Nothing woke in this. Excellent HBO miniseries depicting soldiers in WWII in the Pacific. I'm no history expert so I can't speak to it's accuracy. Very dark, violent and graphic but realistic look at war, not for the squeamish. The only negative I can give this is the odd choice of Episode 3. The entire episode is spent on leave in Australia and while there is a few minor moments moments that affect some of the soldiers it generally comes across as out of place and almost pointless and entirely skippable. Otherwise I would say give this a watch if you can take the violence, blood and gore.

Pretty good horror action movie from 2012 but not without it's flaws. Half of the acting is good but there are some notable bad ones as well and there is some minor writing problems. There is buckets of blood and gore and all the FX are very well done. The story is good but I feel like I've seen something very similar to this before, though it's possible I might have actually just watched this already. While Evans is great in the role I feel like the villain is a little too invincible and able to pull off a bit too much. There is a very small amount of the girl power stuff in here but it's not too bad and I don't think it's worth giving it a woke score over. Surprised this never got a sequel as there is some potential to build on.

While I haven't read the book so I can't personally compare the 2 there are a good amount of articles and reviews out there saying this
is very different from the book. The acting is ok but everyone is unlikable or annoying. The plot makes little sense and spoilers follow.
Your wife is dying of cancer and wants to give all her money away so you just happen to find her exact lookalike twin down to height, mannerisms, speech and body size on Facebook. Your plan is to have her pose as your wife and sign something saying she is changing her mind. For some reason you decide to invite an investigative journalist onto the ship you are trying pull this off on. You put her up in a cabin accessible to anybody on the ship then are in said cabin coaching her without the door looked so anyone can just walk in and find you. As for woke there is DEI overrepresentation. One of the changes made in the movie is with the character Ben. I found 2 articles 1 saying he's white in the book and the other saying he's mixed race. Either way he is black here so we can get that important woke mixed race box checked. The other problem is in the book she is dating a different character and the Ben character is a background minor one. Here the boyfriend is erased and DEI Ben is now shoved into the story. There is also the laughable stick figure female head of security. All of the male characters are bad except for, you guessed it DEI Ben. As far as I can remember none of the female characters are portrayed as bad. I made it all the way through but it's a short movie and really not very good.

There's bad writing then there's this. I called it quits after 30 minutes so this is the review based on that. Basically a med students brother
is in a botched robbery and they need to sneak into the morgue to collect evidence to protect him. The acting is pretty poor by almost everyone. The exception to this is the mortician and the lead female. The FX are actually not too bad and the basic plot could of been serviceable if not for the just brain dead writing on display. So the robbery in question takes place with her brother as the getaway driver sitting in the parking lot in the car waiting for the other guy to come out and escape but without the car actually running. His partner is shot and they are stupid enough to have planned it all through text on their phones so his sister is going to help him break into the morgue to get the cell phone back. Never mind that the cell phone would of been evidence collected at the crime scene not sent to the morgue. They go to see a veterinarian who he gets illegal Adderall from. Let's ignore that vets don't and can't write Adderall prescriptions, it's not used on animals. Her plan is to use Propofol to make it look like she's' dead of overdose and get sent to the morgue. Propofol is used as an iv drip sedative that only works if there is a constant drip, once stopped you wake up in about 10-15 minutes so would never work. But of course it does. She gets into the morgue to find out the morgue attendant is selling organs illegally on the black market. So they are harvesting organs from bodies that have been dead at that point for hours. Sounds plausible. She finds her ex boyfriend who was shot and pronounced dead at the crime scene who is hooked up to an iv in the morgue for some reason and surprise he's actually alive and gets up and walks around. WHAT?? He was shot and lying dead at a crime scene sounded by police and medics than transported to the morgue how many hours late and just suddenly wakes up and grabs her arm? That was it for me. There had to be an actual effort to write something this stupid. As for woke there's a lot of DEI overrepresentation. The white female leads ex boyfriend is naturally black.

