Author: Derrick Murray

For my birthday which just recently passed, I decided to take a little hiatus from just about everything work-related. That included reviews, but didn’t include going to the movies! With a week of free time and a Regal’s Unlimited Pass, I decided to catch up on a few films I missed. Rather than attempt to do individual reviews for each of the 5 films (would’ve been more if I hadn’t messed up the times with the wrong theaters), I am opting to do a compilation quick review list. The reality is, most of the films have been out for at…

“Tiger King 2” is a missed opportunity, and fails to deliver on a narrative that’s worth investing in.

Be still my fat heart! I can feel my arteries clogging up just by looking at this monstrosity of peanut buttery chocolaty goodness. This year, Hershey unveiled their largest Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup ever made. It weighs in at 3.25lbs, and measures 9 inches long. It’s basically a laptop made out of candy. Oh, and the calories? The box says it’s meant to have 48 slices at 160 calories per slice. For those wanting to know the math, this whopping gargantuan sugar high tops out at 7,680 calories per box. Case in point: wear sweatpants to Thanksgiving this year. You’re…

Sometimes, you discover things like Kristen Stewart developing a gay ghost hunting reality series and you just have SO many questions. Without knowing anything more than that, everything about this is…suspect. This is a real project from Stewart herself. In an interview with the New Yorker, Stewart was asked about some of her upcoming projects, as her film “Spencer” is getting praise for her performance as Princess Diana. She revealed that she is hard at work on her first directorial debut “The Chronology of Water,” but also dropped a bombshell of an idea that revealed a gay ghost hunting show…

Like many of you, I have not had a chance to see “Eternals” early. I too will have to wait until the film hits theaters to actually see it and develop my own opinion. This is typically the argument that people apply to films they want to like but can’t reconcile their own biases with what the critics are saying. This often results in comments like “critics don’t matter anyway” and “no one trusts Rotten Tomatoes” or “they all have it wrong, they haven’t seen it yet and I love it so everyone else is wrong.” We continually see this…

“The Harder They Fall” is a masterful film, packed with purposeful visuals and story worth seeing through until the very end.

It is a bittersweet trailer drop for fans of the acclaimed Spanish series “Money Heist.” For some, it is exciting to see how it’s all coming to end and how our titular anti-heroes may or may not make it out alive. For others, it is clear that there is a definitive ending to the beloved show, and the trailer seems to indicate that we haven’t seen the last of shocking, final moments for beloved characters. “Money Heist” has made it a staple to delete fan favorites without a warning, a sort of proverbial “Game of Thrones” approach to a heist…

“Titane” is an examination of the human condition that uses extreme violence and unexplainable events to touch on loss, grief, delusion, and our need for companionship that is often found in the most unlikely of places.

It seems there will be no escape from sequels to films no one asked for. Despite the original sequel “All Saints Day” not really hitting the mark or clout of its predecessor, creator Troy Duffy and the film’s main stars have confirmed that a third “Boondock Saints” movie IS actually happening. I know, I’m as shocked as you are. Even more so that this isn’t even hearsay or rumored to be “in the works.” The third installment has the original creator and both Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flannery set to return. It has also has financial backing, with Impossible…

For the first time is this spooky season series, I have eliminated the phrase “Top” from the category heading. This is mainly because this list more objective than the others, and has no real category or basis for its inclusion. Also, the films that you might think SHOULD be on this list aren’t necessarily excluded as much as I just needed to limit it to 10 instead some indefinite or infinite number. Like most of the lists in this series, I don’t go very back into the decades to pull favorites. Not because older films aren’t good or stand the…