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***DISCLAIMER*** The following review is entirely my opinion. If you comment (which I encourage you to do) be respectful. If you don't agree with my opinion (or other commenters), that's fine. To each their own. These reviews are not meant to be statements of facts or endorsements, I am just sharing my opinions and my perspective when watching the film and is not meant to reflect how these films should be viewed. Finally, the reviews are given on a scale of 0-5. 0, of course, being unwatchable. 1, being terrible. 2, being not great. 3, being okay. 4, being great and 5, being epic! And if you enjoy these reviews feel free to share them and follow the blog or follow me on Twitter (@RevRonster) for links to my reviews and the occasional live-Tweet session of the movie I'm watching!  I don't care how bonkers these films get or how over-the-top the action finds itself, they are always gonna get my money! F9:  The Fast Saga – 4 out of 5 I’ve said it before on my blog, but I

Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo were nominated together for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) at the 84th Academy Awards, which was ten years ago. They were nominated for Bridesmaids (2011). It got another Oscar nomination but it wasn't up for Best Picture. Yet, it should have been because it was one of the best films of that year. Wiig and Mumolo are obviously good writers and well-trained comedians. Bridesmaids was such a high bar that they set for themselves that it would be hard for them or anyone to reach that level again. This film certainly doesn't. There are some funny things about it, but it doesn't feel like the smash that was Bridesmaids . This film is going for something different, tone-wise, than Bridesmaids . Strangely, this film feels like it's trying to be funny and that it's trying too hard. Bridesmaids had its obvious gags and over-the-top scenes but it was funny without feeling like it was trying to be. Bridesmaids felt more natural, more real-

  Name - The Suicide Squad Director - James Gunn Runtime - 132 mins Platform - In Select Theatres and HBO Max James Gunn is a deranged maniac, in a good way. The Suicide Squad, the second 2021 offering by Warner Bros. and DC Comics, is quite easily both DC and James Gunn at their most unleashed. Now I realize that by stating that, I am alienating at least a quarter of the audience who loves Gunn for his PG-13 offerings for Marvel (Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2). This isn't Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, not by a mile. If anything The Suicide Squad is Gunn's irreverence dialed up to 11, the weirdness and gross out humour of The Toxic Avenger coupled with a big budget Hollywood production, and a cast of characters who are truly expendable, because as the name The Suicide Squad suggests, not many people are walking out of this movie alive. Looking at the above roll call, anybody would be under the misconception that this is a large ensemble and thus narrative-wise it wou

The Suicide Squad (2021) This is what the DC Comics adaptation should have been the first time. An exhilarating trailer did not quite translate into an exhilarating final cut for 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” thanks to some common studio interference. Five years later, second’s time a charm. Whereas chaos reigned in the editing room for the hot mess that even director David Ayer himself disowned, writer-director James Gunn’s do-over/sort-of sequel “The Suicide Squad” is full of controlled chaos and feels exactly like the movie he wanted to make. It’s all very much Gunn, the offbeat dude who gave us “Slither,” “Super,” and the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies  on the Marvel side, and he brings a freewheeling, rambunctious, weirdo energy—and lots and lots of over-the-top gore—that feels just right for this material. Viola Davis is back to being ruthless and nearly popping a blood vessel while playing government official Amanda Waller. She assembles a team of bad-to-the-bone prisoners for he

***DISCLAIMER*** The following review is entirely my opinion. If you comment (which I encourage you to do) be respectful. If you don't agree with my opinion (or other commenters), that's fine. To each their own. These reviews are not meant to be statements of facts or endorsements, I am just sharing my opinions and my perspective when watching the film and is not meant to reflect how these films should be viewed. Finally, the reviews are given on a scale of 0-5. 0, of course, being unwatchable. 1, being terrible. 2, being not great. 3, being okay. 4, being great and 5, being epic! And if you enjoy these reviews feel free to share them and follow the blog or follow me on Twitter (@RevRonster) for links to my reviews and the occasional live-Tweet session of the movie I'm watching!  Space Jam:  Cashing in on Nostalgia. Space Jam:   A New Legacy – 2 out of 5 Okay…so, full disclosure, I’m not the biggest fan of Space Jam .   I never saw it growing up and only recently checked i

***DISCLAIMER*** The following review is entirely my opinion. If you comment (which I encourage you to do) be respectful. If you don't agree with my opinion (or other commenters), that's fine. To each their own. These reviews are not meant to be statements of facts or endorsements, I am just sharing my opinions and my perspective when watching the film and is not meant to reflect how these films should be viewed. Finally, the reviews are given on a scale of 0-5. 0, of course, being unwatchable. 1, being terrible. 2, being not great. 3, being okay. 4, being great and 5, being epic! And if you enjoy these reviews feel free to share them and follow the blog or follow me on Twitter (@RevRonster) for links to my reviews and the occasional live-Tweet session of the movie I'm watching!  Next up, a movie about the spinning tea cups! Jungle Cruise – 4 out of 5 In 2004, Disney made the Pirates of the Caribbean:   The Curse of the Black Pearl .   I initially wrote off the film becau