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
Alice is a film with a very similar premise to the 2020 film Antebellum but Alice takes the earlier film’s concept further. Indeed, it takes the more interesting route. Where Antebellum ends and I asked the question “OK… now what?”, … Continue reading
I didn’t watch this movie expecting it to be good, I watched it expecting it to be hilariously bad. And it wasn’t… it was just your average everyday level of bad. It wasn’t this train-wreck of hilarity, it was just … Continue reading
Kicking Blood: A Vampire Love Story is a vampire flick that’s not particularly interested in being a vampire flick. Instead, it’d rather – quite flatly – wants to be an exploration of addiction and recovery. And its not terrible at … Continue reading
Sigh. Yup… Morbius is as bad as the salivating press said it was going to be… as bad as the Letterboxd scores, as bad as Rotten Tomatoes says. It’s sad because I was hoping this wouldn’t just be an Easy … Continue reading
Madelines is about a married couple working on time travel in their backyard shed. When the wife – Madeline – gets tipsy and decides on human trials, a bug in her code results in one Madeline appearing in their back … Continue reading
Even by Richard Linklater’s sometimes shaggy standards of what makes a narrative film, this movie is barely a movie. More of a memory or animated documentary about what it was like growing up in the space age of the 1960s. … Continue reading