Dear Evan Hansen

Evan Hansen is an anxious, isolated high-school student who's aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social media age. He soon embarks on a journey of self-discovery when a letter he wrote for a writing exercise falls into the hands of a grieving couple whose son took his own life.

Few musicals have ever owned my heart as much as this one did.  I have been waiting for this movie for years and heard all bad reviews - which I expected.  I very much enjoyed the movie though.  I don't care that Ben Platt is too old to play a high schooler.  He is Evan Hansen.  I don't care that he is more of the villain in this story to the common eye.  I totally understand that those who are not as aware of mental health issues or don't have anxiety or don't have depression not getting this but I'm not one of those people.  I identify with so much of this on so many levels and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

If you saw the musical and are a fan - go see the movie.  It is not as good.  How could it be?  But I still found it to be a great watch.  

The Eyes Of Tammy Faye

In the 1970s, Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband, Jim, rise from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park. Tammy Faye becomes legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, financial improprieties, scheming rivals and a scandal soon threaten to topple their carefully constructed empire.

Kind of torn on this movie.  It was a really good biopic movie with great performances by all the actors involved.   Like end of year award nomination worthy performances.  My problem is that I can't stand the people the movie was about and hate that they continue to get attention years later because of a movie like this.  Like this clowns were essentially a pretend religious version of the Kardashians from years ago.  They are complete trash that just wanted all the attention in the world on them and I hate the amount they were given and that they are still getting it today because of this biopic.  

Like I said before - it is a good movie with great performances.  I just can't stand the morons that the movie was about so I can't fully recommend more people giving them undeserved attention.  

Cry Macho

A onetime rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mum. Crossing rural Mexico on their back way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.

What in the blue hell was the point of this movie?   Like seriously one of the more pointless movies I have watched in a long time.  I have been saying for years that Clint Eastwood is one of the weirdest directors in Hollywood because for every movie that he makes that is an amazing award contender and basically one of the best movies to come out that year he will turn around and make one of these.  Like his name being plastered on it "directed by Clint Eastwood" either means the movie will be amazing or a giant turd.  This is definitely in the turd pile.  I will never understand how he can flip flop as a director like that.

No I would not recommend anyone bothering with this movie.  It is a complete waste of time and there was no reason for millions of dollars to be spent making something so pointless.

Malignant

Paralyzed by fear from shocking visions, a woman's torment worsens as she discovers her waking dreams are terrifying realities.

This movie was a very crazy watch because it changed up like three times.  For the first third you are really pulled in and think you are watching some kind of a victim of abuse kind of a psychological thriller.  For the second third you are like what the hell is going on but not in a way that you want to turn it off.  And then the big swerve at the end is like WHAT and you are completely hooked even though you know how over the top and silly it pretty much is.  Can't say much more without spoiling it.

I would definitely recommend people checking this out.  It's very gory at times so be warned but really was an enjoyable watch and one of my more favorite ones from James Wan's body of work at this point.

Copshop

Screaming through the Nevada desert in a bullet-ridden car, wily con artist Teddy Murretto hatches a plan to hide out from lethal assassin Bob Viddick. He punches rookie officer Valerie Young to get himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station. However, jail can't protect Murretto for long as Viddick schemes his own way into detention, biding his time in a nearby cell until he can complete his mission.

This movie is a throwback testosterone fest.  Every thing about it seemed like a late 80s/early 90s guys being tough and above the law kind of movie.  Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo were perfectly cast in this and both did a great job of playing their parts.  This movie was just a fun ride where you can turn off your brain and enjoy the over the top machismo oozing from the movie.

I would definitely recommend people who are into old school action movies to check this out.  If you like watching tough guys go against each other than this is pretty much a great watch.  

The Card Counter

William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.

This movie was exactly what I was afraid it would be when seeing the trailer.   It wanted to be a good and enjoyable, well done movie.  But it went all for style and not too much substance.   Like all effort was put into the movie looking good instead of actually being good.  It wasn't awful by any means.  It just wasn't really that good either.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone bothering with this.  Especially not a trip to theaters or spending any money on it.  

Queenpins

A frustrated suburban housewife and her best friend hatch an illegal coupon-club scheme that scams millions from corporations and delivers deals to legions of fellow coupon clippers. Hot on their trail is an unlikely duo -- a hapless loss-prevention officer and a determined U.S. postal inspector -- both looking to end their criminal enterprise.

This movie is a perfect example of having little to no expectations for a movie helping to possibly enjoy it more.  I put this on because it showed up online and fully expected it to gradually become background noise while I did everything.  But the movie ended up completely keeping my attention.  I liked the progression of the whole the two leads dug themselves into, I really liked the part that Paul Walker Hauser played and he had me pissing myself from laughing at times, and I loved him and Vince Vaughn working together.  Just the scenes with the two of them and their characters evolving makes this movie worth watching.

Never in a million years did I expect to be suggesting people watch this movie.   It was a lot of very simple fun with great laughs throughout.  

Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings

Martial-arts master Shang-Chi confronts the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Marvel simply does not fail.  I knew nothing about Shang Chi or the ten rings going in.  It was never in any of the comics I read as a kid and it didn't matter at all.  They did a great job of telling the origin story, a great job of building up new characters, had one of the craziest connections ever to the rest of the MCU, had amazing fight scenes and action and introduced us to a whole other world that can now be revisited.  The comparisons to Black Panther are very justified and I can't wait to see more of these characters in future movies.

I would absolutely recommend people checking this movie out.  It was a great watch and another awesome entry/character added to the MCU.