Podcast Episode #6: CINEMACON 2018 & Avengers: Infinity War NON-SPOILER Review

Hey there, fellow Mercs!  Check out the sixth episode of the official Merc With A Movie Blog podcast!

During this episode, I discuss all the big news that came out of CinemaCon 2018 from all the major studios!

I also give a short NON-SPOILER review of Avengers: Infinity War!

Movie Review: GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017) (Review #2)

After being victim of a terrible terrorist attack, Mina (Scarlet Johansson) wakes up in a body that doesn't belong to her (a "shell"). Her brain has been transplanted into a completely synthetic body, making her the first example in human history of her kind. She is then employed by the government to stop the world's most dangerous criminals, one of which starts to arouse an identity crisis in her.

Movie Review: GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017)

Ghost in the Shell (2017) is directed by Rupert Sanders and is the live-action remake of the 1995 Mamoru Oshii directed Ghost in the Shell (as well as the Masamune Shirow manga of the same name). This film once again follows a character named Major working for a clandestine government organization known as Section 9 trying to uncover who is behind the systematic killing and hacking of heads of a major cybernetic enhancement company whilst also learning more about herself and what it means to be human (or not). This film stars Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbœk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, and Peter Ferdinando.

Movie Review: ALLIED

Allied is the latest film from acclaimed director Robert Zemeckis. The film follows the story of two spies during World War II who meet, fall in love, and get married before some revelation or rumor bubbles to the surface and drives the primary mystery plot forward. The film stars Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Simon McBurney, and Lizzy Caplan. Overall, this film struck me as a pretty basic storyline that didn’t get me overly invested but was executed extremely well.

Movie Review: ARRIVAL

Welcome back to this mini-series of reviews of the feature films* of revered filmmaker Denis Villeneuve with his latest film Arrival. Arrival is a science-fiction film that follows the story of a linguist who is recruited by the military following the arrival of alien spacecraft around the world to try and learn to communicate with them and find out why they are here. It is a deeply cerebral science-fiction story and not action packed as one might expect. The film is obviously directed by Denis Villeneuve and stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker.