An Arthouse Zombie flick. [easyazon_link identifier=”B00XBTG85S” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Maggie[/easyazon_link] sees Arnold Schwarzenegger play the father of a girl who was recently bitten by a zombie. In a role that would have been better played by Dwight Yoakam or Billy Bob Thornton, Aronald plays a middle American redneck farmer doing his best to deal with a world that is falling apart around him. People are burning their crops in an effort to stop the spread of something. People bitten by zombie take a while to Turn and when they do, they are taken to concentration camps. But before they are rounded up,…
Author: Jon Herrera
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Self/Less
When once isn’t enough. [easyazon_link identifier=”B01169SSOI” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Self/Less[/easyazon_link] tells the tale of a rich man who is dying. Someone slips him a business card with a note that says they can help you. He decides to take a chance and call them. He finds out that for a mere 250 million, he can get a new body. For a rich real estate developer, he doesn’t seem to be bothered that this high tech lab that’s going to give me a brain transplant looks a lot like BioSphere 2. But hey, they have those plastic strip curtain things on all the…
The One I Love
Stop reading. Go watch The One I Love Best seen without any clues. [easyazon_link identifier=”B00MB7KXPM” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]The One I Love[/easyazon_link] is directed by Charlie McDowell and stars Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss with a small part played by Ted Danson. And that’s it for the cast. The bulk of the film is about a couple taking a weekend away to try and work on their problems. We open up with Ted Danson going through the motions of being a couple’s therapist. It isn’t going well. So he gives them a card and tells them to take the weekend. They drive…
Chappie
A Robot With a Heart. Spoilers [easyazon_link identifier=”B00ZRES1NC” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Chappie[/easyazon_link] is set in the distance future of 2016, where autonomous humanoid robots have replaced flesh and blood law enforcement. Our hero is severely injured while doing his job and becomes part of an experiment. Oh wait, that’s Robocop. Chappie lifts a lot of it’s plot from Robocop and lifts a lot of it’s emotional elements from District 9. We have a poor innocent robot who we are told is a new born. What makes these scenes hard to watch is how evil and heartless everyone he meets is. From his…
Nightcrawler
Psycho with a video camera. [easyazon_link identifier=”B00Q3DMJZW” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Nightcrawler[/easyazon_link] is the story a psychopath who takes up the life of a freelance videographer. He is extremely polite and has a very high opinion of himself and his skills. However, he has virtually no feelings, no empathy, no interest in other people, except for how they can help him get ahead. Jake Gyllenhaal does a good job of playing our clearly insane hero. Bill Paxton has a small role as a rival freelancer. The rest of the cast does a good job, but they are not people whose faces rang a…
Chef
[easyazon_link identifier=”B00KQTHKQC” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Chef[/easyazon_link] is the story of a man who was once a great cook, but he’s now fallen into a rut. His Boss runs a successful restaurant that has used the same Menu for ten years. Our hero, Carl, wants to try something new and different. He wants to go all [easyazon_link identifier=”0811873471″ locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Top Chef[/easyazon_link] on a food blogger, but the Boss insists that he stick with the tried and true. Even when the restaurant is filled with people from a Twitter war, the Boss still thinks they are there because they want the same old boring…
Mission Impossible:Rogue Nation
Tom Cruise hangs off the side of a military cargo plane during the opening scene. It is a pretty cool bit of business, but it has nothing to do with the rest of [easyazon_link identifier=”B012XYP82U” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Mission Impossible:Rogue Nation[/easyazon_link]. That makes it the perfect clip for a Trailer. It looks cool and spoils nothing. Are you listening everyone else who makes movie Trailers???? I like Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg. I like J.J. Abrams. I like things blowing up and motorcycles. And then there’s a hot British chick. The story is pretty standard issue. Tom and Company have problems and…
Frank
He never takes the mask off. [easyazon_link identifier=”B00NBNY7P2″ locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Frank[/easyazon_link] is the story of man who wants to be a Social Media Rockstar and a Music Rockstar. One night he watches as a music group’s keyboard man tries to kill himself. He says, hey, I play keyboard. And just like that he joins the band. He notices that something is a bit off. The band’s lead singer, Frank, wears a large papier-mache mask at all times. Our hero thinks he is going to play a gig for the weekend, but soon discovers that he is to work on an album.…
Vicious
Ash, do you know our friend Violet? [easyazon_link identifier=”B00JJRLG7G” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Vicious[/easyazon_link] is a BritCom about an older gay couple and the small circle of friends that always seem to be dropping by unannounced. Freddie and Stuart are old school snobs who talk down to everyone they met. At the same time, they never have enough money. They get by on the meager wages Freddie earns from his rare acting jobs. Like all great Bristih comedies, there are a few running gags. One such gag in Season 1 saw Stuart introducing Ash to Violet every episode. Ash is the ‘normal’ person…
Mr Holmes
The case is afoot. In 1947 we find a 93 year old Sherlock Holmes living in Sussex caring for his bees. He’s just back from Japan and he has a few squabbles with his housekeeper. He also spends a bit of time with her son, caring for his bees and trying to recall the details of his last cast some thirty years in the past. As [easyazon_link identifier=”B014PIQYIO” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Mr Holmes[/easyazon_link] opens, easily the most shocking element comes during the opening credits, this is a Miramax film. I would have been no more surprised to see the RKO Radio Pictures…