Ben Affleck Officially Directing and Co-Writing Solo Batman Movie!

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Okay, so if you guys haven’t heard: it broke late yesterday that Ben Affleck will not only star as Batman in the DC Cinematic Universe, but he will also direct and co-write the first Batman standalone movie.
And I don’t 100% LOVE this news, but I’m a fan of it, I’m optimistic!

Minions Review

Preface

Alright it just broke that Ben Affleck is directing and co-writing the next standalone Batman movie. It’s pretty late at night, I have to wake up early tomorrow so I can only talk about one thing…
Yeah Minions is more fresh in my head.
And funny enough, I never saw Despicable Me 2…
The first Despicable Me I thought was okay, I suppose… Nothing super special.
And though this Minions movie wasn’t perfect by any means, I had a pretty good time with it!

Premise

Okay, so Minions is the story of those little yellow potato things from the Despicable Me movies, only this time they’re the headliners.
This thing takes place in 1968 and it’s the Minions running around in the ‘60s, pulling shenanigans and such.
And yeah, it’s very enjoyable.
Here is the bottom line up front before I go into the specifics: kids and fans of the Despicable Me movies will LOVE this movie. If you loved the Despicable Me movies, you’ll love this movie too. I wasn’t a Despicable Me fanboy going in, and even then there’s still a lot of fun to be had with this movie, even if it gets fairly stupid at times.

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About a month ago, I realized not only that a lot of movies have the word “America” or “American” in the title, but a lot of them that do are phenomenal movies.
So in honor of Independence Day, these are 5 of my favorites, in no particular order.
- And yes I do get a lot of international viewership on this site. Sorry guys…
Not every “America”/”American” movie will be on this list either, I haven’t seen Team America: World Police or American History X, sorry… Feel free to leave your favorites in the comments below!
And these aren’t the greatest films ever made, just ones that I enjoy and would consider popping in tonight!

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Scream being my favorite horror movie, I was pleased to hear that it was coming back in a way in which I get to see more of it each week.
But I was also cautious that it was airing on MTV, and that they were bringing in a new Ghostface and…
Well it’s essentially a reboot at this point.
But nevertheless, I was cautiously optimistic going in and I thought was… Well it was okay.
There are aspects of this show that work so far, there are aspects that don’t, which makes it hard to just review a premiere episode but I’ll touch on some stuff that I want them to do over the course of the season and say that there are some things that are deal-breakers, others that aren’t.

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So the rebooted TV Scream Series follows a new motley crew of super attractive early 20-somethings playing teenagers (hey, just like the real Scream!) and there’s a new Ghostface on the loose slashing people up.
There’s also ties to an older murder case in the town, and a whole lot of other slimy and shady stuff going on with the characters.
And the characters are supposed to be the driving point of this show.

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Alright, now if you asked me a year ago before all the spelling-changes and trailers I would’ve said that Terminator: Genesis sounded super cool and could be a dark and gritty story like all the ones we seem to get nowadays.
- Like how the new Fantastic Four looks.
If you asked me a week or two weeks ago, I’d say, “okay friend, here’s why I’m extremely worried and don’t think that movie’s gonna be good…”
If you ask me after seeing the movie though I can thoroughly say:
I had a really fun time with the first half of this movie. The second half got a bit convoluted…
And you guys are gonna hear me use the word “functional” more in this review than I ever have on this site before… Be forewarned.

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And yes, I did put the bad trailer above not the spoiler-filled one.
Trust me, don’t even watch a trailer going into this movie. More on that later.
But anyways, Terminator: Jenny Smith is the story of the rebooted Terminator franchise!
It’s a very, very long and hard plot to describe but ultimately it’s a retelling of the events from the first two (especially the first) Terminator movies and then kind of fixing everything in the Terminator universe so they can work clean going forward.
And that’s what it’s about. Mostly…?