Two brothers. A bank heist gone wrong. A getaway ambulance. Hostages? An EMT and an injured cop. 2 hours & 20 mins of a high-speed police chase helmed by Michael. FUCKING. Bay. "Ambulance" is my new favorite movie of the year.

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CODA stars Emilia Jones as Ruby, a teenage girl who's the only hearing member of her family, a CODA (child of deaf adults). As she approaches her last year of high school, the tension between her desires to carve out the next stage of her life by attending a college for music and her responsibilities as the family interpreter reaches its most difficult heights. Good fruit for a Best Picture winner, right?

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Morbius sees Jared Leto as the titular doctor-turned-vampiric-creature (and occasional Spider-Man villain) after an experiment to cure his lifelong illness goes horrifically wrong. When his secret gets into the wrong hands, Morbius must embrace his inner darkness to end up saving his world. Does this sound like 2008's THE INCREDIBLE HULK or is it just me?

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Tonight, while watching Best Picture nominee CODA, my wife and I gave colorful commentary throughout and I thought you all might be interested? This isn't the full movie, as Anchor only records an hour at a time (Starts with Ruby and Mr V's solo training session, about 15-20 mins in). Either way, consider this a teaser of something that may come. Hopefully, it arrives in a better developed state. Take care, friends!

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Leatherface returns, with all sequels, remakes and prequels scrubbed, in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. A group of 20-somethings arrive at a dilapidated Texas town with hopes of rejuvenating it with a community of fresh faces and business. Preparing the buildings for auction, they stumble across the last residents: an elderly woman and her son. They don't want to leave. The group needs them to. Conflict ensues; chainsaws are drawn. Blood, along with the limbs it pumps through, is spilt.

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Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) is an asshole. He's the kind of guy who delights in picking at someone's worst insecurities, like a kid pulling a fly's wing to watch it squirm. Great rancher; he and brother George (Jesse Plemons) have built a strong company together. But God, he's a dick. So what happens when Phil comes across meek widow Rose (Kirsten Dunst) and her gentle, disinterested-in-any-machismo son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee)? Phil does what he knows best: He picks on them. And when George starts a budding romance with Rose, Phil picks some more. And more. And more. How much can these folks take? That's for "The Power of the Dog" to reveal.

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Foo Fighters (my favorite band) made a horror movie featuring dark-ass metal music and gnarly head trauma? Sign me up. When the Foos record their new album in a creepy mansion, the murderous history of said mansion resurfaces, its spirits ready to feast on the new souls in their domain. This may not be for everybody, but it sure is for me!

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KIMI is a paranoid thriller about an agoraphobic woman (Zoe Kravitz) who, working quality control for a Siri-style personal assistant program, overhears a crime on one of her feeds. Determined to help, she involves herself into a deeper, darker plot, unknowingly putting herself in danger. It's a lean, kickass flick chock-full of character - appropriate for a Steven Soderbergh joint. Dude, I fucking loved this.

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Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story" dropped on Disney + this week. I watched it to fulfill part of my series covering this year's Best Picture nominees for the Oscars. I was not a fan. Why make a love story with leads as dry as burnt toast?

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Thomas Vinterberg's "Another Round" sees four middle-aged high school teachers inspired by a strange theory: Humans have a blood alcohol deficiency, and should be consistently buzzed (think 1-2 glasses of wine) to achieve optimal performance. They embark on this experiment, hoping to add some color and subtract some control from their drab lives. I apologize for the incoming therapy: This movie got to me, perhaps when I needed it.

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