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Playing with genes and molecules always ends up well. Out in space, some top-secret gas matter is released and careens towards the world in the form of meteoroids. Knowing the power this holds, an unethical company led by siblings Claire and Brett Wyden (Malin Akerman) will stop at nothing to get it back for selfish […]
Read More Rampage: Movie Man JacksonDidn’t I just get done with 2017? Welcome back to the series that never sleeps, that series of course being the MMJ Music in Movies series. 2018 has already proved to be a big year in film, as there has seemingly been something for everyone whether you’re the comic book geek or the horror aficionado. […]
Read More Movie Man Jackson looks at: 2018 Music in Movies (Part 1)Nothing good ever happens in Tijuana. It’s the last semester of college for Olivia (Lucy Hale), a humanitarian who’d rather build homes for the underprivileged on her spring break than party. Noble. But Liv’s best friend and party animal Markie (Violett Beane) implores her to live a little and join on a wild trip to […]
Read More Truth or Dare (2018): Movie Man JacksonJoke #97591 about Dwight taking his prank on Jim way too seriously. In the very near future, the world has fallen to some mysterious cataclysmic event. In its wake, it has left many dead bodies and frightening, nameless, and sightless creatures who stalk prey through sound. The Abbott family—father Lee (John Krasinski), pregnant mother Evelyn […]
Read More A Quiet Place: Movie Man JacksonTell the truth…or at least your version of it. After the assassinations of his brothers John and Robert, Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) is the most prominent living member of the prestigious Kennedy family. It is 1969, and Ted is coming up on the end of his six-year senate term and turning attention […]
Read More Chappaquiddick: Movie Man JacksonWith the recent trailer drop of the new Superfly movie, now is as good of a time as ever to view what has inspired it. Time to step into the Cadillac Eldorado and revisit the original, 1972 offering of Super Fly. THE STORY: Youngblood Priest (Ron O’Neal) lives large in the Rotten Apple that is New York […]
Read More What to Watch: Super Fly (1972)The thought is always better than the reality. From an early age, Melinda (Taraji P. Henson) has been known as vengeful and combustible woman who’s completely aware of this fact. One day in college, her hot exterior begins to be melted by Robert (Lyriq Bent), an engineer hoping to strike it big with the invention […]
Read More Tyler Perry’s Acrimony: Movie Man JacksonSo…this is what I have to look forward to in my city in 27 years? Columbus, Ohio—or much of the world for that matter—has dropped precipitously in regards to quality of life. Most, like Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) live in slum stacks, tightly-compacted RV-like homes placed on top of each other. How do you escape […]
Read More Ready Player One: Movie Man JacksonDo the right thing and play by the rules. This is the paraphrased mantra coming from his father that Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) has lived by. The Nigerian immigrant has set up shop in Chicago, married to Bonnie (Thandie Newton) and working for a pharmaceutical company called Promethium. It is run by his arrogant college […]
Read More Gringo: Movie Man JacksonAll myths have foundations in reality. Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is that archetypal twenty-something without a plan. She lives her days making due as a bike courier in East London and staying in shape at the local gym. Her life was thrown into disarray seven years ago when her father, Richard (Dominic West), disappeared during […]
Read More Tomb Raider: Movie Man Jackson