Directed and written by Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers, the writer of Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist), this starts as Dodge Petersen (Steve Carell) and his wife Linda (Nancy Carell) learn that the asteroid Matilda is going to end all life on Earth. She abandons him and Dodge learns from his neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley) that the woman he’s always obsessed over, Olivia, wrote to him all the time and she had so much of his mail — over three year’s worth — including evidence that his wife had cheated on him. She’s broken up with her boyfriend Owen (Adam Brody) when he ruins her last chance to get back to London to see her family one last time. Yet Dodge knows someone who can fly her. She just needs to get him back home — along with a dog named Sorry that he wakes up and finds tied to his leg — to his hometown in Delaware.

This is a hard movie for me to watch, as we fall in love with these two characters as they fall in love with one another as they struggle through the end of the world, knowing that they will not survive the end of the world. What helps is the supporting cast, including William Petersen, Patton Oswalt, Rob Corddry, Rob Huebel, Gillian Jacobs, Amy Schumer and Martin Sheen.

I enjoyed it yet I’m unsure if I could watch it again. It was just too much emotion for me and felt true and honest, unlike other movies that use the end of the world for dramatic effect.

The Mill Creek Through the Decades: 2010s Collection has ten movies for a great price, including The American, MacGruber, The Dilemma, The Adjustment Bureau, Your Highness, The Thing, Contraband, Safe House and Black Sea. You can order it from Deep Discount.

The first English language film by director Daniel Espinosa  — who would go on to make Life and Morbius — Safe House stars Ryan Reynolds as CIA agent Matt Weston. Stationed in Cape Town, South Africa, he is placed in charge of the safe house where the CIA is interrogating the traitorous agent Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington). The safe house isn’t so safe and is soon attacked by a team of mercenaries, allowing Frost to run along with Weston. But who can the young agent trust?

The Macguffin is a device that contains evidence of corruption and bribery within the CIA, MI6, and other intelligence agencies, all put together from a report from Mossad intelligence. Everyone wants it and is willing to die for it.

If you enjoy these types of political thrillers, you’ll probably enjoy it. Critics hated the way the action scenes were shot, but it has plenty of drama at the end, as Reynolds and Washington have good chemistry.

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A few years ago, every time I tried to buy Lucio Fulci’s Contraband, Amazon sellers would send me this movie, which means that I own so many copies of it.

Instead of that gory crime film, this is a remake of Reykjavík-Rotterdam, directed by that film’s star Baltasar Kormákur and written by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners). It stars Mark Wahlberg as former smuggler Chris Farraday, who gets mixed up in a smuggling crime thanks to his wife Kate’s (Kate Beckinsale) brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones). This soon spirals into counterfeiting, stealing a Jackson Pollack painting, cocaine and death all around them.

This is one of those movies that proves that crime does pay. It has so much plot and so much happening that by the end of it, you are kind of exhausted by all of it, but then wake up later and wonder why. All of the reviews for it keep saying, “Well, it was a movie made to be released in January,” which gives it an open contract to not be good.

The Mill Creek Through the Decades: 2010s Collection has ten movies for a great price, including The American, MacGruber, The Dilemma, The Adjustment Bureau, Your Highness, The Thing, Safe House, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and Black Sea. You can order it from Deep Discount.

There have been bad ideas before and there will be bad ideas again, but the idea of making a prequel to a movie considered a classic like John Carpenter’s The Thing and using CGI when that movie was infamous for its volume of practical gore…well, look it’s just not a good idea.

Directed by commercial vet Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and written by Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Bird Box) this movie, if anything, tell us more about the two men chasing the dog and trying to shoot it in the 1982 film.

Dawn of the Dead producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman had such success with that film that they looked for other Universal movies to remake, convincing the studio to make a prequel instead of a sequel to The Thing. Newman said, “I’d be the first to say no one should ever try to do Jaws again and I certainly wouldn’t want to see anyone remake The Exorcist… And we really felt the same way about The Thing. It’s a great film. But once we realized there was a new story to tell, with the same characters and the same world, but from a very different point of view, we took it as a challenge. It’s the story about the guys who are just ghosts in Carpenter’s movie – they’re already dead. But having Universal give us a chance to tell their story was irresistible.”

Heijningen had been scheduled to direct the sequel to the remake of Dawn which eventually became Army of the Dead. When that got canceled, he was available for this, noting that his favorite movies were The Thing and Alien, which is why Mary Elizabeth Winstead is playing Ripley in this.

This movie really had a major issue to deal with: fans of the original probably were going to hate it and new viewers that had no idea of that film would be lost. It failed, as you’d expect.

I’ve really tried to watch this movie with an open mind. That’s impossible, to be honest. I belong to the group that loves the original, sees this as sacrilege and doesn’t want to even admit that this exists.

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Before David Gordon Green started remaking every horror movie you ever cared about, he was making cute comedies like this one, written by Danny McBride and Ben Best.

This is the journey of Prince Thadeous (McBride) and Prince Fabious (James Franco), the sons of King Tallious. After they defeat the wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), Fabious plans on marrying the virgin Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel) who he has just rescued. Thadeous skips the ceremony after hearing the royal guard, led by Boremont (Damian Lewis) insult him for his laziness. As he leaves with his friend Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker), Leezar attacks, takes back Belladonna and plans on having sex with her during the convergence of two moons. She will give birth to a dragon that will help him conquer King Tallious’ kingdom. Thadeous must help his brother or be banished.

Their quest is complicated when they learn that the king’s Knights Elite have staged a coup and joined with Leezar. What follows are episodes right out of an Italian sword and sorcery movie, like a tribe of Amazon warriors, a hydra creature, a labyrinth containing a minotaur, a quest for the Blade of the Unicorn and meeting warrior woman Isabel (Natalie Portman).

