After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.
My kids initially objected to seeing this on the basis that it would be "just like Jurassic Park". It's nothing like Jurassic Park.
People are going to call it "Spielbergian" and I get why but it's not really. It doesn't have the usual crowd pleasing "beats", there's no big set pieces and it's not centred on a male experience.
Swap the dinos for zombies and this is a straight-up survival horror.
★★★½
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.
Somewhat eschewed the typical Marvel movie structure/arc, which was good but otherwise offers little that’s new or exciting. Pretty much the only thing that made me think “oh, that’s cool,” was Peter’s “Easter Eggy” t-shirt, which was very sharp. I’d buy that.
★★★½
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
By the end of the opening rescue you know exactly what kind of movie you’re watching. And sometimes I want to watch that kind of movie!
Fun Fact: Carla Gugino (Mom) is 15 years older than Alex Daddario (Daughter)
★★★
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey risks everything to prove that rock 'n' roll can change lives.
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Excellent miniatures work and that ad campaign and branding is just 🔥
Shame about, well, basically everything else 😁
★★
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. An entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm.
Not a BIG fan of the main female character being called a c*nt before we even meet her… but otherwise
★★★★
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Sadly not quite as great as I remember. Certainly a lot less deaths! Bridget Fonda is great, though.
★★★
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.
