Movie Guru Corey

                                       *photo from uproxx.com*      So, it has been about 5 years since the release of the last season of the show. For many people season 4 was the weakest of the bunch. So much so that creator Mitch Hurwitz and Netflix completely re-edited the season, which made it better, in my opinion. So, did the five years off help?      The show picks up where the last season left off. The entire season revolves around the fallout of the disappearance, or  perhaps, death of Lucille Austero (Liza Minnelli).  Michael and George- Michael ( Jason Bateman and Michael Cera) are still dealing with the fallout of George - Michael punching his father in the face.  GOB is on a mission to find himself, of sorts, after spending the night with Tony Wonder (Ben Stiller). He is now struggling with whether or not he is gay. Meanwhile...

             So as  May comes to an end, we start  June on a bit of a slower weekend.    First we have "ActionPoint", which stars Johnny Knoxville as a man that is attempting to save his theme park from going under. With Knoxville in the lead role we can expect goofy antics and some crazy stunts.   Next on the list is "Adrift", starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin. This story revolves around two young sailors that are in the middle of sailing to California when they get caught in a category five hurricane. How do you survive that?   To round out the the weekend, we have the action film "Upgrade" .  The film stars Logan Marshall-Green as man that is left paralyzed after a brutal attack on him and his wife. He made it, and unfortunately  she did not. He gets a chance for revenge, when he gets a chip surgically put in his back that gives him some interesting abilities.

    This week my choice is "Sisters Brothers". The story revolves around Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly).  They are career criminals, with Eli looking to get them out of the game and to start a convenient store. The story picks up with the brothers going after Herman (Riz Ahmed), a chemist prospector that has stole something from their employer.      What interested me about this film was Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly playing brothers. It is a very unlikely pairing that looks like it pays off. It is also a western comedy that looks good, without getting strange like "Million Ways to Die in the West". The film drops sometime in the fall.

                              *photo from Westworldwatchers.com*     So, I do apologize, for missing the last episode. I did put it aside in favor of "13 reasons why". Then I planned on doing it over the week, but I had some serious review fatigue. When it comes to the review tonight, I will focus more on this episode, with some throwbacks to the previous episode and see how it goes.    Episode six had many things to juggle this episode. This time around, they had all storylines to juggle in the hour of this weeks episode. When it came to the story of William ( Ed Harris), it focused on him and his relationship with his daughter. They have had a checkered past, to say the least, and it seems by the end of their night conversation, things were going to head in the right direction. When she wakes up though, she finds that her father has left without her. it will be interesting to see if th...

   We have come to the highly anticipated release of "Solo".  Now the question remains, was it worth all the fuss?  A quick back story, originally Phil Lord and Chris Miller were hired to direct the film and actually completed most of it, supposedly. One day we woke up to find out they had been let go, even though they were able to keep their executive producer credits. Soon after, it was revealed that Ron Howard was going to be taking over. The question we will have for a while, is how much of the film was reshot on top of what was left to do?     This film tells the story of how Han Solo meets his iconic friends Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian. It also set him on the path to becoming the   rebel fighter he does in the original trilogy.     I think my biggest plus for this movie is the fact that it has two different directors and the tone stays the same. In the recent time, there was "Justice League" catastrophe. With two different d...

   It has come to that time of year where we get our yearly Star Wars movie. This year we get "Solo",  the Han Solo origin story. There have been a lot of eyes on this film. It surrounds the replacing of Phil lord and Chris Miller with Ron Howard towards the end of production. A concern of mine, was the mixing of the two directing styles in the same film. The horrifying, recent example of this, was "Justice League".  There were disastrous results with that one.    On top of that, form the beginning there were a lot of people that were hesitant towards this movie in the first place. We will see what happens this weekend!

   For my trailer of the week there were a few good candidates. It is surprising that, out of all of the trailers I could not get a Johnny Depp movie out of my head. The movie has Johnny Depp as the lead investigator of the Tupac and Notorious BIG murders. The film also stars Forest Whitaker as a reporter looking for the truth.   The reason I chose this film, was simply that I watched the trailer, and I did not hate it. This does not happen a lot with Depp anymore.  The film is set for release on September 7th.