Ratings Central - Movies

  The Invitation was a movie that kinda' came out of left-field for me. I had heard nothing about it, seen nothing about it, which is semi-unusual for a film with a theatrical release at least. None-the-less, tickets were discounted, so my fiancé and I went to see it. I love horror, this was apparently a horror/thriller. Could be good. From here on, spoilers. Photo by University of Maine The movie by its-self wasn't actually terrible; I've easily seen much worse. Having said that, if it wasn't discounted, I would not have gone to the theatre for it. Easily could have been a direct-to-home release. The main issue the movie had in my opinion, was that it was distinctively cut into three sections, and not like beginning, middle and end. What I mean is the first half hour of the movie is dedicated to learning the characters and presenting what appears to be a ghost story of sorts. I like haunting movies and stories, so I was interested. The second-third of the movie was thi

I love the MCU. I love how integrated the stories are. Having been a comic book collector and lover of that media, I don't always care for the things Marvel or Disney change. Still, I do understand most of these changes based on making something that the general audience will not only understand but actually like as well. I didn't care for Black Widow, The Eternals, or Shang-chi so for me, I wanted, no I needed a film to bring me back to the MCU. We're a few films into phase 4 now, and there doesn't seem to be any real build-up to a "big bad" like Thanos. We've had teasers of big enemies in some of the Marvel shows but nothing concrete yet. Surely we'll see something in the Multiverse of Madness right! Right? Right. About that. Photo via The Direct Let's go ahead and say I enjoyed the film, but I didn't love it. I wasn't in awe of the imagery of the Multiverse. I wasn't shocked or taken aback by most of the moments or events within the

To say the very least, I'm a bit of a horror fan. Jason, Michael and Fred are my main guys like most horror fans, but Ghostface was never far behind them. I still remember when Scream was released back in the '90s and it was such a fiasco. Yeah, we'd all seen slasher films in the past, but none of them had been as creative as Scream yet. Scream was really the first non-comedy/horror to push the Meta of horror movies right into the viewers' faces. A "Whodunnit" plot mixed with a new iconic killing machine and the saga was born. The original trilogy followed all the steps you would expect from a trilogy. Ironically, these steps were even told directly to the audience during the 3rd film.  Photo by Variety Then, the hiatus. Scream was one of the "big" horror franchises to actually pump the breaks after the 3rd film. A bold move to say the least. Nowadays, this would never happen. Production companies are way too greedy to let something simmer like Screa