I have a weak spot for shark based movies and this was still a big disappointment. For fans of action war movies there is virtually none of that so despite the setting you will be let down. As a horror/shark movie however, well also a letdown. The movie starts with a group of recruits in
boot camp and these scenes for some reason they had them all acting like immature children. Actually the entire movie has them acting unrealistically and a lot of it is so silly it almost wants to be a comedy half the time. It's clear this was made on a very small budget, as all the night scenes are shot very dark and then the day scene conveniently has a thick dense fog bank roll in so you can't see anything. The shark while visually looking very well done they chose to do it with animatronics instead of CG. Normally I'm a fan of minimizing CG, however when doing something like a shark it just doesn't look good. It's painfully obvious it's not real in every shot as the shark is so slow and barely moves at all. There is a big over use of slow motion throughout the entire movie in general. Pretty much all the shark attack scenes are either done in slow motion or are plainly telegraphed and you can see them coming
far before it happens thereby nullifying any sort of scares or tension. They also decided to have the ships faulty air raid siren get stuck in the shark fin giving off a weird sort of screaming sound. This clearly supposed to be terrifying but just comes off as gimmicky and dumb. Now for the woke. The cast consists of a whole bunch of white male's and 1 aboriginal. You know where this is headed. Naturally the DEI is the main character and focus and the only one with any sort of backstory. He is smart, capable, good and all the white females love him. Race is naturally a part of the story with one of the white characters being a huge racist and hating him, and of course all the white characters seem to act like idiots or stupid children. There is another strange thing here that I wasn't going to mention under woke but it seems to be done on purpose so I think it might actually be. The very first scene of the shark
the DEI genius instantly says that it's a female because of it's size and the males don't get as big. This is based on him seeing only the head for about a second in the dark during an attack. All of them then always refer to the shark as 'she'. I may be wrong but it seemed like an odd unrealistic thing that nobody would care about in the moment and forced in just for some kind of gender nonsense.

Folk Horror? More Like Woke Horror.

This was terrible preachy woke garbage. An isolated community run by a religious pastor. The entire premise is an oppressed woman rises up against the evil patriarchy and kills all the men. Really. All the men are violent, abusive and evil and all the women are good, victims and abused. Even the closeted gay character is bad because he's hiding his true self. The acting is actually not that bad and the FX are decent enough. There's even some beautiful scenery and wonderful cinematography in certain shots. However pretty much all the shots with actual actors in them look terrible. It's like it was all done by someone walking around shooting it on their phone camera, I'm not sure what it is but it just looks fake and off. The creature as well looks terrible and is hidden most of the time by fast cuts and weird high contrast lighting making it look like just a black shadow.

Well that was a disappointment. A 70's horror film with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing should of been at least worth a watch. While the acting is indeed pretty good that's about all it has going for it. Most of the movie takes place on a train and it is a whole lot of nothing. There is very little actual horror, and the FX are lackluster to say the least, mostly consisting of white contact lenses and some blood around the eyes. Even the monster is very clearly just a poorly done suit. One laughably poor scene has a character very slowly and lightly tap a heavy duty chain and padlock with an axe only to blow it apart almost instantly. Oh well at least it wasn't woke.

This exact movie has been done many times before. A group of criminals hides out in a small house in the middle of nowhere after a job gone bad. They slowly succumb to paranoia and turn on each other. All the clichés are present in both characters and story. The acting and writing is fine, there's just nothing original here. Even the attempt to put a surprise twist on the end has been used too often in other movies. It's all just so dull. There's also the issue that for some reason it's shot very dark and with very little lighting, even in the middle of the day, I realize it supposed to serve a purpose but it gets to be a bit much after a while. The only thing that could be woke is the token black character but given the situation it's not unlikely. I was starting to get bored and not paying full attention after about 45 to 50 minutes so it's possible I missed something.

I found this on a list of best overlooked horror from the 70's. It has a high review score on IMDB and most reviews call it a great vampire movie. After watching it I have no idea why. It's very low budget, which is fine but there isn't much story and it is definitely not a vampire movie and it's barely even a horror movie. The whole story is this kid who thinks he's a vampire goes to live with his extended family who's uncle also thinks he's a vampire and believes he needs to save his soul then kill him. As far as I can tell though he's not, he's just a mentally ill serial killer who's uncle is crazy and reinforces his delusions. It's pretty slow moving with only a couple of stalking and kill scenes and none of it is scary. There are some decent blood FX for the 70's and there are some disturbing kills they are just very few. There is also weird scene transitions from color to black and white that appears to be his delusions of him in the 1922 Nosferatu film seemingly reinforcing that he's just crazy. It's still not the worst movie and it's somewhat watchable, just be prepared for a slower character study film and not full on vampire horror. Nothing woke.

I watched the first 2 episodes before calling it quits as this was cancelled after only 1 season only. It's pretty much an all female cast but given the story is a ten year reunion at a Catholic all girls school it makes sense so not going to ding it for that. There are some feminist comments and while I don't remember anything being said in the 2 episodes there
is a strong suspicion that at least 2 of the characters are lesbian, and I am guessing several others as well. There is also a heavy dose of DEI diversity casting in characters. This is supposed to be a comedy first and foremost with the apocalypse setting appearing to be a secondary only plot device to keep them all stuck in one place. As I said it's supposed to be a 10 year reunion making them in their late 20's but the writing and characterizations are firmly set in high school. Everybody
is annoying, unlikable, irrational and overly emotional. Nobody acts realistically for the situation they are supposed to be stuck in
and the all act like they are still in high school with petty stupid squabbles and instant mood swings if someone looks at them wrong.
Every single one of them is so stupid it's hard to believe anybody actually managed to graduate in the first place. All the humor is
of the annoying eye rolling characters screeching at each stuff so if you like that type of thing there's plenty here.