapped him as a ransom for the drugs. He…

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Hidden Figures

Trying to overcome while doing your best in a segregated world. This is the story of 3 black women working at NASA. NASA was having trouble getting reliable spacecrafts into space and needed a mathematician who understood analytic geometry while they were working on the first IBM to calculate their numbers faster than the Russians. One of those women played by Taraji P. Henson (Katherine) was…

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Assassin's Creed

Assassin’s Creed

Another video game movie gone wrong! Okay so Assassin’s Creed is a movie rendition of a video game that deals with an organization that wants to rid man of it’s disease that causes violence. They want to rid man of their ability to have free-will. In order to do that they look for the Apple of Eden which is suppose to be a road map to the root of man’s transgression to the world. Finding this…

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Allied

The cost of war, being a spy and falling in love with one. Allied follows two agents who have never met before and are both now set to team up to kill an important and threatening German target. They must form a believable husband and wife relationship to the fool the snoops around them as well as the important high society individuals that are close to their target. After the mission they start…

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Doctor Strange

Mystics, martial arts and just plain ol wonder. Doctor Strange follows a very talented and very self absorbed neurosurgeon who gets into a car accident and ends up damaging his hands in such way that his career as a steady handed neurosurgeon is no longer possible. He goes through his money to undergo several surgeries trying to find solutions to make his hands strong again but it ends to no…

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The Accountant

Smart, engaging and just plain cool to look at. The Accountant is about a man named Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) who has a form of autism that makes it to where he likes to focus on one thing and has issues leaving a task incomplete. Growing up he and his brother were part of a family that moved around because of his army dad. After their mom quit the family, the father was left to raise both…

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Hacksaw Ridge

WAR! hugh! What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING! Say it again yall! Hacksaw Ridge is a graphic, heart wrenching and compelling story that follows Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who grows up in a household where his father served in the war and came back changed. He is more aggressive, more heartless, shows signs of losing his mind and at times shows that he wants to end it all. Desmond sees…

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Sully

Nothing like going with your gut to do something unprecedented and finding out you were right after all the possible negative blow-back headed your way. Sully is a story about a seasoned pilot named Chelsey Sullenberger (Tom hanks) who after just taking off and flying a few miles away from the airport experienced birds hitting the plane and crashing into the engines causing it to no longer…

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When the Bough Breaks 2016 Not to be confused with the 1994 title with Martin Sheen and Ally Walker. This is a thrill ride that makes you question what you would do if you had a psycho growing your baby.

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Batman v Superman Ultimate Edition review. (Spoilers)

Batman v Superman Ultimate Edition review. (Spoilers)

Batman v Superman roared into theaters back in March amidst tremendous hype and fanfare. For the first time that I could remember, a movie studio was already promoting a longer R rated version of the film to come on Blu-ray before the film even hit the theaters. That was a bad sign. Unfortunately the product fell well below the anticipation and left fans frustrated and disappointed. The film felt…

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I Am Not Ashamed

I Am Not Ashamed

The 1998-1999 events of Columbine highschool viewed through the eyes of a girl named Rachel. Rachel is a God fearing young girl who is searching for a way to truly express her new found desire to serve Christ and make a difference in this dark world. She goes through the typical things of a teenager by faces wavering doubts and peer pressure. As she goes through this journey certain individuals…

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Superman in the DCTV Universe a bad thing?

Superman in the DCTV Universe a bad thing?

Several months back it was confirmed that Superman himself will appear in the flesh on Supergirl in season 2. He had previously been acknowledged as being around but only shown as a blur or his red boots in the background. His interactions with Supergirl were limited to instant messages on her computer. This was ok with me. Now Supergirl is moving to the CW and eventually will mix in with the…

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Suicide Squad review

Suicide Squad is the latest film in the DC Extended Universe. Coming off of the bad response to Batman v Superman, DC needed a win to keep fans engaged for the next chapter with Wonder Woman and Justice League. The reviews from the critics have been disheartening but I really wanted to see the movie for myself to make up my own opinion. I loved the movie! First, I will get the main issue out of…

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Task Force X (Suicide Squad) The long awaited Suicide Squad is finally here. The questions will finally get answered concerning DC being capable of having comedy in their movies. 

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Nerve

Are you a watcher or are you a player? An open sourced video recorded and Internet watched dare game called Nerve is now the new craze with teenagers. In Nerve you have a choice on whether to be a watcher or a player. To sign up and play you must use your fingerprint and from that it pulls all your info from your social media accounts to make you a profile. Players are the only ones who can…

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Batman The Killing Joke Those who have read Batman: The Killing Joke will see an extra part of this story that was not in the graphic novel which shows the other relationship that Batman and Batgirl had.