Movie Reviews from Chris

★★ 1/2  out of ★★★★ ( 👍 ) 65 (2023) Runtime: 93 minutes MPAA:  Rated PG-13 for intense sci-fi action and peril, and brief bloody images. "65" falls into that category of 'it could be better, but at least it's not terrible'.  This is an example of what  Ghosted  would have been if it had maintained its mediocre quality. "65" works best as a survival action film, with enough sequences of Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs and him and another survivor hopping from place to place, blessed with stunning scenery that remains interesting even if there are logic errors, the narrative falters, and that the family drama is underwhelming. It starts off with so much potential, and the concept is so intriguing; advanced human-like civilisations existed 65 million years ago, and that Earth was an unknown planet at the time. Fortunately, it never crumbles to zero after crash-landing on planet Earth and finding a way to escape it. The pacing also feels intentionally...

★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★ Cocaine Bear (2023) Runtime: 95 minutes MPAA:  Rated R for bloody violence and gore, drug content and language throughout. Cocaine Bear is really trying to test our patience, but luckily I have a lot of it. It’s a crazy reimagining of a real-life story, in which an American black bear (known as Pablo Eskobear) was discovered dead in Northern Georgia, 1985, after ingesting fatal doses of cocaine. Drug smuggler Andrew C. Thornton II and an accomplice dropped 40 plastic containers of cocaine and jumped out of the plane above Tennessee, with Thornton dying when his parachute failed to open. After the dead bear was discovered, it was stuffed and is currently displayed at the Kentucky Fun Mall. I hope they’re not planning on Kentucky Fried Bears. Director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear, with a script from Jimmy Warden, wants to be the type of B-movie that delivers and does precisely what it’s title says: a bear doing cocaine and going on a murderous rampage. D...