Movies I Watched in 2020

 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Bad Boys

Bad Boys II

Bad Boys for Life

American Son

Crawl

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Ready or Not

Mike Wallace is Here

Yesterday

Good Boys

Ad Astra

The Hustle

Man of Steel

Batman v Superman: Ultimate Cut

6 Underground

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

The Two Popes

Unstoppable

Playing it Cool

The Layover

The Talented Mr. Ripley 

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Parasite

Stuber

JoJo Rabbit

Justice League

The Laundromat

Clash of the Titans

John Wick 3

Hereditary

21 Bridges

Jumanji: The Next Level

Jay and Silent Bob: Reboot

Ford V. Ferrari

Code 8

The Invisible Man

The Banker

Uncut Gems

The Kitchen

Men in Black: International

Bloodshot

Togo

Contagion

Transformers

Star wars: Rogue One

Back to the Future

Back to the Future Part II

Risky Business

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Reign of the Supermen

El Camino

Casino Royale

Quantum of Solace

Back to the Future Part III

Love Wedding Repeat

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Skyfall

Spectre

Black and Blue

Extraction

The Hunt

Dangerous Lies

The Way Back

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Transformers: The Last Knight

The Gentlemen

The Mule

White boy Rick

Gemini Man

Man of Steel

Richard Jewell

Chasing Amy

Bumblebee

Dogma

The Foreigner

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)

Ma

Just Mercy

Cop Out

Jay and Silent Bob: Strike Back

The Roomate

Sleepless

The Bling Ring

Spenser Confidential

Snowpiercer

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition)

Star Trek

Fractured

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Matrix

Star Trek Beyond

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Edition)

Hamilton

Nacho Libre

Castle of Cagliostro

You Don’t Nomi 

1917

In Search of the Last Action Heroes

Memento

Greyhound

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Charlie's Angels

Insomnia

The Prestige

The Old Guard

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Episode IX)

Double Jeopardy

Crimson Tide

U-571

Inception

Castle in the Sky

Swiss Army Man

The Escort

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons

An American Pickle

The Great Mouse Detective

Harriet

Interstellar

Dunkirk

Superman: Man of Tomorrow

Skin: A history of Nudity in Film

Next

42

The One & Only Ivan

Dracula Untold

Shaft (2019)

The King

Fantasy Island

Black Panther

Paterno

Amistad

Dune (1984)

Batman

The Outpost

The Conjuring

Like a Boss

Batman Returns

Annabelle

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Eurovision: The Legend of Fire Saga

Power of Greyskull

Batman Forever

Hocus Pocus

Catwoman

The Conjuring 2

Annabelle: Creation

The Witches (2020)

They Shall Not Grow Old

Batman Begins

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Trial of the Chicago 7

The Nun

The Curse of la Llorona

The Dark Knight

Holidays

Easy A

Sonic the Hedgehog

The Dark Knight Rises

Underwater

Annabelle Comes Home

The Hunt for Red October

Joker

I Am Not Your Negro

The New Mutants

Jingle Jangle

Wonder Woman 1984

Movies I Watched in 2019

Chappaquiddick

Ant-Man & The Wasp

Life of Pi

The Fast and the Furious

Lockout

2 Fast 2 Furious

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Venom

300

300: Rise of an Empire

The Equalizer 2

Fast & Furious

Hunter Killer

Fast Five

Happy Death Day

Fast and Furious 6

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Mile 22

A Simple Favor

The Hate U Give

Green Book

The Meg

The Girl in the Spider's Web --

Furious 7

Interstellar

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

The Fate of the Furious

Bohemian Rhapsody

Free Solo

Captain Marvel

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwold

Triple Frontier

Breaking In

The Incredibles 2

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible II

Tully

Instant Family

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Mission Impossible 3

Justice League Vs The Fatal Five

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

The Dirt

Backcountry

Hellboy

Shazam

Mission: Impossible Fallout

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Endgame

Vice

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile

Creed II

Fighting With My Family

Happy Death Day 2 U

John Wick

Long Shot

John Wick 2

Godzilla: King of the monsters

Aladdin

Toy Story 4

Robin Hood

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Dragged Across Concrete

Miss Bala

Annabelle: Creation

Escape Room

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Superman Unbound

Escape Plan

The Mechanic: Resurrection

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

Apollo 11

John Wick 3

Hail Satan?

