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Deadpool & Wolverine Definitely Worth The Watch (No spoilers)

August 19, 2024August 20, 2024 Serpentorslair Staffaction movies, Deadpool, Deadpool and Wolverine, Disney+ movies, DVD collection, family movie night, Marvel Endgame, Marvel franchise, Marvel humor, Marvel movie, Marvel previews, Marvel success, Movie Reviews, movie theater affordability, Netflix vs DVDs, old school DVD, pandemic movie industry, post-credit scenes, theater experience, upcoming movies, Wolverine0 comment

Story By Mitchell Smith Hello everybody, l had a chance to go see Deadpool and Wolverine last weekend. It brought everything and more for what we have become accustomed to out of a Marvel movie. Action, humor, music, and those tear jerking moments. The past several years have been bumpy with a pandemic, writers strike, and adjusting to the overall cost of things today. It’s not always affordable to take your family to the theater. It’s still an enjoyable thing every now and again. It was fun seeing previews of…

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Get the skinny on “The Rise of Skywalker”!

December 22, 2019December 23, 2019 Serpentorslair StaffMovie Reviews, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker0 comment

I think and therefore I have an opinion. I think that the worst thing to come from the Disney trilogy or the DT as those who love to make acronyms for everything say is not flying frozen Leia. It is not a “Mary Sue” ( God I hate that term and any other so called tropes.) Rey, It is not Reylo, it is not Galaxy’s Edge as a shopping center/thrill ride.It is division.There is a long standing rift in the community of Star Wars fans. All based on opinion, nostalgia,…

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Get The Skinny On ‘THE JOKER’!

October 6, 2019October 7, 2019 Serpentorslair StaffDC, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Movie Reviews, The Joker0 comment

I think that the reason that Joker has been deemed so controversial is because it holds up a mirror and forces you to look at yourself. I think it also taps into the question of what is reality? How fragile is society? How much of what we believe to be true is just our own vision our own experiences? The truth here is what we see in the movie the Joker is what we want to see. If we want to see a movie that could spur catastrophic events that…

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Get The Skinny on ‘ROCKETMAN’ (Spoiler Warning)!

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 Serpentorslair StaffElton John, Movie Reviews, Music, Pop Culture, Rocketman0 comment

Elton John, I was too young to remember him or too young for him to impact me. I do remember his music videos from the eighties and of course The Lion King Soundtrack. He is still standing. I went expecting (whoops) a documentary still autobiography or something like that. What you actually get is a Broadway play. It opens with Elton in his orange horned devil outfit. Elton is walking down a hallway and joins an addiction meeting. From there we start to see his past. Reginald, at a very…

Get the skinny on ” The HappyTime Murders”!

August 26, 2018August 27, 2018 Serpentorslair StaffBrian Hensen, Melissa McCarthy, Movie Reviews, Muppets, The HappyTime Murders0 comment

In 2015 ABC ran a Muppet series that lasted just one season. It was more adult in nature and had darker themes than any of the films and especially the television series.Three years later, not learning their lesson, a new muppet production arises. Trying to delve into 10th grade humor hoping that the novelty of puppets acting like humans would sustain an entire feature. It does not.The HappyTime Murders revolves around a plot of someone killing off puppets who were the stars of a television series that is going into…

Get the Skinny on “Ready Player One”!

April 1, 2018April 2, 2018 Serpentorslair StaffMovie Reviews, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg0 comment

Ready Player One is by far one of the best movies I have seen in a great while. Spielberg is a master storyteller and Zak Penn is right up there with him. Of course all they did was adapt a book, but, they created a great movie. Full disclosure I have not read the book. Wade Watts, this is the first of many great Easter eggs. The entire movie is an Easter Egg. If you were born in the seventies and were a kid or teen in the eighties this…

Get the Skinny on Star Wars The Last Jedi!

December 16, 2017December 19, 2017 Serpentorslair StaffDisney, Lucasfilm, Movie Reviews, Skinny, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi0 comment

Living in a smaller world than most people, going to the movies, for me, is an event. The theater manager knows me by name and the staff know me on sight I chose to go to the special AMC opening night fan event showing. I arrived at about 5:15 for the 6:00 show and did not get out until about 9:30. Way too many previews. We are here for Star Wars, we paid extra to see a special advance day showing, in 2D no less, and you subject us to ads,…

Get the Skinny on Kingsman 2: Golden Circle SPOILERS!

