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Deadpool 2 Starring: Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin Directed by David Leitch US Release Date: May 18th, 2018 My First Viewing: May 17th, 2018 image credit: movieposter.com Nearly two and a half years after turning the superhero/comic book genre on its ear with the original, Ryan Reynolds returns with a new director, but with the familiar quips and fourth-wall breaking in Deadpool 2.  Taking place after the events of the first film, we follow the Merc with the Mouth as he continues his mercenary ways. However, after a hit goes wrong, Mr. Pool tries to turn a new leaf by trying to help a young mutant Russell (Julian Dennison, Hunt for the Wilderpeople ) while also becoming an X-Man (trainee) . On the hunt for Russell is Cable (Josh Brolin), traveling back from the future to try and kill Russell.  This is a much different movie from the first Deadpool. While I preferred the first due to it's more spontaneous nature, the sequel had a lot to live up to, and for the most par

Deadpool Starring: Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin Directed by Tim Miller US Release Date: February 12th, 2016 Most Recent Viewing: May 17h, 2018 Image Credit: movieposter.com Getting a much-needed redo after first appearing in the debacle X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds returns to the big screen as the Merc with the Mouth, Deadpool.  Wade Wilson (Reynolds) is a mercenary by night and lover by later at night. Once he finds the girl of his dreams Vanessa (Baccarin), all seems right in the world. Until Wade receives a cancer diagnosis that renders him a dead man walking. One night he runs into a recruiter (Jed Rees) that tells him he can cure him of his cancer and make him superhuman if he joins their team. Relunctly he agrees, and in the process not only becomes an unrecognizable regenerating mutant, he comes face-to-face with his future arch-nemesis Ajax (aka Francis, Ed Skrein).  Much more than your standard superhero origin story, this is an opportunity to give

Revenge Starring: Matilda Lutz and Kevin Janssens Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat US Release Date: May 11th, 2018 My First Viewing: May 11th, 2018 French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat makes her feature-length debut in Revenge, starring Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, and Vincent Colombe.  Lutz plays Jen, the mistress of Janssens' Richard who is brought to a remote desert for an annual hunting trip. Things go array when Stan (Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchede) join the duo and gaze at Jen like fourteen-year-old high school freshmen who get their first erections. Stan takes it a step too far and rapes Jen while Richard is away, with Dimitri allowing it to happen. After Richard returns, he's afraid that Jen will tell his wife about the affair. Jen escapes and a chase through the desert ensues, with Richard pushing Jen off a cliff leaving her for dead. Except she doesn't die, with the events of what occurred completely changing who she was.  This is an inte