Bumblebee

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Alita: Battle Angel

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

It: Chapter Two

Hotel Mumbai

The Upside

Hustlers

Beirut

Pet Semetary

Traffik 

Overlord

Joker

The Oath

The Intruder

Child’s Play

Us

Little Monsters

Halloween (2018)

The Best of Enemies

Midsommar

Terminator: Dark Fate

Star Wars

Angel Has Fallen

Age of Adeline

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Knives Out

Christmas with the Kranks

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Brightburn

Gifted

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

Movies I Watched in 2018

Dave Chappelle: Equanimity and The Bird Revelation

War For the Planet of the Apes

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Iron Man

The Incredible Hulk

Iron Man 2

Batman Forever

The Truman Show

Batman Begins

Dunkirk

Chris Rock Tamborine

The Cloverfield Paradox

Captain America: The First Avenger

The Avengers

Black Panther

Iron Man 3

The Polka King

Hitman: Agent 47

The Dark Tower

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Thor: The Dark World

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Roman J Israel, Esq.

Darkest Hour

Pitch Perfect 3

The Shape of Water

The Post

Boss Baby

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

The Greatest Showman

Pacific Rim

Guardians of the Galaxy

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

American Assassin

Blade Runner 2049

Pacific Rim Uprising

Blockers

Ant-Man

Despicable Me 3

47 Meters Down

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Epiaode VIII)

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay

Kong: Skull Island

Captain America Civil War

Dr Strange

All the Money in the World

Wonder Woman

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Tangled

The Wizard of Oz

Den of Thievea

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Downsizing

Batman: Ninja

Thor Ragnarok

Avengers: Infinity War

Beowulf

Deadpool

Deadpool 2

I, Tonya

Spider-Man

Molly's Game

Ingrid Goes West

Spider-Man 2.1

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Spider-Man 3

Monsters University

Batman: Assault on Arkham

The Amazing Spider-Man

Jurassic Park: The Lost World

Black Panther

Man of Steel

Alien: Covenant

X-Men

Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut

The Death of Superman

Godzilla (1998)

Murder on the Orient Express

The Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Any Man & The Wasp

Ocean's Eleven

Set It Up

When We First Met

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Ready Player One

Mission Impossible: Fallout

Rampage

Ocean's Twelve

Game Night

Like Father

Predator

Batman v Superman Extended Edition

Justice League

Ocean's Thirteen

X2: X-Men United

X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men: First Class

The Wolverine

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Rogue Cut

X-Men: Apocalypse

Logan

Ocean's 8

Venom

The VVitch

Constantine: City of Demons

The First Purge

Three Identical Strangers

Skyscraper

Tomb Raider

The Grinch

Conspiracy

Apostle

Won't You Be My Neighbor

Office Christmas Party

Crash Pad

The Promise

The Hurricane Heist

The American Meme

Outlaw King

Game Over, Man

Tag

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Crazy Rich Asians

A Quiet Place

Deadpool 2: Super Duper Cut

The Predator

Bird Box

BlacKkKlansman 

Night School

Demolition Man

I got a free copy of Demolition Man from flixster awhile back, and I just not got around to watching it.

Now I know why it was free. It's awful. If you like the 90's Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd movie, you may enjoy Demolition Man. The premise is thus, a crazy cop catches a crazy killer in psuedo 1996 and they are both sentenced to a cryo-freeze. The crazy killer is awoken in 2032 and only one man can stop him, the same cop who caught him years before. Sylvester Stallone plays John Spartan, our crazy cop, while Wesley Snipes plays killer Simon Pheonix. Its here in this film that you can see the beginnings of Stallone's Expendables character Barney Ross. Same gruff demeanor, same black wardrobe, same black beret.

Pheonix and Spartan (what comic book-y names right?) awake in idyllic future in 2032. Everything bad for you has been outlawed. Salt, spices, tobacco, alchohol, cursing, and even sex are longer allowed. Crime is virtually non-existent, so much so that the cops here don't carry guns but stun batons, and also don't know the 3-digit codes that cops use. So when crazed maniac Pheonix wakes up, they don't know how to handle him, because they don't do real police work past fining people for cursing. That leads them to wake up John Spartan for him to catch Simon Pheonix.

The action stuff is pretty 90's action fare. Nothing extraordinary, by today's standards pretty pedestrian. What is more interesting is this 1993 version of the future in 2032. Cars drive themselves, toilet paper no longer exists, every restaurant is Taco Bell (emerging victorious in the franchise wars), kimono inspired casual wear, as well as voice activated everything. Also, there is no more kissing or physical contact. Sex happens through two virtual reality headsets, not through physical means. It's a very detachd future and our big gruff Sylvester Stallone stands out against it. Beneath this idyllic society is a Mad-Max like underground who cook burgers with rat meat but also have salt and beer, things the word above does not. I thought the most interesting things about this world had to do with the future and would have liked so see a different film where instead of an action hero, he comes out and deals more with the politics and problems of this future world. Throw Wesley Snipes' over the top character out the window and move on.

Like I stated above, if you like Stallone's Judge Dredd, check this out. If you don't, don't bother with this film unless you want to visit this wacky future.

