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Week of October 7, 2016
The key to contacting the dead is
gullibility. First up…
X-Men: Apocalypse
The worst part about being a mutant
teenager is your nocturnal emissions melt the bed.
Ocular emissions are also a pubescent
problem in this action/fantasy.
The world’s first mutant Apocalypse (Oscar
Isaac) awakens in the eighties and hastily ensembles an army of mutants
(Michael Fassbender, Olivia Munn, Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy) to help him
enslave the multitudes.
With Professor X’s (James McAvoy) mind
breached, it’s up to a batch of new recruits (Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Kodi
Smit-McPhee, Lana Condor) led by Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) to impede the
ancient evil before it can use Xavier’s telepathy to subjugate human and mutant
kind.
With a poorly designed villain perpetrating
a predictable bid for world domination, this latest installment in the tepid
franchise suffers from too many X-Men with too little character development
between them. Meanwhile, the overblown action scenes feel contrived.
Besides, according to the Bible: Jesus was
the first mutant. Red Light
The Purge: Election Year
If you really want the right to kill
whomever you want with no consequence become a cop in the United States.
Ironically, all law enforcement gets the
night off in this action-horror movie.
With the run for the White House in full
swing, purge opponent and presidential hopeful Senator Roan (Elizabeth
Mitchell) vows to stay out home during this year’s public culling to prove that
she is for the people.
New Founding Fathers’ candidate (Kyle
Secor), however, plans to use the night’s lawlessness to eliminate her. Now,
Roan and her bodyguard (Frank Grillo) must stay one-step ahead.
More politically motivated than purge
related, this second sequel in the anarchic series may be timely but its
lampoon of modern day Republicans is too on the nose and less interesting than
the mindless destruction happening outside.
Sadly, younger voters are more likely to
stay home on Election Day than on Purge Day.
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Bringing a date to a wedding is important
because it keeps the groom from hitting on you.
Awkwardly, the groom in this comedy is
their soon-to-be brother-in-law.
To avoid any embarrassment at the hands of
their loser sons, Mike (Adam DeVine) and Dave’s (Zac Efron) parents order them
to bring dates to their sister’s Hawaiian nuptials.
Placing an expense-paid offer online lands
the boys national attention and two party girls (Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick)
posing as a teacher and a stockbroker.
During their prize-winning vacation,
however, the bad girls drop their goody two-shoes guises and give the
irresponsible brothers a run for their money.
A raunchy yet run-of-the-mill rom-com about
unscrupulous characters saving the day in an unconventional way, Mike and Dave
delivers a few decent laughs thanks to its male leads, but ends up just aping
other wedding movies.
Moreover, a Hawaiian wedding is a great way
to bankrupt all your closest friends.
Yellow Light
***Cult Members Jacket ***
The Devil You Say
When attending a satanic ritual be sure to
bring an antacid for those spicy snacks they serve afterwards.
Mind you, the devil-worshippers in this
mystery-thriller conduct their ceremonies sans canapés.
For the last several years, Sally McMillan
(Susan Saint James), the wife of San Francisco police commissioner Mac (Rock
Hudson), has received a creepy gift in the mail close to Halloween.
Sally and her sassy maid (Nancy Walker)
thought nothing of the annual offerings until this year’s arrived: film footage
of masked men performing a satanic ritual.
Mac and his partner (John Schuck)
eventually uncover that the satanic sect (Werner Klemperer, Keenan Wynn) is
staking Sally out for their next sacrament.
This 1973 Halloween-themed McMillan &
Wife mystery movie of the week capitalizes on the cult/devil-worshipping fad of
the seventies with over exaggeration and a slapdash script.
Besides, real Satan worshippers in the ‘70s
wore make-up and played glam rock.
He’s a She-Devil Worshipper. He’s the…
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