Uglies is a Netflix YA adaptation somehow directed by McG… a man who takes a licking and keeps on filming. It feels ten years too late… it should have been made during the teen dystopian apocalypse that brought us Divergent, … Continue reading
The Killer’s Game is very proud of its hyper-stylized action, though perhaps its reach is beyond its grasp. It’s very proud of its wacky characters but it feels like it’s trying too hard. It’s excited to be funny, but it … Continue reading
Speak No Evil is such a generic title, I didn’t realize it was an American remake of the Danish film of the same name. It took me twenty minutes to realize it was actively similar in theme but it was … Continue reading
(Un)lucky Sisters is an Argentinian Netflix comedy that lacks a lot of core things to make a comedy… namely laughs but also interesting characters. It’s about two sisters from other mothers whose estranged dad has died. They don’t know each … Continue reading
Apollo 13: Survival sounds like an Asylum knockoff of Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 from 1995. And compared to that movie, it might as well be. If you’ve seen that far superior ’95 film, there’s very little reason to bother with … Continue reading
My Old Ass is a romance. A romance with comedy and a little magical realism… but it’s not a romantic comedy nor is it fantasy/sci-fi. It has elements of those things but mainly its a sweet and earnest straight-up romance … Continue reading
When it comes thrillers and horror, I’m usually the guy who says dumb characters are ok since, if they were smart, we wouldn’t have a movie. But Out Comes the Wolves proves that I have my limits. The flick is … Continue reading
I was all set to give Rebel Ridge a superlative star rating within its first hour but as soon as the flick went from defense to offense, it fell hard. I was so disappointed in the final act from a … Continue reading
1992 is two, two, two movies in one… and they don’t play well together. It wants to be a serious film about surviving the Rodney King riots in LA 1992… while also being a heist film. Too bad it’s more … Continue reading
In that Beetlejuice Beetlejuice works at all is a goddamn miracle of direction. It’s so bloated with plots, subplots, characters, side characters, cameos, villains, and new ideas that I’m still not sure if they resolved everything. The plot synopsis? Where … Continue reading