Pha-Q woke's Reviews
30 minutes was enough for me. Mediocre to bad acting and very little story. In those 30 minutes virtually nothing happened. In a movie that's only 93 minutes long that's is some very slow pacing. Everything screams low budget amateur hour, from sets, to the camera angles. The director even gave himself a part in the movie if that tells you anything. The psychic's acting in particular is bad. She's an annoying smug irritating person. As for woke, this is small town America with too much DEI overrepresentation. The sheriff is a white male who seems to be a lazy alcoholic, his desk officer is an obese black female, and he hires another officer who is a black male. All the white male's I saw in the first 30 minutes are bad. The aforementioned alcoholic sheriff, the white trash loser and the white male pedophile woman beater. I think we can see where this was going. Best to pass on this one.
Created: 02-02-2026
Another average slasher from the 80's. Pretty generic and nothing really new. The acting and writing is average, the kills are basic with little blood and gore. It will pass the time as background noise but that's about it. Nothing woke.
Created: 02-02-2026
While I did watch the first one I really don't remember it too much. On one hand the animation is pretty good and the voice acting is well done. The humor gets a little too goofy and corny some times but there are some actual good laughs and there's no denying it's just a decent somewhat fun movie. However there's not getting around how incredibly woke it is. There is an insane amount of minority overrepresentation in all the background human characters. White
is a huge minority in this movie. While I didn't see any rainbow mafia anywhere there is a huge feminist push here as well. The original group is back with male wolf who is mostly a bumbling fool, male shark who panics at everything and gets overemotional, male piranha who is always angry and raging out, male snake who finds a girlfriend that betrays him and his friends and he spends the rest of the movie simping after her and telling her how amazing she is at everything and female tarantula who is amazing and has no faults. There is also the female foxy who is the governor and an amazing fighter and literally kicks wolfs ass. We
have the giant steroided out female angry police commissioner. Then there's the new group of thieves who are all amazing. The female bird who tricks snake into capturing his friends, giant steroided out female wild boar and steroided out bulging female kitty. It's so distracting and over the top with the agenda even if it doesn't actually push it in the story. If you can get past all the woke nonsense there is a slightly above average movie here.
Created: 02-01-2026
I struggled to finish the first episode of this train wreck. Marketed as a comedy/crime/mystery. There is no crime/mystery here. It's all comedy and none of is is funny. This is network tv stupid silly sitcom levels of humor. There is not one likable character in the bunch. The lead female detective is the most annoying irritating one of them all. The story is so bare bones it could barely fill out a movie much less an episodic ongoing series. I never laughed once in the entire 1st episode. This might of worked if the lead detective wasn't so horribly miscast and the comedy toned down to a less corny silly subtle humor. Is it woke, of course. Every DEI box gets checked. Black, Asian, Indian and a couple characters I'm pretty sure will turn out to be gay if I wanted to suffer a couple more episodes to confirm. The black male character is obsessed with the mixed Asian/white female. The lead detective is a black female who is naturally brilliant and her incompetent idiot white male partner. She is acts and talks straight out of the ghetto and couldn't be more unprofessional. If you look at the cast list it is dominated by even more DEI characters than I saw in the first episode so I'm sure it gets worse as it continues.
Created: 01-30-2026
Slightly above average 80's slasher. Nothing woke. Basic killer returns years later to take revenge on a group of people that wronged him story. Masked killer than stalks and kills a group of friends throwing a party on a moving train. The acting is average, the kills are ok if a little bland. Lite on the blood and gore. It'll pass the time but that's about it.
Created: 01-29-2026
Generic rather boring slasher from 1981 starring Linda Blair. A college hazes new pledges my making them stay in an old house where a father
killed his family but they never found 2 of the bodies. The 2 surviving family members have been living hidden in the house ever since
and kill everyone. The acting is what you would expect from something like this and while it's rated R I would say it's actually fairly tame by todays standards. Minimal blood and all the kills are kind of bland. The story doesn't make much sense either as this school does this hazing every year yet nothing ever happens until this year, even though the 2 have been hiding there the entire time. Nothing woke.
