Be curious what your thoughts are after watching it.

Gia, did you see TERRIFIER 3 or are you planning on it?

Terrifier 3 was more of what we've come to expect from the franchise lol. It's vile nonsense, but these movies do succeed in delivering what the audience wants. The violence once again is absolutely disgustingly graphic - I actually do think one scene near the end is as bad as the infamous "bedroom scene" in the second one and it resulted in four people walking out - and the portrayal of Art the Clown is once again as hilarious as it is depraved. The added "sword and sorcery"-inspired lore actually gives the franchise some kind of geeky touch which shouldn't work, but somehow makes it stand out from your average slasher franchise.
I feel the Terrifier franchise is somewhat comparable to what the Friday the 13th franchise was in the 80's - even though the Terrifier movies are better films than the Friday the 13th ones, save for maybe the first one and the fourth. I do think that they'd do best to wrap it up with a fourth movie.

ALIEN: ROMULUS

Taking place between ALIEN and ALIENS, Rain (Cailee Spaeny) believes she's worked the required hours for her and her "brother" Andy (David Jonsson) to receive travel permits to leave their planet. However, the company she works for has since raised the required number of hours in order to obtain a permit and hers have since doubled, requiring another 5-6 years before she's granted a travel permit (although we're sure at that time, the required hours will be raised yet again, continuing the never ending cycle of her service). While a group of her friends discover a ship hovering above their planet, which turns out to be a space station, abandoned with fuel to get her to her desired planet (a 9 year journey), she agrees to flee her planet in order to secure her freedom. Once aboard the space station, they soon must fight for their lives against the Xenomorph. For some reason, I had a hard time getting into this from the start. It seemed to drag longer than it should have and while I'm not a huge fan of the ALIEN franchise, I had somewhat high expectations going in to this as I'd heard good things about it and I'm a big fan of Cailee Spaeny. Unfortunately, I just never connected with the film and it wasn't my cup of tea. Not as much action as I was hoping for and Cailee didn't deliver for me in a Ridley-esque type role. 5.5/10

WOMAN OF THE HOUR

Active serial killer Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) is a contestant on the popular TV show, The Dating Game. Cheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick) is the unfortunate lady who happens to pick Rodney as her date, unaware of his dark side. Unfortunately based upon a true story, the film does a great job at making the audience uneasy throughout the film and Zovatto does a great job as Alcala. He's personable and doesn't come off as a creep until it's too late. I'll give Kendrick props in her directorial debut but I'll be honest, I'm not surprised in her portrayal of Bradshaw. Kendrick and a lot of feminist nowadays have to be bad a$$ b*tches in every film. Strong female characters who can do no wrong if it weren't for men. Speaking of which, there's A LOT of 1970's misogyny plus male fragility displayed. I'm tired of the messaging. I'm tired of the preaching. Just entertain me, that's all I ask. In addition, there's a ludicrous subplot involving Nicolette Robinson as Laura, an audience member for the show who recognizes Alcala as having attacked and murdered her friend (or at least she thinks it, the film never confirms if she was indeed one of his victims). The reasoning for this subplot was two fold: give a minority more screen time and also to illustrate police incompetence (especially when it's a black, female who apparently no one seems to take seriously despite her pleas). The film looked better from the trailer but being that it's a Netflix movie, I'm not surprised anymore at the wokeness. 6.5/10

WOLFS

A dead body is found in a hotel room, what do you do? You call a cleaner to clean it up discretely. The only problem is 2 cleaners arrive to the same job, unaware of the other. This is the premise for WOLFS which stars buddies George Clooney & Brad Pitt. Clooney plays the older, more wise character who's been in the game a long time; while Pitt is the thorn in his side who has his own, unique method of handling these types of situations. Throughout, the duo are constantly contradicting each other like an old married couple. The friends obviously have an affinity for each other and it comes across on screen. They're having a lot of fun with this and so is the audience (not to mention it's a pretty funny script too). The film was really great for about half of its runtime but then they introduced a third character (Austin Abrams) to this tale that changed the vibe going forward. It wasn't as funny and any steam it had built up before then quickly dissipated. Without spoiling the movie, I think if the story would have stayed on the path it was, it would have turned out even better but this surpassed my expectations and was a fun ride. 7.5/10

