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In space, everyone can read your opinions.

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

Kin (2018)

December 27, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Science Fiction is always fun in my book - those visions of the future or things to come just intrigues the mind in ways more plausible then the average magic and drama. The genre hasn’t usually done all that great in the box office outside of the huge mainstays like Star Wars or Star Trek, but regardless I’ve always enjoyed it. Cue one day when watching a trailer compilation to keep up on what’s getting released down the line and I stumble across this movie of a kid finding a alien gun, and I’m already all in and adding it to the list of things to watch. Could be terrible, could be great, but it’s got some shiny visuals based on the trailer, and sometimes that’s really all it takes to draw you in. Let’s see how strong the familial bond is with this one, today we look at Kin.

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categories / action, pg13, scifi
tags / Kin

The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

December 20, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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I’ve made it pretty well known at this point that I’ll give almost any movie that employs Kurt Russel a chance when it comes to viewership - even if it’s not a movie I would otherwise watch. The man can act! Here is one of those cases, and also a return to form from a while back when I really hit heavy the Netflix Originals in reviews. It’s the time for giving and family fun, and despite the sparse amount of snow in the world outside my window lately, that means Christmas is almost upon us - and my tolerance levels of yule joy haven’t much changed. Despite my propensity of avoiding the overly-happy and at times mind-numbing holiday movies that flow from channels like Hallmark like an open wound, Kurt drags me into the cheer regardless of if I want it or not - and all that’s left is to find out if this thing is a present of fun or a ho ho horrible time. Let’s take a look at The Christmas Chronicles.

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categories / adventure, comedy, family, fantasy, pg
tags / The Christmas Chronicles

Operation Red Sea (2018)

December 13, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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It seems like lately China has been really opening up and sending all sorts of movies our way state-side. I was never opposed to a good foreign flick before - foreign horror introduced me to all sorts of variations on creatures like the Hopping Vampire or takes on ghosts that were familiar but different, or even on actual events played up a bit more fantastically such as the Dyatlov Pass incident. Admittedly, sometimes my eyes are lazy and I just can’t find the mood to read a movie and I’ll stray away, and one could argue about the need to read subtitles drawing my eyes from the screen and potentially missing little details, but that’s where things come around today. Operation Red Sea is an action entry, and I’m chomping at the bit for some rock and ready battles.

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categories / action, drama, nr, thriller, war
tags / Operation Red Sea

The Shape of Water (2017)

December 06, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Another installment of “waitstaff recommends.” Now, I like me monsters of all kinds, and del Toro has given me plenty of those sorts to enjoy over the years I’ve known of him as a creator. One would think that in turn this movie would have already been in my queue before this, but to be frank it largely was marketed as a romance movie from anyone I had heard speak of it review-wise and well, if we couldn’t guess from previous entries, I’m more of a dumb action and cheesy horror kind of person so I had passed it up. Still, when it comes up as a recommendation, who am I to decline? Let’s see if it can live up to it’s praise or if I find something to be fishy, let’s check out The Shape of Water.

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categories / action, drama, fantasy, r, romance, thriller
tags / The Shape of Water

I Feel Pretty (2018)

November 29, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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I have no business reviewing this movie. It’s not my genre, it’s not my style, and it’s something that even without watching I know that I’ve already ended up seeing enough that it might as well be made with a cookie cutter in the film room. Still, I like to play a game I call “Wait-staff recommends”, and if I get a waiter or waitress to give me a movie recommendation then it’s only right of me to watch it regardless of if it fits into my preferred mold. The best part of the situation is I go in with low expectations, so the movie should have only up to go - not that it’s saved some of the movies I’ve seen. The worst case scenario is that it is in fact perfectly mediocre and I have to do battle with my brain to find anything to really talk about afterwards. Well, let’s find out if this one is pretty and witty or lame.

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categories / comedy, pg13
tags / I Feel Pretty

Hot Fuzz (2007)

November 22, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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I swear I’ve already done this review. I had to check no less than three times, referencing my excel log, checking the website search function, and each time I checked it showed that I hadn’t done it yet. I know I’ve watched the movie a few times now, but the fact that the entire review part is deja vu just won’t cease. Alas, perhaps that’s the problem of doing this for over two hundred movies and still watching movies I like repeatedly regardless - sometimes my head just gets things a little mixed up. Thankfully, that gives us a great excuse to play policeman-officer so throw on the lights, here comes the fuzz.

