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In space, everyone can read your opinions.

A collection of reviews from multiple parties, along with some extra audio fun.

Wonder Woman (2017)

September 07, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   Heralded as the best female-led female-directed movie to ever exist! I mean, I'm not gonna fall for such big yellow font when the masses start saying that sort of thing - although it is nice to know before watching a movie that everyone likes it (as is the case for pretty much anyone late to the Marvel movie releases I'm sure). However, I've spent years dabbling all over the place - knowing full well that a lot of horror films actually have women behind the scenes and in the lead hero spot, so I could care less if it's a woman or a robotic alien pickle in the lead roll, the thing will get judged based on my enjoyment. With that truth lassoed about, let's see how the lovely Gal follows up on that sweet theme song in that other DC movie.

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categories / action, adventure, fantasy, pg13, scifi, war
tags / Wonder Woman

Phantasm (1979)

August 31, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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   At first, with a name like phantasm, you'd think I was showing yet another dang ghost movie. Well I got you good! This old little gem has two things that really managed to become iconic - a silver ball and a tall dude - but was strong enough in following that it had a number of sequels. Tonight, we strap into our nice looking car and look both ways for a stalker of a younger sibling, it's time to take a look at Phantasm.

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categories / horror, r, scifi
tags / Phantasm

Power Rangers (2017)

August 24, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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   There was a lot of memorable theme songs to old television shows. Still is, for better or worse. I'd wager you'd be rather hard pressed to find one as straight energy-pumping awesome as that old power rangers theme though - so straight high octane. As with most things, this new take on Power Rangers was anxiously met by people with an almost per-disposition to want it to fail, because it was just another "cash in" on nostalgia. Heck, even after release it was met by a new wave of dislike and negative reviews quite common to these sorts of things. Me though, I like to judge a movie by my own opinion - and as at this point I've almost empirically proven that most the time I'll enjoy a movie far more than the common-folk negative review would imply I should. Get out that spandex, it's morphing time!

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categories / action, adventure, pg13, scifi
tags / Power Rangers

Ghosts of Darkness (2017)

August 17, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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   A ghost movie! I don't think I really need to elaborate much beyond that for us to temper our expectations before going into this one. I expect multiple ghosts (given the title), and according to the box blurb a haunted house - not of the carnival variety - and conflicting ghost hunters. I don't recall hearing of it largely, so I'm not expecting blockbuster grade effects or anything of that sort - but then again, I still imagine the little ghosts that could should be able to pull off better than Asylum grade. Grab those vacuum cleaners, it's time to scope out this haunted mansion.

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categories / horror, nr
tags / Ghosts of Darkness

Enter The Warriors Gate (2016)

August 10, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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   The original planned movie didn't arrive on time due to a mishap in sending it out on time. Instead, I found another movie - yet again something easily available on Netflix at the time of writing this. This one holds all sorts of surprises I didn't anticipate because I didn't read anything beyond the title and box-blurb equivalent. I mean, sure, there's tons of these "gamer gets pulled into a situation that makes things real" movies out there, but that doesn't stop most of them from at the least being cheesy fun. So, tune your set to dairy and let's see if it gives us what we anticipate.

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categories / action, adventure, fantasy, pg13
tags / Enter The Warriors Gate

Sicario (2015)

August 03, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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   I've been playing a decent amount of that newer Ghost Recon game, and it may have influenced my choice of movie for the week. See, that game is all about taking down cartels, which is a similar pitch I've heard for Sicario. A buddy of mine actually reviewed it a while back and that also told me that it should be pretty good to boot. So, having my safety net of "This should be good" cast out in expectations, let's see if this movie can live up to it.

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categories / action, crime, drama, mystery, r, thriller
tags / Sicario

Okja (2017)

July 27, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   This isn't the first round of Netflix Present's that I've played over the years. Although I'm not huge on television shows - which doesn't prevent me from watching them, but it usually takes a great effort on my part - and it seems like the large chunk of such on Netflix are television shows, they do occasionally throw out the movies as well. Way be when I watched Spectral I figured out that they could do a pretty good job - even if most of the credit probably goes towards the people behind it as opposed to whose tagged in it and funded it. Regardless of the details, let's see if this movie teaches us how we can be a big pig too.

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categories / action, adventure, drama, r, scifi
tags / Okja

The Crooked Man (2016)

July 20, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   Enough happy movies for a bit, let's get into something more dark and sinister. That's really what I'd like to say, but it's yet to be seen if Crooked Man here will be as frightening as his Freddy Kreuger posturing implies or more akin to the somewhat disinterested looking faces floating in his body. The easiest way to know for sure is to watch, so spine in check and turn off the lights, it's time to try and get spooked.

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categories / horror, nr
tags / The Crooked Man

Lego Batman: The Movie - DC Super Heroes Unite (2013)

July 13, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   I have a confession to make - this isn't the movie I meant to have for this week. I shouldn't be apologizing, as it's really Netflix DVD fault for labeling this simply as "Lego Batman: The Movie" and making me think I was getting the original Lego Batman movie and actually not. Oh well, a movie is a movie and we got some opinions to get to. I can't tell if this is as good as the first or not, but let's see if it can at least keep the charm of the Lego movies - or perhaps be more akin to stepping on one of the dreaded plastic squares.

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categories / action, adventure, animation, family, nr
tags / Lego Batman: The Movie - DC Super Heroes Unite

47 Ronin (2013)

July 06, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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   It's a Japanese story with honor and love and revenge - and Keanu Reeves. I was interested enough when this movie came out out pic up a blu-ray copy - largely because it came in 3D, but also because samurai and stuff. I watched it previously on just the normal bland old DvD format, and since the originally planned movie suffered a bit of a delay in receiving I felt that maybe this would be a good time to check out that third dimension while also plopping up an actual article on this bad boy. Grab those katana and prepare for a face full of mythological beasts, this is 47 Ronin.

