Movie Review: NERVE (2016)

When I first got the invite to go check out a screening of Nerve, I was pumped.  I really dug the trailers that I had seen and the premise sounded really cool.  Plus, I love Dave Franco as an actor, so that was an added bonus.  I wasn't really sure what to expect from this film because it seemed like one of those that would either be really entertaining, or really disappointing, and luckily for me it was the former.

Movie Review: NOW YOU SEE ME 2

Now You See Me was a personal guilty pleasure of 2013, it was absolutely unpretentious and unbelievable but it knew it was so and with the help of a talented cast and a couple of good characters and story beats it turned out as a fine time at the theater. Its sequel starts out with the same unpretentious and fun vibe of the first only to slowly escalate up to what becomes one of the most lifeless and visually painful experiences of the year.