I have never heard of this director before this. While the movie is in English it's country of origin is listed as a joint production with Netherlands, Norway and Belgium. The story is a travelling Magician books a night in a hotel and the next morning he finds he's trapped inside a maze of corridors and tries to find his way out in an increasingly weird environment and strange occupants. This is one of the most oddly bizarre, weird and strange movies I've seen in a long time, and I loved every insanely crazy second of it. This is very reminiscent of 80's 90's Gilliam, Lynch and Cronenberg. It reminded me a lot of a twisted dark Alice in Wonderland. The cinematography and sets are excellent with great acting and an incredible performance from Crispin Glover. While there is humor I wouldn't really call it a comedy. I would say it's a mix of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. This will definitely not appeal to everyone and I am probably in the minority on this one but if you enjoy any of the directors I mentioned give it a try and be prepared for one hell of a twisted experience.

This was a surprise for a movie from the U.K I'd never heard of. Basically a middle aged loser and his friends refusing to grow up while battling drug addiction and a recurring pattern of self destructive behavior and violence. He gets arrested and has 6 months of probation to turn his life around or face prison time and lose his wife and kid. While it's all done in a very comedic way it also deals with some very realistic problems. I've known people like this including the wife that just can't seem to get out of a bad relationship and just keeps giving him more and more chances despite constant failures and refusing to change. So while it does deal with some very serious material this is a dark comedy at heart and I personally found it hilarious with excellent comedic timing and laugh out loud moments. The acting is good and the writing is tight and well thought out. I would highly recommend this if you enjoy
self aware English humor. Just be aware it's extremely vulgar and not for clean family viewing. As for woke there is maybe a bit much for DEI casting but the characters are shown to be good and bad. There are few woke comments but they seem to be more making fun or using it for comedic purposes.

This is a Dutch slasher horror movie. The general idea is a group of people pick on the wrong family and it turns out badly, sort of. The villains here are a family of 3 white male pig farmers, that's it. The 'hero's' are a radical violent terrorist animal rights group. You read that right. The hero group consists of 5 people 1 blue haired violent white feminist, 1 white female, 1 violent white male, 1 calm generally decent Indian male and 1 calm generally decent black female. Not off to a good start are we. Our hero group breaks in and vandalizes the farm then kidnaps 2 of the farmers and proceeds to mutilate one of them then torture, mutilate
and murder the other one. Then when the farmers get the upper hand to take revenge our group of terrorist are suddenly the victims and have to survive the night. These types of movies can work when done right, this isn't it. The entire film never changes perspective and seems to desperately want us to root for the terrorists. The problem is
they are so despicable, insane and just downright evil. The farmers on the other hand are never shown to be doing anything wrong other than in the eyes of the self righteous group. They snap and take revenge only after they are attacked and one of them tortured and murdered. It's a shame because this is a well made film. The acting is decent and the
FX are very well done. There are buckets of blood and gore with a couple of really brutal scenes. It's watchable for horror aficionados who can look past the politics.

The previous review is pretty much spot on so I wont waste a lot of time on it. The voice acting isn't bad and I didn't mind the animation like some did. But this is not canon and is just made up feminist fan fiction. It's girl power fantasy with a Mary Sue lead. We are told right from the start how amazing she is and reminded of it constantly. She's smarter, always right and better at everything than the men. The final fight scene with her against Wulf is actually comical it's so bad. I was bursting out laughing at the absurdity of the fight. While I did watch the whole thing I actually found it pretty boring as a whole and don't really see any point to watching it. Even if you know almost nothing about Tolkien's world it still just isn't very well done.

Another low budget indie action film. It's a basic seen it before revenge movie that would of been right at home in the 90's dollar bins.
Oil worker is on his way home for his wedding with a rescue dog he just found and took with him. On the way home he stops at his estranged
father's house who is on house arrest with an ankle bracelet and 2 officers watching him. Ankle bracelet seems a little pointless if your under constant guard but ok. Then as he's driving the dog in the backseat throws up and he stops at a rest stop to clean him up. A truck pulls up outside and a group of guys comes in and randomly beats the hell out of him. He comes to and takes his dog to the local vet and tells her the dog is hit with something even though it seems fine with no visible wound. The vet pets him and says it's too early to tell if he will live because there is extensive scarring from previous injuries. Really? No examination just by petting his head you already know that? Wow that's a damn fine vet there. He gets a room and decides to stay until the dog is ok. He looks like he barely got into a fight much less beat to hell by a group of guys but seems to develop instant ptsd and jumps at every noise and every person he sees causes panic attacks and delusions. Then it really all unravels and the writing goes off the rails. This is a random attack and none of these people have ever met before. This group of guys then find out he's alive and decide to go after him and kill him. Why? No idea. Most of this movie turns into characters doing stupid things for no real reason. If someone tries to kill you and you
are standing 5ft away from the drivers side with a shotgun as they are escaping do you shoot them or stop and shoot at one of the tires? You guessed it shoot that tire then chase them as they drive away. They crash into a pond and are about to drown. Do you wade out into the pond and try to save him until you remember it's one of the group that beat you up then let him drown? Yes you do. I mean trying to kill you is not as bad as beating you up apparently. I gave up around 45 minutes when the house arrest father casually knocks out the 2 cops and cuts his ankle monitor off with a knife to go help his son. For woke there is a little too much DEI for small town Kansas including the good black sheriff, the restaurant owner and what looks like maybe half Asian veterinarian. The white hick deputy is of course bad and the group that randomly attacked him is naturally all white good ole boys. The acting while not terrible is about what you would expect from this type of movie. Your tolerance for lazy bad writing will affect if you like this or not as it's not the worst and somewhat watchable.

