The Review: Creed 3

Creed Three 8/10

This was a cool ass movie but I thought it felt kind of rushed. This could have been two movies and I would've liked it more. This starts with Adonis as a kid and his friend Damian at an underground boxing match. Damian is good. They end up at a liquor store and Adonis starts whipping this dudes ass. Damian ends up getting arrested as Adonis runs off. Fast forward to present day and Adonis is retired and watching his lady pursue her singing career and caring for their daughter who has a hearing impairment. He also has a boxing school and one of his fighters is going against Drago's kid. At home his daughter gets in trouble for boxing up a child that messed with her.

The Review: Vacation Friends 2

Vacation Friends Two 6/10

I was reminded by L. a while back that this movie had come out. We really enjoyed the first one and while this one was funny it was a little too insane compared to the last film. Marcus and Emily are planning on having a kid and meet up with Ron and Kyla who have a son that they always leave with Maurillo who is babysitting. They go to the islands but Marcus is also using the trip to work on getting a contract so that his construction company can build a new hotel. This guy, Yeon, who is representing the company just does not like Marcus. Suddenly Kyla's dad shows up from prison and is shady as hell. He doesn't like Ron which makes no sense to him because everyone loves Ron. Ron goes out of his way to make her father like him. There are shootouts, explosions, deep sea diving, surfing, and flipping cars. Its a lot. Still, this was funnier than I expected it to be for a sequel.

Lil Rel Howery as Marcus

Yvonne Orji as Emily

John Cena as Ron

Meredith Hagner as Kyla

Steve Buscemi as Reese Hackford

Carlos Santos as Maurillio

Ronny Chieng as Yeon

Jamie Hector as Warren

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The Review: Cat People (1942)

 

Cat People 5/10

This movie was strange as hell. Like, 1942 strange. This is about this lady standing in a zoo drawing a panther and littering. Literally. She doesn't like what she draws and tosses the paper on the ground and starts again. This guy named Oliver sees her and starts talking to her because she cute because if she was an ugmo he would've been like “Stop littering, ya bum!” They start chatting and he ends up in her apartment that looks like someone just cleaned a haunted house. She says she is from Serbia and tells her a story about this king showing up and chasing all the witches and shit out of the village. Oliver is like “Yeah...okay” but she is dead ass serious. There is no real time frame given for this so their relationship moves in fast forward because the next thing you know he buys her a cat. Like, give me a plant. I don't want a whole new being to take care of without asking for it. It doesn't last because the cat wont go near her ass. They go to return it to the pet shop and all the animals start freaking out. There is a monkey there because...1942. They end up with a bird. That is very different than a cat.

The Review: House On Haunted Hill (1959)

House On Haunted Hill 7/10




Me and L. wanted to watch some spooky films for the holidays so we decided to watch this, the 1959 classic House On Haunted Hill. This movie was weird as hell but I liked it. This rich dude decides to have five people come to this party he is throwing for his wife, Annabelle. His fourth wife. The others dead. She don't wanna go because he didn't invite any friends. The husband, Frederick Loren, is a weird ass guy. He says he will give 10,000 smackeroos to anyone that can stay the whole night in this place after the doors lock at midnight. Seems pretty easy, right? The five people are a test pilot named Lance, a newspaper woman named Ruth, a psychiatrist named Trent, this poor girl who gets all the scares named Nora, and the guy that owns the house named Watson. He drinks a lot and talks about previous murders in the place. None of these people know each other but they all want that money for different reasons.

The Review: Elemental

Elemental 9/10

This was a cute ass movie. L. wanted to check this out but I have struggled for over a decade to really get into any of this Pixar movies or any animated one really. Thankfully this one proved to be very entertaining with a story that was easy to follow and had parts that made me laugh. This is about a fire girl named Ember Lumen. She works at her family's store selling hot things to hot folks. The community is made of fire people and the area is rather run down and full of people who have immigrated from their place. This city is not made for fire people and the threat of being extinguished is everywhere. Ember has a problem controlling her anger and explodes. One day is causes a leak in pipes and as she is trying to fix them a city worker made of water named Wade pops through and starts noticing all of the code violations in the place. She chases him down but he ends up turning in the paperwork.

