Red Sparrow is a classic spy movie.  It is a slow burning, twisty movie about government secrets, secret agents, and double crossing.  This isn’t your Jason Bourne or your Ethan Hunt movies, this is a dirty, gritty movie that requires your to pay attention because you never know who is playing who. After a career-ending injury, a ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where…

      A game night will bring your favorite people together to eat, drink, and play a number of different games.  It is an activity that isn’t about the games at hand, but more about spending time with the friends you care about.  That is exactly what Game Night is.  It is a movie who’s central plot is fun, with a number of different genres and stories thrown in, but a film that focuses on the…

    Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex-Machina, is one of the best science fiction movies of this decade and an incredibly impressive directorial debut.  It is always hard to follow a masterpiece, as there is now a level of expectation that is usually hard to repeat, let alone twice in a row. With Annihilation, Garland shows he’s a real deal director, though fails to capture the originality, intensity, and brilliance of Ex-Machina.  The movie is a visual…

Black Panther is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it is unlike any that they have come out with before.  Unlike most Marvel movies, this is a movie that is it’s own animal (pun?).  Director Ryan Coogler has made something truly special. In the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Prince T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is about to become the King of Wakanda while still doubling as the Black Panther.  His first act as king…

      Dakota Johnson and Dumbface, sorry, Jamie Dornan, are back for the third and final (THANK THE FUCKING LORD!!) film in the Fifty Shades series, Fifty Shades Freed, far and away the worst of the series and in the running for the worst movie of the decade. During the movie, my girlfriend, with whom I saw the movie with, asked me what time it was and I told her the movie had only been going on…

      The Cloverfield Paradox is the third installment in the Cloverfield trilogy, following the found footage monster flick from 2008 and the 2016 claustrophobic thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane. When hearing that there was going to be a third Cloverfield film, my intrigue was through the roof.  The first film is an insane monster movie that puts these alien creatures on Earth.  We don’t know how they got there or why they are there, which is all part of…