When you see the scene with Leezar’s three witch mothers, they are played by Matyelok Gibbs (Erik the Viking‘s mother), Anna Barry and Angela Pleasence from Symptoms, The Godsend and From Beyond the Grave (and Donald’s daughter, of course).

This movie was not well reviewed and James Franco has been said to outright despise it. I had fun, but as you know, I’ve watched so many some of the wildest barbarian movies that cinema has to offer.

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Hollywood has had a love affair with Phillip K. Dick, even if they rarely understand or make good movies of his books. Based on the short story “Adjustment Team,” this was directed and written by George Nolfi.

Brooklyn Congressman David Norris (Matt Damon) has failed to be elected to the Senate. While rehearsing his concession speech, he meets Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) and they have a passionate kiss which inspires him to deliver the kind of speech that gets one remembered. He never gets her name.

An agent is supposed to spill coffee on David but sleeps in, causing the politician to meet Elise again and get her name and number. That agent — Richardson — explains to David the existence of the Adjustment Bureau, an organization that ensures people’s lives proceed according to their Plan. David was to never meet Elise again, so he destroys her number and warns him that he will be erased if he reveals the truth. Oh yeah — the shadowy agents can also teleport into any doorway. This makes sense if you read enough Phillip K. Dick, a man who believed a satellite named VALIS was speaking to him.

David and Elise keep crossing paths because of remnants from earlier versions of the Plan in which they were meant to be together. Now, he is to become President and she is to be a world-famous dancer. Yet they must not be together. Who are we, the normal people, to doubt the plan?

So is the Chairperson God? Are his agents angels? Is this all just an Illuminati hiding in plain sight movie? Nolfi has said that the goal of this movie was to “raise questions.”

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Directed by Ron Howard and written by Allan Loeb, this is a film about the decisions that friends have to make when they learn too much. Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are best friends who are partners in an auto design firm. In the midest of their most impotant project ever, Ronny sees Nick’s wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) kiss another man (Channing Tatum). The dilemma — yes, the title makes sense — is what does he do next?

This is the kind of Hollywood movie where Vaugh can be married to Jennifer Connelley and James to Ryder and I guess we accept that these angels on earth can see something in them. If you can accept that fact, then enjoy the comedy. If not, perhaps see this as science fiction?

That said, if you’re expecting a slapstick comedy, this gets pretty dark, as Geneva fires back on Ronny, threatening to tell everyone that they once had a fling in college, which will ruin his friendship and business. This is all a movie parable to explain something very important to you that I wish I had learned: never start a business with people who you think are your friends.

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Directed by The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, MacGruber does what all SNL films do: stretch a short segment into a full movie. However, because this movie has a rich history of spy films and MacGyver to make fun of, it does much better than most.

Star Will Forte would tell The A.V. Club, “What you see with this movie is exactly what we wanted to do. It’s the three of us having a bunch of fun writing it, then having fun making it with a bunch of our friends—old friends and new friends. I think that fun comes across when you watch it. It’s rare that you get that kind of creative freedom.”

Basically, MacGruber is the greatest secret agent of all time, but he’s been retired ever since his archnemesis Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) killed his wife (Maya Rudolph) on his wedding day. Of course, he comes back. And oh yes, as I always say, hijinks ensue.

WWE wrestlers Chris Jericho, The Big Show, Mark Henry, Kane, MVP and The Great Khali appeared in this movie as past agents that have worked with MacGruber, which led to Forte, Ryan Phillippe and Kristen Wiig hosting Monday Night Raw. And one of the henchmen is remake Jason, Derek Mears.

I’m for any movie that has Powers Boothe as an authority figure and Kilmer as a villain who ends up getting his hand chopped off, machine gunned, blown up real good and then, as MacGruber prepares to marry the love of his life, pissed on.

There’s going to be a series of this on the NBC Peacock streaming service. I can’t wait. Hopefully it’s as much fun as this movie.

Strangely enough — and this feels like complete BS because there’s no attribution on IMDB — Kilmer and Forte almost ended up being on Amazing Race as a team, as Kilmer later stayed at Forte’s house for a few months after this movie and they became such friends that they watched the show all the time together.

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Anton Corbijn is probably best known for his music videos for bands such as Depeche Mode (“Never Let Me Down Again,” “Behind the Wheel,” “Policy of Truth”), U2 (“Pride (In the Name of Love,” “One”), Nirvana (“Heart-Shaped Box”) and so many more. He made the Ian Curtis biography Control in 2007 and has made several movies while still being involved in music, making two films about Depeche Mode, the concert movie Depeche Mode Live in Berlin and the documentary Spirits in the Forest.

Based on the 1990 novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth, The American finds George Clooney playing Jack, a gunsmith and contract killer, who is also known as Edward when he gets spotted, a fact that he finds him killing his lover Ingrid (Irina Björklund) to keep from being found out.

He leaves for Castelvecchio, a small town in the mountains of Abruzzo, where he begins a relationship with two women: a prostitute named Clara (Violante Placido) and Mathilde (Thekla Reuten), who asks him to build a special rifle. Yet at every turn, others are hunting him.

Jack/Edward regrets his life and killing Ingrid, so he confesses to Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) and tries to imagine a world where he can be with Clara, all while Mathilde readies to use the gun he made to kill him.

With allusions to the films of Leone and Don’t Look Now, director Anton Corbijn and writer Rowan Joffé have created an intriguing film with no real heroes.

The Mill Creek Through the Decades: 2010s Collection has ten movies for a great price, including Macgruber, The Dilemma, The Adjustment Bureau, Your Highness, The Thing, Contraband, Safe House, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and Black Sea. You can order it from Deep Discount.