Thursday, August 29, 2019

The General' s Daughter (1999)

Upon announcing the retirement of a General, his daughter is mysteriously murdered. The investigating detective thinks there is a cover-up.

I give this movie a 4 out of 5.

Starring John Travolta (Battlefield Earth, Hairspray, Face/Off, Get Shorty) as Paul Brenner, Madeleine Stowe (Twelve Monkeys, Short Cuts, The Last of the Mohicans, Soundtrack) as Sara Sunhill, James Cromwell (The Green Mile, L.A. Confidential, Babe, Big Hero 6) as General Campbell, Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, Leverage, The Good Shepherd, Beautiful Girls) as Colonel Kent, Leslie Stefanson (The Hunted, Unbreakable, As Good as It Gets, Glass) as Elisabeth Campbell, the late Daniel von Bargen [1950-2015] (RoboCop 3, The Postman, Super Troopers, The Faculty) as Chief Yardley, Clarence Williams III (Reindeer Games, Half Baked, Lee Daniel' s The Butler, Snowbird) as Colonel Fowler, James Woods (Vampires, Hercules, The Virgin Suicides, Videodrome) as Colonel Moore, Peter Weireter (Get Smart, Southland Tales, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Hostage) as Belling, Mark Boone Junior (Memento, Batman Begins, 30 Days of Night, 2 Fast 2 Furious) as Elkins, John Beasley (The Sum of All Fears, The Purge: Anarchy, Walking Tall, Rudy) as Colonel Slesinger, Boyd Kestner (Hannibal, G.I. Jane, The Running Man, Hell Girl) as Captain Elby, Brad Beyer (42, Jericho, Cop Land, High & Tight) as Bransford, John Benjamin Hickey (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Flags of our Fathers, Flightplan, The Taking of Pelham 123) as Captain Goodson and the late Rick Dial [1955-2011] (Sling Blade, Crazy Heart, Bernie, Crackerjack) as Cal Sievers.





Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Toy Story 4 (2019)

In this installment, a new toy named forky joins Woody and the other toys. But he has to go and rescue him when he gets lost while on a family vacation. He runs into old friends while making new ones, and decides to make some life decisions.

Did anyone else feel creepy  by the dolls in suits? lol

I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.

Starring Tom Hanks (Toy Story movies, Cast Away, Big, Forrest Gump) as Woody (voice), Tim Allen (Toy Story movies, Home Improvements, Galaxy Quest, The Santa Clause movies) as Buzz Lightyear (voice), Annie Potts (Ghostbusters movies, Pretty in Pink, Designing Women, Paging Dr. Freed) as Bo Peep (voice), Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Veep, American Ultra, Stranger Than Fiction) as Forky (voice), Keegan-Michael Key (Keanu, The Predator, Tomorrowland, Let' s Be Cops) as Ducky (voice), Madeleine McGraw (American Sniper, Outcast, Bones, A Christmas Wish) as Bonnie (voice), Christina Hendricks (Ginger & Rosa, The Neon Demon, Mad Men, Lost River) as Gabby Gabbt (voice), Jordan Peele (Get Out, Keanu, Us, Abruptio) as Bunny (voice), Keanu Reeves (The Matrix movies, Speed, Point Break, Rain) as Duke Caboom (voice), Ally Maki (Wrecked, Cloak & Dagger, 5 Years Apart, Dear White People) as Giggle McDimples (voice), Jay Hernandez (Hostel, Takers, Suicide Squad, Friday Night Lights) as Bonnie' s Dad (voice), Lori Alan (Inside Out, Family Guy, A.P. Bio, Do the Voice) as Bonnie' s Mom (voice), Joan Cusack (In & Out, Working Girl, Let It Snow, Klaus) as Jessie (voice), Bonnie Hunt (Jumanji, Cheaper by the Dozen movies, Return to Me, The Green Mile) as Dolly (voice) and Kristen Schaal (Gravity Falls, Norbit, The Muppets, My Spy) as Trixie (voice).








Sunday, August 25, 2019

Escape Pan: The Extractors (2019)

A prison security expert is hired to save the daughter of an Asian business mogul. But then his girlfriend is also kidnapped.