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categories / action, comedy, r
tags / Hot Fuzz

The Meg (2018)

November 15, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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I’ve watched a lot of shark movies. You wouldn’t really know it just browsing entries here - most of them are what I call “tub movies” - in which you loaf around in a bath, hot tub, pool, or whatever bucket of water you can fit your fleshy self in and flip on a movie. I’ve seen sharks in tornadoes, genetically mutated sharks, sharks in the sand, sharks in the snow, giant sharks, and cg sharks so bad they wouldn’t scare a two year old. When I saw the initial trailer for The Meg, I said to myself “yep, gonna watch that eventually.” While I took on the long wait for rental to be available, I didn’t hear the greatest things about it from the more review-oriented folks, and the few actual people I knew that saw it seemed to have a fun enough time. Well, it’s time to see if this ginormous toothy boat of a flick can swim or sink.

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categories / action, horror, pg13, scifi, thriller
tags / The Meg

I Sell the Dead (2008)

November 08, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Comedy is something that’s made it’s way into movies all over the place. Generally speaking, I’m actually pretty okay with this, as a good joke can do wonders towards heightening entertainment value - although comedy being such a subjective thing it’s also sometimes really hard to pull off for a mass-appeal. At the same time, I hadn’t thought of until recent this recent year the implications that can come with comedy - or rather, the theoretical question of “Can there be too much comedy in a movie?” Extensively, the answer to that is yes - if you are going for a serious, heart-impacting emotional moment too much comedy surrounding it can drastically effect in a negative way said moment. Still, everyone wants to laugh, and when the movie is made to cater to comedy such as this entry, there shouldn’t be a ghost of a chance towards the comedy being a problem - only if the jokes fit my particular style. Settle in at the old pub for a pint, tonight we check out I Sell The Dead.

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categories / comedy, horror, nr
tags / I Sell the Dead

Mandy (2018)

November 01, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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What did I even just get myself into? I remember catching a trailer for this, and adding it to my queue long before I could actually get it in the mail in the first place. It finally shows up, and I’ve all but forgotten anything about it - so I throw into the description real quick. Nicolas Cage? Check. Revenge flick? Check. I’m good to rock and roll, surely this will be a entertaining thing. Man, was I woefully under prepared for what I was about to see. Get ready for a blend of things so intense you might end up hating and loving at the same time - it’s time to push play on Mandy.

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categories / action, horror, nr, thriller
tags / Mandy

The Black Hole (1979)

October 25, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Tonight I remedy a mishap I had earlier on, in which I had intended to watch this film but instead got words mixed up in my head and ended up watching a totally unrelated movie instead. I slotted this on in for now, primarily because most the time I heard of it was in reference to it being terrifying - although I do find it amusing that in fact “horror” isn’t a tag for this movie. Although it’s much more science fiction than it is horror, the two aren’t entirely exclusive to each other - heck, the mysteries of the unknown can often turn into the terror for those who seek them, if any Sasquatch movie is something to go off of. So strap into your time machines and prepare to go back to the past for another hearty jaunt of a different tomorrow, tonight we look into The Black Hole and see what gazes back.

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categories / action, pg, scifi
tags / The Black Hole

Night of the Lepus (1972)

October 18, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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There are many different types of horror. So far this October, we’ve checked out some psychological thrills and some cheap evil monster spooks. Tonight, we go to a universal stand by that’s been around longer than I have - Science! Yes, the folly of man, science gone wild. Oh, and I should mention it’s just about the cutest science gone mad you could get - except that close-up view of it’s big nasty teeth. Tonight, we get hopping with Night of the Lepus.

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categories / horror, pg, scifi, thriller
tags / Night of the Lepus

Clawed (2017)

October 11, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Sometimes I get myself in trouble deciding to watch things just reading the description. I once accidentally found myself in an Uwe Boll film because the description sounded passable and I didn’t look at who was involved with it. Tonight, I find myself looking at a movie that if nothing else promises to be a creature flick - and I like those. None of the names mean a thing to me - haven’t heard of any of them - but the description tells me the premise could be interesting in the same way any other creature feature could. So I throttle in the DVD, turn off the lights, and prepare to follow up on the surprisingly good psycho-horror of last week with something that’s way more up my alley - and within the first ten minutes I know if its going to be a good time or I’m going to want to claw my eyes out. Perhaps it should have stuck with it’s more sludge-oriented original title, tonights entry is Clawed.

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categories / horror, nr
tags / Clawed

Delirium (2018)

October 04, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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It’s finally a month that makes logical sense for me to pull out some scary movies. Yeah, I know, I can hear you complaining that I do too many of those kinds of movies - but you know what? There’s only so many Godzilla flicks I can do (although I do suppose I could start up one of the other eras). Regardless, tonight we take on something a little less slashy, and try using our brains for a change. This chiller of a thriller will have you second guessing your own plot assumptions as you go, tonight we watch Delirium - the one with Topher Grace, because apparently there are a bunch of them, two of which came out the same year (insane, right?).

