Daydreamer's Film Talk

This review's being written two days after  what I consider one of the best days of my life. Going to the movies for me is always a special day (unless the movie is crap) but on Thursday night, it was a special event that I was attending.  I won't talk a lot about the films, as they've all been thoroughly reviewed by others, including the new film The World's End. It's already been released before, just not in the U.S. When I refer to the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, it refers to the three film collaborations of actors Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and writer/director Edgar Wright, who've all worked together since their 1999 cult show Spaced.  The first film, Shaun of the Dead, was released in 2004 and can only be described without going into detail as a romantic comedy with zombies, which is the tagline. When this film came out, I was too young to watch it, but I was aware of it and thought of it as one of those films that makes fun of scary movies. After watching...

As I'm writing this on the bus ride home, I feel content. With all the crap released this past few weeks in theaters, I couldn't find a good excuse to go see a movie. Then again, it's hard to top the last thing I saw, which was the terrifying and entertaining horror film The Conjuring. Then Kick-Ass 2 came out.  The sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass, it did not disappoint me. The story kicks off with Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass natrrating how a new batch of superheroes have emerged, inspired by his heroics. He's retired, but he's quickly bored by this and decides to join the new superhero group known as Justice Forever, led by ex-mafia enforcer Colonel Stars and Stripes. Meanwhile, Mindy Macready/Hit Girl is trying to live a normal life after promising her guardian, a police officer who knew her father, that she'll give up crime fighting, which proves difficult when Chris D'Amico amerges as the new super villain The Motherfucker (no, seriously, that's his name.) ...