My love/mostly hate war with Michael Bay continues… though at least we have settled on a little cease fire. I didn’t hate Ambulance… though Mr. Bay made concerted efforts to make me do so. Just not a fan of his … Continue reading
Captain Nova is a Netflix film from the Netherlands about a near future where things have gone horribly wrong and a woman has to take her spaceship/time machine back to the past to save it. She crashes and is rescued … Continue reading
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a pretty remarkable and interesting film that has both lofty and human ambitions. I went in knowing only that it had something to do with the multiverse and that it starred Michelle Yeoh… which … Continue reading
All the Old Knives is a spy thriller starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton as intelligence officers (and former lovers) who were witness to a terrorist incident they couldn’t stop. Now, eight years later, the agency is convinced there was … Continue reading
Taken as pure text, without any analysis, this is a good movie that seems at odds with itself. On the one hand, it’s a fairly melodramatic story told with grounded realism by the actors. And it’s also a film about … Continue reading
On the way to being yet another mediocre exorcism clone with all the usual clichés, this movie does something interesting and, dare I say, unique? It also goes bugnuts insane. The flick kind of works as both an exorcism movie … Continue reading
It’s wild that Sega spent two and a half decades making bad sequel after bad sequel to the original slate of Sonic games and, in a climate where the idea of a “best” video game movie is like saying you … Continue reading
A young teen wants to discover himself through music? Yeah, I just watched Better Nate Than Ever… and Metal Lords. Pretty wide gulf between the musical stylings though… but not so wide in terms of following your dreams storylines. Though … Continue reading
When I went to see the movie The Outfit, I thought it was going to be exactly what The Contractor is… a movie about special ops soldiers or spies working for clandestine organizations. The Contractor is, in every way, exactly … Continue reading
Better Nate Than Ever is a Disney+ original comedy musical… and it ain’t bad at all. Sure, it’s got the emotional complexity of a cardboard box and is set in a fantasy version of New York where a couple thirteen … Continue reading