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categories / horror, r, thriller
tags / Delirium

Ready Player One (2018)

September 27, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Nostalgia the movie. Let’s be honest here, if anyone goes into this movie and comes out complaining about the amount of pop culture references, than they probably shouldn’t have gone to see the movie in the first place. The trailers for this thing told me everything I needed having never read the book that existed before hand - I’m gonna get things I remember from my childhood, and from one of my favorite past times. If I don’t get fond remembrances, I’ll get a video game movie that isn’t strictly tied to a franchise in which to be labeled a horrible adaptation but instead just a lot of gaming as a whole. I don’t see anything in this trailer that tells me “No, do not watch this” and finally the day has come for me to test and see if it was all a fabricated DLC pass grabbing at my quarters, or if my expectations can be delivered upon without seventeen thousand hotfixes. Tonight, we check out Ready Player One.

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categories / action, adventure, pg13, scifi
tags / Ready Player One

Big Legend (2018)

September 20, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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I’ve been watching a lot of Mountain Monsters lately - a show in which a bunch of rednecks go out in the woods looking for ‘squatch and other monstrosities. Well, low and behold, this weeks movie ties into that sort of thing - at least, the Sasquatch side of it. I don’t know if this is something I heard about somewhere - as it doesn’t have the main segment that I do recall hearing a reviewer talk about - or if this was just one of the many window-browsing catches while trying to fill up my DVD queue, but nonetheless it has itself some great timing as far as general interest from me. So then, lets figure out if this thing can be as much of a legend as it can be, or if perhaps it’s just another fake print in the woods.

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categories / action, adventure, horror, nr, thriller
tags / Big Legend

Upgrade (2018)

September 13, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Revenge movies are a pretty hefty genre all in themselves. Some are a bit hard to watch - I’m myself not particularly a fan of the real rape-y ones - while others try and emphasize a specific twist to differentiate themselves. I once watched an Antonio Banderas revenge flick where his twist was that he didn’t talk until the revenge was completed. In the case of Upgrade, the twist is cybernetic enhancements of the future! Look, let’s get real here - I saw a shotgun arm in a trailer for it, and that’s really all it took to sell me on checking this one out. Let’s find out if this movie can bring in the extra slot of RAM, or if it would have been better off being scrapped.

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categories / action, horror, r, scifi, thriller
tags / Upgrade

Blood Fest (2018)

September 06, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Horror isn't a genre for everybody. Sometimes, people prefer their spooks with a little bit of laughs as well. This is probably one of the trickier types of movies to look at - on part because humor is so subjective from person to person, but also because the plethora of movies out there that look at horror from a meta perspective or play things up for laughs already, such as Shaun of the Dead. More often than not, even the common horror flicks tend to have one character relegated to the roll of tension relief through laughs - but horror isn't the only thing this movie has to tackle. The last batch of Rooster Teeth branded movies I watched were the Lazer Team films, and although they could be enjoyed by a person who wasn't into the company's other content, it certainly didn't hurt to already enjoy their brand of humor to which those movies already played. So here we sit, ready to see if this one makes you bored or makes you, well, I'll let you finish the rhyme.

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categories / comedy, horror, nr
tags / Blood Fest

Isle of Dogs (2018)

August 30, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Stick around long enough and you'll know or learn that I like those offbeat movie effects. I'm fine with CG, and I enjoy some fine practical, but there's just some weird charm and draw to stop motion movies. The fact that really anyone could do it, but knowing the huge time-barrier and immense amount of effort that goes into them only adds to that draw I imagine. Still, from the trailer I thought this was something to put on my radar, and tonight it's finally come in the mail. Let's find out whose been a good boy.

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categories / adventure, animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, pg13, scifi
tags / Isle of Dogs

A Quiet Place (2018)

August 23, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   People were raving about this one when it came out. Perhaps the ruckus for Get Out was a bit more pronounced, and I'm sure I'll get to that eventually, but this one was certainly up there as far as spooky flicks went. What a novel concept regardless! Critters that attack by hearing things? It's like a bat monster, and who doesn't like that? Well, let's find out if this movie is as cool as the populace have said, or if perhaps they should hush up and bring our expectations down a few decibels.

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categories / drama, horror, pg13, scifi, thriller
tags / A Quiet Place

Rampage (2018)

August 16, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Monster Hunter World came out recently for the PC, and I've been sinking a lot of free time into it. It's actually somewhat humorous that on that game's release I had intended to watch this movie, but swapped out to a different one to get more game time in. This week, however, is a movie that's about another video game, despite the similarities in giant creatures. Why choose a game that really had no plot and was essentially just high-score runs to smash buildings as various oversized anthropomorphic creatures? My money is on the "nobody will care if we make a stupid and fun action movie out of this." Let's see if I'm right or my expectations are just on a total rampage.

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categories / action, adventure, pg13, scifi
tags / Rampage
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