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R. Lee Ermee

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A New Beginning - in which 4 young people are dodging the Vietnam draft, maybe, and the Hewitt-compound-adjacent slaughterhouse is shut down for 1969 health code violations. Leatherface has an Eddie mask until he finally kills some dick and wears his wet face. Gross. Everyone dies, but not fast enough.

Lego Batman, John Wick 2

John Wick 2 - in which poor Keanu is just trying to get his life back in order, but he is accidentally turning into John Constantine cause the Eastern European devil is there. Then he gets bullied into killing a friend of his, but she won't let him do it and slits her own wrists first - bam! Its awesome and sad. Then he kills everyone. Everyone. Bigger dog, scragglier hair. Lego Batman - in which Lego Robin accidentally tricks Lego Batman into adopting him, and adorably helps with the mission. Lego Joker outsmarts Lego Batman, with the help of Lego Harley, of course, and get himself punished to the phantom dimension. Lego Batman is excluded from Lego JLA parties. Lego Batman and Lego Robin have to fight all the bad guys Lego Joker brings back with him. Even Kong is there. Also Lego Barbara Gordon is the new commissioner and work with Lego Batman as Lego Batgirl.

Lion, Witch, Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Chronicles of Narnia - 1988 British BBC mini-series in which a serious queen, a super cool puppet Lion, a desirable wardrobe entices 4 extremely  Wartime British children for different reasons. Stayed close to the book, to my vague and swiss cheese memory. Nice fur coats, well meaning but useless beavers.

Jackie Chans

SuperCop - "Meet the cop who can't be stopped" Backstory: in Hong Kong it is known as Police Story III. Jackie Chan plays Kevin, the "Supercop" widely respected by all forms of law enforcement. He is enlisted to save or abduct a gangster's wife who is in official court custody probably. It gets very complicated as soon as he leaves the academy he visits to guest train and also sincerely ladder fights. Helicopter stunts ALL ACROSS THE CITY wow! Assisted/comedically and romantically foiled by Michelle Kahn rocking some sweet undercover little sister clothes. First Strike - in which Jackie Chan is sent to work with Americans in mainland China, and gets mixed up with Russians and has an adorable polar bear hat but no coat. He seems to get trapped by the Russians, maybe, and his uncle is in the movie again.

Sicario, Experimenter, and Faults

Catching up, while I still remember them... Sicario - in which Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro are trying to stop Mexican cartels from trafficking drugs underground, there are bodies hidden in the walls and treachery hides behind every corner! Good but uncomfortable. Experimenter - in which Peter Saarsgard plays the doctor at Stanford who conducts the infamous Stanford experiments. Winona Ryder is the female researcher, love interest and sweet and sincere. Surprising: people experimented on were happy to have been a part of it, results were widely contested. Faults - in which Mary Elizabeth Winstead is stuck in a cult, and an old, sad man tries to de-program her using boringness. May have stayed in cult, didn't finish.