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE

The final installment of the VENOM franchise, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom are on the run and being hunted. Eddie for the alleged killing of Detective Patrick Mulligan (Stephen Graham) and Venom by Knull, the creator of the symbiotes. The story finds them in Mexico, the Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas before their ultimate destination of New York City. I wasn't at all excited for this and for good reason: the franchise has been average and this is no exception. There's action scenes but the story between those sequences is at times painfully dull and slow. There's a little humor mixed with a few inaudible lines spat out by Venom. The franchise should and could have been better, especially with a star such as Tom Hardy attached. The original was my favorite of the series and let's see how long it takes for Sony to once again (disappointingly) attempt to cash in on this character. 5.5/10

CONCLAVE

The pope has passed and the cardinals of the Catholic church meet at the Vatican to elect a new pope. Dean Lawrence's (Ralph Fiennes) job is to ensure the voting goes according to their rules, without any outside interference, cutting themselves off from the outside world until the election is over. The film shows the process as well as the politics involved in selecting who will lead the Catholic church going forward. Well, if it was unclear before, this film just reiterated Hollywood's new agenda and target: Christianity. The finale of the film is blasphemous, being nothing more than a desperate and mockingly attempt to push forward a radical, dangerous, and leftist agenda! I'm not easily offended but the way the story plays out is incredibly laughable. It's disappointing actors that I respect such as Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow signed on to this spoof. With the following films such as IMMACULATE, THE FIRST OMEN, and now CONCLAVE all having been released within 2024 and their views and condemnation towards Christianity, be prepared to see more of this going forward and widely accepted by those who seek to demonize people of faith. 6/10

CANARY BLACK

Kate Beckinsale stars as Avery Graves, an international spy who, to her husband David (Rupert Friend), has a boring day job as a risk analyst. However, when David is kidnapped, Avery is forced to betray her country by stealing canary black, a blackmail list the government has compiled to keep foreign leaders in check from doing anything the US government doesn't want them doing. On the run from her own agency and with little time, Avery must make the impossible possible in order to save David's life. Kate Beckinsale kicking ass and taking names? Yeah, that's what got me to give this a try as Kate is a bad ass action star! Unfortunately, while this film started out interestingly enough, it soon became uninteresting fairly quickly. Beckinsale is believable as Avery but isn't given much to work with here with such a lackluster script. There's a reveal at the end of the film that was predictable very early on as the cast is small so how many people could it be? This had some moments with some of the action scenes featuring Beckinsale but overall, a disappointment (especially since initially it was better than I was expecting). 5.5/10

BROTHERS

Twin brothers Moke (Josh Brolin) and Jady (Peter Dinklage) have to pull off one last robbery together before they can retire and go legit. The problem is Jady was let out of prison early in exchange for completing this task and Moke doesn't want any part of it as he's since gone straight while Jady was away and also has a baby on the way. However, Jady convinces Moke to help him on this one last job. I really question Amazon Studio's production team as I've never been impressed with hardly any of their programming and this is yet another example of that. With a cast featuring Brolin, Dinklage, Glenn Close, Brendan Fraser, and Marisa Tomei you expect a better product than this. It's a comedy and what's the cardinal rule of comedies? Be funny, which this film is not. Most of the jokes fall flat and the only assumption I can make is Amazon must have thrown a lot of money at the cast because I can't see any other reason they would have signed on to this. Disappointing. 4.5/10

HERE

Told from the same singular perspective within a house, it follows the multiple generations of residents residing there. A FORREST GUMP reunion staring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and director Robert Zemeckis. It's an original and ambitious film but one that ultimately for me, wanted to seek another viewpoint at some point during the film. Being stuck in the same spot for almost an hour and 45 minutes got to be a little monotonous sooner rather than later. However, the de-aging technology used on both Hanks and Wright is the best I've ever seen to this point. It actually enhanced rather than took away due to it's awkward appearance. The story leads the audiences through a laundry list of emotions as well as historical events. There was one rather shoehorned message Zemeckis just "had" to get out there which I'll refer to as "the talk" (eye roll). Other than that, it appears Zemeckis swung for the fences with this attempt and while it may not even make it out of the infield, I applaud the effort. 6/10