September 24, 2017September 25, 2017 Serpentorslair StaffChanning Tatum, Kingsman 2: Golden Circle, Movie Reviews, Movies0 comment

I liked the Kingsman 2 Golden Circle. No seriously I did. You won’t think so after this review though. There are spoilers ahead aplenty. The Kingsman are destroyed. Even the dog ain’t safe. All that remains are Eggsy and Merlin. They follow the “doomsday” protocol. This leads them to the United States version of the Kingsman the Statesmen. The Statesmen are all named after booze. Ha Ha. Tequila, Whiskey, Champagne (call him Champ) Ginger Ale Those cheeky Americans! If you don’t like Channing Tatum don’t worry, he has little screen…

Get the skinny on ‘DUNKIRK’!

July 29, 2017July 30, 2017 Serpentorslair StaffDunkirk, Movie Reviews, Movies0 comment

I am a lover of history and so Dunkirk was going to be my kind of movie. The evacuation of Dunkirk was not a shining moment for the British forces militarily but it was an amazing feat in what seemed to be a hopeless situation. 125 Civilians were killed and 81 wounded in the rescue of British troops across the channel. Ten times as many troops were rescued than expected with initial estimates at 30,000, 330,000 were actually rescued. The movie itself did its best to represent and tell the…

Get the skinny on War of the Planet of the Apes SPOILERS!

July 16, 2017July 17, 2017 Serpentorslair StaffMovie Reviews, Movies, Planet of The Apes, Woody Harrelson0 comment

Story by Skinny I really can’t discuss this without a ton of spoilers so be warned. What is humanity? What are the things we hold to our vest and claim as our own? Our actions define us. This is the question that is asked in War of the Planet of the Apes. Apes Together. Strong. This is a concept that the United States was founded on. We are more powerful together than as fifty (two) separate entities. When we begin to see the ending of our race as the dominant race will…

Get the Skinny on Transformers: The Last Knight!

June 26, 2017June 27, 2017 Serpentorslair StaffMichael Bay, Movie Reviews, Paramount Pictures, Transformers: The Last Knight0 comment

I should sit on this and let it marinate for a while, but I realized there is nothing here to marinate. Transformers the Last Knight is boring. There were no tense moments, no drama and worst of all no story. It made zero sense. The characters were not likable or lovable even though they tried really hard to make us like them. I like new characters, They are my favorite part of another beloved eighties franchise. I will get to that franchise in a bit. Here is what I gathered…

Get the skinny on “The Mummy” 2017!

June 12, 2017June 13, 2017 Serpentorslair StaffMovie Reviews, The Mummy, Tom Cruise, Universal0 comment

Universal has been sitting on a goldmine for decades. The Mummy, a blatant attempt to copy the success of the Marvel Universe movies, just broke a drill bit. I saw the first trailer and was really excited for this movie, I had totally forgotten that Universal planned to relaunch what is arguably their crown jewel. The Universal Monsters. They should have just given us Tom Cruise battling a Mummy and her army. Which is about the first half of the movie. Then we met Henry, a name that should have…

Get the Skinny On ‘Resident Evil The Final Chapter’!

January 29, 2017January 30, 2017 Serpentorslair StaffMovie Reviews, Movies, Resident Evil, Resident Evil The Final Chapter0 comment

I was lost for 90 percent of the movie. Alice is called by the Red Queen to go back to the hive to get an antivirus that will destroy anything infected with a T cell. Anything. Isaacs and Wesker want to stop her. Isaacs captures Alice and…takes her to the hive. Kinda counterproductive? Alice escapes from him and hooks up with a group of survivors in Raccoon City. Strange because there are only 4200 surviving humans left on Earth and more than a dozen of them are right at the…

Get the skinny on ‘Star Trek: Beyond’!

July 25, 2016July 26, 2016 Serpentorslair StaffChris Pine, Movie Reviews, Movies, Star Trek, Star Trek: Beyond0 comment

I would say that Star Trek is one of my favorite fandoms. I was never a huge fan of Kirk but the show was in syndication and you could bet that we watched it when I was a kid. I am not sure which parent it was that liked the show. Action, Sci Fi, and what a colorful palette. There was a Mustang in the movie theater lot with STR TRK plates, red shirts in the lobby promoting the local fan club, and a packed house for the 12:40 matinee.…

Get the Skinny on ‘Money Monster’!

May 15, 2016 Serpentorslair StaffGeorge Clooney, Julia Roberts, Money Monster, Movie Reviews, Movies0 comment

One thing that we were focusing on in the eighties was that “greed is good” Jodie Foster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts band together to present a social commentary on why greed can have consequences. There is quite a bit of social commentary to be sure. Living wages, greed, the police, television, social media and to be sure, human reactions to situations and becoming desensitized. The movie has a lot of unbelievable scenes. The one I think that most bothered me was the last act. We will get to that. Money Monster is…

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