Ares

2016 Foreign Sci-fi Thriller Drama

In a future France with many unemployed, big companies run the country. Ares is a loser boxer When his sister’s arrested, he agrees to a new drug, that’ll help him win.

France is bankrupt, millions jobless and homeless. The city is shown as a junkyard or garbage heap.

People are able to sell their bodies, and I don’t mean being Hookers. Literally things can cost an arm and a leg, however this is usually done for ‘upgrades’

Ares whose fighting career has been in the dumps sister is arrested for having a gun (They are against the law) which was found in her home but a semi-automatic. So he gets guardianship of her daughters. One little one and a teen however looks old enough to be the mother’s sister!

a year or less later and I can still remember parts of this (not very clearly but I liked it enough,

shut in

2016      psychological thriller Syfy  Naomi watts  Charlie Heaton

A son is being taken to another school as he was expelled. While on their way he and the father are in a car accident. The son is left in a vegetative state. His mother (watts)  is working with a little deaf boy who later breaks in and, afterwards goes missing. She has these so wrong nightmares about her son,  and is also experiencing sounds in walls and floor. One morning she finds 3 scratches on her sons face, did someone break in or it she just getting nutty with the stress?  There’s Supposed to be big a snow storm and while prepping her doc calls her with blood results .

If you didn’t figure it out before then you’ll know …but really whether she’s a fellow professional or any other patient… You should never just verbally crucify them. “You should know better blah!. Plus he’s a Quack…she doesn’t have depression (I should know, I’ve had it for years)   and wants to put her on antidepressants.  The storm hits bad and she learns she’s not going crazy

C- for cliche…been done so many times Feels like they’re trying to hit on a few scenes from The shining.

Ghost Patrol

2016  Animation,adventure   47 minutes     tv movie   available on Netflix

Gabi and Spence, and  Spooky Dog, are the “Ghost Patrol”, Their Town’s supernatural pest control but they have never seen a real ghost. When they get a call to investigate the old Geist Manor, they are about to find the proof they are looking for – and a whole lot more. (-imdb plot summary)

Its a cute movie, can’t recall why I watched it but hey we were all looking for something to watch in 2020 with all productions halted. So a lack of new shows and returning favorites must have had me in serious withdrawal.

I saw it on Netflix but not sure if it one of their Originals or not. if for some reason it is not there, then check out Just watch which tells you where  in streaming that movie or show is.

Friend Request

2016  R      HOrror     via Netfllix

After a student commits suicide, we are brought back to the weeks before.

Marina who is so goth, has cool dark animations on her facebook page, and has no friends on Facebook. When Laura friends her on there, Marina starts to stalk Laura’s FB page and obsess about her.

Once Marina goes too far, Laura unfriends her.

The principal speaks to Laura after the suicide,  to find out more about Marina that there were no school records or emergency contacts and if there were they were deleted.

Then laura gets a message from beyond the grave that will not delete.  Videos and such are popping up they she never posted and makes Laura start losing friends… not only the 800+ online but in life as well, some literally.

Marina somehow gets back on Laura’s friend list (as well as her close circle of friends) never needing to be accepted. No one can unfriend her, no one can delete any posts from her or their accounts.

 

 

I thought when it came out it would be crap but it I enjoyed it. It was intriguing suspenseful and pretty decent, not sure for pay for a general admission ticket but maybe matinee ok.  It might actually make you think twice about accepting that next friend request!

 

 

Backtrack

2016  Rated R  1:30  Blu-ray   Mystery   Adrian Brody & Sam Neil

 

psycho therapist Peter Bower begins experiencing nightmarish visions. He soon discovers his patients have a terrifying secret and that the key to his delusions lies in a decades old mystery in his rural home town. (Netflix summary)

I think his hometown was called False Creek, if I heard it right

Some girl Elizabeth shows up at his office. For some reason, I’m guessing she’s a ghost from his past.

I’m trying to figure out if this is one of those movies where the main character is dead but doesn’t realize it yet.

