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Do You Like Scary Movie?

Do you like Scary Movie ? Well whether you do or not, it has returned! Much like that body you and your friends once tried to dispose of, or the one that crawled out of your TV. And now it's coming home! The movie, that is. Which is why I decided to take a look back at this up until now almost forgotten franchise. To see - or at least remind myself - what all the fuss was about, and more importantly, why it wore out its welcome. Many, many years have passed since I watched the original Scary Movie , and in that time I've forgotten pretty much everything about this horror parody. Apart from a Doofy highlight reel, of course. On the face of it, Scary Movie  is an amusing skewering of Scream  and I Know What You Did Last Summer . The two movies are squished together with a healthy dose of slapstick to form a fairly coherent teen slasher flick. One with comical jabs at the likes of  The Usual Suspects , Final Destination , American Pie , and a certain infamous Budweiser adver...

Hobbs and Shaw | Average Guy Movie Review

When a deadly virus goes missing in London, the CIA recruit Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) to retrieve it. But they're not the only ones looking for it, a mysterious organisation has big plans for the virus and have dispatched Brixton Law (Idris Elba) - a cybernetically enhanced superhuman - to find the person who has it and steal it from them. That person is Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), a rogue MI-6 agent who just happens to be Deckard's sister. If these three want to keep the virus out of the wrong hands, they're going to have to learn to work together, that's if they don't kill each other first. When I first heard that a spin-off from Fast and Furious was in the works, my reaction was not positive. I am not a fan of this franchise, I was once but after the first three movies my interest died a very quick death. Then I heard David Leitch was directing - one half of the pair responsible for John Wick and the man behind Atomic Blonde...

The Upside | Average Guy Movie Review

Dell Scott (Kevin Hart) needs a job. More specifically, he needs to appear to be looking for a job in order to avoid going back to prison. But a chance encounter with Philip Lacasse (Bryan Cranston) - a quadriplegic billionaire - puts Del in a position where he has to care for someone other than himself. The question is; can he get Phil to start enjoying life again? Based on the true story of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Abdel Sellou, and a remake of French movie "The Intouchables", Neil Burger has put together a charming - albeit cliched - tale of friendship. Yes, I said cliched, it follows the same pattern as a lot of these types of buddy comedies. But that doesn't mean it isn't charming and funny. The changes these two bring out in each other make for an enjoyable watch. The movies' selling point, as with all buddy comedies is the relationship between the two leads. Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston are nothing short of great together. If I didn't know ...