The Review: The Changeling

The Changeling 2/10

The more I talk and think about this series the more annoyed I get so I have to hurry up and do this before my brain drifts over into “I just don't care to write about this” mode. Let me explain why I didn't give this a 0/10 or a 1/10. I finished it and it started off well. The first three episodes of this had me intrigued as fuck. Then I was confused but still interested. Then they just started having episode after episode of more questions for an eight episode series and the fucking nerve to have the finale be less than half an hour following a 70 minute episode that explained one question.

The Review: The Wheel of Time Season 2

The Wheel Of Time Season Two 9/10

I have not read the books nor do I plan to. I need to get that out of the way because I have learned from being exposed to this crazy ass world or these stories that people get real angry with the differences between the book and the series. I'm just a random Black dude that watches an assload of TV and weird shit.

The Review: Barry Season 4

Barry Season Four 10/10

Full of spoilers! Not sure why I never did a review for the third season, but I assure you that I watched it. I'm gonna try to recall everything that happened since I finished this months ago. Barry is in prison and I thought that there was no possible way that this show could go this many seasons let alone make the final one the best. Barry tries to contact his old acting teacher, Gene, whose fiancé he murdered for forgiveness as well as his ex, Sally who will be going through all manner of chaos herself. Gene wants to get some of his old fame back by cashing in on the murder of Janice and knowing that Barry was one of his acting students. Sally is trying to come to grips with the fact that she was sleeping with a murderer. Barry is losing his shit. His former friend Fuches is sent into the same prison as Barry and thinks he will be killed only for Barry to beg for forgiveness.

Documentality: Last Call

Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York 9/10

Have you seen American Horror Story: NYC? Well, you could watch this instead because it is damn near the same thing but for true. This is about a serial killer in the 90's that goes after gay men and does all manner of fucked up things to their bodies. Police are not super concerned because the victims are gay. Two of the victims were closeted and they actually speak to their family as well as the family and friends of other victims. All L. and I could think of were the amount of similarities between this and AHS: NYC. The city, the way the serial killer did the victims, and of course the gay aspect of it all. One of the victims, Anthony Marrero, confused police because at that point the victims were older, gay men. They speak to Marrero's family and it is sad how his brother could not accept that his brother was gay and living a very double life filled with hustling. This is just four parts but very thorough and will make you mad. Thankfully there is a resolution and no silly build for a second season or anything. I would suggest you check this out on Max.

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Documentality: The Stroll

The Stroll 9/10

I watched this documentary called The Stroll and kept having flashbacks of my life as a male prostitute...in my mind. Actually it reminded me of Hooker At The Point which I watched when I was younger and so should not have been allowed to. This is about Black and Latina trans workers during the 80's and 90's and the massive amount of shit they had to go through. Fighting cops who were arresting them and sleeping with them. Being attacked for just being alive. This isn't all depressing though because while some did not survive the ones that did are alive and well and still fighting for trans rights. The area that they worked was known as The Stroll and when they go to it in present day it is very gentrified. It doesn't even look like the same place anymore. I would suggest people who are into watching activists being active (which I am not and am not) and wanting to learn more about a world that you're not familiar with. If you are one of those people that are scared of things that are different you should definitely watch this.

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Documentality: The Way Down

 

The Way Down 8/10

I watched this months ago and have been slacking on reviews so I'll be attempting to post a few a day. I have been watching so much stuff that I have just been writing what I watched but not writing reviews. This one, The Way Down, was insane in so many ways. I had seen this lady, Gwen Shamblin Lara's face, but did not know why. I had no idea that she was running a church based weight loss program and the amount of drama and nonsense that wanting to lose weight and be closer to god could cause. This had everything from divorces, fat shaming, marrying an actor who left his family, plane crashes, Trump shit, self harm, and terrible music. When I watch stuff like this I think it happened years ago like in the 90's when people were easier to fleece. Nope. This was happening as recently as a couple of years ago and is likely still going on now. I watched this on HBO Max which is now just Max. Just a few episodes and doesn't drag out the material.

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