Created: 01-28-2026
Why do I keep watching these movies. This yet another Kate Beckinsale streaming dung pile. She's back with her raspy deep smokers voice again and still don't know how that happened. The acting and action scenes are terrible. Claiming it's based on a true story is so far removed from the truth it might as well be a lie. She has her daughter kidnapped and becomes a depressed protester for the next 5 years from what I could tell. Then randomly joins 2 men that do child recovery in exchange for them finding her daughter. Why would they need the help of an 90lb white trash soccer mom? We don't know. Who are these 2 guys that are doing this? We don't know. They seem pretty inept at their jobs and stand out as suspicious everywhere they go. They also seem to just travel around the world grabbing kids in foreign countries in public during the day while randomly pulling guns on and assaulting local civilians. The writing makes no sense and is laughable. Her daughter is kidnapped in the middle of the day in a busy large store and nobody sees anything and there are no cameras anywhere. As for woke the main characters husband is Syrian so we have the usual mixed race box checked. Though it actually serves a purpose in the story this time. The DEI token black character. I only made it to the 40 minute mark but I wouldn't be surprised if by the end the tiny woman is kicking large male ass.
Created: 01-26-2026
A very good studio Ghibli film from 2010. I would say this one is family friendly and safe for kids. The usual great animation and voice acting. I watched the English dub for this one. The story is pretty good and there is nothing woke here. While the main story focuses on an independent female character she's not super powered and flawless. All the characters are well rounded both female and male. I would recommended this one is for adults as well if you like animated films.
Created: 01-26-2026
Strange movie from 1992 out of Japan and studio Ghibli. Great animation as you would expect and the English dub that I watched was
ok. However at times it's very silly and childish and others there is some odd sexual innuendo and an entire storyline about the main character who appears to be in his 30's going after a 17 year old girl. There is also a lot of sexualization of this same 17 year old character. I found the entire movie a bit creepy to honest. It's even odder given all the girl power stuff alongside it. The story really isn't even that great in my opinion. I would say this definitely has woke feminism in it. The 17 year old female is constantly claiming she's discriminated against because she's a woman and she is said to be a better smarter worker than her brothers. The entire family that shows up to basically rebuild and engineer his airplane is all the women from the family. Even if you like studio Ghibli movies I would say this is one to skip.
Created: 01-26-2026
Another movie based on a book I haven't read so don't know if it's an accurate adaptation. Basically a drama following the tragic life of a man and his ability to adapt to changes set mostly in the early 1900's until the 1960's. It's a beautifully shot film with excellent scenery and the acting is great as well. There's not really a lot of story in the traditional sense other than just following this man's life experiences. There are a couple of minor issues. For some reason it follows the current trend of having
the characters speak in low tones and whispers and in some cases barely audible 'mush mouth' making it really hard to hear what they are saying without turning your volume up. I don't know why this a thing now, it's terrible. They also decided to shoot in a 3:2 aspect ration instead of usual widescreen. While it does give the film a more older look to it with most of it taking place in open outdoors and forests it feels like you are really missing out on a lot of beautiful cinematography. What should feel like a wide open spaces now feels like closed in and more claustrophobic. Once you get used to it it's not a big dead but I feel like this was not a great decision. Is it woke? I guess a little though the time periods make this a little harder to judge. It takes place during the railroad and
logging boom and deals a little with Chinese immigrants that were here for work. There is a disparaging comment about Chinese illegals being
mass deported and a scene with a group of white men attacking and throwing an immigrant off a bridge. He is then traumatized and sees the
immigrant in his dreams. There is also a weird scene where a black character randomly kills a religious white character in revenge for killing
his brother over race. This type of stuff may of happened around then but it feels a little forced in though the story is about tragedy following this character wherever he goes so I'm not really sure. These are minor issues and not the focus of the movie and still worth watching. Be warned this is not a feel good happy movie, it is a sad depressing one, but very well made and acted.
Created: 01-25-2026