How To Make A Killing The first time we saw the poster for this we thought it was like a Ralph Lauren biopic. Unfortunately it's the new crime-drama-comedy (I GUESS?) with Glen Powell as our ladder-climing anti hero (I GUESS?) killing his way through his family tree to get his inheritance, something like that. Glen Powell is just, I don't know. I always think it's Chris Evans but then it's Glen Powell. I love the memes about how his smile makes him look like a capybara. As an actor I don't really have any feelings about him, except sometimes in the middle of this film I was taken out of it because he looks so much like a Lego Guy a lot of the time. The real trouble in the movie is Margeret Qualley, which, she really didn't do anything of notablity in 2025... Obviously the Substance the year prior, a fine sci-fi thing for normal people, but she didn't do too much necessarily in that to steal the show from me... And as for anything last year, she was in the Coen Brother's Wife's movie Honey Don't! Which was probably the worst movie of the year for me (which actually did have Chris Evans in it)... For a minute I was thinking it was the stuff she was in, but I'm starting to see a pattern in her own acting that I really just do not like watching or listening to at all. I feel like she's getting roles written with Margot Robbie in mind and then she keeps getting accidentally casted. Just very corny feeling. The movie isn't nearly as bad as Honey Don't! and it has a useless Ed Harris role that isn't as bad as last year's Riff Raff... There's this monologue he has at the end which felt like 10 minutes that was just no good... Well it wasn't horrible... It isn't all that great either, and the writing for some reason kept reminding me of those movies. It's just got this corniness to it. Idk... It could have been worse as a Monday Mystery movie, but I can't lie, I was crossing my fingers for Scream 7.

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie Admittedly I had never actually watched the original web series in full, but I did see Matt Johnson's Blackberry in theaters and I liked it enough to know that I would want to see this. Beforehand Tiff and I watched the 2007-2009 show in full, pretty much ending the tenth episode and going straight to Regal. And was it worth it to watch all of that first..? Yeah, definitely, I mean if you've seen any of their previous stuff then clearly you already plan to see this... And if you aren't aware of them, go watch the original web show on their website and then go see this for the probably brief time it's in theaters. We follow Matt and Jay doing the same stuff they do throughout the show, always trying to get this show booked at the Rivoli, this time made for a longer, more theatrical type thing, heavily referencing Back to the Future, and often feeling like that episode of Family Guy, Back To The Pilot, one of my favorite episodes. They go back to 2008 for a chunk of it, which my one qualm is this; they walk into a showing of The Hangover, which came out in 2009... But there are posters and showtimes for Hancock and Dark Night, both released a year before... A small thing and surely this has been pointed out on reddit already, but considering I saw all of those in theaters... Nevertheless... It's funny as hell, and as a Millenial the referential stuff regarding a certain period of late 20th-century movies and video games, sure, it hits a certain note for me much of the time... But some of the scenes where Matt is just riffing doing a Bill Cosby impression or singing a dozen Super Famicom titles to the tune of the Wii Sports theme music, plus the fact that he just looks hilarious (And cool) as a fatguy... Like I said, I just watched the original thing. I think if you haven't, you should do the same, and then see this, and then see Blackberry again. Some of the stuff with complete Toronto randoms in the streets feels like something from Jackass or Borat, mixed with humor that the Workaholics guys would later repurpose (IMO). Whatever. It's been a good year so far.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die Something about this title, it's probably my least favorite title in a long assed time. Reminds me of movies like Everything Everywhere All At Once, If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You, shit like that... It just feels like the kind of title that can only exist post-COVID-19. Quirky long A24 ahh title. But that's probably the worst thing about the movie. Sam Rockwell travels from the future to stop some kind of AI thing from destroying the world, social media is ruining our timeline, nothing that I was truly that excited about seeing... And the trailer looked like a mashup of that shitty Kyle Mooney Y2K movie and that shitty Seth Rogen/Aziz guardian angel movie from last year). The second worst thing about the movie is the constant pandering about how omg social media is ruining our lives!!!111 and omg AI is so bad!!! As if the hollywood goofyasses that greenlit this bitch aren't part of the problem... Not to mention the editing feels an awful lot like Weapons (which, surely this was some kind of coincidence, that came out like 6-8 months ago, but it's definitely noticeable). Those are pretty valid complaints, and big ones, but it was a pretty fun movie, all things considered. It exists in this spoofy universe where everyone is for the most part completely stupid (think Southland Tales or Beau Is Afraid or just like any Saunders story) and it feels the need to constantly remind us that teenagers be addicted to they phone, but I don't even care about any of that. It's definitely ambitious as hell though, which I don't get to say that much these days, almost to it's detriment, cause there's a hell of a lot going on, with daily school shootings, children being cloned, giant space kittens (RaNdOm), and lots of extra unexplained shit, and the excess of all that really reminds me of something like Southland Tales, and parts of it like somebody read at like 60 percent of Infinite Jest... It's hard to read this as a compliment, but getting to see a director given the reign to throw a fuckton at the wall to see what sticks is pretty awesome. I didn't like it nearly as much as something ambitious like Weapons, or even this year's 28 Years Later 2... But we had a good time eating snacks and laughing at Sam Rockwell. He really nails it. I've liked him since... The Way Way Back? He's just a likeable ass dude, and he's funny as a bitch in this. I recommend seeing it in theaters, it's at least big and loud. The only showtime last night was the RPX theater, which I would never pay 6 dollars for again, believe that.

