Prisoners of the Ghostland is a weird Samurai/Western action film starring Nicholas Cage. This should be a fun combination but I think the film is simply trying too hard. It has a manufactured artificial level of weirdness instead of being … Continue reading
I was constantly up and down and down and up on this movie… I couldn’t decide if I low-key enjoyed it or if I was actively bored. Seemed to shift every ten minutes. So it’s a real mixed bag but … Continue reading
The voyeur thriller is a weird sub-genre that Hollywood sure likes to make every few years. Whether it’s looking our one of them there rear windows, across a valley in LA with a telescope, at the next door neighbors in … Continue reading
You don’t fool me, movie. Whether you want to be called Firedrake: The Silver Dragon (as I saw it on Netflix) or Dragon Rider, you’re still a pretty lame movie. And why the title change anyway? I guess Dragon Rider … Continue reading
Level 16 is a movie about a mysterious school/hospital/prison where girls grow up isolated from the world and its poison air. They are taught not to question authority and to obey every order issued. They believe, when they get old … Continue reading
Well, I give Joe Bell all the credit for being earnest. I feel like the filmmakers weren’t playing this cynic in the least. But I also think they confused earnest with interesting. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as a (real-life) … Continue reading
Five guys go on a hike in a (German) forest and wind up hunted by a mysterious figure. I think I’ve seen this plot before and it seems like the easiest thing to do to throw random actors into the … Continue reading
Kate is an action film with some decent to very good action set pieces and choreography wrapped in a humdrum story with humdrum characters. I only saw life out of one character and most people will probably find her annoying. … Continue reading
If I were to draw a line on a graph showing my enjoyment of this flick, it would start low and waver up and down, mostly down, for the first half. And then it’d shoot up up and up. Ask … Continue reading
JJ+E is a sweet, non-cloying, earnest, non-cutesy, mostly non-melodramatic down-to-earth teen romance set in Sweden. He’s from the wrong side of the tracks (or bay, to be specific) and she’s a rich girl. He saves her sister after a cliff-diving … Continue reading