Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels - in which Hilary Swank tells the real story of Alice Paul, the suffragette who was jailed as a POLITICAL PRISONER in 20th century America. There is a ton of modern music (Sarah McLaughlin) and weird cinematography/edits to convey how contemporary the story of women suffrage truly is. Okay, so Alice Paul has a hot friend named Lucy Burns, and they historically formed the National Women's Party after parting on bad terms with Angelica Huston and Anna Howard Shaw and the NAWSA over political differences (aka how to attain suffrage, state by state or constitutional amendment). From their Washington DC office, Alice and Lucy recruit a bunch of women in the high stakes world of the real world, where feminism and political activism can get you locked up. BUT NO ONE IS GAY, McDreamy is a reporter Alice Paul has romantic lunch with several times, but no sex because she's a Quaker. Not because she's gay. Because she's not, okay? Whatever, the graphic masturbation scene spliced with learning to drive a car, all under mother-fucking Stumbling Towards Ecstasy, are you kidding me??? Moving on, Alice Paul and her friends picket the Woodrow Wilson White House until WWI were declared, then they keep doing it, and are locked up for made up infractions, and taken as political prisoners in 20th century America. Lucy Burns was the first person to get arrested for suffrage, but Alice Paul was later arrested, force fed while she was on a hunger strike, and effected real political change through much suffering. This movie is historically accurate, so that's good. But silly, somehow. Then the 19th Amendment passes congress, and everyone throws their hats in the air! Cue more gay music.

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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...

Arrival

Arrival - in which aliens come by the earth to make some new friends, and it goes okay. First, some scary ships have descended on Earth, and there's a bunch of them, like 30, and they just look like hovering rocks. The militaries of the world are cooperating with each other, except the jerks like N. Korea and Russia, and the other new axis guys. So, the plot happens when Forest Whitaker comes to find Amy Adams in the college where she works, this is while the alien invasion is new, and she is convinced to go help communicate with the aliens. She gets there and makes friends with physicist Jeremy Renner, and they work together to decipher the inky messages the squid-aliens transmit. The messages are all visual. They work on this together for months, hanging out in the ship with the aliens, struggling to communicate. Amy Adams starts having visions, or dreams, of the future, where she has a daughter, who dies of cancer, and she knew her daughter would have cancer and die, but she ...

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