Send Help When we were leaving the theater we overheard a girl saying something about this seeming like a "very Sam Raimi movie." Tiff remarked that you could say that about any director of course, but she hasn't seem any of the movies he's made where people get thrown up on, which is pretty much all of them except for the Spiderman franchise (as far as I can recall). This is very much a Raimi movie, and I do think there is some bias from my end... I grew up on the Evil Dead franchise (including the pretty bad PS1 game), I got to skip school on my birthday to see the 2002 Spiderman with my dad, I had an awesome time with Drag Me To Hell years later... I'm not the biggest lover of his stuff, but if he has something out, I'll be sure to see it in theaters. Send Help is a bit more like Drag Me To Hell, at least in tone (whereas that was a hard PG-13, and this could almost get that rating too until some of the harsher violence near the end). Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien crash on a business trip, get stranded on a desert island, and there's a turnover of power, etc. it's kind of like Triangle of Sadness, or that M. Night one on the beach, with a little bit of Misery thrown in, and a bunch of textbook Raimi cartoonish violence. At certain points it almost becomes something like I Spit On Your Grave? But the catalyst for vengeance is much less brutal here (O'Brien's character employes McAdams). It's a pretty fun flick to throw in the middle of January kind of makes me want to see Drag Me To Hell again, or anything with McAdams... She's so great in this. I'm blanking on the last thing I saw her in, True Detective season 2? Between her and last month's The Housemaid, it's been cool to see people like her and Seyfried have these great comedic/dramatic roles. O'Brien plays a villain character awesomely and has this annoying laugh that you want to slap the shite out of. There's other worthy things to catch that are still playing in theaters but if you like anything Raimi defintely catch this in the cinema.

Mercy Perfect movie for Netflix streaming, hilarious viewing in a theater of like 6 people. Chris Pratt is arrested for the murder of his wife, and has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to an AI judge (this is the plotline). The 90 minute timer is shown frequently throughout the film, so it's actually pretty great knowing when the thing is about to wrap. It's also that Chris Pratt's character's name is Chris, just because. Ridiculously stupid movie, but the last 15 minutes are so are pretty decent cheeseball action fare. There's one notable twist where Tiff turned to me visibly shocked and I'm laughing at the whole idea right now. Pratt's woman cop friend does some of the worst acting I've seen in recent times. Really bad movie, I wouldn't suggest spending more than $1 to see it on the big screen (again, we have Regal Unlimited, so it was $1), and I would hesitate to recommend watching it on streaming when it's available in like three weeks. But it was still fun, kind of like Flight Risk from last year.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple My unbelieveable dissapointment with the previous film has no equalized with my unbelieveable happiness with this one, to the point where I am desparate to rewatch them both back-to-back. Such a wonderfully bad ass movie. It's brutal at times but something about the entirety of the series has this warmth that I find hard to pinpoint but it's always apparent. The last one's main problem for me was that it was just pretty damn boring... But in retrospect it was sortof a coming-of-age drama. This one just.. It really is both barrells, from start to credit roll. I went in thinking I'd find the antagonist gang cheesy but that whole part was pure menace. And Ralph F... Can't imagine there'd be any kind of Oscar Nom for next year but he's the star of the thing, him and big dick. Definitely see this in theaters, but you have to see the previous one (and DEFINITELY see the original). Happy as a bitch with this sequel.

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Pretty fit flick for the original material, no? I read a lot of folks calling this ahh but I laughed a lot. Over the years I've grown to like Patrick more and more, his idiocy always made my dad laugh and I always think about that, probably why. There was a kid in the theater with his mom and he just kept busting a gut throughout and it made the whole experience more fun, he was just having a hell of a time. I'm pretty sure the plot is kind of like the the old episode "Shanghaied," I guess that's kind of what I like about the film, it feels like an episode, which can make a movie adaptation of a show a lot better.

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