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   “What did I just watch?” Those were the first words out of my mouth after seeing The Dead Don’t Die. Knowing nothing about the director and only seeing the great cast and what seemed to be a pretty funny trailer, I was going into this movie pretty blind, but also excited. A seemingly zombie comedy movie with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Selena Gomez, Tom Waits and more? This seemed perfect. While it wasn’t perfect, it was still pretty interesting…and strange.    As I said, The Dead Don’t Die stars Bill Murray and Adam Driver as Cliff Robertson and Ronnie Peterson, two police officers in the small town of Centerville. Strange things start occurring one day such as electronics not working, the sun staying up for various times, clocks stop and animals start acting strangely. This is apparently caused by the polar fracking that has been happening.   One of the other side effects of this ends up being zombies. Cliff and Ronnie try their best to

They Should Have Called It Grey So after leaving X-Men: Dark Phoenix tonight, the first thing I said was 'I like it.' Then I took a second to really think in what I’d just seen and I realized- no. No I did not. Let’s start by talking about what I liked. The cinematography and special effects were excellent. I never had a moment where I thought, 'well that looks awful.' I did laugh at the way the aliens ran at the end, but that’s a lesser issue. Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers was the best Scott I’ve seen so far. Emoting and getting the scene across in your face is difficult when your eyes are covered, but I think Sheridan made good use of the rest of his facial features and his body language to really sell the character in each scene. Now onto the longer list. Dark Phoenix is a confused and cliché script trying to force years of character development and world building into an hour and fifty minutes- which is short by most movie standards, but to cry and c

   X-Men….oh X-men…you tried. You really did. At least I assume you tried.   Sometimes I have to really wonder though. To simply cut to the chase with this one, is X-Men: Dark Phoenix the worst X-men movie of all time? No. Not even close.   Is it a good movie though? Still no. It certainly isn't the bang Fox was probably wanting this series to end on either.   I think the most accurate way to describe this movie is when a parent goes to their child and says “I’m not mad.   I'm just disappointed.”    Dark Phoenix is another telling of the Phoenix saga with, sadly, some of the same mistakes as Last Stand and with new ones thrown in. It deals with Jean Grey (played by Sophie Turner), coming into contact with a solar flare while the X-men are dealing with a rescue mission in space.   The supposed flare should have killed her but instead it appears she absorbs it. While back on Earth, Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan) tells her that because of her coming out of that, the other kid

   Oh boy! Me trying to see Aladdin has been an adventure. I originally planned on waiting a while to see it. Didn’t want to deal with a bunch of children, plus was unsure how it would be. As it drew closer though, I decided to check out the soundtrack on YouTube. To my surprise, I was actually really liking the remakes of the songs, and the more I listened, the more I wanted to see the movie. I decided to give in and go opening night. Naturally I have plans and end up not going. A few days later, I’m out getting dinner and decide that this was the day. I go online and go to book my tickets, ends up being sold out. Godzilla happens so I wait a little more, then finally I decide that I have to go to the mall anyway, I could see either Aladdin or Brightburn. I go, and of course, Brightburn doesn’t play for another 2 hours and Aladdin isn’t showing at all. I get fed up and drive about 20 minutes to a different theater to go see this, which thankfully did work out.    This stor

   So this will be on the shorter side of things, but I have thoughts after seeing Detective Pikachu. Unfortunately though, some are a bit spoilery and I really didn’t want to do a full spoiler filled review just for these. Instead I decided to do a little short side thing, bringing up a few questions/ thoughts I have from the movie. So let’s get started    First I have to wonder, what happened to the giant Torterra now that this movie is over with? These things were shown to be huge, and around the size of mountains. Do they just get put in a medically induced coma? Are we going to get Torterra vs Godzilla? Just how far away from civilization are they even, because that seems pretty dangerous if they ever get out. Just like the Greninja. These things were enhanced and were out to kill. What happens with them now? I wonder if they will get fixed and brought back to normal somehow or if that is even possible.    Next, Mewtwo left Kanto twenty years ago, if I remember corre

Last w eek I went back and rewatched 2014's Godzilla. While I didn't see it as the greatest Godzilla movie,   I also couldn't see why it didn't get more love. The design was pretty good, the acting was decent enough,   the MUTO were pretty interesting and the action was pretty good as well. Plus I enjoyed the way Godzilla was teased before us getting the reveal.   Did it have its flaws though? Of course.   The human side of things wasn’t terribly interesting, and more of the big guy himself would've been nice.       As it got closer and closer in time for me to see the movie, I kept seeing negative reviews. Needless to say, I was worried that this was going to be a step back. I kept my faith though and made my way to the theater. I can honestly say, within the 1 st 15 minutes of the film, I could already tell this would be better. Let me just say, it most certainly was.    Godzilla: King of the Monsters takes everything good and bad from the fir