Cool Beveridge

Jonah Ray Rodrigues is back in another horror flick: Destroy All Neighbors  (2024). He plays a prog-rock musician who is toiling over a planned record in the bedroom studio of his crappy apa...

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We didn't watch Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) because we're completists, or to make fun of it. We kind of liked Afterlife , and we kind of liked this one. So the whole kid Ghostbusters f...

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Ms. Spenser asked me to put on Creation of the Gods: Kingdom of Storms  (2023). Not because she wanted to watch it - she just wanted something not too distracting to put on in the background wh...

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After the latest American kaiju offering, we were psyched for Godzilla Minus One (2023). It's a Japanese mid-budget movie with a lot of buzz. It was hard to get to see for a while in the US, p...

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I was looking forward to The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare  (2024) as a classic stupid action movie. But was it stupid enough or too stupid? It starts with two men in a sailboat being sto...

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In preperation for watching Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire  (2024), I rewatched Kong: Skull Island . It's funny how far the franchise has moved. K:SI is, among other things, a re-imagining of...

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Ms. Spenser asked for a spooky movie, and I had The Lodgers (2017) in one of my watchlists. It seemed perfect: a spooky house, old-timey setting, some mysterious monsters... Well. Twins Charlo...

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The first I heard about The Blackening (2022) was the tagline: "We can't all die first". That was all I needed to convince me. It starts with a young black couple coming to a secluded house i...

http://coolbev.blogspot.com/2024/08/black-comedy.html

The horror-fest continues! We had an interesting double bill: Insidious: The Red Door (2022) and Suitable Flesh (2023). I:TRD is the fifth Insidious movie, and it is suppposed to be the f...

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It's hard to pass up a movie called Satanic Hispanics (2022). I didn't have much information about it other than that it was a Hispanic horror anthology. (Note: I got this from the library, whe...

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Continuing with Ms. Spenser's early Halloween Spooktacular, we watched What Lies Beneath (2000). Directed by Robert Zemekis, script by Glark Greg (!) and starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfe...

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As I mentioned, Halloween season is already starting. Ms. B requested The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015), based on a recommendation from her usual crew of horror writers. I've had it on my radar s...

http://coolbev.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-new-black.html

Ms. Spenser wanted to get a jump on the Halloween season early, or at least wanted to watch Ghostwatch (1992). In fact, she got a Shudder (trial) subscription to see it. It was originally broa...

http://coolbev.blogspot.com/2024/07/late-night-watch.html

The Courier (2019) is the sort of standard-looking action film that is always being suggested to me by various automated systems. Since it stars Olga Kurylenko, who I've kind of been binging, I ...

http://coolbev.blogspot.com/2024/07/courier-poison.html

I was listening to a podcast the just mentioned Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and, since I hadn't seen it in a while, I thought I'd review. To sum up, it was funny, clever, and well execute...

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Just picking up Chinese wuxia movies at random, I watched God of War 2  (2020). I might or might not have already watched God of War 1. I might have even already watched this one. It's pretty o...

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Ms. Spenser felt like rewatching The Northman , and I liked the idea. I mentioned Centurion , which she didn't remember watching. So we had the start of a barbarian weekend.  I decided we shou...

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Can't believe I forgot to blog Hundreds of Beavers (2022), which I saw a few weeks ago. Or maybe I can. In addition to being one of the funniest and most unusual movies of the ... century?, it'...

http://coolbev.blogspot.com/2024/06/beaver-trap.html

Sakra (2024) is another one of those Hi-Yah movies we saw in a Coming Attractions preview. But this one stars Donnie Yen. First off, I should mention that I watched this last weekend, and I h...

http://coolbev.blogspot.com/2024/06/a-few-yen-more.html

Got Project Dorothy (2024) thinking it would be a little, low-budget horror/thriller. Right on the money. It starts with some shots of a roboticized factory (empty) and some office drones in ...

http://coolbev.blogspot.com/2024/06/she-tried-to-kill-them-with-forklift.html

We saw a preview for Eye for an Eye (2022) on the disc for The Night of the Assassin (probably). We said something like, "we could watch that". So when I saw it at the library, I scooped it up...

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Ride On (2023) is one of Jackie Chan's latest - a too-old-for-stunts story, all about stuntmen. Jackie is a retired stuntman who lives with a stunt horse in a rundown courtyard, maybe more of ...

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The Beekeeper (2024) is part movie, part fever dream, part event. We watched largely to better enjoy the How Did This Get Made podcast. But also because an unhinged Jason Statham is just fun. ...

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To continue my bachelor weekend, I thought I'd watch a real Guy's Movie. I picked This is Me ... Now  (2024), J. Lo's directorial debut. This is an odd film. After a bit of talk about a Puerto ...

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Ms. Spenser was out of town for the weekend, so I figured I'd have a video orgy. She enjoy watching a movie on an evening, but her interest flags after one or two. She doesn't have my stamina. Le...

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