Land of Bad
Little known fact: the Land of Bad is where the Bye Bye Man lives <insert har-de-har-har here>. Also, a single serving box of Frosted Flakes is 120 calories while a Froot Loops box is only 100. That along with a … Continue reading
Little known fact: the Land of Bad is where the Bye Bye Man lives <insert har-de-har-har here>. Also, a single serving box of Frosted Flakes is 120 calories while a Froot Loops box is only 100. That along with a … Continue reading
When I heard there was an Indian Top Gun at the local theater, I figured I’d hop into my car and take the side roads to the danger zone. Fighter is an Indian action/war film about top guns, hot shots, … Continue reading
Golda is set in Israel during their 1973 Yom Kippur war with Egypt and Syria. This is a conflict for which I had vanishingly little knowledge… which makes a movie about it potentially interesting. The film follows Israeli Prime Minster … Continue reading
I knew almost nothing about this movie going in… I figured it was going to be just another war in the Middle East flick. But when I realized that was Gerard Butler under that beard, I quickly re-oriented my thinking. … Continue reading
John Wick’s grandpa sure kicked some Nazi ass during WW2, amiright? That seems to be the premise of this crazy over-the-top action flick that actually kind of lost me with how over-the-top it went. But maybe I’m not the target … Continue reading
I was concerned going into this film since my last Guy Ritchie experience was so very bad… and I’m just not a big fan of his arch hyperactive tough guy crime films. But I needn’t have worried since this is … Continue reading
At various times, this very adult animated fable wore on my patience and I almost shut it off. But the finale… oh the final twenty minutes are so small-scale apocalyptically cruel and misanthropic that it turned me around. It’s a … Continue reading
Good intentions and handsome filmmaking are the hallmarks of this grim slavery/civil war epic. Lincoln has issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves of the the rebelling South. Will Smith plays real-life escaped slave Peter who must survive first his … Continue reading
I had no idea, going in, that Devotion was a film based on the Korean war… looking at the poster, I figured WWII so that was a nice surprise for a fairly nice movie. And if I spent a few … Continue reading
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 edition) is one of the best anti war movies based on one of the best anti war books. It’s a grueling slog in the way World War I warfare was a grueling slog. … Continue reading