Keon Kobra's Movie Review Strike!

Its a 1980's British Punk Rock Teenage Alien Love Story adapted from a Neil Gaiman short story and Directed by the guy who created, directed, and embodied  "Hedwig and the Angry Inch' and I'm a sucker for it. Its set in the London suburb of Croydon in 1977. Its a nostalgic spitball of a movie, its a little bit dumb, but look, its got Nicole Kidman dressed up like Siouxsie Sioux. Its got energy, alien sex cults, a manic pixie girl and a worthless teenage punk rock boy. I suppose its more absurdist than out and out dumb, its not really camp, I don't know exactly how to describe the over the topness of this movie. Its set during the queen's silver jubilee and this movie is as lovable as one eyed Corgi. Elle Fanning has a palpable Mariel Hemingway thing happening as the rebellious American Alien cult member punk rock girl, And the lead actor Alex Sharp, who plays punk rock cartoonist boy Enn is adorable. Lots of charisma from an energetic and massive suppor...

Upgrade is a brutally awesome little high concept action movie. It felt very late 80s early 90s in tone. Basically a recently paralyzed macho guy in the not too distant future gets implanted with a chip that can control his body. The chip also has the personality of Iago mixed with Hal from 2001, and it knows Kung fu. Lots of blood and gore. It's a damn good time. It feels almost 'Scanners' level (good and bad). And the lead Logan Marshall-Green is quite a charismatic physical actor who can actually carry the movie.  Its a Blumhouse movie, they did Get Out and the Purge movies and a whole lot of shlock horror movies that I could not justify paying to see. Apparently this movie only cost 3-5 million to make, but it looks way way way better than its low budget. I support the filmmaking concept of these low budget films. If you ask me there should be way more of them. This is a tradition and its what all good independent film comes out of. So if Blumhouse are the new Ro...