I give this movie a 4 out of 5.

Starring Sylvestor Stallone (Rocky movies, Escape Plan movies, Creed movies, Scarpa) as Ray Breslin, former wrestler Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Riddick, Blade Runner 2049, The Killer's  Game) as Trent DeRosa, musical artist 50 Cent (Get Rich or Die Tryin', Escape Plan movies, Power, Spy) as Hush, Jin Zhang (The Grandmaster, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Ip Man 3, Hero) as Shen, Harry Shum Jr. (Crazy Rich Asians, Shadowhunters, Glee, Step Up 2: The Streets) as Bao, Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Idle Hands, Casper, Now and Then) as Lester Clark Jr., Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine, Sin City, White Chicks, The Spirit) as Abigail Ross, Lydia Hull (Broken City, Van Wilder: Party Liason, Escape Plan movies, The Frozen Ground) as Jules, Melise (The Shannara Chronicles, The Flash, Casual, Invincible) as Daya Zhag, Russell Wong (Romeo Must Die, New Jack City, True Crime: Streets of LA, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer) as Wu Zhang, Daniel Bernhardt (Atomic Blonde, John Wick, The Matrix Reloaded, Altered Carbon) as Silva, Jeff Chase (The Domestics, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Mechanic, Arkansas) as Frankie, Rob de Groot (Avengers movies, Hotel Artemis, Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Penoza) as Ralf, Holland Herzfeld (Reach Me, The Sweet Spot) as Sonny and Tyler Jon Olson (Gotti, The Big Bang Theory, Jarhead, Force of Nature) as Boone.








US (2019)

A family goes on a beach getaway, but they discover 4 people that look just like them. These people terrorized the family. This movie has a similar feel to the movie Get Out.

I give this movie a 4 out of 5.

Starring Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, Black Panther, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The Jungle Book) as Adelaide Wilson/ Red, Winston Duke (Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Person of Interest, Heroine) as Gabe Wilson/ Abraham, Elisabeth Moss (The One I Love, The Handmaid' s Tale, Queen of Earth; Girl, Interupted) as Kitty Tyler/ Dahlia, Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric' s series, The Comedy, Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule, Moonbase 8) as Josh Tyler/ Tex, Shahadi Wright Joseph (The Lion King, Hairspray Live!, Dream Years) as Zora Wilson/ Umbrae, Evan Alex (Kidding, Mani, Eight, Black Boy Joy) as Jason Wilson/ Pluto, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman, The Get Down, Candyman, All Day and a Night) as Russel Thomas/ Weyland, Anna Diop (Titans, 24: Legacy, Quantico, Something About Her) as Rayne Thomas/ Eartha, Cali Sheldon (Friends, Rougarou, Novel Romance, Maxwell) as Becca Tyler/ Io, Noelle Sheldon (Friends, Rougarou, Life, Novel Romance) as Linsey Tyler/ Nix, introducing Madison Curry as Young Adelaide Wilson/ Young Red, introducing Ashley McKoy as Teenage Adelaide Wilson/ Teenage Red, Napiera Groves (Airborne, How I Met Your Mother, As the World Turns, Sins of the Father) as Dr. Foster, Lon Gowan (SEAL Team, 9-1-1, American Horror Story, Agent II) as Don and introducing Alan Frazier (Nobodies) as Alan/ Jeremiah.







Lakeview Terrace (2008)

A veteran cop does not take lightly when an interracial couple move into the home next door. He starts secretly spying on them and terrorizing them. He hopes they will break up and move away.

