The first film actor Jonah Hill has ever written and directed seems more like a documentary of a life all too common on poor neighborhoods. The main character Stevie played extremely well by actor Sunny Suljic is a 13 year old kid who lives in a poor LA suburb in the mid 1990’s; raised by a single mother and living with an 18 year old brother who constantly beats him up. His entire survival, mainly because he a poor small kid in a very tough neighborhood is contingent on becoming friends with other lowlife poor kids in the neighborhood – and all they do all day long is drugs, drinking and skateboarding. I cannot remember any movie that has this much of non stop foul language – almost to the point where it is overkill or an over the top example of how young hoods like this talk in real life. However, to this degree of foul language I thought it was too much and mostly unnecessary.

Throughout this entire story you cannot help but feel very sorry for the likable 13 year old who desperately tries to fit in with this older and much taller friends even to the point of risking his own life several times. Most of this film was extremely difficult to watch, most especially during a scene where they all climb into an SUV when the driver was so extremely drop dead drunk. The dangerous and stupid things poor desperate kids this age will do to not look weak in front of their peers costs more lives than just about anything else they do that is life threatening.

For poor people with no hope or future in this country, ultimately it is all about what other people might think about you, never about doing the right thing – or even thinking about breaking out of your bleak existence with no future.

I thought the acting in this movie/documentary was never noticeable and the story while simple was well told, despite its short depressing message. I would recommend this movie to be nominated for best documentary, rather than best movie, but despite this it has a shot for one of the 10 nominations for best picture this year, including Jonah Hill for best director. I do recommend Mid90s.

Whenever I see a war movie that involves naval soldiers inside of a submarine I wonder why anyone who is in the Navy would ever volunteer for submarine duty. A submarine is far the most dangerous place to be during a war. If there is any damage to the submarine the likelihood is that you will drown, any explosion and the odds are you will never be found at the bottom of the ocean. The living quarters as are shown in the new movie “Hunter Killer” are extremely claustrophobic especially considering the number of men that can live on a submarine for a long period of time.

As far as the movie Hunter Killer starring Gerard Butler, I thought it was well made and well acted but the story is way over the top and because of that reason, not believable. I wondered while watching this film about how many different ideas and script re-writes went into this Russian vs United States story about espionage, kidnapping that involves a coup. I was surprised to see Gary Oldman, in this movie in a small role considering he just won the best actor Oscar.

I thought the ending was satisfying despite the insane story but because of the story I only give Hunter Killer a marginal recommendation.

This movie is a continuation of the Halloween franchise that started 40 years ago in 1978 – this latest film being the sixth. All of these movies follow the same exact pattern. They have several false alarms that happen to startle the audience. The evil murdering villain has no lines and chases people around and kills them horribly using several different methods. No matter what anyone does the murderer does not seem to ever die, even though he sustains injuries more than adequate to cause his death. Most importantly, all of the people involved react in the most stupid ways while running for their lives or trying to fight the murderer. In other words, all of these films are ridiculous and idiotic, this newest one being one of the dumbest.

Jamie Lee Curtis has starred in all of these movies starting out her career at age 20 with the first one, and now at age 60, she looks a good deal older than her age. At the end of this movie, like all the movies there is doubt that Micheal Meyers is finally dead – because if this movie makes a great deal of money, he will be back again, probably in about 2 years. Some 20 years ago, in the movie “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later”, Jamie Lee Curtis takes an ax and cuts off the head of Michael Meyers. So why or how can he now be alive to once again attack everyone? I can only guess that the producers thought that enough time has gone by to make yet another one of these stupid movies even though the main character was decapitated. One day there will be an intelligent slasher movie where everybody involved reacts in intelligent ways to either run away, or fight back. Unfortunately, we are a long way from seeing a movie like that, because once something works and makes money, Hollywood will just do the same thing again because anything else would be too big of a risk.

I am very surprised by the Rotten Tomatoes high ratings for this latest bad slasher movie of 80%, because my rating is in the 20% range. This movie should be missed just like all of the other movies in the Halloween franchise because of its extreme stupidity.