I had heard this was woke and bad but I was surprised at just how bad and how woke this actually turned out to be. I made it through
2 episodes so this will cover those first 2 episodes. First of all be aware this has virtually nothing to do with Resident Evil other than
stealing the names from the game and having zombies. The entire story is told with two different time frames. Current post zombie outbreak and past before leading up to the outbreak. Current is any generic zombie apocalypse story you've seen before and past is oddly an annoying melodramatic teen angsty CW show with irritating pop music.

Episode 1-The acting is terrible, it's the first thing you will notice, the CG is pretty bad as well. The DEI casting is insane. Did the white people all die? There seems to be every other representation but white people are an extreme minority. Our hero is a black female involved in a mixed race relationship of course. Why not. We are introduced to race swapped black Wesker (white in the games) and his twin daughters, 1 black and 1 mixed race white/Polynesian. Wait what? We are given some lazy 5 sec explanation how that's possible then quickly move on. While we are at it
Wesker in the games has no daughters but a son. I'm putting that in the woke column as gender swapping. Jade (our black twin DEI hero) spouts some racist anti white comments. The adult version of Jade is a Mary Sue character, she knows everything and can do anything. Teenage version is a terrible angry, aggressive unlikable character. Actually both sisters are rather unlikable and annoying and this is who the entire show is built around. The writing is as bad as the acting. One of the first scenes has our DEI hero being chased by a horde of zombies, as one of them catches up to her and tackles her to the ground the rest of the horde
that are right on top of them swarms over her and finishes her off. Ok makes sense and not a bad start right? Well it would be if this show didn't have lazy incompetent writers. Instead when she's tackled and laying on the ground fighting of the zombie the rest of the horde just suddenly stops and starts shambling around aimlessly right next to
her without attacking while she fights of the zombie and escapes. In the past the two sisters are able to break into Umbrellas high security using a digital cell phone message of Weskers voice. That's the extent of their security. No guards anywhere, or any other security they just get in and wonder all over at will. Episode one ends with Jade taking a running flying leap over a cliff and it's where episode 2 starts-

That cliff appears to be about 40ft at least and she falls and crashed on top of a bus in front of another horde of zombies and just gets up like nothing happened and takes of running. Those zombie just slowly turn to look in her direction then just stand there waiting for her to start running before giving chase. As she's saved by another black character and clinging to the roof of a car they are fast approaching
a narrow opening with spike place to kill whatever's on the roof. Rather than just letting go and rolling of the top she just lays there yelling for the driver to stop. In the past somehow a single usb stick pugged into a random pc inside Umbrella is able to wipe out all hard drives and security cameras for the entire facility in about
10 seconds. At this point our Umbrella girlboss is introduced and she Spanish. In her first scene she gets into an argument with her white lesbian partner. Girlboss, lesbian, Spanish and mixed race couple, that's a lot of woke points. The scene of her arguing is pointless and only there to make a statement. Later in the episode when she has
her second scene the first thing she's asked is 'how's your wife" just in case we forgot she's a lesbian. There is a self taught hacker high school kid on a laptop that manages to bypass Umbrellas firewall and access the entire system in about 10 seconds. At this point I'm wondering why Umbrella even has security. The acting in the second episode actually gets worse as does the DEI casting. Almost no white people at all anywhere and if one does show up they will turn out to be bad or stupid, every single time. 2 episodes was it for me as this was not surprisingly cancelled at 1 season only and there was no reason to continue torturing myself any further.

