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2018 Top 10 Films

by AnalogJonesTOF

Listen to Matt and Steve’s 2018 Top 10 Films!

 

Steve’s Honorable Mentions
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Halloween 2018
BlackKklansman
Dead Ant
Annihilation
Black ’47

Matt’s Honorable Mentions
Cam
Strangers: Prey at Night
Soft Matter
Permission

Steve’s Top 10

Avengers Infinity War
10. Avengers Infinity War
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.

Mission Impossible: Fallout
9. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.

Searching
8. Searching
After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.

Hereditary
7. Hereditary
After the family matriarch passes away, a grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences, and begin to unravel dark secrets.

A Quiet Place
6. A Quiet Place
In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.

Revenge
5. Revenge
Never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting – a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.

Blindspotting
4. Blindspotting
While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.

Deadpool 2
3. Deadpool 2
Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (AKA. Deadpool), brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg, Cable.

Upgrade
2. Upgrade
Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.

Sorry to Bother You
1. Sorry To Bother You
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

 

Matt’s Top 10

The Dark
10. The Dark
An undead teenage girl befriends a blind boy that she meets in a forest she haunts and hunts in. Both have been victims of unimaginable abuse, and each finds solace in the other. There may be a chance of light at the end of their tunnel, but it will come with a body count.

Anna and the Apocalypse
9. Anna and the Apocalypse
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

Overlord
8. Overlord
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.

Halloween (2018)
7. Halloween (2018)
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Eighth Grade
6. Eighth Grade
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

Mega Time Squad
5. Mega Time Squad
A small-town crim finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in high-meets-low, combining elements of the sci-fi, the crime thriller and the comedy to make a comedy heist film with a time-traveling twist.

Mid 90's
4. Mid90’s
Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

Love, Simon
3. Love, Simon
Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.

A Simple Favor
2. A Simple Favor
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.

Upgrade
1. Upgrade
Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.

Matt and Steve’s Funny Bad

Gotti
Gotti
The story of crime boss John Gotti and his son. Travolta is CREEPY!

Acrimony
Acrimony
A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.

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Geekscape Movie Reviews: Upgrade

by MCDave

The majority of independent films have long struggled to amass gaudy box office results. Consequently, the major film studios have avoided putting such films into production and have instead turned their attention to more mindless, CGI-filled blockbusters and superhero movies. Therefore, Leigh Wannell’s SXSW indie selection, Upgrade, felt like an underdog as it debuted this weekend against other mammoth in-theater options such as Deadpool 2, Solo and Infinity War. And while Upgrade failed to beat out any of the aforementioned competition in box office revenue, the indie sci-fi’s strong showing reminds us all that strong content will always prevail.

In the not-so-distant future where a greater dependence on technology continues to mount a stranglehold on society, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) is an old soul who prefers working with his hands and fixing up old cars. But when a brutal mugging results in the death of his wife, Asha (Melanie Vallejo), and leaves him paralyzed, Grey is offered a second chance at life by a wealthy tech mogul (Harrison Gilbertson) with a groundbreaking, untested new form of Artificial Intelligence called STEM. Grey agrees to the operation and has STEM implanted, only to gain unbelievable strength and agility as he seeks out the men who murdered his wife.

Director Leigh Wannell has an imprint in the both the Saw and Insidious franchises, but he transitions to the sci-fi genre with his latest revenge-thriller. Upgrade circumvents obvious budget restraints by relying on a cerebral story and compelling lead character. And although the cast is full of unfamiliar faces, something that can be a difficult sell to audiences, the film appeals to the viewer in countless other ways. Logan Marshall-Green dominates the screen time and crushes every opportunity with an edgy and slick performance. Grey’s ironic quandary as a tech-resistant man who becomes reliant on a new invention is both beautifully scripted and wonderfully translated to the big screen. And on Grey’s quest of retribution for his wife’s murder, he discovers a dastardly primary foe that’s brought to life masterfully by Benedict Hardie. Along with its gripping story, a strong cast is essential to Upgrade’s success as a modestly-budgeted indie, and the film finds a plethora of significant unknown talent that deliver exceptional performances from top to bottom. In fact, the only glaring downside to this up-tempo sci-fi endeavor is how it makes up the rules as it goes along, mostly to justify an unpredictable and explosive finale. There’s plenty to enjoy with Leigh Wannell’s innovative and heady feature, making Upgrade a worthy choice among an otherwise crowded field of heavy-hitting summer blockbuster contenders.

GRADE: 4/5

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