Alex Corey Reviews!!

*Directed by Mamoru Oshii *Starring Mimi Woods, Richard Epcar, Christopher Joyce, William Frederic Knight, and Tom Wyner The Plot: In a futuristic society inhabited by a large fraction of cyborgs, a being named the Puppet Master, who can easily manipulate the mainframes of other cyborgs, is under investigation by the police force Section 9 with the involvement of a cybernetic policewoman Major Motoko Kusanagi and her team. Obviously, I intended to review the original film before the release of this weekend's remake starring Scarlett Johansson, which looks visually astounding. What perfect time to actually watch the original that I promised myself I'd watch someday then towards the release of this movie. Right off the bat I'll admit that I'm not the biggest anime buff but I've seen quite a few Hayao Miyazaki films that I ended up loving and this past summer I experienced the entire series of Cowboy Bebop , which is now another one of my all-time favorite ...

* Directed by Daniel Espinosa * Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Ariyon Bakare The Plot: A crew of astronauts aboard a space station located above Mars obtain a satellite containing an organism from Mars that grows from a minuscule cell to a small scaled alien life form. However, the alien continues to grow and finds a way to escape aboard the ship and must kill other living beings for reasons (that are in spoiler territory). So, the crew must defend themselves and not allow this creature to destroy them and then other lives on Earth. Now, I'm a sucker for films set in space! Science fiction films set in space are my jam, so the more glimpses I saw of this film the more intrigued I became. When I saw the first trailer I thought it looked like an okay space adventure that did feel rather familiar to other space epics that I enjoy like Gravity and obviously Alien . I felt there needed to be a change there...

* Directed by Bill Condon * Starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Kevin Kline, Emma Thompson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, and Nathan Mack The Plot: A prince (Dan Stevens) is under a curse being transformed into a monstrous beast and must find a true love with another woman in order to break this curse. However, one thing leads to another and an inventor (Keven Kline) is held prisoner by the Beast after trespassing his secluded manor. In order to set him free his young daughter Belle (Emma Watson) offers to take her father's place and next thing you know she's then given hospitality in his home by the manor's magical houseware appliances, the Beast's servants. The longer she stays the Beast has feelings for Belle as she does for him and a relationship starts to build between the two. I'll be honest it actually took me a while to see the original 1991 animated Disney film because obviously as...

* Directed by Dean Israelite * Starring Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludi Lin, Becky G, Bryan Cranston, Bill Hader, and Elizabeth Banks The Plot: A group of teenagers discover a variety of different colored stones that genetically alter themselves and give them abilities of super strength and agility. They then come across a cavern in a mountain where buried beneath is an ancient spacecraft containing the consciousness of an alien named Zordon (Bryan Cranston) with a robot sidekick named Alpha 5 (Bill Hader). There they discover that with their new abilities and advanced suits and weaponry they must form a team known as the Power Rangers to battle the return of an ancient villain named Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks). Now one word to describe my background with the Power Rangers franchise is...nothing! I know absolutely nothing about the lore of this franchise and haven't seen a single episode of any of the shows. I've seen none of the movies, so going int...

*Directed by James Mangold *Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Dafne Keen The Plot: In 2029, a much aged Logan, formerly known as Wolverine, (Hugh Jackman) has to care for a sickly, old and frail Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) on the border of Mexico. However, a young mutant girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) enters the scene with the same mutant genes as Logan and he must help this girl by fending off a military unit searching for her in an interest of her power and bring her to a safe haven away from this ongoing danger. I’ve been a fan of this X-Men franchise for a while now and feel that most (definitely not Origins and The Last Stand ) gave comic book films a great name. They made me realize that comic films can be great movies if done well and in my lifetime I’ve seen a lot turn out as great, good, and complete disasters. Safe to say, Logan , in particular, is one of the single greatest comic book movies I’ve ever seen. In fact, like many great comic book movi...