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The Darkest Minds

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The YA or Young Adult genre has never been known for innovation in story telling. Falling in to it’s own tired tropes over and over again.

It’s almost like a simple recipe that a young college students cooks in his first apartment. A little bit of teen angst, a contrived love story maybe even a triangle and some TV quality action and you have a YA action hit. Or, that’s how 20th Century Fox thought it would go.

Unfortunately, with The Darkest Minds release that is just not the case. The cast is not bad. With YA veteran Amandla Stenberg (AKA Rue from The Hunger Games film adaptation) playing main protagonist, Ruby. With the actress not lighting up the screen but, being good enough not to mess up the film. The dreamy young love interest,Liam,has low at best chemistry with Ruby and it pervades the entire movie. It’s not good as it messes up quite a bit of the momentum the film manages.

My largest complaint is that it feels as if Fox ripped off a story from X-Men and tried to give it a fresh coat of paint and call it The Darkest Minds. All you have to do is sub in mutants for the word teens. The world feels threatened by the super powered teens so they round them up and oppress them. There’s factions trying to help the teens and others trying to undermine those factions. The most powerful of these teens is a telepath with enough power to save or destroy everyone around her ala Jean Grey. It’s what took me out of the film the most.

What we have in the end is a middle of the road young adult dud. I’m sure they were shooting for another Hunger Games but ended up with A Golden Compass. 1 1/2 stars for an unremarkable film.

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The Les Files With John C McGinley

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In the studio today, Les gets to talk to legendary actor John C. McGinley who’s been a force on the stage and the screen. Hollywood has him on speed dial to play certain iconic roles that move the story such as Tom Card in Burn Notice, Brian Kelton on Chicago PD. Now the showrunners of the beloved cop sitcom Brooklyn 99 have brought him in to play Head to the Patrolman’s Union and lover of all things Billy Joel, Frank O’Sullivan. This new character is the antagonist for the final season of Brooklyn 99 and he’s a cross between Archie Bunker and Yosemite Sam.

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Transformers Rise Of The Beast will definitely be a movie I’m going to watch repeatedly.

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This was an epic movie overall. What else can I say without giving spoilers? Not a lot else, unfortunately, but I will try. So the start was interesting as it takes place in 1994, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts takes the audience on a globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduces a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals –  to join them as allies in the existing battle for Earth. There are quite a few hidden gems to look for. The humor in this one was excellent definitely the 90s were everywhere in this movie.


The action was awesome as a Transformers movie should be and it does have a decent storyline. The film also has Great references to the older Transformer properties as well. As a major fan of the beast war series, it was awesome to see that version of the universe brought to the big screen. However, there were some moments of eh, been done many times. But just a couple despite being another Transformers movie. but this one did give more life to the series for me to be intrigued to see where it goes. The movie is a good 2 hours long so it goes at a good pace.


But with that being the only bad thing, in my opinion, it is a great theater movie. I think it added some freshness to the franchise. That with a nice blend of the 90s nostalgia. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. This is Chris, an honest review writer until the next movie, see you next time.

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Justice League: Warworld Official Trailer

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Until now, the Justice League has been a loose association of superpowered individuals. But when they are swept away to War World, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the others must somehow unite to form an unbeatable resistance able to lead an entire planet to freedom.

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