Month: March 2018

There’s a very effective horror thriller called “Unsane” that
snuck into theatres Thursday night. Directed by Oscar-winner Steven
Soderbergh. the film stars Claire Foy as a career woman at the end of
her rope because of an awful experience with a stalker. She starts to
act out on dates and makes the mistake of telling a counselor that
she’s recently had suicidal thoughts. Before she knows it, she’s
tricked into voluntarily committing herself to a mental hospital.
That’s bad, but what’s worse is she thinks she sees her stalker
working at the hospital. Is she insane or isn’t she? How does she get
out of this awful predicament?

I wasn’t expecting much from this low-budget horror film,
especially when I heard that the director shot it entirely on his
I-Phone 7. But it’s actually really good. It touches on universal
fears such as being a victim of stalking, being committed to a mental
hospital, and having no one believe your cries of distress. The
acting is solid, the script is believable, and shooting it on an
I-Phone produces a you-are-there feeling that a bigger camera would
not. It is well-researched and teaches valuable lessons like: 1.
Never tell your shrink anything about suicidal thoughts. 2. If you’re
in the hospital, don’t do anything no matter what.

The story builds with several twists I have not revealed here and the director avoids
horror tropes like jump-scares. In short, this is a very good film
that is solid, believable, and much scarier than “The Strangers: Prey
at Night.” If you like good thrillers, don’t miss this one!

The economic crash has begun and society is in denial , because of their greed. Therefor any attempt at serious conversation with family or friends is recently replied to with “I am not interested in speaking about that,”

and then they will talk about sports or movies or a repetitive topic such as something about so and so family members job , but over and over.

Cannot speak of anything substantive in society because everyone is either too dumb or too short attention span.

Book stores are closing everywhere and marijuana dispensaries and pharmacies are opening.

We are living in the culturally dumbest society in the history of western civilization at this point.

Craigslist already had shut down the escorts section a few years ago. Now the combo of hooker and the US Congress have resulted in CL having to shut down the personal ads, which had been over-run by homos and hookers in recent years, including being infested with trannies. From the CL site:

US Congress just passed HR 1865, “FOSTA”, seeking to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully.

Any tool or service can be misused. We can’t take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day.

To the millions of spouses, partners, and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness!

Anyhow, leave it to the government, queers, trannies, and hookers to ruin one of the only places adults could meet for fun without having to pay a hefty bar tab.

OK, the trailer for the new “Tomb Raider” movie looked bad, but I
really enjoyed the two Angelina Jolie movies from the early 2000’s, so
I thought I’d give it a shot. Big mistake! Alicia Vikander was great
as a sinister android in “Ex Machina” but she’s all wrong here. She
doesn’t have the build that Lara Croft is supposed to have, and she is
unable to project toughness and be a badass. Instead, we get a sweet
girl who REALLY loves her father. Her father, by the way, is played
by Dominic West as a bit of a dork who keeps calling her “sprout.”
The whole movie is about Lara’s quest to find her missing and
supposedly dead father.

I thought about walking out, but some of the
plotting was too promising: Lara finds her father on an almost
deserted island and together with some baddies dig up an old tomb of a
woman they think is a vampire who wanted to drink the world’s blood.
That’s not actually what she turns out to be, but there is about 25
minutes of good Indiana Jones rip-off stuff in the tomb where this
long-dead woman lives, but the rest of the film is misconceived and
slowly paced. I was hoping for a sexy, badass action movie and
instead I got a movie about a girl who means well. I think this film
is going to bomb big-time and it deserves to bomb big time. Next
time, executives, get a woman with some boobs and some sass! Please!

Do you feel that you haven’t had enough Jason in your life lately? Well, good news: Paramount just released the “Friday the 13th” 8-film collection on Blu-ray for only $25. Now you can cower in terror for each kill and leer at every teenager behaving badly. The first 8 Friday the 13th films have never looked better! It’s tough for me to pick a favorite out of this collection, but films 4-8 have particularly good transfers. Part 8, “Jason Takes Manhattan” particularly stands out as looking great while “A New Beginning,” the fifth one, is a better film than its reputation. The best commentary goes to director Joseph Zito and writer Barry Corbin of “Part IV: The Final Chapter” as they candidly discuss what they shot and didn’t and what they like about the film and what they don’t. One caveat: Although there is a 3D option for the third film, Paramount decided not to include the glasses. Bad move, Paramount! But otherwise, this is a wonderful collection for slasher film enthusiasts as it gives us the most pristine prints with the best extras imaginable. Don’t miss this collection!