I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight, Snakes on a Plane, Jackie Brown) as Abel Turner, Patrick Wilson (The Phantom of the Opera, Hard Candy, Insidious, Watchmen) as Chris Mattson, Kerry Washington (Django Unchained, Scandal, Save the Last Dance, The Last King of Scotland) as Lisa Mattson, the late Ron Glass [1945-2016] (Serenity, Barney Miller, Firefly, Ancient Space) as Harold Perreau, Justin Chambers (Grey' s Anatomy, The Wedding Planner, The Musketeer, Someone You Know) as Donnie Eaton, Jay Hernandez (Hostel movies, Suicide Squad, Friday Night Lights,  Mangum P.I.) as Javier Villareal, Regine Nehy (Death at the Funeral, Boot Camp, Transfer, Last Night) as Celia Turner, Jaishon Fisher (The Ant Bully, All of Us, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Family Time) as Marcus Turner, Robert Pine (Jobs, Red Eye, CHiPs, Wish Man) as Captain Wentworth, the late Keith Loneker [1971-2017] (Out of Sight, Superbad, Leatherheads, The Vault) as Clarence Darlington, Caleeb Pinkett (After Earth, Men in Black 3, Annie, Selling Time) as Damon Richards, Robert Dahey (Harsh Times, The Invisible Man, Lost, Super Athlete) as Jung Lee Pak, Ho-Jung (Gang Related, My Generation, A Beautiful Life, Stevie D) as Sand Hee Pak, Dallas Raines (The Astronaut Farmer, Pickle and Peanut) as TV Weatherman and Michael Tighe (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Bulletproof Monk, In America, Juke Box Hero) as Manager.









Another Life (TV Series 2019-)

A team of astronauts go on a space mission when strange ships start landing all over earth. They call it the artifact. They find a some strange things and what happens, no one could have predicted.

I give this movie a 3 out of 5.

Starring Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, Riddick, Oculus, Halloween: Resurrection) as Niko Breckinridge (10 episodes, 2019), Samuel Anderson (The History Boys, Witless, The Lady in the Van, Doctor Who) as William (2019-), Blu Hunt (The New Mutants, The Originals, Stumpton, Girl on Girl) as August (2019), A.J. Rivera (Grandfathered, This Is Us, Goliath, Shameless) as Bernie Martinez (2019-), Jake Abel (Love & Mercy, Percy Jackson & Sea of Monsters, Supernatural, Son of the South) as Sasha Harrison (10 Episodes, 2019), Alex Ozerov (The Americans, Natasha, Orphan Black, Cardinal) as Oliver Sokolov (10 Episodes, 2019-), Alexander Eling (Shadowhunters, Heavy, Raising Expectations, Make It Pop) as Javier Alamanzar (10 episodes, 2019-), JayR Tinaco (Always Be My Maybe, Rake, The Wake, Drown) as Zayn Petrossian (10 episodes, 2019-), Helen King (Ranger Rob, Slasher, Rusty Rivets, Black Coffee) as Salvare/ (10 episodes, 2019-), Justin Chatwin (Dragonball Evolution, War of the Worlds, The Invisible, Shameless) as Erik Wallace (9 episodes, 2019-), Elizabeth Faith Ludlow (Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.2, The Walking Dead) as Cas Isakovic (9 episodes, 2019-), Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions, Hellboy movies, The Sweetes Thing, The Great Illusion) as Harper Glass (9 episodes, 2019-), Lina Renna (The Edge of Seventeen, The 100; Mi Madre, My Father; Noelle) as Jana Breckinridge-Wallace (8 episodes, 2019-), Barbara Williams (White House Down, Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II, Flashfoward, Out of Touch) as General Blair Dubois (8 episodes, 2019-), Jessica Camacho (The Flash, Taken, Last Resort, All Rise) as Michelle Vargas (6 episodes, 2019-) and Parveen Dosanjh (Arrow, Supergirl, Travelers, Colony) as Nani Singh (6 episodes, 2019-).








 

Friday, August 16, 2019

Contact (1997)

A scientist comes across a broadcast message sent from an intelligent life form. Her and her team discover hidden information in the signal and decipher what it is and have to act quickly.

I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.

