Knowing when to release a movie is a business in itself. It is always hard to say if a movie is good enough to come out in summer against huge blockbusters of the summer. Possibly should come out during award season because it has a chance at some awards and recognition. The third choice is that a movie gets booked into a time of year where movies go to die being the early spring or early fall. Most of the time anything quality gets swept under the rug and forgotten about. So much so is the case with the brilliant crime thriller Triple 9. Triple 9 follows a group of corrupt cops led by Michael Atwood (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who is in deep to a Russian mob boss (Kate Winslet). They are forced to pull a major bank heist and in doing so concoct a plan to cause a 999. A 999 is a code over police scanners for an officer down during a shootout. The group decides to use a new cop (Casey Affleck) to enact the plan. The movie is a thriller that really blurs the lines between good and evil between law and criminals. It also doesn’t hurt that it boasts and amazing cast that shows us just what a great ensemble police drama can be. The film is directed by Australian filmmaker John Hillcoat who has been nothing if not on fire since debuting in catching peoples notice in 2005 with the bloody western The Proposition. Hillcoat truly knows how to mix humanity into the ugly side of life and does it nearly to an art form. I can’t praise this movie enough without saying for people to go out and watch it and give it the attention it deserves.
Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn at Battleground:
Sometimes two wrestlers just know how to bring magic to the squared circle every time they meet. It especially helps if those two wrestlers know each other not only on a professional level but have a deeper connection as well. Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens have been best friends since they were on the independent circuit for over a decade. In 2013 Zayn signed with WWE developmental territory and a short year and eight months later Owens would sign as well. The two would begin the much heated rivalry on December 11th 2014 when Zayn would win the NXT title and Owens would debut the same evening. At the end of the night Owens would embrace Zayn after he won and in short order turn on him by power bombing him onto the apron of the ring. The feud would continue for several months and on into their time leading them to the main roster. It would finally culminate in the match at Battleground. What made the Battleground match so Memorable is that for one they didn't have a lot of competition during the pay-per-view. They also are two of the most capable workers in the ring today who whether being Heel or Face manage to get the crowd behind them in support. They are both amazing at working a match and also telling a story in the process. It also made all the difference that these two had been building this feud up for some time and made the viewers care even though nothing besides a win was on the line. It is truly a sign that the crowd was behind this when even back and forth chants of "Lets go Zayn.' and "Fight Owens Fight" were heard breaking out. This is not the best match that either of them have put on but in some way it was a very special match because it showed them as performers reaching the same level and starting to go in separate directions for now. It is not a particularly one sided match both guys get in some good offense. The worst spot is a brain buster on the apron of the ring. It has a nice finish and putting over Zayn was the right move. The thing that really made this match memorable is that unlike other WWE feuds where in four weeks they are back at it fighting. This one actually ended and the two have not been in the same ring since. What makes that so great is should they ever be in the ring for a championship match or even more so one of them runs in to save the other it will make it all the more powerful of a moment. This match has a great feel and is worth the time to check it out on the WWE network
Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn at Battleground:
Sometimes two wrestlers just know how to bring magic to the squared circle every time they meet. It especially helps if those two wrestlers know each other not only on a professional level but have a deeper connection as well. Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens have been best friends since they were on the independent circuit for over a decade. In 2013 Zayn signed with WWE developmental territory and a short year and eight months later Owens would sign as well. The two would begin the much heated rivalry on December 11th 2014 when Zayn would win the NXT title and Owens would debut the same evening. At the end of the night Owens would embrace Zayn after he won and in short order turn on him by power bombing him onto the apron of the ring. The feud would continue for several months and on into their time leading them to the main roster. It would finally culminate in the match at Battleground. What made the Battleground match so Memorable is that for one they didn't have a lot of competition during the pay-per-view. They also are two of the most capable workers in the ring today who whether being Heel or Face manage to get the crowd behind them in support. They are both amazing at working a match and also telling a story in the process. It also made all the difference that these two had been building this feud up for some time and made the viewers care even though nothing besides a win was on the line. It is truly a sign that the crowd was behind this when even back and forth chants of "Lets go Zayn.' and "Fight Owens Fight" were heard breaking out. This is not the best match that either of them have put on but in some way it was a very special match because it showed them as performers reaching the same level and starting to go in separate directions for now. It is not a particularly one sided match both guys get in some good offense. The worst spot is a brain buster on the apron of the ring. It has a nice finish and putting over Zayn was the right move. The thing that really made this match memorable is that unlike other WWE feuds where in four weeks they are back at it fighting. This one actually ended and the two have not been in the same ring since. What makes that so great is should they ever be in the ring for a championship match or even more so one of them runs in to save the other it will make it all the more powerful of a moment. This match has a great feel and is worth the time to check it out on the WWE network
Sometimes you watch a show every week right away because you can’t wait to see what your favorite characters are getting themselves into. Then there are other shows that you started and almost every character in the show has either become or always was a worthless piece of human garbage that you hope is going to go down in a plane full of explosives. This second type of TV viewing is called hate watching and this humble viewer does not recommend it. Girls is a big offender for this type of show. It’s not that Girls is a bad show it’s actually well filmed well produced and well-acted. The problem is that every character on the show needs a good beating with a two by four. Every single character in one way or another manages to piss you off at least once during the season. Each individual from the most prominent character to the one who pops in now and then all are horrible human beings. The show centers around four young millennial women who are in that awkward finding myself time of their life. I have no problem with this as a story but when every single one of them is a self-entitled little princess who thinks the world owes them something without them contributing something back into it. Most people reading this are probably asking themselves why this is on my list of the year if I get so mad at it. In that sense it is on here because few shows inspire this type of passion from me. I have several shows that I love with a passion. This one is on the opposite end of the spectrum. Few shows inspire this type of rage and also force me to tune in every week to see what is going to happen next.
The best episode out of season five is episode six entitled The Panic in Central Park. It follows the second lead Marnie (Allison Williams) on a night with her ex-boyfriend who is now hopelessly addicted to drugs. This episode is great because it takes one of the greatest villians in Marnie and within a short 28 minutes manages to turn her from antagonist to protagonist.
The show is going into its sixth and final season and we can only speculate where this snapshot of terrible is going to finish up. For me it ends with a bunch of the characters being killed by ninjas but a boy can only dream.
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