Bored of politically correct new horror films like the disappointing “Happy Death Day”? Try 1987’s “Killer Party,” available on DVD from Warner Archive. It’s about fraternity and sorority pranks during April Fool’s Day that quickly turn deadly. The first prank, though, is a “Revenge of the Nerds” type prank involving photographing young women in the nude that made me sigh, “Only in the ’80’s!” From then on, we get some gruesome deaths (including electrocution and decapitation) and cameos by the top-billed Martin Hewlett (from “Endless Love”) and cult director Paul Bartel (as a snooty college professor).

Eventually the murders turn out to be due to cheesy demonic possession and the film ends on an ironic note with a hilariously corny ’80’s pop song. If you miss U.S.A. Up All Night and Joe Bob Briggs Drive-In Theater from the 1980’s and 1990’s. then this is the movie for you! It is neither good nor bad, just hilariously ’80’s and as such highly recommended. If you miss the days of silly, deaths and gratuitous nudity, don’t miss “Killer Party.”

Trump needs to start painting Mueller as a threat to democracy. This past election was a choice for voters between private businessmen and lifetime government bureaucrats. The voters chose to cast out the bureaucrats and give private businessmen a chance to rule.

Mueller is attempting to nullify the election results and place bureaucrats back in power, against the will of the voters.
the justification used for appointing Mueller, Trump’s firing of Comey, is a violation of the separation of powers of the US Constitution
and threatens the Constitution as such, by taking granted authority over hiring and firing away from the executive branch and handing it to the judiciary and the Congress.

As president, it is Trump’s duty to defend the Constitution, and to fight the subjugation of the executive branch to the other branches,
which is being done in order to overturn democracy and the election results.

Democrats should not receive free passes to breaking the law, simply since they are bureaucrats, under the guise of non-profit and speech making. Using non-profit status as a front, like Clinton Foundation did,
while the left enriches itself is dishonest and corrupting.

Mueller’s bias, to go after anyone and everyone that worked on Trump’s campaign, is nothing more than retribution for their loss at the polls. The whole investigation is simply an attempt by the crooked left to try and unjustly retake power and save face.

We have crossed the Rubicon, there is no turning back.

Mueller is officially fired. I have instructed the military to arrest Mueller, Comey, and Rosenstein for treason,
since they are trying to undo the results of a democratic election, by any means necessary. I have decided to stop them by any means necessary.

In a few weeks, we will be holding a special election, where I will be on the ballot against Hillary a second time. I will have the U.N. monitor the election so that there can be no dispute this time.

If she loses again, I will instruct military police to arrest her for her previous obstruction of justice, hiding subpoenaed emails, smashing her hard-drive, and more. There will be no pardon.

This past weekend, Oscar weekend, two trashy but hugely enjoyable films were released. “Death Wish,” starring Bruce Willis, is a cannily updated version of the Charles Bronson classic. It basically tells the same story as the old one. Bruce plays mild-mannered surgeon Paul Kersey, whose wife (Elisabeth Shue) and daughter are shot, the wife fatally. As his daughter lies in a coma, Paul snaps and becomes a vigilante, inflaming the Chicago populace with his behavior. Wearing a hoodie and sometimes being filmed doing vigilante acts, Paul is considered an “angel” to some, the “Grim Reaper” to others. Although he sometimes kills carjackers for the fun of it, his main goal is vengeance on his family’s attackers, which he accomplishes in spectacular fashion. He has so much fun there could be a sequel, just like the original had 4 (!).

“Red Sparrow” stars the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence as a top ballerina in modern-day Russia who suffers a gruesome accident while performing to a packed house. Caring for her sick mother and low on funds and with no government support, her sleazy uncle (perhaps the sleaziest uncle in movie history!) enrolls her as a “red sparrow,” which is what she calls “whore school.” She gets tutored by the great Charlotte Rampling in how to seduce men and get info from them, with the threat of death if she does not follow instructions. She also has to contend with the mysterious Jeremy Irons and American Joel Edgerton, who she maybe falls in love with. Can she overcome a dodgy Russian accent and a number of seriously kinky scenes?

Look, neither of these movies are any good compared to the films that were up for Oscars this year. But they both remember that we go to the movies to have fun. These films are “guilty pleasures” for me because I got caught up in them despite questionable scripts and acting. I liked seeing Bruce Willis kick ass again, and I REALLY liked the sexy Jennifer Lawrence doing her best to make a trashy script seem compelling. I even liked that both films got poor reviews, since the disappointing well-reviewed film “Black Panther” put me to sleep. If you like Bruce Willis and Jennifer Lawrence, then I recommend both these films as trashy good times.

Incidentally, apparently there really were “red sparrows” in Russia, but probably not since the Cold War. The movie should’ve been set in the Cold War with Russian-speaking character, instead of in English with ridiculous accents.. I still enjoyed it. And Bruce kicks ass as well as anyone still!