Starring Jena Malone (The Hunger Games movies, The Neon Demon, Stardust, Lorelei) as Young Ellie, David Morse (The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker, World War Z, The Virtuoso) as Ted Arroway, Jodi Foster (The Silence of the Lambs, The Brave One, Taxi Driver, Conan) as Eleanor Arroway, Geoffrey Blake (Cast Away, Young Guns, The Last Starfighter, Midway) as Fisher, William Fichtner (Drive Angry, Crash, Armageddon, Black Hawk Down) as Kent, Sami Chester (Born on the Fourth of July, Human Target, Quantum Leap, NYPD Blue) as Vernon, Timothy McNeil (Anything, Small Days, Starship Troopers, A Green Story) as Davio, introducing Laura Elena Surillo as Cantina Woman, Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club, Magic Mike, Killer Joe, Mud) as Palmer Joss, Tom Skerritt (Alien, Top Gun, MASH, Lucky) as David Drumlin, Henry Stroizer (Thirteen Days, Damages, Too Cute!, Sex and the City) as Minister, Max Martini (13 Hours, Captain Phillips, Pacific Rim, The Unit) as Willie, TN host Larry King (Enemy of the State, Chostbusters, Bee Movie, Back to Berling) as Karry King, Thomas Garner (Get Smart, Thor, Little Heroes, Torn) as Ian Broderick and introducing Conroy Chino as KOB-TV Reporter.







Saturday, August 10, 2019

Five Feet Apart (2019)

This movie is about two teens who meet in a hospital, who soon fall in love but must keep away from each other six feet apart. But they try to have a relationship anyway.

I give this movie a 4 out of 5.

Starring Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus, The Edge of Seventeen, Split, After Yang) as Stella, Cole Sprouse (Riverdale, Big Daddy, Friends, I'm in the Band) as Will, Moises Arias (Ender' s Game, The Kings of Summer, Despicable Me 2, Nacho Libre) as Poe, Kimberly Hebert Gregory (Red Hook Summer, Two and a Half Men, Better Call Saul, Mother' s Milk) as Barb, Parminder Nagra (Bend It Like Beckham, ER, The Blacklist, Alcatraz) as Dr. Hamid, Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black, Mystery Men, In the Name of the King, The Medallion) as Meredith, Emily Baldoni (Coherence, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Snapshots) as Julie, Gary Weeks (Instant Family, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Cloak & Dagger, Parks and Recreation) as Tom, Cynthia Evans (Stargirl, Night Nurse, What to Expect When You're Expecting, The Resident) as Erin, introducing Brett Austin Johnson (Swamp Murders) as Jason, Ariana Guerra (Candy Jar, Insatiable, Dumplin', G and I) as Hope, introducing Sophia Bernard as Abby, introducing Evangeline Hill (Out of Blue, Escape) as Young Stella, Ivy Dubreuil (True Detective, Santa Clarita Diet, What She Told Me) as Young Stella and introducing Kristopher Perez as Young Poe.








Pet Sematary (2019)

This is a remake of the original movie.

A Doctor and his family move to a small rural town. They discover a strange burial ground behind there house and realize the power of the soil. Things quickly start to go wrong.

I give this movie a 3.5 out of 5.

Starring Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, Mudbound, Everst, Terminator Genisys) as Louis, Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color, Sun Don' t Shine, The Girlfriend Experience, Get Shorty) as Rachel, John Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun, Cliffhanger, Love Is Strange, Perry Mason) as Jud, Jete Laurence (The Snowman, The Americans, Huntress, Sneaky Pete) as Ellie, introducing Hugo Lavoie as Gage, introducing Lucas Lavoie as Gage, Obsaa Ahmed (The Expanse, Assassin's Creed: Origins, Shoot the Messenger, The Long Dark) as Victor Pascow, introducing Alyssa Brooke Levine as Zelda, Maria Herrera (Double Jeopardy, Trixie, The Commish, The Bold Type) as Marcella, Frank Schorpion (Arrival, Gut Instinct, Stonewall, Glass Houses) as Rachel' s Father, Linda E. Smith (Killer Wave, Prom Wars: Love Is a Battlefield, Camion, The Detectives) as Rachel' s Mother, Sonia Maria Chirila (It Chapter Two, The Detectives, The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom, Reliving Marilyn) as Young Rachel, Naomi Frenette (X-Men movies, Pompeii, The Mortal Instruments, Chaos Walking) as Upset Student (as Naomi Jean), Suzi Stingl (Trick 'r Treat, The Butterfly Effect, Thir13en Ghosts, Monkey Beach) as Norma and introducing Kelly Lee (Montreal Cache) as Nurse Kelly.