As a guy who’s many decades past the sell-by date of this movie’s target audience, all I can say is that I rather loved this film. It reminded me of my high school fight-the-power movies like Pump up the Volume … Continue reading
Nomadland is a unique special film that’s about nothing less than life, death, time, and existence. It’s a tone poem full of small vignettes, only lightly connected, about what it is to live a particular type of life. It’s a … Continue reading
Monster Hunter is the latest video game adaptation film directed by Paul WS Anderson and stars his wife and action star Mila Jovovich. They together made entirely too many Resident Evil films (a series that got progressively worse – and … Continue reading
The new Tom & Jerry movie happens to occasionally star Tom & Jerry… which might be good given that they are characters who can fill five to seven minutes of screen time at most. Chloe Grace Moretz, Michael Pena, and … Continue reading
So I rented Wrong Turn, a reboot of a fairly dismal 2003 city-folk-run-afoul-of-backwoods-mutant-cannibals movie that (somehow) has five sequels (none of which I’ve seen). The reason I rented it was odd though… Looking on the AMC Theater app on my … Continue reading
I Care a Lot is a whip-smart, crackling, mean little movie about awful people doing awful things. It has a protagonist but it doesn’t have a hero, a good person, or any morals but bad ones. It’s so good that … Continue reading
A Glitch in the Matrix is a documentary about simulation theory. What is simulation theory? The idea that the world we experience is actually an elaborate computer simulation by some far advanced civilization. It’s a scientific hypothesis that has no … Continue reading
Flora & Ulysses is a “good enough” family film. It doesn’t seem to have any inspiration to rise above what it is: a basic Disney family-friendly fantasy adventure about a superhero squirrel. And, hey, when you have all the Marvel … Continue reading
Judas and the Black Messiah is a drama based on true events but also a solid, energetic crime drama along the lines of The Departed. It’s nice to get a work of historical fact that plays like a serious suspense … Continue reading
Synchronic was a bit of a surprise to me… I rented it on somewhat of a whim and discovered (to my surprise) that is stars Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. This matters only because I thought it was a cryptic … Continue reading