Ever since the release of the Exorcist in 1973, all horror movies that are about the Devil, Seances or the Spirit world have been trying to come close or even surpass the benchmark of the Exorcist. The problem with this is that no movie will probably ever be as scary and well done as the Exorcist in terms of pure movie making horror. In 1973 people were fainting while watching the Exorcist, some were vomiting and many more could not sit through the entire film.

The new movie “Hereditary” does a very good job at scaring the audience and one woman who was sitting next to me left early. The buildup and story were very well done, with many scenes that both surprise and scare the audience. For me the #1 best part of this movie was the amazing acting of Toni Collette, who gives and outstanding Academy award winning performance in this film. Colette definitely deserves an Academy award nomination for this role that required extremely difficult scenes of horror and grief throughout the film. The young actress Milly Shapiro is very unusual looking without makeup and with makeup she looks the part of a disturbed young girl who dabbles in the occult. This movie will remind some people of the 1999 huge hit the Sixth Sense with its subltely and impressive camera angles and film editing. Tony Collette also appeared in the Sixth Sense as well. The actor Gabriel Byrne appears in this movie in an understated role as the father.

I thought that Hereditary is one of the better Horror movies I have seen in many years and I give it a strong recommendation. However, this movie is not for young children or the faint of heart.

All of the five Ocean’s movies are caper movies – and the challenge with writing a caper movie is that you have to make whatever crime the group pulls off both plausible and understandable to the audience. This is not easy, because any detective or anyone with a keen eye can find flaws easily if all of the misdirection that goes into stealing something big – in this case a 150 million dollar necklace. I noticed a few things in this 2 hour caper that did not hold water but not enough to consider this a bad Ocean’s movie. Overall, this 5th installment seemed to be about as good as all the other ones I have seen but I have never seen the original 1960’s Ocean 11 movie starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

The idea with Oceans 8 starring all women, like with the previous 3 Ocean’s movies starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt is to make a good enough first installment so it will spawn more sequels. The jury is out on this on if there will be enough interest to make new Ocean’s movies starring the same cast of women, lead by Sandra Bullock. One good sign is that the movie theater I was in was 100% filled.

I thought that Oceans 8 was a good movie, definitely not great and I do recommend it.

The Logline for “Hotel Artemis” is a very good and original idea. “Hotel Artemis is a paid for medical service and Hospital for criminals with rules and regulations”.

Unfortunately the only thing interesting and original about this movie is the Logline, not the screenplay and definitely not the movie. For me it was a struggle just to stay awake for the almost 2 hours of this pretty bad movie that was too long and too boring in way too many areas. The most interesting thing about this film is why a great actor like Sterling K, Brown of “This is Us” , Jeff Goldblum and Jodie Foster decided to make this film in the first place. In the case of Sterling K. Brown, who is trying to parlay his great TV role with movie roles, making this film was a mistake he cannot afford to make too many times. Didn’t anybody read the script?

There is nothing interesting here, just a series of criminals that have their different issues when they are arrive, fight or are treated at a hospital for criminals. Who cares? I sure didn’t.

This movie is simply a bad one and should be skipped and considered an opportunity of a good idea for a story – lost forever.