2 out of 5 Stars

Insidious: Chapter 2

One of the great horror movie suprises from the last couple of years was Insidious. The movie was eerie and frightening without relying on gore the way the Saw films have used to death. What was also cool was it's totally off the wall and original premise. That dead spirits could posess the bodies of those who can walk the astral plane. They live in "The Further" a spirit world that kind of lives in the same space ours does. That's how we can see the spirits and they can see us. Hauntings are simply our world crashing into theirs.

Insidious: Chapter 2 picks up almost immediately after the first film. Rose Byrne's character is being interviewed by the police about the events of the first film, which provides a nice recap for those who saw the first film when it came out in 2011, but also for people just coming into Chapter 2 as their first Insidious film. It's hard to discuss the plot of the film, since it completely spoils the cliffhanger of the first film, but let's just say things are not all right with the family who believe they've just lived through a terrifying ordeal.

Our family is living at Josh Lambert's mother's house while the cops investigate their residence, since a character died there at the end of the first film. As they start to come down from the hauntings, new ones start. Not the same sprits, but similar things. Seeing things in the mirror, children's toys going off in the middle of the night, loud noises, etc. But Renai Lambert (Rose Byrne) thinks there is something wrong with her husband Josh, and his mother goes to find our ghost hunting characters from the last movie to find out how to stop the disturbances.

Wan proved he was a master of the horror genre with the first Insidious, and he continues the same style with this movie. It's very well done, with lots of twists and turns that don't feel recylced from the first film. It trully feels like a second chapter of a single story and not a typical horror sequel. Check this movie out, it is very well done.

4 out of 5 Stars

The Conjuring

Another James Wan film! It seemed like The Conjuring and Insidious: Chapter 2 came out back to back, but they were really months apart. Also, both star Patrick Wilson. Even though they are both horror films, they are entirely different.

The Conjuring focuses on Ed and Lorraine Warren who where paranormal investigators in the 1960's and 1970's. This film focuses on one particular tale, one "that's never been told before." While the Insidious films exist in the modern day and have nothing to do with religion, The Conjuring exist in the vein of The Exorcist. The Warren's are intensely Catholic, with Ed Warren the only "demonologist" recognized by the Catholic church. Lorraine is a clairvoyant and can feel things just by touching them, whether it be people or things.

The Perron family moves into an old house in New England and soon after they get settled, they find out it is haunted. Carolyn Perron visits one of the Warren's college lectures and implores them to take a look at her house. They don't want to, and they almost write her off with "most things have a logical explanation". I found this strange, as the Warren's were the premier paranormal investigators at the time, so why would they write this woman off so quickly? They visit the house and immediately find out that it is the epicenter of a lot of hauntings and mysterious deaths over the last 150 years. As you can probably guess, after this they work to purge the house of these evil spirits and demons and go through a terrifying ordeal.

One of the things I like about James Wan's style is that keeps everything on a realistic bent. You're always feeling like this could happen to you. He never takes the audience for granted, and lets them in on any secret, so that they always know what is happening, and at the same time manages to suprise them at every turn. James Wan is a true modern master of horror, I hope he finds time to return to the genre after Fast and Furious 7. If you liked Insidious check this out. And if you liked The Conjuring check out Insidious.

4 out of 5 stars

Carrie

I rented the 2013 remake of Carrie and I liked it! I've never seen the original 70's movie, or read the book, but I enjoyed this movie! Now, it's not the most terrifying movie I've ever seen, but it does use suspense very well. And even though I knew the premise of the movie and what happened at the end, I couldn't help feeling sorry for Carrie, as portrayed by Chloe Grace Moretz. Carrie is about a young girl, raised by a fanatically delusional religious mother, Julianne Moore. She is stuck wearing very traditional homemade clothes (long sleeves, long skirts, etc), and is constantly teased by her classmates, one girl in particular. While this happens, Carrie gets her first period in the locker room and her telekinetic powers begin to emerge. As they emerge Carrie feels more sure of herself. We see her transformation from shy young girl to teenager who is discovering her inner strength, as well as her powers. Another journey that I thought played against convention was the hot blone (Gabriella Wilde) being sympathetic to Carrie. She was the hottest girls in school, the lead cheerleader, but not the main bully. After the first bully encounter this girl became sympathetic to Carrie and stood up for her, but always without Carrie knowing.

Chloe Grace Moretz gives a very likeable performance. I always felt sorry for Carrie. Even when she stopped beinga victim and became the victimizer, I cheered her on. This might have to do with the modern day setting with the facebook messages, cyber-bullying, etc. I think that's what keeps this film relevant today, is the modern update. I liked it. I know not everyone did or might think the original is better, but this film makes me want to read the book, or visit the original film, which is what a good remake does.

3.5 out of 5 Stars