Nothing really woke here. Much like chapter one this isn't so much a terrible movie as it is mired in mediocrity and bad writing. This starts out where the first one left off and it had a lot of promise. The first 30 min or so are a throwback to classic slashers of the 70's and 80's with the survivor being stalked in the hospital. This does have the cliché empty hospital with no one around but that's a staple of these types of slashers so can't really complain to mush about that. However once she leaves the hospital the writing starts to fall apart. The entire premise to this franchise as a whole is random senseless violence by strangers. But here they feel the need to give them all backstory by way of flashbacks scattered through the movie. It's just not necessary and goes against the
entire point of the franchise. There's also the problem that the killers identity is telegraphed very early on who the killer really are so there is no mystery there either. The acting is ok, and the first part in the hospital is genuinely disturbing and creepy but after that there's really nothing much to see. The kills are run of the mill and should of been far more brutal to give more impact to the senseless violence killers. It ends with a to be continued in the middle of a scene so there's no resolution to this part either. I made it all the way to the end so it is somewhat watchable and after this much will be back for part 3 just don't expect mush going into this franchise reboot.
So for the bad
writing-some spoilers ahead............early on one of the killers is run through the leg with a pitchfork yet this scene is immediately forgotten as the character is running around not limping afterword's like it never happened. Then there is the boar attack scene, probably the worst most pointless sequence in the entire movie. She would have been mauled and most likely dead if attacked by a wild boar of that size. They even went so far as to give the boar a flashback origin scene for some reason.
After the attack she is dragging her leg struggling to stay upright then 2 scenes later barely limping like she has a mild sprain.

You can tell very quickly where this was going right at the start. It opens with a CIA team spying on the movies villains. The team is made up of 3 white males 1 black male, 1 Asian male, 1 white female and 1 Indian female. Way to check the DEI boxes. The Indian female is of course the one in charge and is a total girlboss. Naturally the villains are white and there are the usual feminist 'badass' females characters everywhere. The op is compromised and all the males are easily and quickly
killed off while the girlboss is superhumanly invincible and amazing. We are then introduced to the POTUS John Cena. Once your done laughing at the absurdity of that bit of casting we meet the black Prime Minister, never mind there has never been a black prime minister. Naturally the president is a complete buffoon and an unqualified joke and ex-actor who is an abrasive loudmouth who only cares about popularity. It seemed to be trying to make fun of Trump but honestly I'm not sure if it's that or just the U.S. in general. The prime minister on the other hand is smart, intelligent and capable. Some of the acting is pretty bad, the action scenes are poorly done and the jokes just aren't funny. The DEI casting in general is through the roof and white people are a minority unless their villains or stupid. I couldn't take any more and gave
up about 30 minutes in.

Nothing woke. This is a micro budget indie horror movie. My first thought was the acting is terrible but actually it's not so much the acting as the line delivery. It's almost like they used every first take, it's very stilted and awkward. The story is barebones and even though the movie is only 80 minutes long it still feels like it drags on a bit as there's just not enough really happening to fill the runtime. It's a basic demon possession story with nothing really new. The writing is ok and the FX are generally pretty well done except the for maybe the Demon but it has very little screen time so it's not that bad. The sets are really well done with a dirty grimy feel to everything and there are a couple of very creepy disturbing shots though generally I would say it's not that scary. Overall it's watchable if you don't mind the low budget feel and bad line delivery just don't expect a lot out of it.

It only took about 10 minutes to see how bad this was going to be and I still struggled along to the 40 minute mark. There is DEI way overrepresentation of minorities. Black, Asian, Spanish strong feminist women, this has at least one of each. The small Spanish female 'badass' was well on her way to full girlboss when I gave up. The acting isn't so much bad as the dialog and writing is awful. Nothing makes any sense within any coherent story narrative, characters just show up and we don't know who they are, things just happen that make no sense or are never explained. The whole thing feels like a heist movie parody. Everything is so over the top, silly and just ridiculous. As an example this is the first 10 minutes of the movie-Our group is in the middle of the heist and the movie is setting up the characters, then a car pulls up with a white ginger male, his Columbian wife and their mixed race daughter. The daughter says her dad works there so assuming an employee,
otherwise we have no idea who these people are. The father notices a car that's not supposed to be there and peeks in the back door and sees the robbery. He runs back to the car and tells his wife not to call the police, pulls out a gun and says he's going to rob the thieves. What!? He then gets into a shootout with them grabs the money and tries to escape, with his wife and daughter in the car. Wahlberg's character is apparently superhuman as he has no problem keeping up with a speeding car on foot as it speeds away smashing through fences and onto an active horse racing track to get crashed into by some really bad CG horses. Wahlberg of course follows, keeping up easily. The car then speeding along the track has a horse run up and over the car (not jump, run) hood to trunk while not breaking any windows or denting the car. The car then still speeding along slams into a jockey rocketing him up and over the car just to jump up like nothing happened and get slammed into by a horse that for some reason is chasing the car. I'm not making this up I swear. Wahlberg meanwhile running along in front of hundreds of people and cameras all over the track with his mask pulled down shoots someone then proceeds to pull his mask up over his face. It's so absurdly stupid and dumb it feels like it could of been
a Monty Python movie. This is in the first 10 minutes remember and it doesn't get any better. With an hour and twenty minutes still to go I wasn't wasting any more of my time with this.