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Title: The Beekeeper Tagline: Expose the corruption. Protect the hive. Genre: Action, Thriller Director: David Ayer Cast: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons, Taylor James, Phylicia Rashād, Jemma Redgrave, Minnie Driver, Sophia Feliciano...

Anyone else binge all 8 episodes of season one of "Jupiter's Legacy" yet? (I did a search and did not find an existing thread for this new show, but if there is an existing thread, please merge. Thanks)

Title: Good Boys Tagline: How F'd Can One Day Get? Genre: Comedy Director: Gene Stupnitsky Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Molly Gordon, Will Forte, Retta, LilRel Howery, Millie Davis, Midori Francis, Enid-Raye Adams, Brady Noon, Chance Hurstfield, Keith L. Williams, Vanessa Przada, Josh...

Title: The Wandering Earth Genre: Science Fiction Director: Frant Gwo Cast: Wu Jing, Li Guangjie, Chuxiao Qu, Ng Man-Tat, Jin Mai Jaho, Qu Jingjing, Mike Sui, Arkady Sharogradsky, Lei Jiayin, Guo Jingfei, Zhang Yi-Chi, Hongchen Li, Zhigang Jiang, Liu Cixin, Hao Ning, Wang Zhi, Lu Yang...

... that was 6.5 years ago, but after scouring pre-built configurations, I could never find something that hit all the right notes for me, so I ended up diving back into PC component research and finally pulled the trigger on ordering stuff for the next PC after all. And hopefully most of the...

Title: Red Sparrow (2018) Tagline: Seduce. Deceive. Repeat. Genre: Mystery, Thriller Director: Francis Lawrence Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson, Mary-Louise Parker, Bill Camp, Douglas...

Title: Peter Rabbit (2018) Tagline: Who said the countryside was peaceful? Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family Director: Will Gluck Cast: James Corden, Rose Byrne, Margot Robbie, Sam Neill, Domhnall Gleeson, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki, Sia, Felix Williamson, Fayssal Bazzi, Ewen...

Title: Call Me by Your Name (2017) Tagline: Is it better to speak or die? Genre: Romance, Drama Director: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois, Vanda Capriolo, Antonio Rimoldi, Elena Bucci, Marco...

A coming-of-age tale featuring Saoirse Ronan as Ladybird in her senior year in high school. Written and directed by Greta Gerwig, paced well and feels like an authentic indie film with many shades of gray for characterizations of the main characters.

Allison Janney is my front-runner for best supporting actress at the Oscars this year for her work in this film as the mother of Tonya Harding. So, the film has a playful nature in how it tells the tale of Tonya Harding, from her childhood years to her Olympic skating years, and all the way, of...

Darkest Hour - Gary Oldman is a shoo-in for a best actor Oscar nomination for his performance as Winston Churchill as England's participation in WWII in 1940 looms large... The film did feel like the opening act of a bigger story. Heh. (Here's a thread for "Darkest Hour" as some of the...

So, I finally took the 4k plunge since prices are so low for 4K UHD TV sets, and even 4K UHD Blu-ray players, but realized that I needed to retired a lot of old pieces of HT gear just collecting dust over the decade or two. Yep, my house has been a museum for old out-dated HT gear nowadays, and...

The 8th installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, Fate of the Furious, pretty much delivers on the checklist of most of the Fast/Furious films: fast cars, family dynamics, teammate insults, intense rival animosity, hot car scenery, and ridiculous physics-defying action sequences. Plot...

I'm not really sure what I watched, it was so... foreign in the telling of the story of a legend pertaining to the Great Wall of China that is just fantastical enough to make you scratch your head. But it was directed by Zhang Yimou, so I checked it out. It's kinda like the usual medieval...

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This was simply terrible, worse than watching paint dry on the big screen. The film plods and lumbers along with no plot progression of note, and only sprinkles in the abusive kinky side of Christian'srelationship with Anastasia, who doesn't appear to have learned anything from the first movie...

This artfully shot coming of age film featuring a black character, Chiron, at 3 points in his life, first as a child, second as a teenager, and lastly as a young man struggling to find his place in a world that otherwise expects specific life choices given his circumstances. Director Barry...

Well, Kate Beckinsale is back for another installment of the Underworld franchise. All I can say is that when your films are reminding me of story beats from the "Twilight" franchise, it's probably time to put a fork in it. LOL! I give it 2 stars, or a grade of C.

Paul Verhoeven is back with "Elle", mostly a psychological drama that kicks off with a middle-aged woman, Elle (Isabella Huppert) in the midst of being assaulted (phyisically and sexually) in her own home by a masked man. Then the story peels away the layers of this woman with details from her...

This summer, I barely watch anything on TV anymore with an attentive eye. What happened? I still need to catch up on the last 3 episodes of Preacher, but it's not really grabbing my attention after the first 3 episodes. SYTYCD is a pale shadow of its former self (don't show us kids crying...

Not really a fan of the actor playing the brother to Zac Efron's character, so he almost always manages to get on my nerves, so I'm a fan of Anna Kendrick, so it was a wash. As a comedy, it was funny in spots, maybe I think they gave away too many laughs in the trailers, but they withheld a few...

If you're a fan of the TMNT from the 1980s and 1990s, you'll probably enjoy the followup from the current cinematic incarnation of the TMNT, featuring turtle comraderie, silly jokes, and lots of CGI action sequences as the fate of the world hangs in the balance with Shredder on the loose, and...

It's finally back, and it's another edition of Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty. Not a terrible cast. At least 4-5 cute female contestants too. Still not sure why they didn't punt Allecia/Alichia/Alicia/Alesha/Alecia to the curb. LOL!

Oscar-bait-ish (or simply disappointing) movies I ended up not really liking: Joy Hateful Eight In The Heart of The Sea Carol Tomorrowland Crimson Peak Aloha Steve Jobs Chappie Added: Trainwreck Spectre

Not sure if it's much of a deal in light of the B&N Criterion BD sales, but Best Buy has over 300 Criterion BD titles up for grabs at roughly $20 a pop (unless it's some souped-up special edition that would be priced higher, but still sold at a discounted price during this sale)...

Based on the real life story that inspired Melville's "Moby Dick", this film tells of the Essex, the ship with a crew looking for whale oil in the seas in 1820. The seafaring scenes are most paint-by-numbers, director Ron Howard does merely a yeoman's job highlighting the harrowing...

Just wondering if folks here are looking to toss in the towel on dSLRs and going with the lighter-weight mirrorless camera bodies/systems within the next 5 years. I don't know, but probably not for me. To me, it's not as much about the weight of the mirrorless system/ecosystem, it's more...

Anyone watching "Humans" on AMC (I think it's produced overseas in the UK)? While it follows similar tropes of sci-fi stories of robots (synths) as servants in human form in the not-so-distant future, there's a small group of these "synths" who appear to have a higher form of AI impacting...

"Pixels" is pretty much aimed at the people who grew up playing video games at the arcade or pizza joints in the 1980s. Everything in this film requires the viewer to take it with a huge grain of salt, and I was okay with that. The marketing of the film is pretty solid in terms of setting...

... and where did the time go? I still have somewhat entertaining memories from my high school days, though I can barely remember what I had for lunch 3 days ago. Anyhoo, it was good to see my classmates again, some haven't aged much at all. I got fat over the decades, though. :D