Edge of Tomorrow aka Live.Die.Repeat.

Edge of Tomorrow - in which Tom Cruise illustrates what he has learned from both Emily Blunt and Bill Murray. Cruise is a military PR guy named Cage, who tries to get out of ground combat, and accidentally ends up deserting the World Military Force in England. The combat mission is against some scary af aliens, called Mimics, and they are winning the war for Earth. Bummer. Alright, so, Cruise ends up on a battlefield while his unit is getting wrecked, and he gets off this lucky shot and kills a super big and blue glowing mimic, but it backfires, like literally and the alien explodes goo all over him, killing him. Then he wakes up like 36 hours before, and is trapped in a Groundhog Day situation until he finds out it also happened to Emily Blunt, who is a military celebrity affectionately named the Full Metal Bitch. It is technically propaganda, but it is also badass. She helps Cruise train to fight the mimics, and they get a little bit further every day, but it is grueling, and possibly takes years. Cruise gets psychically connected with the mimic brain center, and learns its location through shared dreaming. This had happened to Blunt, but once she was injured and received a blood transfusion, she lost the connection and her save point was destroyed. Blunt stays with him every step of the way, although she does need to be re-convinced after every time Cage dies and goes back to his save point. Through much trial and error, they eventually get to the brain center and with some soldiers that were convinced that something weird was going on when Tom Cruise knew everything about them before ever meeting them, according to their perception of time. The Big Brain is under the Lourve, and the rogue mission to destroy it is tough, but they get to the brain and explode it, resetting time to and even earlier save point, but still within the timeline of the film.

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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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