Sunday, November 17, 2024

The Forever Purge (2021): Movie Review

                                                                             


Jim's Review

A family living a quiet life on a ranch get involved in the Forever Purge and the consequences behind it reveal themselves.

6 out of 10 stars

Movie plot
Adela and her husband, Juan, live in Texas, where he works as a ranch hand for the wealthy Tucker family. Juan impresses the Tucker patriarch, Caleb, but that fuels the jealous anger of his son, Dylan. On the morning after the Purge, a masked gang of killers attacks the Tuckers, forcing both families to band together and fight back as the country spirals into chaos.





The First Purge (2018): Movie Review

                                                                         



Jim's Review

First Purge begins in a community that already has issues.

6 out of 10 stars


Movie plot
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.






                   

Predator A Memoir A Movie An Obsession : Book Review

                                                                            


Jim's Review

Ander Monson has watch Predator movie 146 and he shares some interesting insights on the movie

10 out of 10 stars

About book
In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, white, male American culture. Between scenes, Monson delves deeply into his adolescence in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Riyadh, his role as a father and the loss of his own mother, and his friendships with men bound by the troubled camaraderie depicted in action and sci-fi blockbusters. Along with excursions into the conflicted pleasures of cosplay and first-person shooters, he imagines himself beside the poet and memoirist Paul Monette, who wrote the novelization of the movie while his partner was dying of AIDS.

A sincere and playful book that lovingly dissects the film, Predator also offers questions and critiques of masculinity, fandom, and their interrelation with acts of mass violence. In a stirring reversal, one chapter exposes Monson through the Predator’s heat-seeking vision, asking him, “What do you know about the workings of the hidden world?” As Monson brings us into the brilliant depths of the film and its universe, the hunt begins.





Beverly Hills Cop Axel Foley (2024); Movie Reviews

                                                                           


Jim's Review

Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back to help his daughter Jane (Taylor Paige) and of course John Taggart and Billy Rosewood get involved.

7 out of 10 stars

Movie Plot
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter's life is threatened, and works with old pals John Taggart and Billy Rosewood to uncover a conspiracy.






The Quiet Place Day One (2024): Movie Review

                                                                            


Jim's Review

Samira (Lupita Amondi Nyong'o) and friend Eric (Joseph Quinn) are on a journey of survival and redemption.

8 out of 10 stars


Movie plot:
When New York City comes under attack from an alien invasion, a woman and other survivors try to find a way to safety. They soon learn that they must remain absolutely silent as the mysterious creatures are drawn to the slightest sound.



The Boys season 4 (2024) : Movie Review

                                                                            


Jim's Review

The Supes are back dealing with politics and team issues and of course lots of bloody scenes!


7 out of 10 stars


Movie plot
Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? When it's the powerless against the super powerful, the Boys head out on a heroic quest to expose the truth about the Seven and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up their dirty secrets. Based on the comic book series of the same name.





Alien Romulus (2024): Movie Review

                                                                             


Jim's Review

Aliens are back but this time the crew takes to learn and study them and beat them with knowledge and of course guns!

9.5 out of 10 stars

Movie plot:

Space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station.