I’ll admit that I watched this one just because I just watched Bruce Willis more-or-less in Midnight in the Switchgrass, another thriller where he more-or-less-but-mostly-less stars. And since I’d seen Cosmic Sin earlier this year, I figured I’d be a … Continue reading
It’s the Case of the Vanishing Movie Stars… or the Mystery of the Missing Screentime… or maybe just a lot of bad editing and short shrifted script. This movie is a bit of a mess on a directing and editing … Continue reading
Unfortunately, Jolt is not episode 1 of the Soda Pop Cinematic Universe (sequels, of course, being PepsiMan, 2 Mountain Dew Furious, and Coca: Cola: The Medellin Years). Instead, it’s an equally pulpy bunch of tomfoolery that ekes by on the … Continue reading
I’ll admit to enjoying this movie slightly more as a technical film-making and acting exercise than as a romance. But I enjoyed the romance as well and loved both leading ladies (Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones) almost as much. And … Continue reading
Snake Eyes: Generic Action Movie Origins is one of the most aggressively bland, non-thrilling, non-interesting, non-original pieces of media that ever crawled up out of a sewer and died of boredom. Which is to say, on the positive side, I’ve … Continue reading
When I heard the premise of this movie, I thought it could be good pulpy fun… maybe a little campy, maybe deadly serious. And I got one of those two things and, for awhile, the movie is fairly decent. But … Continue reading
Time to play our favorite M. Night Shyamalan game: Which Night are we gonna get? The one with assured direction, thoughtful dialog, and inventive stories? Or the one with tin-eared dialog, inexplicably bad acting, and a ham-fisted story? I mean… … Continue reading
I guess with a title like Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop I shouldn’t be too surprised this is a frivolous, sugary anime. There’s good anime about nothing more than a sweet romance that I have enjoyed… but this one … Continue reading
Deeply unsettling and somewhat transgressive is how I’d describe this movie. It plays in the same themes and ideas of other films in a sub-genre I call the domestic thriller or horror. Movies where the average everyday people in your … Continue reading
It took me awhile to finally narrow down what this movie was and what it was doing… but I got there. I’m not sure I’ll go there again since sometimes I enjoy life, you know? This movie, however, does not. … Continue reading