Sean’s movie thoughts

 Mexicali is really good. Bren Foster stars as an Australian soldier who has retired to Mexico. He retired but he retains his special skills . One day he has to use his special skills after an encounter with a drug lord's son. There is a price to be paid for that. Foster gets to show off his fighting skills. This is a worthy follow up to Life After Fighting and it might be better.  Kris Van Damme has a role as a henchmen. It was nice to see him. I don't think his character was supposed to be Mexican but his character's background is not detailed.  Louis Mandylor appears, briefly, as his character from the Debt Collector series, which is pretty good. (The director of those films wrote this one.) He compares Foster's character to his partner French (played by Scott Adkins).  Now, a movie pitting Foster vs Adkins needs to be made (someone on Twitter suggested this). This review  is fair. Maybe I like the film more than the reviewer did.

 Scream V was decent, maybe worth seeing again. I had not seen it before but I decided to see it after watching Scream VII. (That film will not be mentioned again in this post.) I am not a huge fan of this franchise. I am not sure if I ever saw Scream III. I remember liking Scream IV.  A new Ghostface strikes and nearly kills a young woman named Tara. Her sister Samantha (Sam) is called and she returns home to Woodsboro. She has a secret. Survivors of previous Ghostface attacks like Dewey get involved in the hunt for the new Ghostface.  I liked it. It was nice to see David Arquette again in this franchise.  I was a bit surprised how nice it was to see him again.  Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega were good in their roles. I can see why they were the future of the franchise. That future did not turn out to be as long as originally planned.  Maybe it is time to see Scream VI.