Sense of Dread

  Oh man, where do I begin with this 90's classic...? Last Action Hero  was directed by John McTiernan ( The Hunt For Red October, Die Hard, Predator ) and stars Austin O'Brien  as Danny, a young movie fan who, with the help of a magic ticket, is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie hero, Jack Slater (action megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger ), and has to help Jack stop the bad guy! Let's start by saying what everyone is thinking...this is an Arnold film so obviously it's packed with action movie comedy and cheese. It's campy in all the right ways. It's got a script that makes you groan and laugh. It's got a kid playing the action star's sidekick...but what kid back in the 90's who was a massive fan of the Arnold movies didn't wish they could be a sidekick to the main man himself? Yes, I do think Arnold was the greatest action star of the 90's...(sorry Sly...) and yeah, my cousins and I would pretend we were action h...

  M3GAN is a science fiction thriller directed by Gerard Johnstone  and was written by Akela Cooper and the infamous James Wan , and is about a robotics engineer (Gemma) at a toy company who becomes the legal guardian of her niece, Cady. After Cady's parents die in a tragic accident and under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair her latest invention, a life-like doll prototype named M3GAN, in an attempt to resolve Cady's problems and give Gemma more time to work on her latest inventions. As expected, bad things happen, and M3GAN begins to have a will of her own. As much of a fan of James Wan as I am, this is definitely under the umbrella of his campier works (think Dead Silence , Malignant ). If you're going in to this thinking you're going to see high art, think again. This is 90 minutes of cheese and camp and, as I found out first hand, lots of creepy killer robot fun. First off, the film is very low on substance. The performances by Allison Williams (Gemma...