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A Star is Born Venom Once again, Sony attempts to launch another Spider-Man based franchise by having a movie centering around Eddie Brock and how he became Venom without Peter Parker involved. For most people, this movie could go either two ways: fail or EPIC fail. And for critics, it's the latter, but for general audiences...it's a different story. Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) makes a living as a reporter.  He even has his own web series. Okay, I'll bite. He investigates some inhumane experimentation involving alien symbiotes from a meteor. Eddie gets one of the symbiotes absorbed in him and his life gets turned upside down. He starts hearing a voice in his head and gets these super abilities which have its ups and downs. He can defend himself from any threat but the symbiote makes him such a savage beast that he isn't so keen about this change. As skeptical as people have been initially, a good number of them thought it wasn't as bad as critics say. And I...

Peppermint Jennifer Garner returns to the action movie genre with Peppermint where she plays a mother whose husband and daughter get killed. Now she's out for revenge against those who wronged her and get in her way. I didn't expect much from this movie, so when a friend invited me to see it with her, I said OK. This is one of three movies released by STX Films that I've seen so far this year, the others being Mile 22 which I found absurd and ridiculous yet entertaining in its messy style and unlikable characters, and The Happytime Murders which was an underwhelming attempt to add raunchy humor to puppets. But compared to those movies, even though it has flaws, I felt Peppermint was the most competent STX film this year. To start things off, Jennifer Garner delivers a solid performance, once again playing a mother that turns rogue after being wronged. Her transformation is pretty cool and his path to vengeance was entertaining. Heck, the last two-thirds made the...