Day of the Dead: Bloodline

Stop remaking Romero, seriously. Okay the first remake of Night is awesome, and Synder's Dawn is pretty cool, but all those sequels, reboots & remakes or Night are awful. The worst offenders are the Day films. The Day sequel Contagium was pure zombie shit. The remake of Day was just as bad but not quite. Now we have something that almost tops it, almost, cause Contagium is one of the worst films ever made, and this here, Bloodline, is pretty damn close. It starts off promising with blood, almost too much as it felt forced. A nice rack goes for a run, cut to hours earlier, we meet one dimensional characters and are fed a plot that attempts to copy the 85 classic but fails miserably, no commentary, no heart, no cool moments or character interactions, just a dull 90 minute piece of shit.

The Ritual

David Bruckner has mainly done anthology flicks, good ones like VHS, really good ones like Southbound and great ones like the Signal. Now he does a stand alone film all by himself, and he knocks it out of the park. This film out Witched the Witch, it out Blair Witched all the Blair Witch flicks. He crafted a super tense and nightmarish slice of cinema. Netflix has delivered some good films in the past year, and for the year 2018, this along with Futile & Stupid Gesture, the year is off to a great start. Hopefully small films continue to be as great as this, hopefully horror continues to be as great as this, cause it set the bar high.

Cloverfield Paradox

In 2007 I was all over the 1-18-08 buzz, the film, Cloverfield, was amazing. I loved LOST, so JJ Abrams producing a kaiju film? Yes Please! I loved the film, then 8 years later a trailer dropped for a sequel, an unannounced sequel! It too was amazing. Now we are getting a third and a fourth this year, but wait, the trailer for the third will debut at the Super Bowl, wait, the Super Bowl was the other night. Wait, the trailer announced the film would drop that night? I watched it the next day? You bet you ass i did. I am just not getting around to writing about it? YEP. Why? Cause, while i liked it, it was also meh. When it was over i watched a Futile & Stupid Gesture, and that overshadowed it, greatly. Then Tuesday i thought about the flaws, then Wednesday i was reading plenty of articles on it. It is a brilliant concept with a terrible execution. The film shouldn't have been a Cloverfield film, making multiverses here makes no sense. A Marvel film, sure, but not here. The plot is pure Alien, hell here it is more Sunshine, double hell, Life was out last year, so there is that. It's a decent but underwhelming film.

A Futile & Stupid Gesture

David Wain constructed a brilliant film with a mind & heart towards comedy, writing, film making, and life in general. Hilarious & heartfelt! The meta approach is great, it at times resembles Animal House, The cast captures the facial features & voices of the comedy legends perfectly. For every tongue in cheek slap stick moment is a moment of humanity that either makes you happy for achievement or cringe in how big of a mess reality can truly be. If you are a humorist, please watch this, it is an amazing film! 

The Good Place Season 2

I thought this season would kind of suck, last year's finale i had mixed emotions on, and this years premier i had mixed feelings on. Rebooting the show? Multiple times? Nonsense! But it worked, it made the characters seem to have more flaws, it also made them more likable. As they began to know the real versions of themselves, so did we. It was a somewhat coming of age season, and on top of that it used corse correcting and a lost flash sideways narrative in the finale.

Winchester

The directors of Undead, do it again, another stinker. I didn't mind Daybreakers, i liked Predestination, the new Saw was meh, but Undead i am not a fan of, but all are masterpieces compared to this. This is bad, not cause it is boring, which it is, not because it is poorly made, which it is, but because they missed so much. There is a cool idea in here, but the script is so god damned bad, which leads to some of the worst acting you can find, and that includes, especially includes Helen Mirren. I thought, cool maybe i will find moments in this to enjoy, to possibly love, maybe this can be a Room.....nope, Bye Bye Man can get that honor, not this.

Happy!

SyFy has found it's stride in shows recently. Happy is the best of the best, it is a profane, gross, un PC, shoot em up, with drugs, hookers, booze, blood, brain goo, and alot of heart. For such a fucked up show, it has a core, a core of love. Whether it comes from Nick Sax and his grich heart growing, his daughter Hailey, her imaginary friend Happy, there is something to warm your heart to while you smile from laughter and gore. This is how i wanted Deadpool to be, and it does a better job than Deadpool could dream of. This is a new Christmas favorite, and christmas is now officially over with this show ending(for the season!). The show balances over the top violence and dark humor of Nick, with the super creepy and fucked up Santa. This is the scariest show of TV, A Demogorgon isn't real, but sex trafficking and pedophiles certainly are. By no means does the show make light of that aspect, that is painted very dark & disturbing, but Patton Oswalt is so cheerful  as Happy, and Christopher Meloni is brilliant as Sax. His facial expressions tell a million stories, and this is his second best, if not best role(Gene, looking at you)