Something to me seems off about his patients, but not sure about the shrink. are the patients dead or is Peter?

I feel like I’m confused but at the same time feel like I’m am following the story.

he’s lost a daughter and I guess his guilt has manifested some sort of delusions.

 

I found it interesting, a worthy mystery to watch

Southbound

2016   R

Five interwoven Roadside tales of terror. As a bunch of travelers are faced with their worst fears as things go horribly wrong on a stretch of forsaken highway.

 

THe first story has some jellyfish looking things hoovering above ground and the travelers riding around in circles. They’re certainly NOT jellyfish, but are pretty creepy. They’re here to collect, but collect what OH!!! I have a feeling I know.

THen there’s 3 girls who are some stupid ass chicks WHY which cliché!!! Get a flat and go along with some strangers

Another is some idiot driving while on their phone and hits a girl and OUCH! That is some serious injury. Gore wise this one was great.

Then there’s a family on vacation before school starts so what’s with the strangers purge act?

Every road ends somewhere right? Ok so one of them seamlessly went into another without me noticing or it was just that bad.

A few parts were ok, and I guess a bit terrorizing but some far fetched to me.

 

 

 

Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)

The movie, originally titled Busanhaeng  is a 1 hour 58 minutes long thrill ride in South Korea about a zombie virus. Some need to run for the train  from Soul to Busan to survive, while others need to fight to stay on.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

2016   PG-13  Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis hodge

 

Major Susan Turner is arrested for treason (for what seems like no reason) and Reacher stops at nothing to prove her innocence and uncover a huge government conspiracy involving soldiers being killed.

Not much of an action movie, so WTF genre was this supposed to be a thriller? Not too suspenseful for that and really

WHY is Tom Cruise who’s lost too many steps to be an action hero, let the Chris Hemsworths, Jai Courtney’s Joel Kinnemans and so on take over.  (Either that or he’s going to have to get a better trainer and stop spending so much time at the scientology church. Plus he’s going to need ankle, weights and do that parachute run so he get be faster.)

 

Time to end this franchise I mean isn’t pretty much the same as Mission Impossible? Reacher is past its expiration date, its not sour its rotting.

Get him some scripts for his age, no more action let him do horror cause to me sadly he now is.

They should have listened to their own title!

Jason Bourne (2016)

2016      Pg-13     2:03   Matt Damon, Julia Styles

 

On the verge of unraveling  his true identity, Bourne is back making mice out of the covert Government agencies.

Why is this Bourne title Jason Bourne? Wasn’t that the name of the first one? Why its not like its a remake or reboot.

I remember the original and that was a ‘high octane thriller’  This one is more like highly Leaded~

I get Damon is older and all that but its not what we expect from a Bourne movie. Between this and Jack Reacher’s Never Go back,, I’m not sure which one I’m more annoyed with and disappointed by.

Nothing really happens and that ‘fight’ we see in the trailer, yawn. I’m not sure that was enough of a scene to even be considered a fight.

And I can’t believe I’m going to say this but the DC movies were better than this and I mean including those BEFORE Aquaman and Suicide Squad.!!!

to me it felt like it had no emotion in it, and the guy that’s putting the app out in this is the same guy that played the bad guy in Venom.

 

Swiss Army Man

2016    R  1:37   Adventure, Comedy, Drama   Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe,Mary Elizabeth Winstead   blu-ray

Hank who is on a deserted island contemplates suicide but when Manny washes ashore, Hank gets off his pedestal.

SO Manny, a dead guy saves him Hank,just not from the island but from himself and his boredom.

The 2 help each other and Yes ‘Harry Potter’ plays a dead guy whose gassy decay is used for a variety of things,  one of which is starting his camp fires. Wonder what else Fart power will be used for.

For me its original , an amusing and maybe even in a childish way. But it is supposed to be a comedy and yes there are some funny parts. Frankly I couldn’t help but laugh at the end.

Give it a try

I’m Giving it a B

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