In an effort to try to pump out at least a post a week here, I’m going to shake up my format a little bit and condense my thoughts on movies and TV that I’ve been watching as well as any games I might be playing. This of course will not preclude me from my normal review posts, but I appreciate any and all feedback.
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At the risk of putting a repeater on everyone else in the entire world’s thoughts, 2020 was not a good year. At the beginning of the year, I tasked myself with seeing at least 50 movies in theaters. I was well on track to surpass my goal for the year when I had already seen 13 movies on-screen by mid-March. Unfortunately the nationwide lockdown quashed all hopes of me keeping my New Year’s resolution to myself, but I still managed to sneak off to see Tenet in September when the theaters reopened for one last death rattle. Don’t worry, the […]Read more »
Bill & Ted Face the Music is the third film in the “Bill & Ted” franchise, coming 29 years after the release of the previous entry Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (which itself is a sequel to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure). All three films follow the titular Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves), two dopey Californian teens (and later adults) that aspire to inspire the entire world with the shredding of their bodacious band Wyld Stallyns. Face the Music follows more in step with Excellent Adventure than it does with Bogus Journey. Whereas […]Read more »
Following Jason Lives, the Friday the 13th franchise appears to have been written into a bit of a corner. Up until Part VI, Jason had just been some towering disfigured momma’s boy who happened to be very hard to kill. It wasn’t until this film that his decaying corpse was brought back from beyond the grave as an actual supernatural being. He was quite literally unkillable and could only be defeated by weighing him down to the bottom of Crystal Lake with a very heavy rock. How do you continue a franchise built upon a masked killer preying upon teenagers […]Read more »
After the misstep that was Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Jason Lives course-corrects the slasher franchise back into Mr. Voorhees’ hands with spectacular results. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives serves as the third and final film in what many consider the “Tommy Jarvis” trilogy of films, a series named for the protagonist that stars in all three. Don’t fret if this connection was completely lost on you, though. Had they not shared a name across the films, I would probably have never put it together because of how wildly inconsistent the portrayals are. As this film begins, […]Read more »
The fifth installment of the Friday the 13th franchise is subtitled A New Beginning probably because the previous one was intended to be The Final Chapter. Strangely enough, Part 5 acts as both a soft reboot to the franchise as well as a continuation of what people refer to as the “Tommy Jarvis arc” of films that center on the character first introduced in The Final Chapter as a child played by Corey Feldman. Jason Voorhees, who was finally killed at the end of the previous film is unsurprisingly back and is now tormenting an adult (teenaged?) Tommy (John Shepherd) […]Read more »