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categories / action, adventure, drama, fantasy, pg13
tags / 47 Ronin

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

June 29, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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Never stab the devil in the back

   Well, did anyone really expect this movie? I mean, sure, John Wick was a hoot and action extravaganza, but it never really cried "I need a sequel!" It pretty well wrapped itself up right then and there. Well, let's buckle our seat belts and grab on to your dog's leash, because who the heck knows what kind of ride we are in for this time around.

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categories / action, crime, r, thriller
tags / John Wick: Chapter 2

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)

June 22, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   For heaven's sake, this title takes longer to say than it feels like some of the songs in this movie last. Props to them for doing a reboot that doesn't just flat-out steal the name of what it's doing (like Robocop or Ghostbusters), but good jeez man. Beyond my thoughts on what a remake I hadn't ever heard anyone express desire in having, this should be an interesting one to review if for no other reason than having already doing the other one and essentially having the same movie on hand. Surely though, something must have been changed outside the cast right? Maybe updating some songs? Maybe new segments or characters or something? Well, guess we'll just have to jump to the left and hope for the best.

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categories / comedy, horror, musical, nr, thriller
tags / The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Chopping Mall (1986)

June 15, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   It's the four hundredth instance of my weekly movie night since I started having a movie night (roughly about one hundred and fifty times before I decided to put out thoughts on them afterwards here). I had put some thought for a day or two into what I could possibly watch to mark the occasion - full on realizing I've already reviewed a good portion of the better movies or ones I'm more personally attached too. Well, after all that debate I decided to go with something more in line with my particular style of movie necessarily than something that held any sway over me - and for that, we have to introduce to you Chopping Mall. This little B-type will put the B right back in boobs, bots, blood and booms, but can it worm it's B into the beat of your heart?

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categories / comedy, horror, r, scifi
tags / Chopping Mall

Sword Master (2016)

June 08, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   Been a while since we've dabbled in a martial arts movie hasn't it? Tonight's entry should remedy that pretty well, given the title is Sword Master. You don't get a name like that without being pretty good with a sword - unless I guess everyone else is incapable of so much as holding one and you get it by default. Regardless, the description blurb flat out tells us it's going to be an epic involving not one, but two Hong Kong cinema greats! At this rate, I don't see how it could go wrong - but then again I've thought that of other movies and been beat senseless, so let's see if this can live up to the promise of a sword or drop us a butter knife instead.

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categories / action, drama, nr
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He Never Died (2015)

June 01, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   With a name like that, you'd almost expect a Christ-splotation film out of this one. For those of us not really biblical-inclined however, It's probably much appreciated that this one is in fact not. Well, I mean, there's a little bit of bible in it, but it's largely a movie that just so happens to have a little in there, as opposed to something to super heavily focuses on the bible and has a little movie in it it. I mean, that tagline of bullets, blood, bingo really sums up a good part of this one. Still, with that description it's already sounding like a draw, but did this little angel find it's stride or fly too close to the sun?

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categories / comedy, drama, fantasy, r, thriller
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The Barrens (2012)

May 25, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   We know I like monsters. We've been over this before, unless this is your first landing to this site. Either way, I like monsters, legends, and all that sort of thing, so I couldn't really pass up a movie about the Jersey Devil. It's a bad habit really, considering the number of really cruddy movies based around all the famous cryptids and monsters out there (looking at you Bigfoot). Well, enough putting it off, let's see if this one's a keeper, or just another unfortunate horse-headed excuse of a movie.

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categories / horror, r
tags / The Barrens

Zootopia (2016)

May 18, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   From all the reviews this thing got, it hardly sounds like it needs another put to the mix. Zootopia was, as far as everywhere I saw, pretty much universally agreed on as being a good - if not great - movie. Another ball park hit by the old Disney movie machine. To be honest, it's been on the "to watch" list for quite some time, and I just keep putting it off and putting it off - but tonight, that's no more. Put on your leopard print and gather the family, it's time to hop to it.

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categories / adventure, animation, comedy, crime, family, mystery, pg
tags / Zootopia

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

May 11, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   I'm in the "business" or movie review - of course, that's an exaggeration considering I do this as a hobby. There's a good reason I point this out right here - tonight's movie is one that you would normally for sure expect outrage and horror over. Why's that? Well, it's a non-Marvel comic movie of course! Let's see if it can get me all hot and bothered, or if it's another case of people overreacting and making a big deal of nothing.

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categories / action, adventure, pg13, scifi
tags / X-Men: Apocalypse

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

May 04, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

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   I've passed up too many coincidental dates lately I owe everyone this. We'll return to our normally schedule shenanigans - probably with a far worse movie - next week. For now, enjoy the day-pun and a flick we've already covered in the QF format when it was brand new. Light your sabers and miss your targets, let's see how it's held up to repeat viewings.

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categories / action, adventure, fantasy, pg13, scifi
tags / Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Boy and the Beast (2015)

April 27, 2017  /  Ken Rupracht

   This year I've been trying to do something a little different with the reviews - I guess really in multiple ways in retrospect. One facet of that is trying to alternate between types of movies - a scary movie there, followed by something light hearted, followed by a drama, and so on and so forth. Part of this is because in any good movie, tension should only really be maintained so long before the audience is given some form of relief - whether it be something as lame as a jump scare or as cheesy as a romance scene in an action flick. Well, I may have done a bit of an underestimation on just what this film had to bring to the plate.

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categories / action, adventure, animation, fantasy, pg13
tags / The Boy and the Beast
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