Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - in which Peter Quill (Star Lord) is interrupted while doing space hi-jinks with his motley crew by a Kurt Russel claiming to be his father. Ego (that's his name) is not lying, he really is Peter's dad, but Gamora doesn't trust him and neither does Drax. Drax, however, is distracted by Ego's pet empath with antennae. Rocket and Baby Groot and Nebula are stuck on a planet, fixing the ship. In the meantime, Yondu's crew does a mutiny because he is too soft on Peter, but that's because he feels paternal feels for him. Because he saved him when he found out what Ego was doing to the children Yondu had been smuggling for him. Side note: smuggling children breaks the Ravager code, so Yondu and his crew are exiled from Ravager business. The new crew finds the ship with Rocket working on it, and they eventually capture Rocket and Baby Groot, and Nebula is a natural leader, so the Ravagers just end up doing what she says. Yondu and Rocket are thrown in the brig while Baby Groot is tortured!

Meanwhile, Peter is connecting with his dad, and learning he is 50% celestial god, but then his father reveals that he was the one who gave Peter's mom cancer in the first place. Omg. Peter snaps out of his trance and immediately starts shooting Kurt Russell. Then its on, as Rocket and Yondu crash the scene after regaining control of the Ravager ship. Drax and Mantis are trying to help Peter fight Ego, and Gamora takes time to fist fight her sister Nebula for the last time. Its very satisfying. Peter sadly and nobly chooses to destroy the planet and Ego himself, and Yondu helps Peter escape, sacrificing his own life. His heroic actions were enough to earn him a Ravager funeral. Peter and Gamora are deciding to do Sam and Diane, and Rocket learned a valuable lesson about not pushing everyone away all the time. But probably still hiding behind sarcasm is fine.

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Death Wish

Death Wish (1974) - in which the justice system fails a man who lost his family, and he goes off the rails in finding personal justice. I mean vengeance. Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a husband and father and architect, who has a nice NYC life. One day, near the beginning of the movie, Paul's wife is murdered and his daughter is raped into a catatonic state, from which she will not likely recover. Sexist. Anyways, Paul is destroyed, so his boss sends him out to New Mexico, or another lawless state, for a 3 month long project. Paul does some recovering while he is out there, and is befriended by his big money client, with a big hat and big guns. Upon arriving back in NYC, Paul is disheartened to find his daughter in terrible condition, and his son-in-law coping poorly. There have also been no arrests in his wife's murder, as the police are very busy with a crime spree related to gang violence. Paul is a really sympathetic guy, and his pain is visible, and very real. So,...

Event Horizon

Event Horizon - in which sci fi space body horror gets very fucking real, and totally gross. First, Lawrence Fishburne is a space captain named Miller, and his first mate is Joely Richardson, and she rocks. Her accent is real. A bunch of space sailors are escorting science genius Sam Neill to the wreckage of a space ship. It wasn't just a space ship, it was a massive black hole generating machine, and it recently re-emerged around Neptune, and now its just orbiting, being spooky af. To give all the details, Sam Neill, AKA Dr. Weir, is having creepy dreams about his dead wife in his cryo/gravi-sleep pod before they even get to the abandoned wreck. Oh, its called the Event Horizon. So, once the crew rolls up on Event Horizon they get nervous, because its creepy, and a few people go out to investigate the empty ship. Miller orders Dr. Weir to stay aboard their vessel, and he doesn't do a good job of listening. As soon as the crew splits up, one young guy gets sucked into the g...

Raw

Raw - in which France has the grossest veterinary school imaginable, and vegetarianism is the thinking woman's solution to the broken Greek system. Some skinny girl goes to the same veterinary school her older sister is currently attending, and her bitch sister doesn't even help her move in to the dorm she is sharing with a guy. Albeit a gay guy, but I'm assuming not all of the men in this coed dorm are gay. The first night the hazing begins, the freshmen are herded out of their rooms by threat of violence, and all of their mattresses are thrown onto the front lawn. It takes a surreal turn into gross-cinema discomfort at the rave they are all taken to and our tiny protagonist runs into her mean sister and is peer pressured into taking some club drugs. Things are just starting to get weird. Some kind of creepy things are happening, but it mostly just reminds me of the lonely horror of my college experience, except I wasn't peer pressured into eating a rabbit kidney, ...

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